Is doing on trade, the economy, market, scandals, much more paired welcome, everybody. Im a neil cavuto. It is not everyday that jimmy carter pops up on fox. In fact, it has been more than a decade since he has joined this fine network. But today, on Fox Business Network, we get caught up. He gives both parties the business. You could say that the man is plain feta. The washington polarized from everything from a senator who deserves it, to come aground on solvable issues because americans want it. President carter has been out of office, but it is not your typical expresident submissions. No fancy speech, book contest, no fancy anything, really. He is still building homes for the poor as much is trying to build bridges for the world. You might also say, when we get into this that he makes a number of references to when i was an intern for him. Nearly four decades ago. Jimmy carter. By my count now, your better than 4,000 homes, better than 14 countries, you be doing this. Im looking at some of your fellow expresident s who have been making a fortune and book deals, billions of dollars, combined speeches. If you are, 93 years young, building homes paired what are you thinking . I will soon be 94, as a matter of fact paired my is 91. We are still struggling along. We dont work in business as we did in the past, but we still do our jobs on the habitat side. It is very appetizing that ratified for us we get more out of it and we put into it. Sometimes it is very hard and overwork on occasion. Habitat is a wonderful organization. I would urge everyone that is watching this program to consider either making a contribution financially, or volunteer to help on occasion. Neil it reminds a lot of folks who have been tracking your career, mr. President , especially since you left the white house, that you have never been about accumulating wealth. I think you had said, it had never been my ambition to be rich, he said, he doesnt like big shots. He doesnt think he is a big shot. Do you have a problem with big shots . No, i dont. I get along well with people who consider themselves to be big shots. They are not my favorite people, as a matter of fact, quite ofte often. You know, ive written 32 books. I will be very pleased if my books brought as some of the others did. But of got nothing against some of the others that are wealthy. It is not one of my top priorities. Neil i was thinking of you, mr. President , this time with everything that is going on in the country, very polarizing, i guess as you have indicated, we have had indications of polarizing times. These seems especially nasty. How would you describe it right now . I think we go through a phase of difficulty in which our country is more polarized than it was before. There is much more disparity between the rich people and the poor, working class people at than it has in the past. But, we have been able, down through history, over, as you know, more than 200 years, to overcome difficulties of that kind. I dont have any doubt that the basic principles of americans and the status of equality between people will prevail in the long term. Neil do you think that what you are doing now, and those who are at a disadvantage are going away . A lot of people have been criticizing President Trump saying that the focus has been on the market and the boom. It has been a palpable boom, as we see. When you were president , did the markets matter to you chris mark they matter to this president. He mentions them a lot pretty think they are very important. What do you think . Yes, its very important to me, because i thought that having a fair and equitable relationship with as many countries around the world as we possibly could and friendship with them was good for america in the long term and for individual americans as well. I still feel that way. I dont have any doubt that eventually, we will work out a really good deal between the United States and mexico, which we might be doing now, and china in the future. I talked to janet today earlier on television they are concerned about the future of the relationship to replace not the people i think they will continue to benefit from International Trade. President trumps approach is not the same as has been in the past and not the same one that i preferred when i was president. But, he has his own ideas. And, my hope is that he will be successful. As a matter of fact, i pray for President Trump. I pray that he will keep our country at peace and promote human rights and that he will be successful as president. Neil not too long ago, you argued that this president has a problem with the truth paired what did you mean by that . I think that it has been proven on a number of occasions, President Trump has made statements that were not exactly correct. I think that john mccain and i we were in the Naval Academy when i was in end with a principal of integrity. Any kind of misleading statement that you have made at the Naval Academy would result in instant dismissal. There was no two questions about it, no trial, you were just gone. So, i think that elevating the truth to a top position, you are careful to not ever make a statement that was misleading to someone else, its a very worthe thing to do. Neil the president had a very acrimonious relationship with the late senator john mccain. You know about the halfstaff flag, and up to full staff and back to halfstaff, not putting out a statement, then putting up statement. What did you think about all that . I thought that President Trump made a mistake at first by not recognizing john mccains unquestioned commitment to our country and navy and as a prisoner of war, and also his service in congres congress. His critics, and also his supporters made it plain to him that he had made a mistake when the flag was up and down and so forth. But, i think his last statement that i read yesterday basically corrected that. And now, the flag will be lowered in honor of john mccains service to our country. Until appropriate time. I think the early mistakes that were made have been adequately corrected. Neil mr. President , there were many in your party who are salivating at the possibility of the midterm blue way. Many of them are mentioning the i word, impeachment if they get control of the house. What he think of that . Not me. I dont talk about impeachment. I think it is the wrong thing for democrats to do. I think that the outcome of a 2018 elections are just completely unknown now. Im not actively involved in politics anymore, as you know, but im helping the democrats as best they can. I presume that you will be voting republican, i dont know for sure. You dont have to tell me. But, i think that the American People will make the right choice. Neil well, you would be surprised. Let me ask you this. President trump has said that if democrats pursue impeachment, you can kiss this market rally goodbye. Stocks with tankard what did you think of that . You know, i think the president has much less influence over the economy that he certainly publicized by the president himself. I know that when i was in office, some bad things happened with the economy. I never did feel that i personally was responsible for it. The economy on taxation and Federal Reserve on the access to money and things like that, and a general attitude in the Business Community has much more to do with the economy than the income it president. Whenever the economy goes up, the president wants to take credit for it. When it goes down, the president wants to avoid responsibility. I think it has been that way in our country since we started. Neil witness president and the stance on hiking Interest Rates, and if anyone could have made the case, the moaning Interest Rate hikes, you didnt. The rates are going up, half a point, a full percentage point at a time. What did you make of that . Why didnt you publicly state anything . Well, i guess you are talking about when i was president. Neil when you are president. I was deciding who to appoint to be the head of the reserve bank. I decided that paul would be the best choice because i thought that he would take steps, even though it was not good for me politically, it would be good for our economy and for our nation. And so, that was one of the most difficult decisions i ever made, to put paul paul volker in cha. It was a negative factor in the election, it was not the cause of the election. It was the right thing to do. Im glad i did it. Paul volker, since then, has become a good friend of mine. We had a gone fly fishing could we get together on fishing and so forth. So, paul volker has been a hero of mine, economically speaking, ever since then. Neil mr. President , it has been great chatting with you. I remember getting coffee and working the copier. [laughs] neil thank you very much. Thank you, speed speech whee five. Thank you for your work on the television. Neil the music you heard was from the construction guys in the back. The habitat for humanity project. They were doing their thing. That is the way jimmy carter wanted it in the way they wanted to do it. They are building homes for the poor. Better than 4300, this president has done just on his own. We come back, the take from Newt Gingrich. Jimmy carters view of what happened then and the lessons that we could learn. After this. Neil all right, you might have heard this, former president jimmy carter expressed his concern about the ongoing trade negotiations. Mexico is concerned about if canada comes on board and the posture on trade here. They said, all of this secondguessing what he is doing, particularly in the knighted States Senate senators and others talking about how good free trade is for the u. S. Paid what they dont say is that we lost jobs and over 800 million a year on a really dumb trade deal. And these same countries tariff us to death. These lawmakers are just fine with this Ohio Republican senator, who i dont think he is talking about, those who are your colleagues are complaining dont realize that we have been getting the shorter end of the stick. Is he right . He is right with regard to some countries, typically china, as you know. That has been the focus of a lot of us over time. How do you get a level Playing Field with china. That regards to being tougher. That is why we have to do some of the top things that were doing. In other countries like canada and mexico, we need to have an agreement. I was for a new nafta agreement, we needed upgraded. It is almost 25 years old. But we also dont want to have no nafta, because the biggest trading partner is ohio and other states. We do have lower tariffs and other countries as a result of some of those agreement. Neil in the wall street journal today, saying this trade agreement with mexico is actually worse than it presumably will replace before did you make of that . At the beginning of the editorial, they said it is halfandhalf. Have good and half not direct so good. There are some great things there opening up the market for mexico among others. Really good stuff along intellectual property. And also stuff along biologicals, to have a longer period. There are some good things in there for the United States and our workers and our farmers. But, the sunset provision has been a concern of the wall street journal and mine. The second is this Arbitration Panel for investors. Those two things were a lot better than the original agreement two months ago. I think this agreement with mexico is a step in the right direction. I think if we can now complete a similar agreement with canada, we are off to not just a better relationship with the three countries, but to a stronger u. S. Economy. Neil senator, i got the impression out of jimmy carter that he is worried about the effects of the trade. It might get us the goods and the deals, but it might be i dont want to put words in his mouth, burning friendships. We have been tough with some of our friends in regard to using 2 30 two, which is the National Security waiver. The u. K. , canada, true allies who have been with us in iraq and afghanistan and share so many values. We have to be careful. I think that if it all begins to be negotiated out, we will have a trade agreement with those countries and that will be better for our relationship. I have not been, as you know, supportive of using this National Security waiver with countries that do not create others National Security threat. If you want you know, president carter was also talking about the fact that the democrats keep mentioning appeasement. You have almost at the same thing about the republicans campaigning on the notion that they are. It does become a popular issue. When you make of all that . Impeachment . I think the lesson of bill clinton is that impeachment may feel good politically, but it isnt good politically. So, it depends. There are impeachable offensive, high crimes, misdemeanors, yeah, but it should not be used politically. It backfires. We have so many thing to do in this country to keep us on track. We have done good things in the tax reform front. Ive talked a lot about this but we are heading in the right direction. We should not get distracted, in my view, by some of these other shiny objects out there. We should continue to solve the opioid crisis, fix these trade disputes that we have and keep the country moving in the right direction. Neil all right, center, thank you very much. I never knew that you are an intern for jimmy carter good i see a different neil cavuto now. We want to make sure it wrapped conundrum. A very good cafeteria there. You in my life might have been there at the same time. Neil is that right . Im not going to ask you what youre like as a young man. Neil very, very fashionable, very operant guard thank you very, very much. Thanks, neil. We will take a look at what is the latest former big official to come before congress that has anything to do with this. Lets say, he was not exactly talking. After this. You authorized your contact with the fbi to mark where you acting alone . Or did you have authority from the Justice Department official quiz . Hit the Snooze Button and get low prices on School Supplies all summer long. Like this case of paper for only 29. 99 at office depot officemax. The full value oft wyour new car . Youd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement well replace the full value of your car. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty mr. Ohr, who authorized your contact with the fbi . Did anyone from the Justice Department know that you are contacting the fbi . Did you communicate with the fb fbi . Neil while she is trying it again, bruce ohr on capitol hill to testify behind closed doors. What came of it, well, she knows. Catherine . Thanks, neil. Bruce ohr is a career government employee. He has nearly three decades with the Justice Department. He is senior. His portfolio is drugs and gangs, but in the fall of 2016, he was putting himself almost in charge of russia as a back channel between the former british by Christopher Steele and the fbi. The timing matters, because at that time, Christopher Steele had been fired by the fbi as a source over his contact with reporters about the dossier. Here is congressman mark meadow meadows. Not only did the fbi know that the dossier was unverified, but they also knew that there was real credibility issues because of the inherent way that it was collected. The bias that was asserted with that. Also, one of the headlines that came out of todays testimony according to republican lawmakers, there is a contrast between the stories relayed by bruce ohr today, former fbi lawyer lisa page who sent the trump text, and also recent lee gave her deposition n capitol hill. He is a critical character in this development because paid by the dmc and research. Here is congressman my case. In the first hour of testimony, it became very clear that there are a number of factual conflict. Either bruce ohr is lying or Glenn Simpson is lying. In another situation, either bruce ohr is lying or lisa page is lying. The testimony will be going on for another hour. Lawmakers talk about having a Public Session and bringing back some of the key players, ohr, age, simpson, and just as a footnote, we have not been interviewing democratic members of these case, because none of them have come today, they left the questioning whether staffers meal. Neil great effort there. Lets go to mark penn, the former Clinton Campaign strategist but where is this all going . Well, i dont know that it is going anywhere. Because, i think now that the investigation test taken a Michael Cohen twist. I think the questioning of bruce ohr is very significant, because, look. They said we fired Christopher Steele. But, was he really fired . If really bruce ohrs wife was hired by gps fusion, working on the trough dossier, and also, bruce ohr was in constant contact. Thank goodness for text messaging. Apparently everybody in the fbi thought that if it is a text message, nobody would get it. They put all of their information on these text messages. Someone who should not have had anything to do with the investigation albeit i think it is one of the most significant elevations. It answers the questions, how did this echo chamber get created here that there was truth and this dossier when it doesnt seem to have been anything approaching real verification of any of the information . You follow this more closely than i. But from a brief story today, peter strzok, lisa page, all of these individuals who had disparaging comments to make. And on the innocence of donald trump. I have not had anyone on the other separate anyone who likes donald trump, anyone who thought that the prospect of him become a president was not necessarily a bad idea. You