And said how hes going to pay for it but it gets him halfway there. Every study done shows medicare for all is the most Cost Effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. I, who wrote the damn bill, if i may say so, intend to eliminate all outofpocket expenses. While bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. And on page eight on page eight of the bill it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. I dont think thats a bold idea. I think its a bad idea. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist kim strassel, Kyle Peterson and James Freeman. So james, who do you think got the better of that very Important HealthCare Exchange . I think klobuchar and biden raised the right questions for which sanders and warren dont have an answer. This plan as senator klobuchar pointed out is going to get rid of private insurance in america. Its also going to get rid of most of the othe insurance, the government insurance, and he replace it with the new bernie care. Traditional medicare goes away. They call it medicare for all. But traditional medicare goes away. Bernie care, warren care replaces it and then obviously joe biden raising the right question about the cost of this. Over 30 trillion over a decade. Most of these plans dont include the funding part. If you tax people in that top 1 at 100 , took every dollar they make every year, it still wouldnt pay for it. Paul we have a shot here of Elizabeth Warren answering a question about how she would pay for it. Direct question, you said middle class families are going to pay less. Will middle class taxes go up to pay for the program . What families have to deal with is cost, total cost. Thats what they have to deal with. And understand, families are paying for their health care today. Families pay every time an Insurance Company says sorry, you cant see that specialist. Every time an Insurance Company says sorry, that doctor is out of network, sorry, we are not covering that prescription. Paul kim, that didnt sound like a direct answer to me. Yeah, i was going to say, that was Elizabeth Warren not answering the question. And whats remarkable, she was asked twice by the moderator to admit that she was going to have to raise taxes on middle class earners in order to pay for this program. And she essentially did, right, by not answering the question. She kept saying total cost will go down. This is a distinction between her and bernie sanders. Bernie sanders has been honest, that he would raise taxes on pretty much all americans. I mean, hes also making the argument that costs get reduced. It was notable here that Elizabeth Warren doubled down on medicare for awful shes been a bit cagey about when she would do it, h how she would do it. She seemed to come out and stand with bernie on that issue. Paul she says, yeah, okay, im for medicare for all but shes really, really, slippery, not just about middle class taxes but also about private insurance and longed for a followup by george steph kno stephanopoulos. She said she believes in covering everybody at the lowest possible coster. Why didnt we all think of that earlier . [ laughter ] meanwhile, all of the action has been between bernie sanders, mostly his very hard medicare for all policy which he has spoken about and said hes going to raise taxes and joe biden saying we can build a public option and Elizabeth Warren is sneaking up the middle by not answering the question. The moderator tried to get into it a little bit. All of the candidates on the stage were going after the sanders option, not the warren option. Paul biden and klobuchar take a position, which i think is much stronger in the general election against donald trump. Can either of them get through the democratic primaries where medicare for all essentially Government Run Health Care is popular . I think were going to see a test. Im going to see biden representing a more moderate tone still leading. Hes still the frontrunner in basically every poll. Klobuchar is bumping along at 1 or 2 . I think she gets a lift out of this. They are raising issues that even among democrats, when you poll them, this is not a universally popular idea that were going to eliminate your current coverage and start over. Paul how did you think, kyle, Elizabeth Warren did overall . She got good reviews from a lot of people in the press. But i thought she was pretty slippery on some things and on trade she sounded to me exactly like donald trump without the bluster. Sure. I agree. I think she sounds slippery. I think she has one mode on every issue. We cant pick gun control because of corruption in washington, we cant Fix Health Care because of corruption in washington. Paul and big corporations. Its the same shtick. If youre somebody who is just tuning in, maybe they havent picked up on the repeat. The trade discussion was interesting. I think if xijinping was watching, he was thinking i cant wait out trump to see the tariffs coming down. The candidates were not saying the tariffs would go away. They were talking about how they would negotiate differently and use the leverage differently. Youre talking about managed trade and in warrens cas case s beyond trump, saying i want to use tariffs for environmental goals as well. Paul anything else strike you on the issues front . I think what we saw was some important distinctions up there on the stage. And it was often now what we got on this die that mic dynamic wan and Amy Klobuchar trying to position themselves as centrists up there and high light radical positions. You saw that in addition to health care, you saw that in the gun control issue where you had beto orourke promising to confiscate legal, law abiding americans weapons. Amy klobuchar saying weve got to do voluntary buybacks. Joe biden mentioning the constitution which was amazing. [ laughter ] paul thats amazing. It made an appearance, the old James Madison document coming out of the closet. From Amy Klobuchars appeal to the middle, to Julian Castros attack on joe biden, the second tier candidates sought to distinguish themselves in the debate. Did any of them have a breakout moment . Hell, yes, were going to take your ar15, your ak47. [upbeat action music] pilot were going to be on the tarmac for another 45 minutes or so. I cant believe it. That sophie opened up a wormhole through time . speaking japanese where am i . woman speaking french are you crazy nuts . Cyclist pip pip woman speaking french im here, look at me. Its completely your fault. man speaking french ok . Its me. 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Paul Julian Castro attacking joe biden in the debate, as second tier candidates struggled to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack. Did any of them have a breakout moment . Kyle, was that a good moment for castro or not . I dont think it was. I dont think he chose the right moment. There was a lot of cross talk, a lot of things being said about health care. When he made that comment. , joe,you forgot what you saio minutes ago. I forgot what joe said two minutes ago. Im relatively clear im not senile. It was wrong. Biden said two minutes ago exactly what he was saying there, was that the poorest of the poor dont have to buy in which is factually wrong from castro. Paul cory booker said after the debate on one of the other networks, did say joe bidens stumbling, its kind of the way hes having a hard time presenting, thats a legitimate issue. So this is going to come out more i think from some of the candidates. Yeah, well, it would have been braver if cory booker had said that up on the stage instead of afterwards. I think right issue, this is going to come up. I think it is probably a legitimate question. But i think castro did it the wrong way. Because as james said, he actually got his facts wrong. And he did it in an aggressive, sort of nasty way. There should be a discussion about maybe whether or not joe biden has got the fight in him to do this, if hes the best candidate. But it wasnt a good look. Castro has done this in every debate, how he tries to distinguish himself, is to come out and say harsh things about his rivals. Paul james mentioned in the other segment that he thought klobuchar had a couple good moments. I did too. Seems to me that if anybody on the socalled moderate stage up there or the others in the race has a chance to break through, it might be her because of her standing in the senate, shes close to iowa. I think she is a genuine centrist. Shes a liberal but shes center left as opposed to left. But the problem she has is bidens got to go down, it seems to me, before she can emerge. I think thats right. One thing that may help her, shes polling at about 1 , theres some other candidates paul she made 2 in four polls to get in the debate. Fair enough. Im talking about the real clear politics average. There are other candidates who are polling in that area, steve bullock, the montana governor. If some of those candidates drop out, klobuchar may be able to assemble some of those 1 and 2 into something. Paul car rove says this carkarl rove says this is a thre person race, sanders, biden and warren. Do you agree with that . No, as long as we have debates happening, months before the voting starts, i think there are opportunities for people to emerge. I think klobuchar is still introducing herself to voters. A fair amount dont know who she is. When you look at polls of not who people support but democratic voters, what do they believe, theres a lot of evidence they are not generally as extreme as sanders and warren. So i think there is room for as you said a liberal, not a progressive leftist. Paul what do you think of that . Some people think its down to biden versus warren at this stage because bernie just he cant break through. Hes got that core there, that core support from 2016 but hes basically hes giving the same talking points from 2016 and hes not going to build on that. What do you think . Yeah, i certainly agree that this is a three person race. And thats why you saw some of the an particular antics youe stage, second tier candidates trying to have their moments. Youre seeing this again and again and in the prior debates, they have a moment, they get a slight boost, for instance, Kamala Harris or cory booker and then they fade again. Its because all of the attention is on those three. I do agree that looking forward, i think this is more of a biden, warren race. Because bernie, you look from the beginning, he never goes up or down much in the polls. Hes just got his crew. Warren has been creeping up. Shes been consolidating support from other people and she has interestingly the backing of the kind of inteigencia on the left. She was asked no truly hard questions other than health care on the stage. Paul i bet the New York Times endorses her. I want to read something from pete buttigieg. If theres one thing we learned from afghanistan, its that the best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the first place. End quote. Do you remember how the afghan war started . I dont remember that it was we hit our own world trade center. That was somebody else. Hes saying this the day after 9 11 anniversary . I mean, its just beyond weird that i dont think he can claim he was too young to know what happened on that awful day. But muddled thinking i guess is the extremely polite way to put it. Paul harris breakthrough at all, briefly, do you think, kyle . I dont think so. I think she tried be overthetop aggressive, making trying to make a joke about President Trump can turn back to fox news, saying he didnt pull the trigger in el paso but he was tweeting the ammunition. I dont think that was a good look. Paul the House Judiciary Committee approved guidelines for a trump impeachment probe but are democrats sending mixed messages about Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 2,000 fence posts. 900 acres. 48 bales. All before lunch, which we caught last saturday. We earn our scars. We wear our work ethic. We work until the works done. 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Nancy pelosi says shes supports the move while acknowledging it is divisive. I support the Judiciary Committee. That enables them to do their process of interrogation in their investigation, impeachment is a very divisive measure but if we have to go there, well have to go there. Paul were back with kim strassel, James Freeman and wall street journal editorial page writer, kate odell. Kim, what are they doing . I cant figure it out other than it looks to me like its all kabuki theater, its phony, they want to persuade the liberals they are impeaching donald trump and they dont want to have their moderates have to vote on it. Its all just a dance, the nadler dance. This is all fake. Youre right, it is very muddled. Heres what we know, what theyre not doing. What happened this week bears no relation to the formal impeachment proceedings that we have seen twice before in modern american times. The way this normally works is the full house takes a vote and decides whether to attack the Judiciary Task the Judiciary Committee with conducting an impeachment inquiry. They havent done that because as you said they dont want their moderates to have to go down on the floor of the house and vote for this. Instead, nadler is doing this phony version of it, passing procedural things, using the word impeachment a lot but we are technically no closer to articles of impeachment than we were a month ago or year ago. Paul russia didnt fly, the russia collusion, the obstruction of justice kind of blah, didnt work, now theyre going Stormy Daniels and the payoffs and theyre throwing in the kitchen pen sink. Theyre even going nadler issued a press release, says they were going to investigate as possible impeachment, the antitrust probe against automakers. Yeah. Its absurd. Its really appalling, this abuse of the investigative powers ofs congress. Every day it seems theres a new excuse for this investigation. And of course thats not really how america works. You dont pick a target and then investigate. You have an a alleged crime and an alleged offense and then you investigate. Paul do you think the Stormy Daniels payoffs are at all likely that he question of whether that is if they happened, that question of whether that is a Campaign Finance violation was tested in the john edwards case and it fail it failed. Paul as a criminal ross caution. Right. Prosecution. Right, that isnt going anywhere. Paul you dont have to have a crime to have an impeachable offense. You have to have some offense. You probably shouldnt change it every week if you want it taken seriously. We i impeached one not the last 150 years, 2 of year 20 year, it was the question of whether a president lied while in office in order to stop a lawsuit against him for allegedly mistreating a female employee. He paid 850,000 to settle the claim, suggesting that maybe there was something to it. But the point is, we had a big debate in this country about a president lying under oath to stop this Sexual Harassment lawsuit. Theres no debate here. There onto a new excuse every week for what the investigation should be about. Paul nancy pelosi has said she wants to do Something Else other than impeachment and he she wants to move on guns, background checks, maybe on drug prices. Is any of that going to move . Well, i think the distraction has precluded some of that. You see moderate members saying please dont make this impeachment proceeding all we talk about because otherwise i cant win and it must be frustrating as the one who delivers across the majority to not be taken seriously. But i dont see any real path for, say, a deal by the end of the year which is interesting because i think democrats could have a pretty hard bargain on the administration who wants to get it passed but has veered off into impeachment territory. Paul the Senate Finance committee passed something, pelosi has a bill introduced and trump sounded like we want to get a deal, could we get something there, price controls on drug prices of one kind or another. Sure, i think the best we can hope for is the two sides remain too far apart. There is Common Ground that is price control, references price toss international prices, Something Like that. But what weve seen from the democrats is one of the proposals they say we need to negotiate price was companies and one of the proposals says if you fail to negotiate well take 75 of your sales from last year. Thats the negotiation tactic. Hopefully these dont percolate with democrats in the senate and that derails the project. 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Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. You know, john wasnt in line with what we were doing and actually in some cases he thought it was too tough, what we were doing. Mr. Tough guy. You have to go into iraq, going into iraq was something that he felt very strongly about. So were right now in for over 7 trillion into the middle east. Paul President Trump citing policy differences for the departure this week of National Security advisor, john bolton. Bolton, who was the third person to hold that post in the Trump Administration, resigned tuesday amid growing disagreements with the president over venezuela, north korea, and a scuttled peace deal wit. General jack keane, welcome. Let me ask about the manner of the handling of boltons be par departure. I believe john bolton did resign first. The next day, the president goes out and denigrates him for something he knew when he hired him, his support for the iraq war. Is that the proper way to handle this . I mean, one says he resigned, the other said he asked for his resignation. I think at this point its kind of a distinction without a difference, what really happened is they were no longer compatible, something that also happened with jim madis as well. And i think the principal who is advising the president recognized their advice is not being followed consequentially and you start something yourself the question, well, what am i doing here if im not going to be listened to. And the president has a right to take advice and counsel where he wants. Hes directing Foreign Policy and National Security, not the nsa or National Security advisor. Paul i understand that. Okay. The resignation, what does it mean . In terms of policy. Are there going to be any changes substantially on policy . Listen, i think anybody thats spent any time around President Trump dealing with National Security and Foreign Policy knows that he drives hes the pivotal person in the room when it comes to it. He asks all the tough questions and is literally driving policy development and division making. And there are advisors at times who disagree with him, disagree with each other. I dont see any major policy change coming. I do see major process change coming because ambassador bolton who i know and i agree with a lot of his views, in full disclosure here, he walked away largely from the formal envelops of teeing up all the process for the president , establishing what the risks are, largely walked aa way from that. I think that wi will be put bacn place. I think it serves the president very well. Lets be drank here. Theres personality differences here and that is something of an elephant in the room between bolton and the president and a also john. John is known as somebody who speaks his mind. Hes got some pretty sharp elbows at times. And i think that that could wear people down a little bit. Paul you know, none of that i think it was a factor. Paul none of that is a secret. John bolton had that manner for 20 years. Heres what i worry about, that in fact john bolton was one of the few inside the administration who is willing to say mr. B president president , i think this is a bad idea. For example, i think having the taliban going to camp david on the week of 9 11 is a bad idea and i think calling off military exercises in north korea is a bad idea. I wonder who is going to speak up against some of those some of the president s poorer instincts. No, i mean, i think he has a relatively strong National Security team, secretary pompeo is the leader of that team and he does that on a continuous basis. Its done much more privately. I think the president will still be served well. I think the major difference i believe that ambassador bolton had with the president , certainly is on afghanistan. No doubt about that. But its also on personal deploy massey. This da diplomacy. This president puts a huge emphasis on diplomacy, specifically dealing with adversaries, north korea, wanted to meet with ruhani and has met with xi and president putin as have other president s as well. I think john certainly saw that, he wanted to tee the issues up more, make progress on those issues before we put a president in the room with them. Thats not going to change this president. He puts value in it, personal diplomacy still going to be there and were going to go forward. Im not as concerned about major policy shifts as you are. Strategically, i think this administration is generally moving in the right direction. There are problems with execution, to be sure. I dont agree necessarily with what has been going on with the taliban. Ive seen the deal. I talked to our chief negotiator. I think it is a bad deal. I dont think it serves the National Interest of the United States. I hope we walk away from it and if we ever talk to the taliban again, we have to have on the table a permanent cease fire prior to those negotiations or we should not sit down and talk to them. Paul i agree with you on that, general. And i think were going to be its fascinating to see what happens here. Thank you for being on. Still ahead, republicans pull off a narrow victory in a t hotly contested special election in North Carolina. What both parties can learn from tuesdays results, when we come back. 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 . Have you lost weight . Of course i have ever since i started renting from national. 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Were changing whats possible every single day. With technology that helps you offer shoppers a better experience. Take your companys app. We can add in all sorts of capabilities, which help your customers manage rewards, offers, and payments on the fly. And now, applying for credit can happen in a flash. That way, more people can start shopping with you on the spot, wherever they are. Hows that for changing whats possible . Paul a win this week for republicans in North Carolina, where state senator dan bishop pulled off a 2 point victory over democrat dan mccready in a special house election, narrowly saving a seat held by the gop for nearly six decades. President trump who won the district by 12 points in 2016 headlined a rally there on the eve of the vote. And the race was widely seen as a test of his strength in the suburbs, getting into the 2020 campaign. So what can each party learn from tuesdays results . Were back with kim strassel, James Freeman and Kyle Peterson. Kyle, what do we learn that would affect 2020 . The biggest thing is that republicans are still struggling in the suburbs as they did in 2018 when they lost house seats in suburban dallas, for instance and theyre doing much better in the rural areas, that was the dynamic on tuesday in this North Carolina special election and its a big swing. So trump won the district by 12 points. He won North Carolina in the president ial by three andahalf points and dan bishop won by 2 points and so paul if you look inside those numbers, mecklenburg county, the suburbs of charlotte, the democrat won by 13 points this time where he had only the last democrat won by 10. So it was actually worse. Right. A special election is a different animal. So the turnout was somewhere around a third of voters instead of 55 or 60 in a president ial election. As trump is looking at this and thinking about 2020, hes got to be worried about the suburbs, not only outside of charlotte but outside of places like detroit and other places that he needs to win. Paul the gamble, the strategy for the republicans is well get trump into these places and when trump is on the ballot of course hell be his own motivator. You come in, you get out, you turn out that trump base in the rural areas and you can offset the losses that are very real in some of the big city suburbs. That i has been the white hoe strategy. Its overt now. Thats exactly what they did here. They flew President Trump in and by all accounts it worked in this district. They got a lot more rural voters out there with the base. Its a lot diceyer process because of the narrow victory that bishop won. Its going to make those margins that much tighter everywhere you go. It doesnt take into account that in a general election the democrats may be just as good at getting their own people out. That being said, i do think there is some warnings from democrats, the democrat who won here, mccready, he had run before, had huge name id and he was a conservative democrat. A lot of people are pointing out that if you would have run a person, that was up on the democratic president al stage in that district t margin of victory would have probably been bigger for the republicans. Paul i think more than 30 house seats held by republicans now that are actually less republican than this one. So theyd have to keep all of those in 2020 and then pick up a lot of the seats they lost to take back the house. I think its going to be a very difficult thing to take back the house. Its going to be a challenge. I think if theyre looking on the bright side here, democrats ran less well in this special election than they did last year. And you wonder why did mccready do more poorly when his opponent, the republican the last time around had this scandal that forced a new vote. Now, you would think would have tarnished the republican brand. You mentioned some of the suburban trouble for the gop on the other side of it, the trouble for the democrats in robeson county. This is a diverse district. Republicans did much better this time and i think its in part because of the social issues where the party and you see the president ial candidates going to the extreme left. They had the bathroom fight in North Carolina about which bathrooms people should be allowed to go in. The residue i think is impacting here. You mentioned some of the especially rural voters. Paul what kind of candidate does a republican need to run to win back some of the suburbs . Is it a moderate, maybe an economic conservative, not so culture conservative or is it like some on the right say, youve got to have a full bodied conservative. It depends on the district and the state. In the suburban areas you need somebody who is strong on the issues and speaks softly and carries a big republican stickies maybe a good way to put it. I mean, you cant have somebody who gets too far sideways with the president. Because as weve seen, he will come down really hard on that, like in South Carolina with mark sanford, who was in the house and then and got booted. So you need somebody who can do both of those. Paul kim, briefly, what do you think the chances are of taking back the house for the republicans . I think its going to be a really tough slog, partly going to depend on how well the president performs out there, those coat tails are long and they can harm or help depending on the situation. Paul thank you. When we come back, the Trump Administration vows to take action on ecigarettes amid an outbreak of serious lung illnesses and growing concern over teen vaping. Over teen vaping. Vaping but i Award Winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. Our most awarded luxury suv. [upbeat action music] pilot were going to be on the tarmac for another 45 minutes or so. At comcast, we didnt build the nations largest gigspeed network just to make businesses run faster. We built it to help them go beyond. Because beyond risk. Welcome to the neighborhood, guys. There is reward. Beyond work and life. Who else could he be . There is the moment. Beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected, to do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. Were studying is very carefully. Its, again, very new and potentially very bad. There have been deaths and there have been a lot of other problems. People think its an easy solution to cigarettes but its turned out that it has its own difficulties. Paul the Trump Administration announced wednesday that it would ban the sale of most eflavored cigarettes amid growing concern over teen use and a recent surge in lung ailments. Ecigarettes have been tied to respiratory illness in three dozen states and its suspected in six deaths. Is the ban on such flavored products the right response . Were back with kim strassel, kate odell and Kyle Peterson. So kate, what do you think of this ban . Idoes this comport with the science . I think we should take those stories you mentioned one by one, because there has been this increase in deaths, in illness that seems related to vaping but so far the samples that have been tested by Public Health agencies seem to suggest the main issue is thc or cannabis derivative. Meaning these appear to be modified products that were bought in black market, off the street cannabis, not related to nicotine only systems, at least thats what it looks like so far. The second story you mentioned has been percolating for some time, which is that some of these nicotine devices that are intended to get adults to stop smoking have been picked up by kids who may not otherwise use nicotine. The flavor ban intends to go after the problem of kids using these devices and i dont think that it will be i dont think it will be effective in moving kids away from the devices but i think it could turn aaway from using adults away from using the devices. Paul the real Health Advantages of delivering nicotine threw through these d. Nicotine isnt risk free. Its addictive. But it doesnt have the tar elements that are killers. Right. Youre not come busting tobacco. Thats part of what makes cigarettes so dangerous. Its safer than cigarettes with the proviso that cigarettes are dangerous and bad for your health. You want to balance the competing equities. Nobody wants kids getting addicted to nicotine. You also want adults to have an option for a less dangerous product that contains nicotine. I think one thing were seeing here is that Public Health agencies are not very comfortable with the idea of harm reduction. They do not like to deal with situations where no harm is not an option, meaning weaning an adult from one product thats very harmful to one thats less harmful. Paul heres a question for you. I know youre an expert on black market and some of the unintended consequences of regulation. If you ban legal flavored cigarettes and kids still like them, arent they more likely to go into black markets and find this on the streets and then they might be poisoned by the thc and the marijuana elements that have been problematic already . Yeah, of course. And what we should be in general trying to push is push kids away from using these products. But that is not necessarily a job of the federal government. And as you say, when the federal government produces one rule designed to stop a certain kind of behavior, it often inspires even worse behavior and in places where its harder to watch. So, look, this is partly a community issue, a parental issue, weve got stories out there of parents who are buying these devices for their kids for fun because they dont know the harm. So theres an education aspect here too. But this very quick and unthoughtful response from the white house, which is also it doesnt help from a Health Perspective and, you know, i think good conservatives too should not be about outright banning products. Paul i guess the argument is if you cant its hard to control, as long as youre selling these flavored cigarettes. Its hard to control the messaging to children. So why not just ban them totally, thats the argument. Shirks i guess i would say shirks i guess i would say two things to that. Its important to keep the amount of harm cigarettes cause in view. 500,000 people a year die from cigarette related illnesses, 1300 a day. If some portion of those people who are 10 or 15 years away from joining that statistic could get off cigarettes by vaping mango vape fluid or menthol vape fluid, that is almost an un unalloyed good. I agree with the difficulty of doing this. The journal said one of these companies, the fda is upset they made unauthorized claims to adults that the ecigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes. Paul i guess this is popular with suburban families and parents and thats got to be part of the big driver here politically. All right. We have to take one more break. When we come back, hits and misses of the week. Limu emu doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] its an honor to tell you that Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. 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The Supreme Court tells them to knock it off and they have done so again but they may have to step in and do more if it continues. Its a big hit to President Trump for keeping his promises to cut federal regulation, he said when its cut its people. And thats especially true of the United States role which this week the ministration asked what this does it takes us back to 2015 when we were still heavily regulated but now we will not call waterways. This is to both parties for the news of the annual deficit, there has been a lot of distraction about this and we dont know whats causing this even among growing revenues with rising spending particularly mandatory spending and autopilot spending, were on track to exceed military funding within a few years and its almost seen pathways but hopefully some in washington will join as soon. Get ready to spend the next 40 years worrying about this. All give a hit to robots for raising productivity and living standards. Two stories unions and oregon for two Self Checkout machines at two at a time. In automation tax which is a mistake. My greatgrandfather was on a steam crushing crew and that john no longer exist which is why you can buy a loaf of bread for a buck. And thats part of the minimum wage, cost of wages, he get more robots. If you have your own hit or miss, treat to us at je are on fnc. That is it for this week show. They can especially quality for watching. I hope to see you here next from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromos wall street. If. Maria happy weekend. Welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. Im maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us. Coming up, former chairman and ceo of the new york stock exchange, dick grasso, is our special guest this weekend. But first, as the number of Central Banks cutting Interest Rates continues to grow, three more Central Banks cut rates this past week, u. S. china trade talks remaining in a stalemate although there are some signs that maybe things are easing and the two can come together. More and more investors are still starting to discuss that rword, the recession. Where are we . Weve got some very good numbers