Its also why there was an economic speech today in the go to lowcal for economic speeches in motor city u. S. A. Dug an address hosted by the fabled detroit economic club, he framed the ideas that his , quote c opponent has its a lead weight on the american economy. Donald trump the city of detroit is where our story begins. Every policy that has failed our city and so many others is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton. She is the candidate of the past. Ours is the campaign of the future. American workers have paid taxes their whole lives and they should not be taxed again at death. Its just plain wrong and most people agree with that. Were reducing new taxes from 5 to 15 . I am going to cut regulations massively. A Trump Administration will end this war on the American Worker and unleash an Energy Revolution that will bring vast new wealth to our country. We will make america grow again. Mark so among trump small government proposals include a temporary moratorium on financial regulations, lowering the business tax rate from 35 to 15 , the a simplification of the personal income tax code going from seven brackets to three and an appeal of the socalled debt or estate tax. Truth also argued against environmental regulations. Donny, was trumps speech today good policy or good politics for what we currently stand . Donny frame the economy in the election. I worked on the Clinton Campaigns doing ads in 1992. The economy, stupid. A situation like 1992 when the economy is completelytanking or in 2000 when its tanking, it is economy stupid. In this case, there are very blurry mixed signals. On the one hand g. D. P. Numbers 1 , jobs numbers, great jobs numbers and a 4. 9 unemployment rate. 57 of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction. 54 say theyre optimistic about the future. With both candidates, its easy to spin the economy difficult ways. As far as what trump did today, i actually think he played into hillarys hand. You take the estate tax for rich people, the 35 down to 15, which he will spin is going to create more jobs and hillary can say, look, he is in bed with big business. Thats all he cares about and even as we get into some of the other exemptions, such as the child care thing, it actually benefits upper middle class people. And the big one to me, all he has been talking about is hillary and wall street in bed together. What does he is a, im going to put a moratorium on any regulations and implied is financial regulations. If im hillary and talk about trumponomics, i think she is an easy position to defend the direction we are going in and defend a lot of things she is doing. Mark no question, he opened a lot of doors. Republicans have been opening the doors for democrats since president reagan and democrats dont always win that fight. It takes an articulate democrat to win them. She has not been the best rguer. He sounded in some ways well talk about how he is not an orthodox republican, he sounds like an orthodox republican and he needs that. He needs a higher percentage of the Republican Party to support him and he also presented himself as a guy with some sense of the unified republican vision of the economy. Plenty of holes in it, plenty of the democrats to shoot at, more than he has in this campaign since the general election started at least, he said here is a coherent set of ideas that he hopes republicans and others can get onboard with. Donny the election are we more fearful about the temperment of trump and change or the status quo . I think the economy will be a wash here. Each one of them are equal in the polls. Mark he needs to be ahead on the economy. It has to be a strong issue for him. Her record, she has moved largely to the left in this campaign. There is an opening. I dont think he seized it today. He has to do a lot more on this issue but better than he has done on the economy. Donny Donald Trumps economic speech today didnt always toe the republican line. The g. O. P. Nominee proposed that family should be able to deduct child care from their taxes and he continues to pull Hillary Clinton to the left on infrastructure spending, policy on trade and closing loop hoels on wall street. The Clinton Campaign put out a prebuttal press release, it could cause recession and claim more american jobs. Secretary clinton well give super big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy, just like him and the guys who wrote the speech, right . He wants to basically just repackage trickledown economics. I got to tell you, people, this is going to be a very important next three months. We got work to do and dont be fooled. There is no other donald trump. What you see is what you get. Donny mark, how vulnerable is she on the economy and how much is him moving some of the issues to the left does she start to get flagged in . Mark the child care thing might sound good, the Clinton Campaign says it benefits ealthier people. She is vulnerable on the economy. Some people at least dont like the way things are going and he has got a more populist change oriented stance on the economy. Even though a lot of things he is arguing before is just as much status quo as what she is for and theyre tired republican ideas and she has tired democratic ideas, she is vulnerable to someone who says i have a sense of what working class people need. Its more the atmospherics than the proposals. By adding some things against republican orthodoxy he is at least doing something that suggests change. I ask all of the clinton people, tell me an area, one position she has that is against Democratic Party orthodoxy like her husband had, like george bush had, like barack obama had. They cant name one. Donny all because she got pulled to the left, a guy named Bernie Sanders. Mark you win in the center. Donny you win by laying as low as you can and you dont want the guy with the nuclear code. I say its not going to matter. Its a referendum on his temperment. Mark nothing to do with better ideas on the economy . Donny we can get 10 economists to argue both. The simple election, bill clinton had a simple message. I tax people who make over 200,000 a year and universal health care. It was simple to weigh these things. Go to the average person, companies, the tax rate goes from 35 to 15, youre the average joe, i dont know if they can disseminate what that means. My point is there is blurry enough news in general, you can pick them apart on both sides, it comes back to the temperment issue. Mark the populist stuff, he gives them a chance to move ahead on the economy. He gives them a chance. The tone and substance of what trump said today was the latest signal that he is clearly tried to mend relations with his Party Leaders and quell doubts and anxieties on the part of different parties donors. He aligned himself with the House Republican on their tax plan just days after he finally came around to endorsing paul ryan, the speaker of the house and ryans primary which is tomorrow. In an interview with the washington post, the speaker still expressed some concerns this year, though he was unwilling to frame his policy agenda as a way to detach congressional candidates from their president ial nominee. He seemed to avoid escalating his feud with trump. Trump has been on script for 72 hours. How is the unity project which his campaign does care about going . Donny interesting on script. Doesnt he look so uncomfortable on script. He wants to rip up that script. Its not where he excels. Look, they are necessary bedfellows. We can talk, at some point they bail out the down ticket, you want a check and balance on the congress and the senate against this democratic president , 80 of all tossup Senate Elections in the last 12 years have gone to the president ial winner. So these senators across the board, congressional issues are different, theyre going to make, its moving that direction as you said, typical republican platforms as far as the economy, a little bit of a bridge towards ryan issues, its fine. We all know at any moment it can blow. Mark i think in the end, if he is doing poorly after the first debate, you may see more separation. Today was a big step. Weeks ago as paul ryan started unveiling all of these policy proposals, this is ideal for trump. He has no policy proposals, he barely has a team. He has one now. Why not adopt the House Republican proposals, run a nity ticket. Stand in harness on policy which is what ryan cares about. Did it today on taxes. I wouldnt be surprised if he does it on some of the other issues like regulation, even like penal reform and welfare reform where trump i think can be perfectly willing to accommodate himself to what ryan wants. Donny when he put his hypothetical Supreme Court nominees out there. On the granular stuff hell do the meat and potatoes republican stuff, we have seen it all right. Mark coming up, the anticlinton versus antitrump Book Publishing war and later, two republican strategists appear here together for the first time on television. You wont want to miss that. Well explain why it matters to your traffic and weather right after this. Mark you have been watching fox news lately or listening to talk radio, you may have picked up on some repeating themes when it comes to coverage of trump and clinton. One is that the polling showing trump behind cant possibly be right. Another is that the media is generally biased against trump and final, a reminder that trump continues to draw very big crowds. Here is what all that sounds and looks like. Here is the left wing media doing the bidding of hillary, sort of like an extension of her press office trying to say, eeoh, donald trump, an intervention is needed. You look at media biasand you look at the republican versus the democratic conventions, the networks gave the Republican Convention 12 times more negative coverage than the democratic convention, coincidence . The mainstream liberal media refusing to acknowledge the large massive crowds that donald trump draws to his rallies and the relatively modest crowds that Hillary Clinton draws. These are crowds you typically dont see until october and youre seeing them here now at the beginning of august. To see his rallies and theyre big and he is slipping in the polls, im not so sure how accurate these polls are. Its no secret donald trump has been flipping in the polls this past week, are the media making too much of that . Is the press going too far in saying in August Donald trump is in real trouble . Absolutely. Mark so, donny, theyre talking more about polls and media bias and crowd sizethan they are about trumps message, very similar to the 2012 campaign for mitt romney and his supporters. Is this kind of stuff preaching to the faithful, is it helpful or hurtful . Donny its preaching to their audience which loves conspiracy theories. Theyre in a business. Were all in a business here. Theyre talking to their audience. What theyre saying is so ignorant and stupid, stupid for the candidate and stupid actually factually. Believe it or not, statistically there are more negative mentions of Hillary Clinton starting last year versus donald trump in all the media. Number one. Mark what statistic is that . Donny tomorrows show, ill bring you that document. Maybe there were more negative mentions at the Republican Convention because it was horrible depressing, it was a lynch mob. Mark the general idea a good idea . Donny you paint him as a loser already. Youre basically saying youre already giving excuses, all right teeing it up that he is losing. Its good tv for their audience, bad politics. Mark theyre wasting time not talking about his message. Yes it revs up the base a little bit. I think it is so diluted and so unscientific and so unrigorous, so off the point of needing a comeback. Trump needs a comeback. He needs a comeback. If he is going to win, he needs o come back. Theyre out there saying the polls are wrong because his crowds are bigger . By the way, foxs own poll which they barely mentioned since the day it came out has him 10 behind. Donny a poll which is representative of hundreds of millions of americans versus 10,000 people are coming out, the polls must be wrong, that is ignorance. One has nothing to do with the other. Mark romney thought he was going to win and its death to hem. It is like a parallel universe in which trump is going to win and the real universe happens. Donny if you think about if youre fox and youre talking to the audience, what else do you say at this point . Mark message. Donny up until today what was there to talk about. The top three nonfiction boats, books, best sellers,see to my point, all about Hillary Clinton, not one of them is positive. The number of antitrump books that have cracked the top 20 in the past few weeks, mark, is zero, interesting. Mark, when it comes to publishing industry, why is this counterintuitive in certain ways, why are clinton bashing books out there versus zero trump . Mark there are some coming that may catch on. Number one, conservatives buy more books, they dominate the best seller lists generally. Two, we have a democrat in the white house. Still to have three anticlinton books atop the best seller list, incredible disparity. Donny the main one is conservatives buy more books like they listen to more talk radio. He is a private citizen. The mostly litigious person in the united states. I think any publisher is afraid its different to write about Hillary Clinton in public office. Mark im surprised there isnt a comedy book. That they could get sued for. Im talking like a quotes, you know, trump quotes, whatever. Donny thats not the kind of book that sells. Mark why do conservatives buy more books, theyre alienated by the liberal media . Dont your liberal friends read books . Donny they read tweets. Mark there is so much media about hillary that is not books. In the old days, they might turn to books. Now there is plenty of liberal and conservative stuff. Donny other than the litigious thing. Mark when we come back, were going to break down more of Donald Trumps econ speech that he gave in detroit today after these words from our sponsors. Mark breaking news, a lot of hate on twitter. As donald trump set out to today to prove he could look more president ial one of the most interesting things about hiseconomic speech some detroit is not just what he said, what he didnt say especially when he was frequently interrupted by hecklers. We counted at least 13 nstances, take a look. Donald trump all very well planned out. I will say the Bernie Sanders people had far more energy and spirit, i will say that. Mark so, donny, we already talked about the fact that you believe more strongly than i do that he is not good on prepared text. He has to do it. He showed some restraint there. Overall how do you think he did in terms of Performance Today . Donny its not him. As a guy, i know him personally. As a guy that speaks like he does, when i have to give a written speech, im just not comfortable. Mark he is getting better. Donny he is damned if he does and damned if he doesnt. The thing that got him here is the trump and the guy going back at the hecklers. That will not work in the general election. Having said, that you cant neuter the guy out there. If i was advising him, i like one of the comments about sanders, have some fun with it. Dont say take him out and beat him up. Just to stand there, thats not him. You can address the hecklers and have some fun with it, just dont be dark about it. Mark the three things you have seen it in person which he doesnt show enough, he could have shown it today more and in general, gracious, funny, and knowing. The hecklers give you a perfect opportunity to do all three things. Donny and play the victim card nd have fun with it. When he did speak, trump hammered away at a message we expect calling himself the change candidate and casting Hillary Clinton as a tired politician of the past. Donald trump the other party has reached backwards into the past to choose a nominee from yesterday who offers only the rhetoric of yesterday and the policies of yesterday. There will be no change under Hillary Clinton, only four more years of weakness and president obama. We are going to look boldly into the future. We will build the next generation of roads, bridges, railways, tunnels, sea ports and airports. We are reliant on people that rig this system in the past. We cant fix it if were going to rely on those people again. Only by changing to new leadership and new solutions will we get new and great results. Onny mark, we have seen elections on hope and change. An easy one. Not as easy when you got the president coming out with a 52 Approval Rating. The ambiguity of how good or bad things are. Mark no doubt that the recent statistics obamas Approval Rating and some of the Economic Statistics make the argument, we need change if its risky change a lot tougher. Its compounded by the fact that the clinton folks main message is trump is risky, he is no good. He cant be president. He has a tall order. He has to find a way to convince people i think that he is ready to bring about change that they will be happy about. Thats hard right now. Donny you know better than anyone, the election is decided by suburban married women who are risk averse and hillary will pound that. Mark a lot dont like her, though. Trump talked a lot about the economy under the Obama Administration framing democratic policies as a reason for all of the countrys urrent woes. Donald trump the Obama Clinton agenda of tax, spend, and regulate has created a silent nation of jobless americans. This is a city controlled by democratic politicians at every level and unless we change policies, we will not change results. Home ownership is at its lowest rate in 51 years, nearly 12 Million People have