Tom cotton, ben sasse, john kasich and even, yes, mike pence, are quietly planning a run in 2020. Now, if youre watching this show on friday, neil ran through a number of accomplishments that the white house has been pointing to in its First Six Months whether it be job gains, stock market gains, all that kind of thing. So our question to follow up on that given that this article has been written, was or is the president being counted out way too early . To start us off, Charlie Gasparino, fox business correspondent, here in the studio from. The independent womens voice, heather higgins, also here many our new york studios, and are from the hill, editorinchief bob cusack from d. C. Heather, theres been so many articles written even during the campaign that its all over for donald trump, and although there have been moments where i think most of us would agree things have been messy during this [laughter] First Six Months you stay out of this gasparino [laughter] sorry, i just laughed. Connell president s been written off so many times, maybe the premise of this articles doing it again. This is actually intentional, and i am in the weird position of somebody on twitter actually toted this all up, im apparently one of only 27 people who actually predicted that trump would win in advance of this. And on that list of people who were actually working for his campaign. The numbers even smaller i was on the other side of that bet. People who are writing these articles and counting him out and saying all this is going on are the same people who have gotten it wrong every single time about whether or not what he says is going to sink his campaign or be a problem for him. Connell right. This is a tempest in the ea teapot. They cant teapot. They cant say that the economys doing badly, that hes not fulfilling his Campaign Promises because hes actually done a lot of them. Not legislatively connell right. They can say no big things in terms of health care and all of that is legitimate but its only six months, and he has to let Congress Work through its dysfunctionalty. Connell point taken, but the idea of people running against him, including the sitting Vice President. I took a lot of heat on social media connell you always do. I guess this was mild comparatively. Basically saying the markets are up because investors say netnet no matter which way you put it and i made this case to neil too, but he disagreed with me netnet trump is better than Hillary Clinton. Connell he creates a Better Business environment. You know, either way. Even if he does nothing, hes going to be better than the taxes, the regulations and all the other bad stuff that would occur under Hillary Clinton. That said, lets be real clear here. When you say these people, the people the reporter in the New York Times who did that story, i dont remember him being a prognosticator. Hes a reporter. Connell right. If you look at what he said in the story, hes pointing out, hes getting specific examples on why it looks like pence is covering his rear end and thinking possibly of a run. And he laid it all out. It was a pretty compelling read. He started a fundraising connell i want to ask bob about it just to get him into the conversation, and then well come back to heather. Bob, youre the d. C. Guy in the middle of all of this, and you know how things work down there. If thats true, i know the Vice President s pushed back so hard, but is that sod that someone so odd that someone behind the scenes, even a Vice President , would be preparing for the possibility that the sitting president maybe chooses not to run for reelection. What if that happens and hes not ready . Is that so odd . No, politicians always thinking years down the road. Pence would not be running against the president under this premise of the times story. Others, i think theres very little doubt that trump first of all, i think hes going to run for reelection. Michael bloomberg has said theres a 55 chance that trump would win reelection. But i do think trump will be primaried. It wont be, certainly, pence connell kasich or somebody like that. He never denied it. Heather was going to make a point. What was it . To clarify, these people was, indeed, a genrety about the editors generality about the editors at the New York Times are wanting to run stories showing republican discord, etc. And theyre doing that in part because they dont have stories about markets doing poorly to run instead. But larger point is everybody down in that swamp is a Political Animal outside of trump, right . And they are thinking about their longterm careers, and pence as his obligation is is thinking what happens if something happens and trump doesnt run. He needs to be prepared. The others are but thats the point of the story. And when you said messy, right . You said the Trump Administration thats a euphemism for the general dysfunction that we have here. Connell fair. And this is not good. By the way, theres no arguing with that. General kelly will tell you that. Connell thats why hes in the job. Thats fine. I disagree. Well, then i guess if there wasnt dysfunction, ryan Priebus Reince priebus would still be the chief of staff. Connell whats the point though . The point is this, mike in i guess obamas First Six Months, you did not hear of joe biden setting up exploratory committees and taking the overt steps that mike pence is taking. You just didnt hear it. Connell well, it was a different environment. Is that your point . Yeah. Theres no need to do that. This is a dysfunctional presidency. And before we attack this story, listen, i dont i beat up on the New York Times all the time. I agree theyre not giving him credit for the markets and and r the economy being better connell i want to play something neil said on friday in a second, but, bob, is that a function as charlie suggests, theres that newsweek cover, by the way, where they called trump the lazy boy. Thats bologna. Connell heres a little bit of a taste of what neil had to say about this cover of newsweek saying, hey, trumps lazy, essentially. Neil was to not happy with that take and gave his own take. Here it is. Neil its in a news magazine, and impressionable people who dont know anything about Mainstream Media bias might be led to the conclusion that the president is a total waste just like they might have been led to that impression in the First Six Months to one year of Ronald Reagans administration when the media was similarly harsh and saying he was a guaranteed onetermer. Just like they were similarly dismissive in the first year of abraham lincolns administration saying he was losing the war and didnt have a clue. I believe lincoln did okay, i believe Ronald Reagan did okay. It is way too soon to say whether donald trump will do okay and be okay. But for me, this kind of treatment not okay. Connell so all of you had a lot to say about all that. Ill just read a a few of these tweets that came into us, then well continue. K. M. Tweeting the real lazy boy is newsweek. The magazine cant spend its time covering all that the president of the United States has accomplished, so it makes a trash cover to sell. Then lori a lot of us that werent trumpsters are thrill with what hes getting done. Now, we did hear some like lois on facebook who said neil, come off it already. I saw you to two times friday, then again saturday thats all you could talk about. Hes not lazy, but hes crazy. And tammy that is one of the most outrageous lies ive seen in the media. Thats the one thing no one can say about trump, that trump is lazy. Bob, just use that as a way to come back to the exact point that charlie was making, making the biden kind of obama comparison versus pence and trump now. How do you see that . Is that a function of the media treating the Obama Presidency differently . In other words, the media being unfair to trump as it wasnt to obama or just the circumstances being far different then than they are now . I honestly think its both. I think the media the media had a rough 2016. We got it wrong, basically. We didnt try to answer the question whos going to win, and trump pulled off the shocker. But i also think too many in the media havent done a reflection of why they got it wrong. And number two, you know, were referees. Unless youre a columnist, you cant be antagonist you can. Connell so theyre missing, we havent done enough selfanalysis in terms of what are we missing . We dont know what were wrong about . Is that the point . People havent look ared internally . Yeah. One of the things, and personally when i got outside of the beltway, when i went to ohio two weeks before the election, i was like Hillary Clinton has no shot to win ohio. We have to get out of the beltway thinking. There was a group think that he had no chance, and that was wrong. Yeah. But lets also dial this in a different way. Newsweek has to sell magazines or get clicks, right . So what it did was one of the most outrageous things to get a click. It basically lied, because we all know hes not lazy connell a lot of things, but not lazy. So they lie, they exaggerate, they use hyperbole to get clicks because lets be real clear here, donald trump lost the popular vote. Theres a business reason why leftwing tv and leftwing media is doing this. And one of the reasons is because 50 of the population or a little 47 of the population voted against him. He only got, what, 43 of the vote . I cant remember connell its kind of a different discussion, because remember, theres a business reason why that covers out there, why msnbc is doing better, because there are a lot of people who dont like President Trump. Connell no, i mean, i guess. Your point, thats why the ratings are up in the farleft media. Go ahead, heather. Obviously, theres a business reason. And, actually, if one is a republican, one should hope that the meme continues that trump is ineffective and all the antagonism to him, because if youre a republican, its going to mean that the hard left continues to primary their own people k and it gives the republicans the better shot in 2018. It is, however, i think, missing what is going on through executive orders yes, i agree. Through regulatory changes particularly regulation. There are a lot of changes and keeping Campaign Promises. Remember, trump is going to run on i kept my Campaign Promises. Thats what you can predict about 2020 how about the wall . I do want to say [laughter] except for the wall. No, whatever he does, hell say he kept his campaign promise. He quoted something, he said Something Else to the mexican president. One of the things that is not analogous is biden was never the sort of person who was going to set up a Fundraising Committee and run for president. He was somebody who wanted to be anointed, pulled into it. Maybe. He certainly was not the sort of person who was going to go out and seek it, and there was to no assumption connell well, he wants to run. If trump decides for some Health Reason or whatever that he doesnt want to do it again, pence will be the logical next nominee. Connell well, you know who else needs a logical next nominee . The democrats. Weve never said whos the up and coming democrat whos going to thats the problem for the Democratic Party, you know . Thats the unfairness of the media coverage, i think. Its not that trump is, you know, its not unfair to do this story about pence thinking of running in four years. I mean, theres enough evidence there that you can clearly, you know, make that, those connections. Clearly, kasich is running and some of the others are probably running too. Whats unfair is what they leave out. They left out the fact that the markets and most sophisticated businessmen think this guy is better hands down connell so that brings up kind of a final and the Democratic Party. This is a party in dysfunction. Its so far left, its almost the guys look whos running the Democratic Party. This guy, perez connell running the dnc, but we dont know whos going to run for hes a quasisocialist connell tom perez is. Hes running the Democratic Party. Connell finish this off for us, so who do the democrats have . Weve been talking about the sitting president being primaried, so who do the democrats have, and do you think that theres a serious primary challenge at hand as a possibility . I know its a long way off for this president because even though his base support has gone down, its still fairly strong, right . Yeah. And i think trump will be primaried if he runs again, and thatll be the First Time Since buchanan took on bush and weakened him, honestly. On the democratic side, i think its going to be extremely nasty. Sanders runs again, warren runses, biden runs, kamala harris. The democrats have to worry about getting younger. I think they might need a fresh face because the party, whether its in congress or these people who are considering running, its old. And that usually doesnt work. But getting back to [inaudible conversations] their base is going to be one place, which is hard left, antitrump right. And the swing that theyre going to need is going to be going a lot of this is working. Okay. Right . And theyre going to have a big challenge on the left. I think theyre going to wind up getting their tail handed to them in 18, and thats going connell the democrats are, in the midterms . The democrats are, and thats going to connell real quick, charlie. The New York Times, does the New York Times play to that base as a business decision and we get such skewed coverage over the next two years . I mean, that is really where the business story is. They see an opportunity in leftwing media. And the New York Times is sort of starting to parrot that. Listen, theres a lot of great reporters there. Connell no, i understand your point in a way thats very overt, you know . I know republicans have hated them from time no, no, no. It is going to get worse before it gets better. Connell weve got to run. Heather, charlie, bob, appreciate it. 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One of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas. We respect the Important Role that the press plays and will give them respect, but it is not unlimited. They cannot place lives at risk with impunity. Are we dont prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. We look at the facts and circumstances of each case, and we determine whether somebodys committedded a crime. You dont consider the publishing of classified information as a crime. Well, chris, i dont think you can draw any gener