A big bum for harris as well. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist. To Big Development i think this week. Biden is back to the field of the polls number one and number two elizabeth were beginning to edge ahead of Bernie Sanders as the favorite of the left but lets take biden first. How much trouble is he in . He is in a lot of trouble. Here is why. If you look at the numbers after the debate what you see is that the people who were up there on the stage where the fighters and landing the punches are the ones that have come up on top and in particular, Kamali Harris who went after joe biden of this question of his position on busing and segregation. We do not come out of this doing much more about how a president harris would govern but the one thing that all democrats want is they want a fighter and someone will take it to trump and thats a warning for biden and for sanders who both came out of that looking. Paul jason, she attacked harris attacked his policies on busing essentially a racial issue. This was from the 1970s, i guess, or 80s but was that the reason biden has suffered . Or is it the way he looked at responded showing his age . I think probably the latter. He looked flatfooted and it was a line of attack he shouldve been prepared for or better prepared for. Paul you could see that coming from [inaudible] i think biden wanted to keep the focus on President Trump. He needs to find a way to effectively deflect these people coming after him and turn the attention back to the president and remind voters that he is the person who can take on the president and beat him. He failed to do that. He got sucked in with the backandforth and harris ate his lunch. I dont think on the substance she was right i think it was an unfair attack in fact but i think she looked like a fighter and look like someone who could stand on the stage with President Trump and go blow for blow and thats what she was trying to protect. Paul but if biden tried to bump the frame and hope to be able to focus on trump and not have to focus on the others but if the others go after him one, two, three or four things and they have to get in there and mix it up to show he can take on trump and to show hes tough enough to take on these attacks. That is right. One argument for joe biden is the socalled moderate. The idea was that biden would stand up to the progressives because presumably a lot of democrats out there across the country want a more moderate voice than Elizabeth Warren and of Bernie Sanders are selling but he did not do that and did not stand up to him. Do you know what, paul . I dont think theres evidence he will stand up to them in the way people are talking about. Joe biden has reputation for pandering to that thing and do that on title ix in the sexual abuse guidelines during the obama ministration but joe biden is a politicians who can be whatever he needs to be but on that stage you got to decide will he stand up to the progressives and be a true moderate candidate or try to square the circle with all the elements of the Democratic Party which at the moment is impossible. Paul kim, whats the recipe if there is one for biden to make a comeback or can he make a comeback or are we watching a spiral down here . Hes got to get out of this crouch. He can wish that this will be about President Trump but its not. Its officially about him. Hes got to quit apologizing for things hes done in the past and turn it around and require some candidate to follow their own logic out in the attack they are putting on him. For instance on busing, his answer there shouldve been it was a really controversial issue in the 1970s and just as controversial as it is now but do you really support busing thomas senator harris . Out there in the africanamerican committees that in unsettled issue. He will have to go on offense on some of these people if you want to turn it back on them and look like a fighter he needs to look like. Paul do you agree that . I think so. Will have to do a better job of responding and he looked like he was not expecting the question and had no way to respond. Paul does he have to take on the left . Does he have to say your for medicare for all and thats wrong and here is why. You go into election for donald trump for medicare for all you will lose. I think he does need to do that, paul. Especially if hes making a play for the midwestern and swing voters and that essentially is why hes in this race. He is going to push back and im a little surprised that Kamala Harris is playing the race card this early in this often. I dont recall, say president obama, doing it this early and in the contest but one reason is if youre playing in the progressive lane there is little else to distinguish you other than playing the gender card or race card and so forth. Thats why shes out there doing it and it seems to be working. Paul dan, quickly, Elizabeth Warren surpassing Bernie Sanders and some of the polls. Why . Because Elizabeth Warren is present in herself with plans and a lot of ideas she wants to quote unquote, reform corporate america. Bernie sanders is now clearly running as a purebred socialist, capitalist socialist. That is making a lot of people, including democrats nervous that bernie would have no way to form a government or enact the stuff hes proposing about. Warren does have a plan, 20 of them. Paul thank you, dan. Up next, u. S. Economy has a milestone with the expansion of the longest on record economist art lever joins us with a look at how we got here and the possible risks ahead. We have the number one economy in the world and a lot of that is tax cuts and a lot of it is regulation cuts. Paul u. S. Economy reaching a major milestone the secret money market 121st month since the recession ended in 2009. It made it the longest stretchin of economic expansion in modern u. S. History. Economists Arthur Lepper is the founder and chairman of the associates. Enqueue and let me congratulate you on the president ial medal of freedom. Well deserved. Thank you, paul. Paul ri dont think its welldeserved but im not. Etting it back paul okay, good. Lets talk about this expansion. Y long, longest in history, but its also very slow. One of the worst stretches of growth for an expansion in american history, and i think the longest stretch certainly since theyve been keeping records of less than 3 growth or less, longer than ten years before it happened in 2018. How do you explain that . Well, i think weve had very bad policies at the beginning of this recession. Mean, 20082009 you had all the stimulussing spending which was nothing other than a tax increase by both w. And obama, and it led to a very, very slow recovery. I dont know why it hasnt picked up more than it has, but it sure has picked up with trump. And i think maybe what were doing is hitting some supply constraints as we go along, but i think were in for a lot longer, you know, expansion than just 121 months. I dont see any policy changes that would make this worse. Paul well, okay. So but are you worried at all about the slowdown in growth, particularly the slowdown in the last six months or so in Corporate Investment . Business investment . No, i really am not. I mean, look, you may get a Second Quarter thats lower than we would like to have it, we had a good first quarter, what was it, 3. 1 . Paul yep. But with the stock market doing what it has done in the First Six Months of this year, thats a harbinger of really great things to come. And i would expect to see the economy doing very well for the year as a whole. I would hope well above 3 paul above 3 . Above 3 for the year, yeah. Paul wow. Okay. So you were going to make a point about growth rates . Because youre an outlier here if youre predicting 3 or well above 3 for this year. There arent many people doing that. Well, i dont mean 8 paul i know, but 3 for the year, 3 plus. Paul look, art, im going to 3 or a little plus. You dont get a stock market like this, paul, without good Economic Growth in the future. You just plain dont, and this stock markets amazing for the First Six Months. We have very low Interest Rates, which is great, we have no inflation. I mean, this is a perfect, this is a goldilocks economy right now. The policies and the transparency, paul, and the medical sector, you know, thats probably a little less than 20 of the economy, were finally bringing it back into the market economy. I mean, people are going to know what the prices are of products and what the quality is of those products. Youre going to get a drop in medical prices, i think a lot over the next year, and this is really a huge deal. Paul all right. Let me ask you about trade policy because as i talk to business people, they this is the thing that they point to as the reason for caution. They say this has created uncertainty about where to invest in their supply lines, it has contributed to a global slowdown in the growth of trade and to particularly a downturn in manufacturing which, as you know, is now on the cusp of whether or not its going to be an actual downturn. So how big a problem, in your view, is the trade uncertainty . Well, trade is really, really important, and the freer the trade, the better the economy, period. I mean, i was in the white house from 197072 when nixon did a 10 import surcharge, he devalued the dollar, he had the Job Development credit which excluded foreignmade capital. All of that led to a sharp drop in the stock market and a very big slowdown, worst one since the Great Depression at that time. If you look at the Great Depression, smootholly did that, the market fell by 90 , so trade is really important and let me just make that very clear. Now, the question is whether this administration, are they negotiating for having tariffs, or are they negotiating to get tariffs in nontariff areas removed . I believe its the latter. I believe trumps strategy is to get freer trade, not more protectionism, and i think hes succeeding quite well. Im quite optimistic about trade, but i am a full believer in full trade, and i think the tactics hes using are reasonable tactics. Paul well, lets ask about china in particular, because i know the president is trying to use trade to get better terms of trade with china and fewer predatory abuses. But lets say you cant get a deal and youve got those 25 tariffs currently on a couple hundred billion worth of products, they last right through the Election Year . Thats going to be thats not good. Paul no, thatd be a problem, and youve still got that threat of the hangover of imposing tariffs on european automobiles of 25 . Thats also a potential problem. If the president called you and said, art, what should i do about that, what would you tell him . Well, you know im for free trade, but i dont know anything about negotiating with countries like china or north korea. Its way above my pay grade, paul. But he does know how to do these negotiations, and hes doing a darn good job. The canadamexicou. S. Deal was okay, i think the south korea thing, i think hes moving along very well with china. Im not one to second guess him on his strategy, but i think higher tariffs would hurt the economy, the world economy, and i think that would be the wrong thing to do unless you can get a much better deal, and im hoping that he does get a much better deal and i really expect it. Paul okay. Are you anticipating that the Federal Reserve is going to cut rates a couple of times in 2019, and do you think thats a good idea . They have to. I mean, the fed has always followed rights, its never led them, and it shouldnt lead them, and the rates have been falling dramatically. When the rates fall dramatically, the fed should lower rates. Its right in accordance with their policies historically. I see nothing inconsistent with the fed lowering rates say right on the same policy that theyve done. I think the two new members of the fed the president is proposing are both good. I think Judy Sheltons spectacular, to be honest with you. I think shell add a fresh breath of air in the fed board, and i expect the fed to lower rates a fatherly sizable amount. I mean, theres no inflation a fairly sizable amount. The tenyear bond yield is less than 2 . Paul thats astonishing. How do you explain that . Well, i explain it because theres no inflation and, you know, theres not been a policy here that has allowed inflation to come back, thank goodness. And i think i also explain it because the rest of the worlds not doing nearly as well as the u. S. , and there is a global marketplace for bonds and Interest Rates and inflation, and i think the u. S. Is being helped well,st it is being helped by lower inflation than the rest of the world, and negative Interest Rates in of these countries, but we are the prime, shining light of the global community, and were getting benefits of low Interest Rates and low inflation, which is wonderful. Paul all right, art, thanks for being here. When reagan [inaudible] paul we gotta go, art, but thanks. Sure. Hey, thank you, paul. Paul instead of is celebrating economic expansion, the Democratic Candidates are sounding the alarm, issuing dire warnings about inequality and proposing really radical plans to fix it. So is it a smart strategy for whoever winds up taking on President Trump in the general election . We are is the necessity of not only beating trump, but doing what has to be done to transform this country and create an economy that works for all of us. All right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. Oh, here we go. I know i cant play an instrument, but this. This is my forte. Obviously, for auto insurance, weve got the wheel route. Obviously. Retirement, were going with a longterm play. Makes sense. Pet insurance, wait, let me guess. Flea flicker. Yes howd you know . Studying my playbook . Yeah, actually. Paul the u. S. Economy may be mark its longest expansion on record, but you wouldnt know it from listening to the democratic president ial candidates who have taken to campaign trail and the debate stage to present a grim picture of an economy that is not working for the average american. Who is this economy really working for . Its doing great for thinner and thinner slices at the top. This economy has got to work for everyone, and right now we know that it isnt. I live in a low income black and brown community. I see every single day that this economy is not working for average americans. This economy is not working for working people. For too long is rules have been written in the favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most. Paul were back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. Dan, just one quick point, the last two years, in fact, the income gains have been going up at a faster clip. Its a factual point, for people who are the up skilled workers unskilled workers, for actually nonsupervisory positions. So factually, theyve got to get their head out of this economy isnt 2016 anymore. [laughter] right. Or even 1939. I mean, also, you know, black unemployment, hispanic unemployment is the lowest level since back to 1960s which means, i think, paul, that a lot of minorities do have jobs now that didnt have them from 20082016. So it raises the question what are these people talking about . And as youre suggesting, i think theyve got to push a little bit beyond simply this rhetorical platitude just dumping on the American Economy and make an argument about what exactly their problem is inside that economy. Elizabeth warren, for instance, is bellowing about Oil Companies and oil company profits. If you go into the towns where energy has come back, paul, it is booming with jobs for workers, blue collar, middle class people. Thats who has been benefiting. Paul jason, theres a real turn to left on health care policy. Its medicare for all instead of obamacare. Student loans, write em all off and free college instead of just subsidies. On immigration its pretty close now to let em all in and give em all Free Health Care as opposed to balance security with legal immigration. Theres other examples you can give. How do you explain this turn left . I think that the democrats are misreading antitrump sentiment and seeing it as a green light for every progressive idea theyve ever had paul but these arent these are smart people. [laughter] why would they be doing this if they can read the polls and the public would be with them . Because i think, you know, nancy pelosi may be the head of the Democratic Party, but the person or the people with the will in the Democratic Party now are the progressives. And i think they are running the show, and their agenda is getting played up not only in terms of congress, but also in the media which i think is giving them a lot of fuel here. So that is, i think its a poorly thought out strategy because i dont think that that is where most democrats are, let alone most americans. But right now it is the progressives that are ascendant on the left. Paul how much of this is due to Bernie Sanders relative success in 2016 with all those bernie brigades and young people and the millennial generation that is, i think in every poll, i much more liberal than earlier generations . This is that kind of leading democrats to go this route . Well, thats a really important part of it, paul. Remember, for many of those democrats out there they still remain very angry at the dem crack National Committee who democratic National Committee who they felt stacked the deck against bernie last time around, and they believe the fact that clinton lost is because she was not radical enough in her policies. Now, thats crazy. She lost because of an immense amount of baggage that she carried around and because is she wasnt a good campaigner. But theyve taken another message out of this, and that particular crew also has a ton of millennials who are the snowflake generation [laughter] who havent ever seen necessarily what happens when you have very, very bad economic policies, what it can do to an economy and so are, you know, pushing for some of these very outlandish proposals. And, paul, i think putting aside the general election, i think this could hurt some democrats in the primary. If you look at the primary electorate, it tends to skew older. 60 of primary voters back in 2016 were over 25, and the group over 60 is larger than the group under 30. Do people want to see 70 marginal rates . Do people aging want to see their private health care snatched away . Are they for slavery operations and felon voting and phasing out gaspowered cars . I dont think theyre primary voters. I agree with that, but that as it it may, if you are in politics today, your marinating in social media and media, and i think the tail is wagging the donkey because it is the only conversation democrats can have is about these summits, and there is no conversation subjects, and there is no conversation about the more moderate policy that, say, former congressman john delaney tried to raise in those debates or john hickenlooper. Paul you think its a social media phenomenon . I absolutely do. Paul is that because of fundraising or the energy they provide or that theres a reinforcing message . If jasons right, if those arent going to be the people that decide the primary if, thats a bad bet. Pete buttigieg raised 24 million in the last quarter, a lot of its being done with social media, small donors. The big democratic donors are sitting on the sidelines at the moment. Maybe if they get back in the game, you can get more of a conversation about moderate democratic policy. Paul all right, thank you all. Still ahead, trump doctrine. The president s brand of diplomacy was on full display in asia, but can the president use that same strategy to engage with an increasingly aggressive iran . They know what theyre doing, they know what theyre playing with, and i think theyre playing with fire. Of savings and service. Whoa. Travis in it made it. Its amazing. Oh is that traviss app . Its pretty cool, isnt it . Theres two of them. Theyre multiplying. No, guys, its me. See, im real. Im real he thinks hes real. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Youre smart,eat you already knew that. But its also great for finding the perfect used car. Youll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. Now youre even smarter. This is truecar. Paul paul President Trumps signature brand of diplomacy on full display last weekend as he revived trade talks with chinese president xi jinping and met with north Korean Leader kim jong un at the demilitarized. The president hoping that personal engagement will produce a Foreign Policy victory as he heads into a reelection campaign. But as iran becomes increasingly aggressive and continues to violate the 2015 nuclear accord, will the president s personal diplomacy be enough . Lets ask retired fourstar army general jack keane who is a fox news senior strategic analyst. General, welcome again. Good to have you here. After this week of diplomacy with north korea and that historic moment on the dmz, where do we stand with the north right now . Has anything really changed substantively . Well, yes, to a certain degree. Clearly, what happened to us is after the hanoi summit sort of blew up and kim jong un went home emptyhanded, because he clearly has an objective to get sanction relief paul right. And long train ride home, and face saving is what he undertook and trying to regain leverage for the enshoing number ofs ensuing number of months. I think President Trump recognized that north north korn were not coming back to table. We reached out to them through our personal envoy, secretary of state, still not coming to table, so he used personal diplomacy to help restart the talks. He took a gamble there, a chance, and i think it worked. So i think we should give him credit for that. Now, the other thing is that theyve agreed to work at the staff level in groups certainly trying to deal with the major issues before heads of state have to grapple with those issues as they have done in the previous two summittings. That is a good thing, paul summittings. Because as you know, the North Koreans have not put on the table yet anything that comes close to denuclearization, and yet they want some relief from us on the sanctions. So were going to work that out on the working level, and theres a possibility we can make some progress. Well have to see. Paul yeah, well, i think thats the key. North koreans, theyre willing to make some concessions, you know, close the site, for example, what theyre doing there, but, of course, theyve already done that once in a prove administration, but they want with sanctions relief before anything else, and thats the rub. I dont see any if substantive change on that so far. Yeah. I think there has been a shift in the administration. Theyve made two major shifts. Remember, in the beginning they wanted to get this done during President Trumps first term. Paul right. Now, no rush. Major change. The second change is taking place inside the National Security team, and that is the recognition that this has to be a stepbystep the process, that to think that north korea will give us all of their weapons, nuclear and Ballistic Missiles and then we would give them sanction relief is not realistic. Theyve come the that understanding. So i see we dont necessarily have to make major sanction relief in terms of concessions to them. We can help them with humanitarian things. I mean, theyve got 400 miles of paved rod, thats it road, thats it. Theres so many things that north korea needs that would not take away from the imposition of the sanctions, which is what brought north korea to table. Also at some point, i think if the North Koreans are serious here, well get to point where well end the socalled korean war if end the armistice which is an enabler to move forward also because security, while Economic Prosperity is something that kim jong un is interested in and i think that is the difference between his grandfather and father security guarantee is absolutely crucial. I think thats job one for him. And well have to make some steps in that direction. Theres a huge question mark here, as we all know paul right. If were going to be successful here or not. Paul lets turn to iran because its been widely reported that you, your counsel to be cautious about the military strike was heeded by the president when he decided not to respond to the drone shootdown by iran. But now iran has moved ahead, and theyre saying were no longer going to obey crucial terms of the 2015 accord. Were going to enrich uranium above the 3. 6 limit, and theyre going to create new stockpiles, and they even open up the arak nuclear facility. So what is Donald Trumps next move . Well, first of all, lets see what, what the iranians are actually doing. I suspect that therell be some increase in their Enrichment Program and maybe opening up the hard water facility. I dont think itll be with significant because what do they really want here . What theyre seeking is for the united kingdom, germany and france to provide them some Economic Relief. And theyre using this as leverage to get it. In other words, increasing the Enrichment Program. I think theyre saying to them privately, look, well go back and abide by the restrictions if you provide us this Economic Relief because of what the United States is doing to us with the crippling sanctionings. Thats the play. Paul but, general, the europeans are not in position to provide that relief as long as the u. S. Sanctions are in place. Well, you know that they tried to work outside paul yes. Of the Dollar Financial system that drives the world and try to find another mechanism to do it. They have not been successful, although they certainly have the will, and theyre certainly frustrating this administration. The good news is they are pushing back on iranians. Theyre telling them not to increase the Enrichment Program, and that well see. The iranians, clearly, are trying to provocation, we saw that, sabotaging ships in the gulf, taking our drone down. Its questionable whether they really intended to do that or not. Paul right. But they got caught at the sabotaging, and thats the one thing they wanted to avoid. Well see how much of that theyre going to do. What is a fact is the iranians have never been in a situation theyre in in 39 years with the pressure they have on them. They are the most determined foe i believe that were dealing with, and their tendency is not to give up, but to lash out. And we have to be prepared for that. Paul all right, general, thanks for that. Well see what happens. Still ahead, the pelosi congress, the speaker recently caught between her progressive caucus and her more moderate members as she struggles to get her agenda passed. So what does she have to show for the First Six Months of the 116th congress . Fact is, every Insurance Company hopes you drive safely. But allstate actually helps you drive safely. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . Today im signing a bill to deliver 4. 6 billion in humanitarian assistance to our southern border. This includes funding for medical care, shelters and increased housing for minors through the department of health and human services. For many weeks democrats were giving us a hard time, but i tell you, it became a biif partisan bill, and a bipartisan bill, and were very happy about it. Paul President Trump this week taking a victory lap as he signed a 4. 6 billion aid package to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American migrants at the southern border. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to accept the republicancontrolled senates version of the aid package last week, frustrating the more liberal members of her caucus. Its an increasingly common dynamic as calls for President Trumps impeachment. Were back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. So, kim, how much of control is nancy pelosi still able to exercise over her conference . Or is she in . Is she in charge . Not when it comes to controversial issues. If you look at their record this year, theyve done very few things that have actually made it to trumps desk. I mean, they passed legislation to reopen the government after it closed, they had this disaster aid bill, i think a resolution to end u. S. Involvement in yemen, but thats about it. And what were seeing here, it reminds me of john boehner and paul ryan, the problems they had on anything thats remotely controversial where there is a split in her party, its usually the liberal wing that is now winning and refusing to give the requisite votes, and its hamstringing her ability to govern. Paul yeah, its fascinating, jason. Its ocasiocortez has [laughter] and others have learned the lesson of the Freedom Caucus, right . Right. Paul which is if you go outside and agitate, you gin up support on the left, the Rachel Maddows and the others on msnbc and social media, you can i put real pressure on the speaker to go your way. Sure. And nancy pelosi knows that it is not the election of people like ocasiocortez that gave democrats the house majority, and thats her dilemma. She would much rather focus on issues Like Health Care which she thinks helped democrats win back control of the house. She has a bunch of members that come from swing districts, they want to go back home and run on something. And the problem is you have the ocasiocortez wing of the party who wants to focus on impeachment and the Mueller Investigation and russia and trumps tax returns. They just want to investigate this administration, and that is why its been such heavy lifting for nancy pelosi. You know the contrast, dan, between nancy pelosi in this iteration and when she ran the house first with george w. Bush in his last two years when he was still president , pretty striking. By this time i think they were closed to passing a stimulus bill. It was not a good one, but it was a bill. Close to moving ahead on a big Energy Package among other things. This time right now nothing. Well, no, thats right and what has changed since then . Again, its something weve been talking about on this program a lot, and thats the rise since the end of the last election, 2016, of the progressoff left in the democratic Progressive Left of the Democratic Party. And now youve got the progressive caucus inside the house of representatives led by ocasiocortez and ilhan omar, the rest of them who now feel they have taken a page from conservatives and trump which is to be on offense all the time, to be agitating for your ideas. And in the border funding bill, it was very interesting because theres another caucus inside the house called the problem solvers caucus. Those are the moderates. And as jason was suggesting, they want to go back and run this year on problem solving, little of which is happening in the house. The progressive caucus mocked the problemsoevers and the moderates for problem sol veries, they didnt want to give trump that victory, and were back to point where nancy pelosi punted on approving the new trade deal with canada and mexico. This is hanging in the balance, and the question is, is she going to be able to get substantive issues like that through this divided house. Paul i want to answer that, kim, answer dans question. Is there a prospect for working together at all here, or is the dominant theme going to be we dont want to give trump a victory . That is the dominant theme, and that is what will prevail all the way until 2020. And its funny, you know, you mentioned boehner and ryan and this problem that they had and the Freedom Caucus. You know, that changed the first two years of the trump administration, the Freedom Caucus actually did come together, work with them, they got the tax package passed, they actually passed health care changes, but they only did that because they had suffered some losses. And i think thats going to end up being the ultimate only thing that makes democrats figure out how to get unified, is that they suffer some blowback for all of this at the polls. Paul well, i mean, there was some talk about the price cooperation, reducing infrastructure, certainly the usmca that dan mentioned, but are they really going to say, no, no, never . I believe that progressive wing is going to dig in. They believe they were sent to washington to obstruct this president , not work with him. They think theyre there to be a check on donald trump, and i dont see them giving up. If. Yeah. Well, or they were working together pretty well before the border funding bill. The progressives got very explicit in attacking the moderates for supporting that bill, so theres some real bad blood in the water down there in the house right now. Paul all right, when we come back, fresh off that controversial decision on the census, the Supreme Court tees up another major term in the fall. What to expect when the justices take up a high stakes religious liberty case as well as the trump administrations efforts to end obamaera protections for dreamers. Doctor bob, what should i take for back pain . Before you take anything, i recommend applying topical relievers first. Salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, nonaddictive relief. Salonpas lidocaine. Patch, rollon or cream. Hisamitsu. Wanna take your xfi now you can with xfi advantage. Giving you enhanced performance and protection. When devices are connected to your homes wifi, theyre protected. Helping keep outsiders from getting inside. And if someone tries, well let you know. So you can stream, surf and game all you want, with confidence you can get coverage where you need it most. Thats xfi advantage. Make your xfi even better. Upgrade today. Call, click or visit a store. I have a lot of respect for Justice Roberts, but he didnt like it, but he did say come back. Essentially, he said come back. Were spending 1520 billion on a census. Were finding out everything about everybody. Think of it. 1520 billion, and youre not allowed to ask em are you a citizen. Paul that was President Trump this week still smarting from the Supreme Courts decision to block him from asking about citizenship on the 2020 census. The president indicating that the fight is not over yet. The justices wrapped up their last week with that controversial 54 decision and set the stage for another blockbuster term in the fall, announcing that they will hear arguments over whether President Trump can end obamaera protections for young immigrants known as dreamers. Were back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, we dont know whatll happen with the Citizenship Question, but what does that tell us, that 54 call, tell us about the Supreme Court and Justice John Roberts . Well, hes the swing vote. [laughter] we know that Brett Kavanaugh replaced justice kennedy, previous king vote, but kavanaughs not going to be the person [laughter] who decides these 54 decisions. Its probably going to be john roberts going forward. Paul what do you think, though, about was his decision justified or not . Well, i think the question before the court was whether the administration had the authority to do this. And they clearly do. And for justice, chief Justice Roberts to get into the motives, i think, is not something that was really part of what should have been under consideration. And thats a very slippery slope when you go down that route, because a lot of these decisions made by administrations are politically motivated. And so if theyre going to get into discussions of what the administration was thinking or strategizing about, i dont know where that leads them. Paul he did the same thing he did on obamacare, which is to give the conservatives some of the law, but he gave the liberals on the court the policy victory, which is what those liberals really wanted, and that is kicking the census, Citizenship Question out. Does that mean that Justice Roberts is just too political as a justice . Well, the irony is that he was with the majority in the gerrymander case which said that the state courts would not get involved in overseeing state jerry handers or state redistricting plans because that would politicize the courts, and theres no, as he said, no real Legal Standard to define fairness. Paul right. So that was the right decision. Dont get the courts too involved in these political battles. And yet as jasons just describing, he goes in the other direction on this census question, and this is the heart of it as Justice Clarence thomas said, theyve opened a pandoras box. That Obamacare Decision was a oneoff. This one opens the door to constant Court Challenges to administrative decisions on the basis of what they were thinking paul motives. Yeah, thats right. So he cant have it both ways. Paul so, kim, lets talk a little bit about gorsuch, neil gorsuch versus Brett Kavanaugh, the two new justices. How different are they . What have you noticed about their decision, their writing . Well, this is one of the most notable things to come out of this term, because remember, go back to last fall when kavanaugh was about to be approved to go to court and we were hearing this railing from the left that you were going to have this solid 54 conservative bloc on case after case. And, of course, actually, we got a very intellectually diverse number of rulings. And what we found out is that not all conservative justices, whether you call them textualists or constitutionalists, are the same. So kavanaugh was a little bit more careful, administrative in some of his decisions. You know, whereas gorsuch, were seeing his sort of libertarian streak, as it were. He was particularly great on a lot of free speech and liberty issues. And those are some very big differences between these two justices. Paul hes also more willing, like Clarence Thomas, to overturn precedents. [laughter] you can see Clarence Thomas saying, laying out essentially heres my argument for how we ought to think about precedents, and it isnt the way that john roberts thinks about them. Well, i think if you voted for donald trump because he promised to nominate conservative justices, youre pretty happy with this term, paul. I think we got a nice decision on religious freedom paul right. Involved displaying a public cross to honor world war i veterans. We got a nice ruling on redistricting and whether courts should be deciding, making these political decisions for legislatures, and they should not. I think on balance it was a pretty good term, youd think its a good term if youre conservative. Paul and next year could be very, very interesting with the court taking up the state Blaine Amendments which were anticatholic amendments that blocked aid to religious schools and the daca decision. What are you looking forward to. Well, the Blaine Amendment especially, the anticatholic amendment. I think that could get overturned by the five conservative majority because we were just talking about neil gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, theyve both shown a lot of sympathy to religious liberty. And my guess is the Blaine Amendments go back into the early part of the 20th century paul 19th, late 19th century. So i think theyre going to be overturned. Daca will be more interesting over the rights of the young immigrants who came here under no, you know, parents brought them here. So that ones a little harder fur me to predict. Paul yeah, on the daca, the dreamers, dan jason, i think this is going to be one that is going to hang with Justice Roberts. Its highly political, and its impossible for me to figure out, kim, i dont know where john roberts could come out on this particular issue because its going to be so highly political, and i think youre going to see what happened on this census thing happen again, which is the left in the media is going to go right at john roberts and say if you go the other direction, you are compromising the integrity of the court. Yeah. This is a complicated one too because just on the idea of the merits of the law, the idea that the executive can suspend the law, that seems tough to uphold, but john roberts is getting good at this stuff, so well see. Paul we have to take one more break. 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Nike for withdrawing the betsy ross flag sneakers at the direction of failed nfl player Colin Kaepernick who has now somehow claim the iconic flag is symbolic of oppression and slavery. I guess we shouldve seen this, this is the same nike that honored Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee during the national anthem. I think average americans are getting sick and tired of the false controversies. Especially a time when we are celebrating our great nation. Lou jason. Children and new york city Public Schools can true the gender for the purpose of playing on sports teams at school in regards to what it says on the birth certificate. I like to point out most kids in new york city Public Schools cannot read or do math at grade level. Then were talking about 70 or 80 percent when it comes to black and kids, a radical idea, one will focus on teaching kids the basics and less on turn them into social experiments. Dan . Is the biggest barbecue weekend of the year but you first need a backyard. 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