These are not acts of peaceful protest butut domestic terror. None of it justifies anything else. Regardless how angry you are if you loot or you burn you should be held accountable for anybody who does anything a else. It just cannot be tolerated across the board. Paul lets bring in our panel wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan heninger, kim stossel and manhattans Institute Senior fellow jason reilly. Jason who won the battle of kenosha. Jason mib early to tell or give an answer on that. We will have to wait to see what the polls show, President Trump thinks this is a winning issue for him that he canan pin the blame on these protests, not only there but what we see going on around the country on joe biden and the democrats, one challenge he has is income net on his watch and he saying he asked explain what he can do to address this if hes reelected that he cannot do right now while he is president. At the same time i think biden feels that he will not be blamed for this and hes a more calming figure and hes looking up polls like those who say what do you prioritize whats at the top of your list among priorities and only 8 talk about crime versus 30 the talk about jobs and the economy. If you look at polls on public safety, joe biden almost by ten points. The most i think this issue ksworks for them and i think tht is what we see going out. Paul there is no question that joe biden tried to pivot from what had been silenced during the Democratic Convention about the unrest in the last ten days to address it. But it sounds as if jason thinks that he has done that well enough and is neutralizing the issue at worst, what do you think . Dan i would not go so far to say is neutralizing issue, the pivot has been the blame literally and explosively the violence on donald trump that all of these events occurring in places like Portland Seattle and minneapolis, chicago, there should be some distinctions made there. And they are the fall of Donald J Trump and just as the democrats have also suggested that most of the coronavirus deaths are the result of trumps actions and i the coronavirus hs it disappear because of trump. These are basically preposterous assertions but the democrats had to respond, they had to come up with a strategy and i think what they have done here in the wake of the protest is pushed hard against trumps law and order argument and say that the counterargument is Racial Justice in america for which they claim donald trump has no sympathy. Its clearly an appeal to black voters in trying to drive black turnout with the Racial Justice argument and drive young leftwing voters and concern suburbanites. Im trump himself is appealing to the law and order argument. I think the lines have been clearly drawn though i think the more difficult argument is joe biden, its a very complicated strategy that hey is pushing. Paul kim, let me ask you, lets get you in here to mediate this disagreement to the extent that there is a disagreement. I want to have you dress jasons point, one of his points by focusing on the law and order question and crime which is down in the list of voter concerns. He is not focusing as much on what might be a stronger issue which is the economy. Kim i do agree with that, im going to flip the metal split the difference. I do think that joe biden is on defense because of the fact that he is there in wisconsin, he was not there couple of weeks ago when he was supposed to be accepted the nomination, the campaign decided how to change strategy and get on the ground and we needed to address the issue. That suggests that they know there is weakness on it. But in agree the president deciding to go all in on this question and in some ways really sacrificing better discussion for him, the jobs numbers that are out this week, his promises to restore an economy and the fact that he has a track record and he can legitimately do that. Or some of the seams that you saw coming out of the convention in particular the opportunity for different groups of people that have been left behind in the economic recovery, those of the president strong points because there where he consistently leads joe biden in terms of public polling and what people trust him to do. Paul jason what do you think for trump to win on this issue its going to be a necessity that the protests continue and fresh in the minds of people up to election day. Jason i just dont think this is going to be a deciding factor in the election. When i look at the polls a priority, it is not up there, 30 talk about the economy be in the top issue in another 15 or 16 talk about healthcare. It just seems to be way down the list and when you do turn to the issue trump does not seem to have the advantage. He is not going to bring us together and calm things down. I agree with kim that the economy should be where the focus is. I think that is where he has the advantage of what was going on precoded and how he is the best person to get us back to the precovid Economic Growth that we were seen. Paul certainly the jobs numbers were terrific this week. When we come back as the race for the whitete house enters the postlabor day stress we will talk about where the candidates stand and where they will decide the election. I understand, lets get started call a Dell Technologies advisor today. Monitoring patients in hospitals around the world so that doctors and nurses can make sure you feel safe. As new challenges have arisen, weve grown to bring that same safety and support to the place that you want to be most. Together. Masimo. Together in hospital. Together at home. 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Carl were about a week since the Republican Convention closed, is it to really to look at the polls and say where the campaign has shaken out. I would wait a couple ofay ds more, we are waiting for sunday night and i feel better about polls into sunday monday tuesday in this week about polls that were conducted over the weekend but there has been a minor tightening of the race and its actually been going on for some time if you look at the real clear politics average, the biggest gap is over 11point that average on june 22 and today is about sevenpoint to percent. There is a tightening but its been going on for a while. Paul there is a substantial lead for nationwide for biden less so in the battleground states but you saw the fox survey, ninepoint in arizona and eight wisconsin, the president one arizona last time. I want to be cautious about something on the state level polls. These are fox polls so we have greater confidence in fox polls but i am looking at private data and some of the senate races for example in arizona and North Carolina and they show the race a small trump lead or dead even and we have a public poll in North Carolina this week that had the race dead even and we have a lot more National Polls so we can construct an average an average of all those polls gives us a better sense of where the race is, we dont have as many state level polls. Is the president behind the states where he should be ahead, arizonas one, he won wisconsin as well and b North Carolina and he has some work to do but i would be aul little bit carefulf reading too much into one individual state level pull. Paul we will see where that shakes out in the next ten or so days. Lets talk about the law and order issue in the unrest, hes trying to make it ant major thee and he has joe biden on the defensive where he started talking about it. Is this making a difference in the race and seemed to be in the polls . Karl i think the change in the race is going to come by building issue upon issue upon issue to a breaking point and the question is will this helpbr them get to the breaking point, this really boils down to a question of judgment, is joe biden too weak to address this, is joe biden wrong, it was really remarkable the Democrat Convention past an entire week without mentioning once the lawlessness of american cities. I thought biden was smart to finally come out and say i condemn in very certain terms the lawlessness that is going on in our cities and people must be punished. On the other hand he diminished by saying this en is all Donald Trumps fault. Hes responsible for. I think it says to somebody in the suburbs, think about the people that we have up for grabs in the selection. They are saying i like what trump may have done buthe i dont like how he handles himself. When biden goes and says its all his fault, wait a minute its not his fault its the fault of the individuals who rioted, picked up the bricks and threw them through the windows who took the molotov cocktails and threw them, it is their fault, not Donald Trumps fault. It overwhelmed that, if you wouldve left it alone and said i condemn on no Uncertain Terms whats going on in american cities, the police must hunt down those people and they must be prosecuted, that wouldve been a lot better than to maken it entirely clinical and say its really, just remember its Donald Trumps fault. Paul one of the themes related to this that the president is pressing the idea that biden is weak, that he is not tough enough to handle this kind unrest in bidens responsive its on your watch mr. President , who is weak and who ist . Not. I wonder if the subtext in the question weakness relates to whether biden is going to be strongng enough and willing to stand up to the political left which is been driving so much on the democratic party. Karl i think you are right, thats is something that we will see play out over the next seven or eight weeks. He has done things to astonish me, he won the nomination because he was a traditional democrat and then immediately said bernie you and i sit down and run a hundred and plus page paper on how i will concede to you on most Major Economic and social and political and military and Security Issues prethat document the Unity Commission report that they both signed off on his andty astonishing surrender to the left of the democratic party. It takes the most liberal member of the senate as his running mate and said things he would not said two years ago or three years ago and maybe did not say a year ago. Refused to say a year ago. Paul i want to ask about the job number in the economy this week because it looks like the economy is recovering faster than certainly i thought it would and most people on wall street thought it would. If this is something that we obviously are having too many people out of work but it is recovering faster, how strongly would you hit this issue if you were the president to how good it was in february. Karl i would be hitting it hard as you go into september and october i would hit it really hard because you gotta make a bet. His campaign really has to make a bet. As we get further into the fall coronavirus recedes from its position as the major concern. People begin to turn their attention to who is better able to reignite the economy. This is where hes always had an edge over biden. I read a little publication called the dispatch every morning because they have a chart at the top that shows a seven day rolling averagepa for cases in the seven day rolling average for s deaths. We are down 50 from the highs that we had earlier this summer on cases and were at one third the level of deaths. Not to diminish the how terrible it is that 1000 people week are dying but we are down to a third of where we were in may. If that keeps continuing the bigger will be a bigger issue in the minds of voters. Paul thats about 1000 a day. Karl im sorry you are right. Paul no worries. Just prevent you from getting a lot of mail. When we come back the battle for the senate he thought the republicans scrambled to defend their majority. The panel looks at the race to watch and what is at stake if democrats take control. E than Health Insurance and a partner who listens and acts. Humana calls it human care. Its talking to a doctor from your couch, or helping you find a cheaper prescription before you ask. Its helping you fix the rugs so you dont fall, and keeping you social, online or off. Its getting to know you, so you can be your healthiest. Thats our superpower. 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Kim, as i counted it looks like the democrats are defending one seat that will probably lose, alabama into more that are competitive, minnesota and michigan but then you look at republicans that i see seven states that are competitive in a significant way that are up and they could lose particular arizona, colorado and then you go to montana, maine and North Carolina. And then a couple of georgia seats are least competitive so how do you see it . Kim i see it exactly the same way, i think you can rank them in terms of the ones that are most at risk for republicans and if you did that you would start riin arizona where martha makes hollywoods name to that position and now defending the seat there, his really trailed in all of the polls pretty much of this entire year and its also been outraged in terms of money by mark kelli former astronaut who is running against and then you look at places like colorado, maine where you have good candidates but thebu electorate have shifted a lot in the case of maine where Susan Collins is running again for reelection, there is a strong empathy towards donald trump which is weighingee them down ad then you have the rest of the races were i think republicans have a very good shot of keeping their seat but that is going to depend on the broader race and President Trump because its become the case that senates tend to rise and fall based on how the top off the ticket is doing. Ng we dont have a lot of ticket splitting. If he does well, youre likely to see a lot of the rest of the republicans win, if he does not they are in trouble. Paul dan, that is a crucial point, lack of ticket splitting. People simply dont do that as much as they used to and a senator like Susan Collins for example is a v very strong personal branded name and that is helped her in the past butut this time i wonder how bad if there is a trump undertow in the state like that or in colorado, cory gardner is tremendous political candidate but if trump loses colorado by eight points it hard to see them overcoming that. Dan yes it is, add in that this is an absolutely unique electi election, both president ial and stay because of the pandemic in the coronavirus. No candidate is able to go out and go doortodoor and do the retail campaigning that they normally do. The campaign has been nationalized and many people are staying at home and watching it covered on television and that means watching donald trump and joe biden. I think the two president ial candidates are now carrying in inordinate weight on the rest of the races. That being the case means undoubtedly that wend have to gt to the president ial debate late september then presumably two more in october. People will be watching how the two candidates perform, Big Questions there especially aroundio joe biden and the senae candidates will have to adjust accordingly if the opinion polling starts going one way or akanother in the wake of those debates. The Senate Republicans willl hae to decide how long to tie themselves to donald trump, does he have coattails or is he going to look like a ball and chain in the middle of october. We will have to wait and see. Paul jason lets look at the stakes, the policy stakes, lets say democrats take control, theres a lot of talk from democrats saying were going to do away with the 60 vote filibuster role and we capacity think we want with 51 votes. What would that be in policy terms . Jason it would be an earthquake to do that because there are things that they want to dora le d. C. Statehood which give the democrats a more senators making puerto rico estate as well. That would help them, these are places that are very rural constituencies. It would be a a huge deal and wn Chuck Schumer was asked about this earlier in the year, he said everything is on the table. He is in no way distancing himself from some of these erlicies that the candidates were talking about during