was reassigned this summer after it was discovered he sent texts critical of the president. we re back with dan henninger, kim strassle, and bill mcgurn. so bill, why should we care about this, about this peter struck news? well, partly we should care, this is the most important investigation in the united states, affecting the fate of an administration. when mr. mueller started this investigation, he hired a lot of people that had donated to the hilary clinton campaign, and that s not disqualifying legally or anything. i think it was imprudent, didn t have a single trump contributor in there. so he created an impression, and now we re seeing this with impression of partisanship, and we re
was reassigned this summer after it was discovered he sent texts critical of the president. we re back with dan henninger, kim strassle, and bill mcgurn. so bill, why should we care about this, about this peter struck news? well, partly we should care, this is the most important investigation in the united states, affecting the fate of an administration. when mr. mueller started this investigation, he hired a lot of people that had donated to the hilary clinton campaign, and that s not disqualifying legally or anything. i think it was imprudent, didn t have a single trump contributor in there. so he created an impression, and now we re seeing this with impression of partisanship, and we re seeing this with not just peter
were back at doj and fbi, when all of this was going on? what recourse, bill, does congress have if they won t cooperate and wray goes up there and says i m sorry i can t do anything a lot of resource. they can hold people in contempt. they can impeach the fbi director. i think they should have done it to the irs commissioner on the way out and they are paying the price for not having done it. they can cut budget ets. there is a lot of things what would contempt mean? contempt would be a finding. first the committee would have to hold someone in contempt and then the whole house. paul ryan did suggest if they continue to play games as kim said, congress was not only looking into this but had subpoenaed this information, and mr. mueller and mr. wray didn t make it forthcoming. so there s a lot of things. look, i would say donald trump misspoke. he shouldn t have said go easy on flynn. he should say go as easy on flynn as you do on huma abedin and hilary clinton.
weather gets better too but they have to atheir mortgages and feed families. some are on assistance. some have given up completely. is that the direction that will continue to move in. how do these numbers recover? some of these numbers are actually quite good. the manufacturing numbers up 49,000, that is the best rate of change since 1998. i don t want to be a pollyanna. i realize that all the numbers are good. what we are living with a two tiered economy. on the one side, exports that are doing well. but the drag on the economy is housing is still awful, hasn t recovered. the decline in state and local governments are still laying people off. it s difficult but things are slowly improving. jamie: dave, we ve talked domestic. in terms of consumer confidence and the confidence of the world in investing here and not investing there. the situation in the mideast.
taxes that s one of the big ones. ronald reagan raised taxes six of the eight years he was in office, he felt he had to. there were economic pressures, that s one myth that you often hear that doesn t hold up. in fairness, he dropped the top marginal tax rate historic lows that s what people remember when they say ray didn t and taxes. yes, but i think they are lead to believe he cut taxes for everyday people. he cut taxes for the wealthy that s a big myth that he had to contend with. we hear dick cheney told us ronald reagan taughts deficits don t matter. that s not how ronald reagan felt. he felt upset about the deficits that he contributed to. he felt that was a stain on his presidency. he thought they married a lot. he thought they mattered a lot. ronald reagan told us never negotiate with our enemieses. he was a consummate negotiator who understood the value of talking to america s enemies