Expressed regrets about that chant saying he disagreed with it. Is his feud with the four Democratic Congresswomen setting the tone for his 2020 Reelection Campaign . Lets ask wall street journal communist who served as Senior Advisor to president george w. Bush, karl rove. Carl, welcome. You wrote this week for us that you thought that alexandria cortez and i assume some of the other women in her squad are hurting democrats and helping the republicans. How so . They are so big a presence in social media and in the media generally that their leftwing views are getting an outsized attention and so when alexandria ocasiocortez puts out a draft for the Green New Deal that talks about how flatulence and unspecified measures to restrict people from getting on planes to take their vacations in a transfer mission of our entire society it gets attention. Similarly, their views on things like israel and the war on terror the first week in july aoc called for the abolition of the foreman of homeland securi security. People with box cutters should get on planes. Paul those views are beginning to find the Democratic Party in some or in the eyes of many swing voters but nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, seems to get this because shes been criticizing them and trying to reduce their public profile, at least their influence in washington but then you get the president of the United States interjecting himself into that debate with his comments on they should go back, is he undermining some of the benefit for republicans . He did. With his tweet and then it got carried to an even bigger level in his rally with people starting to chant, send her back. I cant improve on the arguments that were laid out in this excellent friday editorial of the wall street journal on that issue but i think the president understood that and thats why he said in the Cabinet Meeting on thursday basically distancing himself from it and i hope everyone heard what he had to say. The more the focus is on their ideas and views and values and the less it is on their them personally the better off the president is for making the argument. Paul i think im hearing privately from republicans before in particular the president s expression of regret but even afterwards that they are anxious about the ruling party being defined in the eyes of a lot of voters as anti immigrants in creating their own group of deplorables with this rhetoric. Look, who are the key voters in the 2020 president ial election . Each side has its own base but the election is ultimately going to be decided by people who are weakly linked to either party and in 2016 and off of those voters voted for donald trump for him to win the election in the Electoral College in 2018 they shifted their votes to democrats for congress which is why principal is he the speaker of the house. They will be one not buy things that create a sense that donald trump is uncomfortable with diversity or uncomfortable with women and uncomfortable with immigrants but they will be won over by saying these people have values and views in the democrat leaders are navigating things that are bad for our country. The more he keeps it on the substance the better off it is. In the policy you talked about her earlier and shes fighting a two front war. She understands the democrats are being simply overwhelmed and whatever the doing and house of representatives is being overwhelmed by the talk of impeachment and increasingly the talk by the squad of these leftwing lunatics wacky ideas. Shes she loved the fact that she got a moment to unify the Democratic Party and go on the offense to condemn the president s rhetoric and stand her in better stead with those swing voters but ultimately the leftwingers will undermine the Democratic Party on the sum or another they can file them or diminish the impact. Paul for a bit, lets turn to the democratic president ial race and joe biden seems to have lost some ground since the first debate. How much trouble is he in, do you think . Can he survive these attacks . He can survive them but you got to get his sea legs underneath them and solidify support. He was at 41 in the average shortly after he announced and it was unbelievably high. Paul there was a lot of name recognition. And yes and dominated in the news. Five or six weeks later he was down at four which is a respectable number when you have the field as wide as it is now. But that is down to about 26, 27 in the real clear politics average which means hes lost about a quarter of his support between when he stabilized and after the first debate. Hes got trouble there and the interesting thing to me is that all of this change in the field is not benefited Bernie Sanders and hes declined as well. We now have essentially four plus one plus everyone else in the 4r biden, harris, warren and sanders and the one is people to judge who has money and buzz but does not yet have the poll numbers and everyone else is part of the amorphous minor mob. Paul one thing that struck me is that theres been no one else in the moderate lane whose of the party who has been able to emerge as an alternative to joe biden and why do you think that is is it that theyre too obscure or too many or is it that the party that the energy in the party was really with Elizabeth Warren, bernie sander, molly harris and mayor pete on the left . Look, the energy among an activist is what is clearly with the left. The interest of the media is clearly with the left and with Pete Buttigieg but not so much invited. What we know is that socalled moderate, the liberal slash lot moderate lane is the biggest lane inside the Democratic Party for what weve got is sanders, warren, harris and others trying to carve up a slice that is basically a plurality, not the majority of the democrats. What will be interesting to me in the next day is a makeover shark who will be in the first nights debate with warren and sanders will she tried to display herself as a moderate alternative to them and thereby begin to crowd that space in the event biden begins to fall but right now hard to see how someone in that third tier, four plus one, plus everyone else hard to see how they bumped themselves up at this point, especially since the fundraising has been rather. Paul good to fly back that will be her real opportunity. Thank you, carl. When we come back, it fails in the house but puts the democratic divisions on full display. Can House Speaker nancy losey keep her caucus together as she pursues her agenda ahead of the 2020 elections. Were not having them set our agenda but we are setting our own agenda. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice but uh, whats up with your partner . 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Everyday progress President Trump the United States house of representatives has overwhelmingly voted to kill the most ridiculous project i have ever been involved in, the resolution how stupid is that on impeachment. Paul house ordered wednesday to block an effort to impeach President Trump. The first test of that divisive issue since democrats took control of the chamber but House Speaker nancy pelosi has tried to hold toe the line on launching impeachment proceedings but outraged on the caucus on president s tweets prompted al green of texas to reduce the resolution on tuesday. The vote putting the parties divide on full display with 137 democrats voting to table the resolution and 95 voting to move forward with impeachment proceedings. Lets bring in our panel. Wall street journal communist, Kate Batchelor odell and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Kim, what do you make of these Impeachment Vote . Is at the end of this saga or is it a sign of pelosi and trump that maybe it could come back . Oh no, this is just the beginning, paul. Look, what happened this week is that democrats were exposed as impeachment phonies. They love to talk about this issue and it sounds really good to their base and the president is criminal, high crimes and misdemeanors, except when it comes down to it mrs. Pelosi knows its not what the country wants and it would probably backfire on her more generally. The problem is the more they continue to talk about it the more the pressure builds to actually hold a vote. You saw the beginning of that this week. Paul can, i read the resolution and it did not in the constitution is as high crimes and misdemeanors but all the article of impeachment is said i misdemeanors and listed a series of character traits and behavior by trump but nothing criminal, no obstruction of justice, no collusion, nothing like that but we think trump is unfit for office. Obviously, that will not work politically. Well no, look, they came up with absolutely nothing out of the Mueller Probe and put all their talk into that probe and now they are grasping. Again, having spoken about impeaching trump for 2. 5 years and getting rid of reversing the last election the radicals in the party are not going to drop this but will continue to pressure mrs. Pelosi but holding these investigations and to have an impeachment inquiry about. Paul kate, as you read the House Democratic conference, any difference, any differently . Will there be more pressure to have this come back . No, i think kim is reading this right. Immigrants have assumed much of the Political Risk of impeachment by moving forward with some kind of resolution and they have achieved none of the results. They are forced here of 95 people voting for it which is a large contingent of the Democratic Party but 137 against and that includes all moderate members who are trying to straddle democratic bases with the independent voters who elected them and won them congress in 2018. I think it will continue but i think it will continue to just radiate and bad ways for democrats. Paul the condemnation by the house of donald trump tweets, is the policy called them racist tweets. That was an effort, i think, to unify democrats against him and jump after they have been fighting for several days over the direction of the Democratic Party but did that give republicans a chance to say look, you are just politicizing this issue and instead of letting the criticism of the president s tweets be out there on their own and do some political damage. Sure it did and that is what makes this week so strange but its been a war of attrition with each side running to its corner and digging in. It is like the wilderness in the civil war. Exactly. As far as what the democrats did nancy pelosi has played her cards pretty well here. Be impeachment resolution by this representative from texas, al green, has offered that twice before. Its the third procedural vote he is forced on it but if the policy has given her caucus a way to vent steam. Think about this. One week ago we had just spent several days in a country talking about how nancy pelosi and this squad and these four. Leftwing members of her caucus were at each others throats and now that is gone and they are united and we spent several days talking about whether the tweet by donald trump is technically racist or not and weve heard him at a rally with people chanting, send her back, about a u. S. Citizen or congresswoman so thats another week were not talking about unemployment or wage growth and i dont think thats where donald trump wants to be. Paul but i think he does, kim, he does want to be there or at least thinks he does because i agree with kyle that if this is the focus in the campaign focused on Donald Trumps results with the economy and fulfilling the promise or many of the promises he made as a candidate versus the democratic agenda i think he has an advantage but if its on his character and behavior then i think that gives us someone like a biden who says lets return to a normal politics give them a chance to win. Yeah, maybe. Then again look at what donald trump accomplished this week. I agree and a lot with negative headlines for the president but on the other hand the only thing that was in the news other than him were these four incredibly radical hard left women who are rapidly becoming the face of the Democratic Party and that is what the white house wanted to happen in one regard. Probably, without the other drama but the cameras will not go away now and follow these women around from now until next year and this is how we would like to set the race up and its between his policies and the socialism or socialistic policies that these women and others on the radical left of the party are proposing. Paul kate, theres another line of attack the president darted to open up which is the donothing congress and that is he saying there, see nothing in all the worried about his attacks and impeachment and these resolutions that dont add up to anything for the american public. Is nancy pelosi going to try to do anything here in the next 15 months . Sure, if the posting was was to have a relatively easy week announcing people like its gotten out of hand and i think that he is a point that the Democratic Congress does not have much to show for being in power for two years. They will continue to do both on the minimum wage and other issues but even things that looked possible at the beginning like a deal on drug prices more distant now though still possible but i think its entirely possible that he come out of this Congress Without many significant polity achievements to show for it. Paul that will not help the swing moderates who in the swing districts gave the democrats their majority. All right, when we come back, it was a battle that help to find President Trumps first term in office and out in the book takes us behind the scenes as the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation fight. We talked to one of the authors next. Uh, ill look into it. phone rings lisa jones lisa on phone hey carl, what are you charging me for online equity trades . nervous chuckle lisa and do i get my fees back if im not happy . Like a satisfaction guarantee . Ugh. Schwab lisa oh right, im calling schwab. Thanks, carl wait, lisa lisa. 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