reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. we're in philadelphia and welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world. another wild weekend in washington winds down, one in which we learned special counsel robert mueller impanelled a grand jury to investigation russian meddling. my take on why that's no surprise. jeff greenfield is here to discuss. might protecting that probe be that which finally unites democrats and republicans?

talking to senator chris coons. the president has been bragging about the record-breaking dow jones highs and latest job numbers, how much credit is rightfully his? we'll discuss. and meet the michigan man who was arrested for drunk driving in his own driveway. can that really be illegal? plus, with affirmative action under fire, harvard's new crop of students is predominantly non-white for the first time ever. are there limits on asian-americans? immediate the indian-american who got into medical school by pretending to be black. the most jarring headline was the "wall street journal" article thursday that there was a grand jury impanelled due to the inquiry that's growing in intensity and entering a new phase. for those in the legal profession, what's more akin to the scene in "casablanca"

bernard is shocked about the gambling in rick's cafe. the district of new york said it quell, quote, not sure why all the hyper ventilating about the grand jury. he hired 16 prosecutors. of course there's grand jury. this will take time. he's right. to his point, it's prosecutor malpractice not to do so, but that's not, itself, mean that any indictment will flow from his inquiry. 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 prosecutors propel documents and testimony as well as evidence obtained by any means shows whether anyone should be charged. secr proceedings are secret because charges may not be brought. the mere fact of the investigation should not take

those investigated. this is the way discovery in a criminal case, unlike civil cases, is regularly conducted. a grand jury investigation is much more powerful than any civil comparison. a federal subpeona can be used in anywhere in the country and reach american citizens anywhere in the world, foreign nationals in the united states are within reach of the grand jury power, and that's another reason that grand jury investigation seems to suit the probe into the russian meddling. here's something else. witnesses must respond to a grand jury's questions unless invoking the 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. whether a witness invokes that right is, itself, valuable information for a prosecutor. witnesses can consult with lawyers but are not represented in front of a grand jury when testifying. even when a witness invokes the fifth, prosecutors compel testimony by immunizing that witness. there's another 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 indictment. that comes if and only when 12 of the 16 person quorum votes to return what's called a true bill based on belief there's probable cause in the government's case. yes. there's an old legal adage if asked, a grand jury indicts a ham sandwich. reality is that more than not, nothing happens, which is why secrecy is usually a paramount importance and why the leak this is happening essentially is meaningless 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 omg as in oh my god because everybody day seems to bring a different

banner headline, but my question for you is to step back for a moment, is the president actually more effective than he's begin credit? >> the administration is. 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 omg breaking news, martians invaded, my god, my god. look at what the administration's doing, whether it is specifically directed by trump, which given his policy shots may not be the case, a lot is being done. the fact he outsourced judiciary picks to the federal society and dozens of nominees are cleared now that the health care bill, and that means within the end of the year, he'll have or his administration would reshape the federal bench for years, maybe decades to come. as a lawyer, you know the courts of appeal decide the vast majority of the cases and lean substantially to 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 appointees and general sessions leaves a lasting mark however home numbers erode, however many people wait for him to be impeached, indicted, 25th amendment. that's what people have to keep their eye on. >> our colleague, jeff tubin, wrote on that subject you first raised. put it up on the screen. he said, while the public watches trump churned through members, the administration is humming along nicely in filling federal judgeships with enthusiastic assistance of the republican majority in the senate. i say it every four years when it's time to vote, arguably the greatest power presidents possess is constitute the federal bench. people don't go out and cast ballots on that, but that's precisely what he's been able to do thus far. >> look, anthony kennedy is still a supreme court justice. ronald reagan appointed him left

the presidency 29 years ago. that's the kind of power. as i said, we focus sometimes on the supreme court, but those, especially the courts of appeal judges, have enormous power, and it's beyond that. the rule imposed on banks after the meltdown, said, you guys cannot be reckless. you have to have a certain amount of money on hand. trump administration's looking to weaken, erode, maybe abolish that rule. that could have enormous consequences. it's not exciting as what you referred to in opening remarks. grand jury convene, harry mason on the case, and that's -- i think that's something that we just have to keep our eye on as to how much things are going to change, even if trump descends further in the polls. >> makes me wonder if it's all deliberate. if the daily tweeting and all that occupies us, you know, the ball of yarn on a daily basis that gets thrown in for media playing and consumption because he knows that the cabinet is doing that which he's charged

them with getting done. >> i think there's a -- whether it's a reasoned approach or instinct he has, look over there, or even to engender controversy. one good example was the tweet that he doesn't want more transgendered people in the military. now, that had two things. that created a new controversy. it also is part of another pattern of clear appeal to the cultural social right that's been going on because he knows or instinctively knows that base is the one he has to keep, so on transgender issues, affirmative action, for instance, on a whole bunch of the issues, the fact the administration moved right when trump in his private citizen days, you know, he was pro-choice, he was anti-gun, 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 favorable. the health care debacle hurt him among his own base. lower income white folks in rural areas. i think some of this is, as i say, this -- i don't know if it's an instinct, but how he creates controversy, and the other part may be a shrewd notion how he plays politics in an era when people are beginning to have doubts, even people who voted for him. >> and, finally, you gave app explanation as to why we saw him thursday night in west virginia salving the base in a way to keep them all in the tent because that's the constituency that matters the most. >> yeah. west virginia was the first or second biggest majority for trump. it's not so he has to shore up the base, but speaking beyond west virginia to the people saying i'm one of you, you have 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 i e come back to what we talked about earlier, i think for viewers and people interested in public policy, you can't be distracted every time -- forgive me -- a cable network goes breaking news, grand jury con convened! arrests imminent! focus on what's changing in the country because he, and his administration are changing a lot, whether you like it or not. >> which is why i sought to educate what grand jury news means or doesn't mean at the outset of the program. jeff, thank you so much for that. >> okay, mike. ever since robert mueller investigated russian eventment, there's speculation president trump could try to fire him, especially if he started digging into the trump finances. so in an unusual display of bipartisanship, republican senator and democratic senators have a plan to protect mueller.

senator coons joins me now. what, if any, review is there of a president firing a special counsel? >> the reasons that we introduced the bill before going out for august was to make sure there had been legislative action on a bipartisan basis to shore up the fact that there is not currently in place a review mechanism, even to block the firing of the special counsel or to allow for his reinstatement. senator graham and booker have a bill to protect the special counsel from being fired. we introduced a bill to block him from being fired without remedy of reinstatement. in both cases, this is a bipartisan effort to strengthen special counsel who enjoys strong bipartisan support. >> what's the likelihood, a, that you get it passed, b, that he would sign it?

>>. >> one of the things seen is an important political development was the signing of president trump of a strongly bipartisan russian sanctions bill. reminding you in signing that bill last week, president trump didn't attack russia for having interfered in our 2016 elections. instead, he criticized congress. that bill came out of the senate 97-1. now, so i think it is possible that widespread concern that special counsel mueller have the independence and opportunity to complete the investigation leads to the bill being taken up. the senator and i are talking later this morning, we both reached out to our colleagues, and we're getting early expressions of enthusiasm and support, and i know senators graham and booker are working the issue as well. >> but in the end, senator, you will be asking the president if you can get it through the house and the senate to sign away his right to fire mueller potentially? >> that's right.

i'll remind you, michael, there's something called a veto override. i think the reason the president signed that russian sanctions bill was because it was clear at the time beggiven the numbers h humiliated having veto overridden if he tried to veto it. might be the same with this case. we don't know yet. what's important he's allowed to continue with the investigation without harassment or interference by the president. >> do you think the investigation this week as to existence of a grand jury, impanelled by special counsel mueller to look at the russian meddling issue, that that, in and of itself, inoculates mueller there being discharged? now the whole world knows there is a grand jury. this is a serious investigation. 16 lawyers have been assigned to the case. does that, in and of itself, make it much 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 there's nothing to the investigation, that it's, frankly, gone off the rails. as you noted earlier and as jeff greenfield talked with you about, it's just ordinary course of business for a federal investigation, but the president, folks around him, must be much more nervous now because in the hands of a skilled senior federal prosecutor like mueller and significantly skilled team, a federal grand jury is a powerful tool. as you knows they interview witnesses under oath, and they can, but do not always, issue indictments. so it does signal this investigation has entered the next phase. it does show it's serious. i think it raises likelihood there's swift bipartisan pushback in the united states senate if the president abruptly fires bob mueller without cause. >> finally, respond to the conversation i had with jeff greenefield about the omg nature of the administration that every day brings a new stunning

headline, and, yet, by a number of different indexes, the president and his administration are being affected. >> that's absolutely right. the average american is interested in jobs, in national security, in seeing health care fixed, in seeing their taxes go down and the economy go up. they want to know they're able to work together and solve problems in washington and one of our concerns is that the trump administration continues to fill judicial vacancies, comets to get senior positions filled in their administration, and continues to advance one of the most conservative agendas 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 aspect of table news coverage is a distraction. we've got very difficult and important things going on in washington. i'll remind you, justice neil

gorsuch will be on the supreme court likely for the rest of my adult life as well as hundreds of other positions moving forward under this administration and they are taking initiatives in immigration, in foreign policy, in health care, in tax policy that are well-worth our being engaged and pushing back against. >> senator coons, as always, thanks for being here. >> thank you, michael. what are your thoughts? tweet me or go to facebook, and i'll read some responses throughout the course of the program. what do you have? always bias for or against trump. too ambulanced. i don't know, james, bias for him or against him? i try to play it down the middle. watch the whole show. give me another one. do you think that the base is shrinking since the end of july? i think there's been, to use the seinfeld expression, some shr k shrinkage in the base, but not enough he's jed jeopardized standing for, get ready for it,

a re-election. one more if there's time. jeff greenfield is dead right, michael. trump is playing purely to the base. forget everyone else. well, jimmy, the conversation really was focused on the point that while we get caught up in the daily distractions, and they are important, believe me, there's a bigger picture out here, as a matter of fact i'm about to talk about it. up ahead, the dow rallies to the eighth record close, plus, a major milestone for president trump. 1 million new jobs created on his watch. how much credit does he really deserve? and meet the man who's charged with drunk driving without ever pulling out of his own driveway. e rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to...

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rally in west virginia thursday night. the stock market rally more on friday. the dow closed at its eighth straight record high. the president hailing yet another bumper jobs report as well, and a million new jobs have been create the on donald trump's watch. meanwhile, unemployment is ticking down. so how much does this have to do with his presidency? and what else is at play in the economy? austin, president obama's chairman of the economic advisers and professor of economics at the university of chicago, and ed is the author of the "new york times" best seller "upside of inequality," former managing director of bane capital. austin, if i 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, a million on your watch, 4.3% unemployment, the dow at

22,000 and consumer confidence at a 16-year high, i think she'd said, wow. i'll take it. what a great record. >> i think she'd say i'll take it, but that would be just the perfect continuation of the previous nine months before that. i mean, if you look at the job creation rate's slowed a little bit. we add a little over a million jobs the last seven months. we added about 1.2 million jobs the seven months before that, so they -- they have not 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, less than it was up in the beginning of the last two presidencies, obama and bush, so i think we're basically the same place that 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, and now to the question, ed, of, how much credit does he deserve for that? >> well, i think you have to divide it into two. it's 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 impact in the long run, and i think that's reflected in the optimism of the stock market. reason for that is because the obama administration was horrible for growth. it imposed enormous tax and regulatory burden. we never rebound from the great recession. we had mediocre growth afterwards. productivity, robust for the 25 years prior to obama administration, fell to a half percent a year and not recovered. that's a killer for wage growth. the market recognizes that the republican administration has a lot of control over the regulatory burden even if they accomplish nothing else, and

that has a significant impact on long term growth even if you don't see it in the short term, i think it's baked into the cake, but i think when you look at interest rates have ticked up, consumer confidence is at an all-time, you know, soaring relatively higher than it was in 2007, and the stock market's up 25%. those are people looking forward into the future seeing more growth than they were going to see under a clinton administration. >> i mean, that's -- >> austin, there seems -- >> there's -- >> there's no doubt in the president's mind as to the level of credit he deserves. take a look -- >> correct. >> look at the tweets recently sent on this subject. fox con spending up to $10 billion, in wisconsin, consumer confidence, a 16-year high. 3% gdp. excellent job numbers. many jobs stifle regulations continuing to fall. does he not have a point in some of what he's arguing, austin? >> no, obviously, he doesn't

have a point. the stock market almost tripled under president obama. you saw no praise of, hey, let's look at the stock market as a measure of what people think how the economy's doing. it is only once donald trump comes in office and the stock market rises that 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 obama. the president of the united states now said, you'll recall, the jobs numbers are fake, the economy is not adding jobs. he takes office, fewer jobs, look at the jobs numbers, they look incredible. this whole thing is a fantasy in which they cherry pick only numbers and try to take credit for them. >> hey, ed -- >> i'd say -- >> this is a graph showing the

modern presidents and performance of the s&p 500. can we put that up? i mean, to austin's point, barack obama had 22% and change growth in the first six months. papa bush was at 20.7%. there you see president trump in third position, not bad, but not as strong as obama at six months. respond to that data, ed. >> sure. often there's administration changes after we go through recessions, and so you have to take into account the circumstances that each one's under, so to say that the stock market rose under president obama is a little disingenuous because it crashed and burned in the financial crisis. topped out at 18,000 and stayed there since about the end of 2014 until the election, and since the election, a very short period of time. when the economy's very robust, no longer in recession, it's now risen close to 25%, similarly, on job creation, when you're at 10% unemployment and you're

creating jobs at the same rate the president creates them today, not giving him full credit after six months, but at the same rate when unemployment is close to 4%, it's easy to create jobs when it's minus, you know, 10% unemployment, very difficult, what you want to see at this point and the way we measure the obama administration is we should see wage gain now. although we are seeing job growth eight years after the recession, we're not seeing wage gains, and the productivity has fallen to a half percent a year. why is the productivity fallen to half a percent a year? because of the e nnormous regulatory burden imposed in the first two years of the obama administration. we grew 2.5% a year, productivity grew 25 years prior to that, and after that, 3% in two years, and since then, a half percent and never recovered. that's a disaster. >> gentlemen, i wish we had more time, but we don't. austin, ed, i'll say that i find

it interesting that those indexes that people want to discount when it doesn't suit their interests are the first that they embrace when the numbers seems to tell a story. >> indeed. >> hopefully we shed light on at least the debate. thank you, both,ing for being . let's check facebook and twitter, what do you have? economic growth limited by limited work force. u.s. needs new immigrant work s workers. i'll say this. i found the risk taking exemplified by those in the country make good entrepreneurs, so my belief is we always need a steady stream of immigration, and people do need to play by the rules. wall street and companies raking in but working people still in the same boat smerconish. good point. shame on me for not raising this. few herb americans have ownership stake in the stock market, so, you know, less are

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when it comings to college admissions, how much role should race play? that's in the news this week. majority of the students accepted into the harvard freshman class identify as nonwhite, but at the same time, came news that the department of justice is investigation allegations school denied places to qualify asian-american students. the head of admissions consultant at interview sos has a unique experience with this topic. indian-american, he realized the only way he would be accepted at med school would be to pass as black. he chronicled his experiences in his book "almost black." he is joining 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 3.1. what did you do? >> well, i shaved my head. i trimmed my eyelashes, and i decided to join the organization of black students and applied to med school as a black man and used my middle name, joe joe, and got wait listed in university of pennsylvania and ranked the second and third and fourth beth medical school in the country and got into st. louis university school of medicine despite the fact my pitiful 3.1 gpa was lower than their average of 3.7. now, i wanted to mention a statistic mentioned earlier in the program which is that the majority of harvard is now a minority, and i don't think that's true. i think that's very deceptive. i think you're forgetting about the pocohantas factor, the fact

there's a large number of people whiter than winter in alaska posing as minorities, and as a result, it skews the statistics because they know that it can improve their chances of admission, so self-reporting of statistics of a minority is not necessarily the best data to use. >> so what you're saying is that you didn't just check a box. you went full-on tootsie and there's others out there who may not adopt the personification of a particular group. but they are checking the same box in the same way. >> i, you know, i'm an admissions consultant and have so many clients with an african-american great, great grandfather, great, great grandmother was hispanic or something like that, and for very flimsy reasons they call themselves a minority to improve chance of admissions. we cannot ignore that factor looking at that statistic, 51% of the people in harvard say

they are -- >> well, listen, let's -- because you are using the nickname, let's go there. you said that what lincoln did vis-a-vis slavery trump does affirmative action. explain. >> i believe that president trump by appointing conservative anti-affirmative action justices and by using the justice department to go after colleges and universities, i believe that 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 pled 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 and

effectively force universities to end their racist affirmative action policies by forcing them to lose federal funding. as i said, president trump will end affirmative action like lincoln ended slavery. >> i want to put on the screen a pie chart that shows the breakdown of the incoming class of harvard and 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 whatsoever? what if on the merits, if you go by gpa and sat score, you could fill the entire class at harvard with asian-americans, should they do so? >> first of all, there's the multifactorial administration process, nine criteria with grades, letters of recommendation, essay. grades and test scores are not the only consideration. data can easily be manipulated. i'm a cfra holder, but the

simple point is that as an asian-american, it is harder to get into college or graduate school than any other racial category. where data is available, it's consistently harder for an asian-american to get in. i used the example of medical school admissions where it was 50% easier to get into medical school as an asian-american compared to an african-american. so statistical data, there's no rationalization for racism. affirmative action is a system of legalized racism. it is a racial classification system that changes people's chances of admission to college or graduate school, and there's no justification for it. >> but -- >> for -- >> you understand the point that i'm trying to make, which is to say that from the perspective of the admissions's office, they seek to assemble a diverse student body, and asians on the merits could dominate the class, they might not want to do that because that, therefore,

detracts from the ability to having equal representation of all groups. you get the final word as long as it's quick. >> glad you brought up that point. i had the opportunity to go to ucla, a school not practicing affirmative action in admissions. we had a diverse class of african-americans, hispanics, asian-americans, and whites with rich educational experience without practicing affirmative action, so i don't want anyone to believe that affirmative action racism is essential to a good education. >> understood. thank you for being here. what are you thinki thinking @smerconish on twitter? run the risk of backlash with affirmative action. as with anything, balance on race and brains. >> you know, christine, my four, three of whom went through the admissions process and another about to next year, can't wait until this is all over.

i get the desire for 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 perspectives. how do you achieve that balance is the dilemma, and that's what i discussed with him. time for another one? we do not. okay. meet the man charged with drunken driving despite never leaving his own driveway. his amazing story and a warning to many of us is next.

giving new meaning to the phrase "house arrest," charged with drunk driving without leaving his own driveway. michigan supreme court ruled gino ray could be charged despite the fact police arrested him before he reached the street. joining me now is gino ray and

his attorney. hey, this makes me nervous. tonight, i might wash my car in my own driveway after having a couple of pops. what happened to you? >> i was listening to music in my vehicle in my backyard, side yard, garage, and my private property, and became a victim of ouil charge. >> camella, he never left the property, right? never pulled out of the driveway? >> that is correct. he had no intention of doing so. as he indicated, he was just sitting in his own driveway, essentially located in the backyard of the his residence. listening to music. there was no evidence, and there is no evidence that he ever intended to leave. in fact, police came out a few times and had contact with him. he was not 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, you knowings we don't want to wait 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 intention about future acts. >> they -- the law in michigan seems to be based on the accessibility of where this all transpyred, meaning that if he were not in his backyard, but in a remote area not necessarily accessible, then they could not have prosecuted him. did i state that accurately? >> i'm not sure about that. the court stated that private driveways are accessible to motor vehicles, and the majority

of the interpretation was that generally sensible means in areas that's physically capable of being reached. now, the michigan statute initially just precluded from drunk driving on the highway, area open to the general public, and area generally accessible by employee tor vehicles. there's no reference to a private driveway. there's no reference to an individual, private residential background. 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 include drunk driving. >> understood. hey, what do people say to you when they know you've been arrested for drunk driving in your own car on your own property? >> well, they're pretty amazed. several comments.

they feel, you know, they can be victims of any circumstance on their own private property. it doesn't become private anymore. it's open generally to accessibility to anybody who wants to drive in your driveway or your backyard at any given time. >> well, it's a "wake-up call" for everybody. gino ray and camilla barkovich, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook posts. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah. it's nice that every bad decision doesn't have to be permenant! ditch verizon. keep your phone. we'll even pay it off when you switch to america's best unlimited network.

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