♪ i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. another wild week in washington winds down, one in which we learned that special counsel robert mueller has empanelled a garage to investigate russian meddling. and might protecting mule letter's probe be that which finally ignites republicans and democrats. i'll talk to senator chris coons. plus, despite all of the dysfunction in d.c., the president has been bragging about the record-breaking dow jones high and jobs numbers. credit is rightfully his?

we'll discuss. and meet the michigan man arrested for drunk driving in his own driveway. is that really illegal? >> harvard's new crop of institutes is predominantly nonwhite for the first time ever. ed me the indian-american who got into med school by pretending to be black. but first, for many the most jarring head line this week was "the wall street journal" revelation on thursday that special counsel robert mueller has empanelled a garage jury. the journal said this is a side that was growing in intensity and entering a new phase. however, for those of us in the legal profession it was more akin to that scene in casablanca, where renard is shocked to learn there was gambling. preet bharara said it well, quote, not sure why all the hyper ventleating regarding

russia grand jury. mueller hired 15 prosecutors. of course there would be grand jury. is it would be prosecutorial malpractice for mueller not to do so. every grand jury investigation does not end in an indictment. and a grand jury investigates long before it indicts if it ever indicts. it's the way that prosecutors compel the production of documents and testimony that along with evidence obtained by other means will show whether anyone should be charged. the proceedings are secret by law, precisely because no charges may be brought. and the mere fact of the investigation shouldn't taint those who have been investigated. this is the way discovery in a criminal case unlike a civil case is regularly conducted. only a grand jury investigation is much more powerful than any civil comparison. a federal grand jury subpoena can be used anywhere in the country. and can reach american citizens anywhere in the world. foreign nationals within the

united states are also within reap of the grand jury subpoena power. that's another reason that grand jury investigation seems to suit the probe into the russian meddling. and here's something else, witnesses must respond to a grand jury's questions unless invoking the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. whether a witness invokes that right is itself valuable information for a prosecutor. witnesses can consult with lawyers that are not represented in front of a grand jury when testifying. and even when a witness invokes the fifth, prosecutors can compel testimony by immunizing that witness. there's one more consideration. obstruction of a federal grand jury is serious stuff. people can and do get charged with that crime. so, this is a very powerful way to obtain information in a criminal investigation. but the mere existence of a grand jury does not necessarily foretell an indictment. that comes if and only when 12 of the 16-person kwor rum votes

to return what's called a true bill, based on the belief that there's probable cause in the government's case. yes, there's an old legal adage that if asked a grand jury would indict a ham sand wimp. but the reality is more often than not, nothing happens. which is why secrecy is usually of paramount importance. and why the leak that this is happening essentially is meanings until and unless there's an actual indictment. joining me to discuss all of the recent news and more, veteran journalist from abc, cbs and here at cnn, jeff greenfield. jeff, if i had to sum up the first six months with an acronym, it would be o.m.g. as in oh, my god, because every day seems to bring a different banner head line. but my question for you is to step back for a moment. it the president actually more effective than he's given credit? >> the administration is. and i think that's an important distinction. i've had the sense, when i turn on the news, and i do that less

and less, is ground hog day. every day there is an o.m.g. breaking news, martians have invades, my god, my god. but if you look at what the administration is doing, whether it's specifically directed by trump which given his policy jobs may not be the case. a lot is being done. the fact that he outsourced the picks to the federal society. and that dozens are now being cleared now with the health care bill. he will have what the federal government has reshaped the federal bench for years if not decades to come. as a lawyer, you know the courts of appeals decide the vast majority of substantially the right. on business regulation, on the environment, on issues of race, on issues of crime. the 180-degree turn that's being engendered by his appointees by attorney general jeff sessions is going to leave a lasting mark however trump's poll numbers are eroding.

however much they're waiting for him to be combeemped, indicted, 25then amendmented-. >> our colleague jeff toobin wrote on exactly the subject you raised. put it up on the screen from the new yorker, while the public watches trump through white house staff members, his administration is humaning along nicely in filling federal judgeship. with the enthusiastic assistance of the republican majority of the senate. one of the powers that the president possesses is to constitute the federal bench and people don't cast ballots on that. and that's precisely what he's been able to do. >> anthony kennedy is still a supreme court justice. ronald reagan who appointed him left the presidency 29 years ago. that's the kind of power. as i say, we focus at times on the supreme court. but especially those courts of appeal judges have enormous power. it's beyond that. the voca rule that was imposed

on banks, i said, you guys can not be this reckless. the trump administration is looking to weaken, erode, abolish that rule. it's not as exciting as what you what you referred to. grand jury convened. perry mason will be on the case. and i think that's something that we just have to keep our eye on, is how much things are going to change even if trump descends further in the polls. >> it makes me wonder if it's all deliberate, if the daily tweeting and all that occupies us, the ball of yarn on a daily basis that gets thrown in for media playing and consumption, because we well knows -- he knows the cabinet is doing that with which he has charged them with getting done. >> i think there's a -- whether it's a reasoned approach or kind of instinct he has, look over there, even to engender controversy. i think one good example was the tweet he doesn't want any more transgender in the military.

now, that had two things, that created a new controversy. but it also was part of another pattern, a clear appeal to the cultural social right that's been going on. because i think he knows or just instinctively knows that that basis is the one that he has to keep. so or transgender issues on affirmative action, for instance, on a whole bunch of -- on crime, the fact that this administration has moved right, when after all, trump in his private citizens days, you no, he was pro-choice, he was anti-gun. he was a very different kind of person but i think he now understands that by constantly now feeding the right wing of his constituents, he's trying to keep them in place to make up for the fact that in other parts of the constituency, he's becoming less -- i think the health care debacle hurt him among some of his own base. lower-income white folks in rural areas. so, i think some of this is, as

i say, i don't even know if it's an instinct, that he has how to create controversy. and the other part may be a shrewd notion of how he has to play politics in an era where people are starting to have doubts even people who have voted do for him. >> finally, i think you've just given an explanation as to why we saw him thursday night in west virginia, salving that base? >> yes, west virginia was either the first or second biggest majority for trump. it's not that he has to show up but he's speaking beyond west virginia for those people. you still have to distrust the fake news media. why aren't they going after hillary clinton, i think those are quite deliberate efforts to hold on to the core of his base. and to just come back to what we talked about earlier, i think for viewers and people who are interested in public policy, you can't be distracted every time, forgive, a cable network goes

breaking news, grand jury convened. you know, arrest imminent. and focus what is changing in this country because he and his administration is changing a lot, whether you like it or not. >> which is why i sought to educate about what the grand jury news means or doesn't mean at the outset of the program. jeff greenfield, thank you so much for that. >> okay, michael. ever since special counsel roberts mueller started investigating russia's involvement in the 2016 election, there's speculation that president trump could try to fire him especially if he started digging into the finances. so in an unusual display of bipartisanship, senator coons have come up to protect mueller. senator, about sentence the legislation you have proposed what review if any is there of a president firing a special counsel? >> the reasons that senator

tillis and i introduced the bill before we went out for august was to make sure that there had been legislative action on a bipartisan basis to shore up the fact that there isn't currently in place a review mechanism either to block the special counsel or allow for his reinstatement. senator booker introduced a bill to keep the special counsel from being fired. we introduced a bill to would remedy of case. >> what's the likelihood, "a" that you get it passed? "b" that he would sign it? >> well, one of the things we just saw, that i think was an important political development, was the signing by president trump of a strongly bipartisan russia sanctions bill. i'll remind you that in signing that bill last week, president trump didn't attack russia for having interfered in our 2016

election. instead, he criticized the congress. that bill came out of the senate 97-1. so, i think it is possible that widespread concern that special counsel mueller have the independe independence, has the opportunity to complete this investigation will lead to this bill being taken out. senator tillis and i were talking this morning, we both reached tout our colleagues and we're getting early expression of enthusiasm and support. >> but in the end, senator coons, you'll be asking the president if you can get it through the house and senate to sign away his right to fire mueller potentially? >> that's right. i'll remind you, michael, there is something called a veto override. i think the reason the president signed that russia sanctions bill was because it was clear at the time, given the numbers that he'd be humiliated by having his veto overridden if he had tried to veto it.

it might be the same case with this, we don't know yet. what's important is bob mueller be allowed to continue with his investigation without interference or harassment by the president. >> do you think, senator coons, that the revelation this week with the assistance of a grand jury, the fact that a grand jury has been appointed by special counsel mueller to take care of the issue that that inoculates mueller from being discharged? in other words, the whole world knows is this a certification investigation, a grand jury, 16 lawyer assigned to the case. does that in itself make it more difficult for the president if he wanted to to get rid of mueller? >> well, i think it makes it harder for the president to continue saying that this is fake news. that this is nothing to the investigation. that it's, frankly, sort of gone offer the rails. as you noted earlier and as jeff greenfield was just talking to you about, it's jut ordinary course of business for a federal investigation. but the president and folks

around him must be much more nervous now. because in the hands a skilled senior federal prosecutor like bob mueller and his significantly skilled team. now, the federal grand jury say powerful tool. as you know, they subpoena documents. they interview witnesses understand oath, but they can and not always issue indictments. so it does signal that this investigation has entered its next phase. it does show that it's serious and the likelihood that will would be swift bipartisan pushback in the united states senate if the president were to abruptly fire bob mueller without cause. >> finally, respond to the conversation i had with jeff greenfield about the omg nature of this administration that every new day bringing a stunning head line. and yet by a number of different indices, the president and his administration are being effective? >> that's absolutely right. the average american is interested in jobs, in national security, in seeing health care

fixed. seeing their taxes go down and economy go up. they want to know that we're able to work together and solve problems in washington. and one of our concerns is that the trump administration continues to fill judicial vacate waencies and continues t advance one of the most conservative agendas we've seen since the 1920s without being significantly impeded. it's important for folks who watch your show and folks who look to be better informed and engaged in politics to realize there's substantive important fights going on in washington for which sometimes the breaking news, the cable news coverage, is say distraction. we've got very difficult and important things going on in washington. i'll remind you justice neil gorsuch will sit on the supreme court likely for the rest of my adult life. and there are hundreds of other positioning moving forward under this administration and they're taking initiative, in immigration, in foreign policy, in health care, in tax policy that are well worth our being

engaged and pushing back again. >> senator coons, as always, thanks for being here. >> thank you, michael. what are your thought, tweet knee @smerconish or go to my facebook page. i'll read responses during the course of the program. what do we -- smerconish always biased for or against trump. too balanced. i don't know james, you're throwing me for a loop. am i biased for or against? watch the whole show. give me another one. smerconish, do you think the base is shrinking since the end of july? i think there has been to useless the seinfeld expression some shrinkage in the base but i don't think there's enough shrinkage that is jeopardized get ready for it re-election. another one. jeff greenfield is dead right michael, trump is playing purely to his base. jimmie, the conversation was focused on the point while we

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the stock market reached yet another all-time, in history, all-time high today. >> that was president trump at a rally in west virginia thursday night. the stock market rallied more on friday. the dow closed at its eighth straight record high. the president hailing yet another bumper jobs report as well. and 1 million new jobs have been

created on donald trump's watch. meanwhile, unemployment is ticking down. so, how much does this have to do with his presidency? and what else does it play in the economy? austan goolsbee was president of the chairman counsel of advisers. ed canard is author of "the new york times" upside of inequality. he's the former managing director of bain capital. if i had said to secretary clinton before election day, here's where you will be as president six months in, 209,000 jobs created in the latest report, 1 million on your watch, 4.3%, the dow at 22,000 and consumer confidence at a 16-year high, i think she would have said, wow, i'll take it. what a great record. >> i think she would say i'll take it. but that would be just a perfect continuation of the previous nine months before that.

i mean, if you look at the job creation rate, it's actually slowed a little bit. we've added a little over 1 million jobs the last seven months. we've added 1.2 million jobs the seven months before that. so, they haven't done anything to mess it up. but, as you know, most of what happens in the economy has nothing to do with washington. the stock market is up. the stock market is up in percentage terms a little less than it was up at the beginning of the last two presidencies. obama and bush. so, i think we're basically the same place we've been for the last six or seven years which is growing at a modest rate with pretty decent jobs numbers and the stock market has been going up. >> well, i was simply seeking to establish the baseline that things relative to the economy seem to be going well. now to the question, ed, of how

much credit does he deserve for that? >> well, i think you have to divide it into two. in the short run, he can't have much impact on the economy, he's only been in office six months. but he can have an impact in the long run. i think you see that reflected in the optimism of the stock market. the reason for that is because the brey add obama administrati horrible for that. that was a killer for wage growth. i think that the market recognizes that the republican administration has a lot of clol over the regulate tore burden, even if they accomplish nothing else. and that could have a significant impact on long-term growth, even if you're not going to see much of it in the short term, i agree a lot of it's baked in the cake. i think when you look at interest rates have ticked up, consumer confidence is an

all-siem -- soaring well, better than 2007, stock market up 27%. those are people looking forward to the future and seeing more growth than they were going to see under a clinton administration. >> i mean -- that's a fantasy. >> there seems to be no doubt in the president's mind as to the level of credit he deserves. >> correct. >> take a look at the tweets he's center on this subject. foxconn spending up to $10 billion in wisconsin. consumer confidence 16-year high, gp, 3%. excellent jobs. does he not have a point in what he's arguing, austan goolsbee? >> no, obviously, he doesn't have a point. the stock market almost tripled under barack obama. you saw no praise of hey, let's look at the stock market as a measure of what people think how

the economy is doing. it's only once donald trump comes into office and the stock market rises they say, look, the stock market's up, that's because of trump. again, if you look at the jobs numbers. we're adding jobs at approximately the same rate, a little slower than we were under barack obama. when they did it under obama, the president of the united states now, you'll recall, said that jobs numbers are fake. the economy is not adding jobs. he takes office, adds fewer jobbing us and says look at the jobs numbers. they look incredible. i mean, this whole thing is a fantasy in which they cherry pick only numbers and try to take credit for them. >> ed, i want to so a graph. a graph that shows the modern presidents and the performance of the s&p 500. can we put that up? to austan's point, barack obama had 22% and change growth in his first month.

papa bush 20.7%. there you see trump not bad but not as strong as obama in six months. respond to that data, ed. >> certainly, administration changes after we go into a recession. you have to take into account the circumstances. to say that the stock market rose under president obama is a little disingenuous because it had crashed and burned. it was going to rise. it topped at 18,000 and stayed there to the election. and when the economy was very robust, we're no longer in recession. it's now whizzing close to 25. similarly at job creation, at 10% employment and you're creating jobs at the same rate that the president is creating them today, and i'm not giving hill full credit after six months but at the same rating when employment is 4%. it's easy to create jobs at 10%

minus. we should be sighing wage gains now. even though we're still seeing job growth eight years after the recession, we're not seeing any wage gains because the productivity has pauling to 0.5% a year. why? because. enormous letting tore burden that the democrats imposed on the economy in the first two years of the obama administration. we grew at 2.5% ayear productivity for 25 years after that. it grew at 3%. and it's going at 0.5% and never recovered. 0.5% is a disaster for wages. >> gentlemen, i wish we had more time. but we don't, austan goolsbee and ed canard. i'll simply say that i find it interesting that those indices that people want to discount when it doesn't suit their interests are the first they embrace when the numbers seem to tell the story. we hope we said some light on

the debate. let me check in on my twitter and facebook beiges. what do we got, u.s. economic growth is limited by the lack of adequate workforce. u.s. needs new immigrant workers. you know kent morlan, i'll say this, i have found that the risk taking amplified by those coming to the country to be here are the same skill sets that make for good entrepreneurs. my belief is that we always need a steady stream of immigration and people need to play by the rules. of wall street and companies raking in but working people still in the same boat, smerconish. colleen, you make a good point. fewer americans have ownership stake in the stock market. so, you know, less are participating in what i have just shown you and i fully recognize that. the economy is just one reason why president trump won the election. for an in-depth look tune in monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern for a cnn special report called

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university's history, the majority of students accepted into the incoming freshman class identify as nonwhite. 58.8% to be precise. but at the same time came news that the department of justice is investigating allegations the school is denying places to qualified asian-american students. now, the head of admissions consultant at interview s.o.s. has an unique experience with this topic. an indian american, he realized the only way he would be accepted at med school would be to pass as black. he chronicled his experience in his book "almost black. the true story of how i got into medical school by pretending to be black." he joins me now. so, you were studying statistics at the university of chicago, and you say to yourself, i don't stand a chance with my 3.2, what did you do? >> well, i shaved my head, i trimmed my eyelashes and i decided to join the organization

of black students so i could apply to the medical school as a black man. i also used my middle name jojo. i subsequently interviewed at schools across the country and managed to get wait-listed at the university of washington and university of pennsylvania, then ranked the third and fourth best medical schools in the country and got into st. louis school of medicine despite the fact that my pitiful 3.1 gpa was dramatically lower than their average of 3.7. now, i wanted to mention a statistic you mentioned earlier in the program which is the majority of harvard is now a minority. and i don't think that's true. i think that's very deceptive because i think you're forgetting about the pok pocaho factor. there are people whiter than winter in alaska, based on flimsy reasons, as a result, it skews the statistics because they know it can improve their

chance of admissions. so self-reporting on minority, i don't think that's necessarily the best data to use. >> so, vijay, what you're saying you didn't just check a box. you went full-on tootsie. >> yeah. >> and there may be others who may not per sonify a group? >> i have so many, they're great great grandmother was hipps, for flimsy reasons they call themselves minority because they know it's going to improve their chance for admissions. we cannot ignore the pocahontas factor when we look at the statistic, that 51% of people at harvard are saying -- >> well, listen, because you are using the nickname, let's go there. you said that what lincoln did vis-a-vis slavery, trump will do

vis-a-vis affirmative action. explain. >> i believe that president trump, by appointing conservative anti-affirmative action justices and by using the justice department to go after the colleges and universities, i believe he will end affirmative action like lincoln ended slavery. as you know, bob jones university, many years ago, lost its nonprofit status because of its racist policies. similarly, when it comes to the issue of affirmative action, the colleges and universities have pleaded guilty as charged. they publicly endorsed racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action in the fisher case. therefore, the trump justice department could use, with the supreme court, could effectively force the universities to end their racist affirmative action policies. by forcing them to lose their federal funding. so, as i said, president trump will end affirmative action like lincoln ended slavery. >> and i want to put on the

screen a pie chart that shows the breakdown of this incoming class at harvard. i want to ask you a question. 22.2% asian-american. how many asians are too many asians for the harvard incoming class? should there be any limit what so far? what if on the merits if you go by gpa and s.a.t. score you could fill the entire class at harvard with asian-americans, should they do so? >> first of all there a multifact tomorrow process, nine criteria including grades and essay. i'm not saying grades and territories should be the only thing. but the simple point is as an asian-american, it is harder to get into college or graduate school than any other racial category. in every place where the data is available, it is consistently

harder for an asian-american to get in. i used the example earlier of medical schools, admissions where it was 50% easier to get into medical school as an asian-american compared to an african-american. statistical data, there's no action for racism. affirmative action is a systemized racism. it's a racial classification system that changes peoples chance of admission to college or graduate school. and there's no justification for race ichl racism. >> but vijay, you understand the point i'm trying to make from the perspective of the admissions they are seeking to assemble a diverse student body. and if asians on the merits could dominate the class, they might not want to do that, because that, therefore, detracts from the ability of having equal representationch all groof all groups. you got the final word. >> i'm glad you brought up that, i'm proud to have gone to ucla which is a school that doesn't

practice those admissions. we had a rich educational experience without practicing racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action. so i don't want anyone to believe that affirmative action racism is essential to a good education. >> understood. vijay jojo chokal-ingam. thank you for being here. what are you all thinki thinking @smerconish and twitter. we run the risk of having a backlash of affirmative action. as with anything. there must be balance of intake on race and brains. christine, my four who have gone through the admissions process and another who is about to next year, can't wait till this is all over, i get the desire to have a diverse class, both for the minorities who are beneficiaries of affirmative action. and for the benefit of my kids, because i want them to be exposed to individuals of all

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phrase house arrest. my next guest was charged with drunk driving without even leaving his own driveway. michigan supreme court ruled that gino rea could be arrested before he reached his street. gina, this makes me nervous, tonight, i'm thinking of washing my car in my own driveway after happening to you, what happened to you? >> i was listening to music in

my vehicle, in my backyard, side yard, garage. my private property. and became a victim of can dwl charge. >> kamela, he never left the property, right. he never pulled out of the driveway? >> that is correct is, he had no intention of doing so. he was sitting in his own driveway which was essentially in the back yard listen to music there there is no evidence that he attempted to leave. police came out a few times and had contact with him. he wasn't arrested initially, it was only on the third time that the police responded that he was taken into custody. and i think that indicates how unclear essentially the law was in michigan. >> i guess from the perspective of law enforcement, they say, hey, we don't want to wait until

he's out there on a road where he can hurt somebody. but yet, it's his private property. >> absolutely, but i definitely think it's improper for law enforcement to speculate as to someone's attention about future acts. >> the law in michigan seems to be based on the accessibility of where all of this transpired. meaning if he were not in his backyard, if he were in his remote area that was not necessarily accessible, then they could not have prosecuted him. did i state that accurately? >> i'm not sure about that. what the court decided was that private driveways are generally accessible to motor vehicles, in this case. and the majority of the court's interpretation was that generally accessible means an area that's physically capable of being reached. now, the michigan statute initially just concluded drunk driving in three area, a highway open to the general public and

an area generally accessible to motor vehicleses. in that statute, there's no reference to imply that driveway, there's no reference to an individual's private residential backyard. i think that the meaning that's been accorded to that phrase is overly expansive and it encompasses areas in which the legislature did not intend to preclude drunk driving. >> gino, what has been the reaction of your neighbors? this has gotten a lot of >> well, they're pretty amazed. several comments. they feel that, you know, they can be victims of any circumstance in their own private property. it doesn't become private anymore. it's open generally, accessibility to anyone that wants to drive in your driveway or your backyard at any given

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