divided our politics is and how really policymaking in good government has lost its way, we are focused only on short termism and really, it s a very sad commentary for christmas. i want to bring up number two from kim strauss on the wall street journal, we want to know if your senator approves about the raise in the food and drug administration to micromanager mascara or killing off fishing operations are leading athletes that service academies get a waiver to play professional sports, good luck, members of both parties will say that they voted for this turkey solely to avoid a government shutdown and they ll dock questions on the other major changes, 0 accountability only this is not lock it is by design, there are people that say why not take the $800 billion of defense spending
. paul: the first trial from the special counsel john durham s investigation getting underway in washington this week. prosecutors inking out their case against clinton campaign lawyer michael sussman accusing him during opening statements of lying and attempting to inject the fbi into a presidential election by peddling a tip linking then candidate donald trump to a russian bank. our own kim strauss was back with what we learned in the trials of first weeks. some pretty big news coming out of the trial one specific point which is former clinton aide said on the stand that hillary clinton herself had authorized going to a reporter and telling the reporter about this information about trump and the
on it for supply availability of oil has a huge impact. i will also cite entering americans don t bear the burden of the pump continues to be priority for the ministration at large. paul: gents topic this week blaming high prices at the pump on the global supply shortage thing the a penetration is working on the problem even as president biden needs to reduce oil and gas production here at home. the national gas price average is up to percent since the start of the year according to aaa expected to increase another teh august. we are back with our panel, dan henninger, kim strauss and allysia dimmick. help me out here, kim, that i hear the word white has pumped more oil to the saudis, doesn t that violate every climate doctrine? yes, it does. but it doesn t do is it helped biden ministration politically
you know how far off the investigation is going to veer. well, i mean, mark sort of there on the heels of a presidential tweet questioning the entire premise for the special investigation, the president citing kim strauss of the wall street journal tweeted after reviewing the dumb comey memos you have to ask what what was the purpose of the special counsel. there is no there, there. chuck todd questioning the president s head of legislative affairs whether the president plans to fire bob mueller who he attacks regularly in the post-cohen era is a legitimate line of questioning. are you picking up any sense that the president has been pushed off the ledge from talking about or thinking about dismissing everyone with a finger in the russia probe? no, i don t think that is going to happen. i think that he s going to say what he wants to say about this probe. he s going to say whatever he feels like saying it. you know, he has been at least for the moment seemingly persuaded not to
i have the privilege of serving as commander in chief, i m going to keep on fighting to deliver the care and the benefits and the opportunities that your families deserve. welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul hugo. that was president obama wednesday breaking his silence over the growing veteran s affairs scandals and promising to fix what s wrong. his remarks came a day after the va inspector general says his office is now investigating possible misconduct at 26 facilities around the country, including a phoenix hospital where 40 veterans allegedly died before receiving care. that staff rigged recordkeeping to cover up the long wait times. wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, and editorial board member joe rago. joe, the president session we re going to get to the bottom of this, but the truth is we know an awful lot about what happens at the va because there have been numerous reports going to this which of waiting lines and cover-ups. what do we