--ing the annual white house during the annual white house correspondents dinner. earlier this week, he instructed members of his administration to boycott the dinner. the rally, watch live coverage at 9:30 p.m. eastern of the white house correspondents dinner with featured speaker, author and historian, ron chernow. this morning,e jason miller, former communications director for president trump's campaign and also for the transition team in host: talking about the president's bid for a second term. we get the news this morning that the former vice president, joe biden, wants to get the democratic nomination and challenge him for the white house. your reaction to the news? guest: well, i love the fact that former vice president bide suspect jumping in. i think i take a contrarian view than many of my trump allies who look at the current polling in the head-to-head matchups with biden versus

trump in a number of these states. i think people need to realize that elections are a lot loor sporting event, where it ultimately comes down to the competition between whether it be two teams or between two boxers, and for trump to be successful in 2020, he needs to continue being the change agent, the one who's trying to change washington. with former vice president biden, someone who's been in office for 45 years, president trump can point to him and say you're part of the problem, i'm still trying to clean up the mess here. and so in these head-to-head matchups, the polling numbers might look good for vice president biden at the moment. but i think once they get together, president trump is really going to take it to him. even as you talk about just the interpersonal dynamics between the two, i think president trump can make some of the jokes about biden, and with the recent goose with the hair sniffing and all kind of the weird things, and president trump is the one type of candidate who could really kind of make that a humorous point on a campaign trail. but i think overall, if biden is the status quo and the way things were, and trump is the change agent, that's good for the president.

host: yeah, one hypothetical matchup between the two this morning, a national poll, politico has the former vice president with an eight-point lead right now. guest: yeah, and it's early, and that's where i said going into the college national championship game, everyone thought alabama was going to steamroll past clemson, at least obviously a different result there. we thought that secretary clinton was going to defeat now-president trump, and obvious that will didn't happen so. until you get the interpersonal dynamics, until you see the candidates on the stage, and you see them campaigning against each other, but trump really has the change message, and i think it's important to keep in mind that you still have a pretty volatile electorate. we saw this in 2018, how it swung back, a number of these seats went from republican over to democrat. voters are still pretty frustrated and angry with this divide between the washington and new york elites versus the rest of the country. we've seen, even though the overall economy is going up, we've still seen a lot of divide between the haves and have nots, so to speak. that's not even just specific

to the u.s. we're seeing that all around the globe. we're seeing it with the yellow vests in france, we're seeing it with brexit, even before the 2016 presidential election. so this divide that's going, i think the electorate is pretty fired up. host: what hang has president trump made so far to washington just in his first two years that he'll be able to point to when he's campaigning for a second term? guest: first and foremost, it's going to be the economy. he's going to point to record low unemployment rates. we've seen some of the greatest labor participation rate increases amongst african-americans, hispanics, with women, a number of these states, even pennsylvania, for example, put out yesterday that they're literally at a record low unemployment that they've ever had. so these are some good numbers. and people vote their pocketbook. going back to the old james carville, it's the economy, stupid a. lot of that still remains. but i think when you look at the way that president trump is deconstructed a lot of bureaucrat i can state near washington, i think that's something to keep in mind that his voters didn't send him to washington to go and measure the drapes and put up new ones. they really sent him to go to

tear them down and say we want this place to be responsive to the rest of the country. host: the mueller report that was released last week said this, the evidence we obtained about the president's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent from us conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. jerry in addition her, chair of the house judiciary committee, was on "meet the press" this past sunday, and here's what he had to say. >> yeah, i do. i do think that -- if proven, if proven, which hasn't been proven yet, some of this -- if proven, some of this would be impeachable, yes. obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable. >> and you're going to go about to see if you can prove it? >> well, we're going to see where the facts lead us. host: mr. miller, are you concerned that the efforts on capitol hill, that they're going to be holding these hearings, they're going to be

investigating whether or not there was obstruction of justice, and then possibly move forward with impeachment sneargs guest:, to be blunt about this one, i think democrats pursuing this against president trump and people in the president's orbit i think is politically good for the president, because if the democrats are talking about impeachment, they're not talking about healthcare or other issues where they may have a better matchup against the president or republicans. i think it's bad for the country. and i think it sets a really bad precedent that we've gone through this, it's not just the two years of the mueller investigation, there was a complete year before that where the f.b.i. and d.o.j. were going through this. but the fact that former director mueller did not recommend charges against the president i think speaks a lot. it's important also to point out that there's obviously, he did definitively say no collusion, not only by the president or the campaign, but no american. we should all be happy that there was no american that was involved in any sort of collusion with a foreign entity. but specific to the obstruction part, director mueller is a

pretty smart guy, and he's a pretty straight forward guy. i know that capitol hill is ultimately a political environment, then it becomes a political debate. and so in the absence of a specific declaration saying that there were evidence of obstruction, then director mueller knows sending it to capitol hill just throws it up into essentially becoming a political football. and you're going to have the bloviated talking points from both sides of the aisle, and in the absence of any specific recommendations, people will default to their traditional party norms. and look, i think with respect to chairman in addition her, no one is going confuse him with inspector crousseau, yet alone perry mason. i don't understand what he's going to get to the bottom of, which that was thinks line. it doesn't matter that we have the full report, now we need the full, unredacted report. what is jury in addition her going to come one former director mueller and his team couldn't over a two-year investigation? i think the answer is nothing. host: however, are you concerned that the democrats point to the mueller report, volume two, pages 3, 4, 5, 6, where robert mueller lays out

factual results of the obstruction investigation, conduct involving the f.b.i. director and michael flynn, campaign's response to reports about russian transport for trump, the president's termination of comey, appointment of the special counsel, efforts to remove, efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence, further efforts to have the a.g. take control of the investigation, efforts to have don goingman denied the president ordered to have the special counsel removed, conflict towards flynn and manafort, conduct involving michael cohen. guest: to the specific point we saw the president, i believe it was this morning, tweet out saying that he did not direct mcgann to go in and remove the special counsel, but i think it's important to go back to the point i made a moment ago, which is that director mueller did not make a recommendation on the obstruction part. he's a very literal man, very serious reputation, even though many derms are now trying to tarnish that. if he had seen something, he

would have written it up, declare actively, saying that charges need to be filed or that this specifically needs to be dove into in a much more concrete way. but the fact that he didn't means that he didn't find it, he didn't find enough to go and pursue any charges or anything, and i think a lot of this, when you look through it, made everyone get sucked into the inside baseball, i call it the post fire and fury world in washington, d.c., where everyone wants to hear about the inner workings. white house or the perceived dysfunction that might be going on. i would point out that it's rather remarkable to the president has been able to do as much he has over the first two years, whether it's two supreme court justices, the economy, the deregulation, the sentencing reform, being able to accomplish all these things despite this cloud. i think a real testament to how well he's been able to do. but look, now we're heading into 2020. we're heading to a campaign season. there's one other risk that i got to point out as far as on the national democrats, for every moment that they're talking about impeachment, it's not just say issues like

healthcare or climate change that they're not having a chance to talk about, it's also stuff which we're going to get into on the 2020 candidates, and it's cutting off the oxygen. if jerry in addition her is having a hearing on capitol hill, nobody is covering beto o'rourke in iowa. nobody is covering elizabeth warren in new hampshire. they'll be covering the hill, and that will drive the democrat party's messaging. host: where do you work now? guest: i'm at a global c. c.e.o. advisory firm working on communications strategies. i am out of politics, not doing any campaigns. i usually will tell people i miss the action, but i don't necessarily miss the brain damage. host: we'll go to mike, a democrat. laurel park, new york. caller: hi, greta. keep on sticking it to him. he's in full swing mode. so he's a lobbyist now selling access to trump. big surprise. i'd like to point out that trillion to t $2.5

pass a tax cut that's going to yield maybe 2% g.d.p. this quarter. it's good for six months. that's only piece -- that's the only bill he passed. and the fact that there was a governor elected in wisconsin, michigan, a democratic one in wisconsin, michigan, p.a., i think, and another one is leaning to whoever is in there. what's going to shop the same people who said that they weren't going to vote for trump in 2016 are saying that they're going to vote for him now, but they're not going to do it when the time comes. host: let's get a reaction. guest: excellent. thank you very much for your question. i'd say a couple of things on the political front. yes, you pointed out that the democratic gubernatorial wins in both wisconsin and michigan, but what you failed to mention was the fact that republicans had a huge supreme court win in wisconsin, so that's still a very divided state.

and it's tough to go and take the 2018 election results and match those up to 2020. as i start off at the beginning of the semmingt where i talked about it's really about the matchup between the two candidates, and i really feel good about where the president is in the head-to-head matchups, particular well biden, warren and with sanders. i think on the democratic side, i think kamala harris, beto o'rourke will be much more formidable challenges to president trump, and that's because they excite the democratic base in a way that vice president biden, for example, hasn't been able to. and so you also look at what the president has been able to do as far as the economy, look, there are two things that we have to do when you talk about both the deficit and then the overall debt. i'll agree with you on this point, mike. number one, we have to make sure that the economy is booming. i think that's what the president is doing with the tax cuts and making sure that we have this continued g.d.p. growth. and that's ultimately what we're going to have to grow out of way out of this a lot. now, the big question, really the unspoken aspect, we're

going to have to tackle entitlement reform at a certain point if we're going to get the overall both the budget and then the overall national debt under control. that's something i would like to see the administration take a tougher position on, maybe in a second term. we saw obvious that will former president bush tried to dive into that right in the beginning of his second term, didn't work out quite as well. until we do something on the entitlement reform, this is going to be a challenge that confronts both president trump and any future president. host: lynn is next, independent in bishop, california. caller: yeah, good morning. you know, i would like to see maybe c-span have some people on that are actually showing what is being done instead of all this investigation. everybody knows how corrupt washington is and the rest of the country is just trying to go out and make a living. i just wanted to say one thing, being from california, your last guest, california is no

example. it is falling into the sea. it is such a mess. so maybe your c-span directors couldmaybe you're c-span directs can actually start having some people on that can show us that maybe is getting done. host: we will take your point. jason miller, what has the president done? guest: i think that is an excellent point. there is growth management in california. by the way, i love california. formerly a resident of san diego and lived in orange county. love southern california in particular. don't like the tax rate. i think the tax rate is a little bit bonkers. you might want to consider moving to nevada or arizona. much better tax rates. that is my personal advice to you. but as you look around a number of states around the country, seeing these record low unemployment rates, people reentering into the workforce. we are seeing the people who are traditionally left behind in the

economy when we talk about african-americans, hispanics, women, being pulled into the workforce at a higher participation rate than we have seen in the past. over the last couple of quarters, we are finally seeing wage growth higher than inflation, trying to get past this wage stagnation we have seen for decades. it is something that has held america back. seeing a lot of enthusiasm with industry. manufacturing jobs are coming back in many places. there is a revitalizing of the american entrepreneurial spirit, which i feel good about. a lot of states around the country are feeling good right now. i know sunshine is there in california and it is fine and you have hollywood, but taxes are better next door. host: what will the president .2 what he has accomplished for the working class americans trying to make a living? guest: exactly. that is where we are getting government out of people's lives. wage growth is one.

talking about the below 4% unemployment rate. the fact of the matter is that there are more jobs that are available and we have people to go fill them. that is a good feeling. it was only a decade ago, not long ago, where we were double digit unemployment. people were concerned, however my to put food on the table? how am to get by? there is no hope -- how am i going to get by? there is no hope. in addition to the wage growth, you have the nonwage benefits. whether it be health care, whether you have different benefits, different retirement matches and things like that that companies are putting out there, you have companies voluntarily looking to repay student loan data. that is a whole other conversation we can get into. people are offering benefits to get workers to their company because it is competitive. that is a good feeling. it is not a feeling we had a

decade ago, but it is a feeling we have now. host: a democrat, good money to you. caller: good morning. how are you doing this morning? host: doing fine. caller: jason miller. i like you. i watch you unseen and sometimes but i have a problem with the tax cut because it did not benefit me one bit. i know it helped the corporate and big banks and stuff. why did the president come in and take away everything obama did that was helping this country? not saying obama was a perfect president, but he did things helping a lot of americans. the tax cuts did not help me one bit. what the republicans snuck on everybody, it was wrong. trump, i don't have anything against trump. i'm a democrat. but we should be more truthful with people. stop lying everybody. i like you, jason. answer my question about that. why i had to pay taxes?

i don't make so much myself. host: ok. guest: good question. obviously, i cannot speak to your particular tax situation. i'm not an accountant. i believe the number for the average family around the country was to see eight $2000 savings but i cannot speak -- a $2000 savings but i cannot speak to your specific situation. there are so many jobs that are available right now and jobs are starting to pay more. we are seeing more benefits being added in. for your particular tax situation, it would not be appropriate since i'm not an accountant to dive into that. the one issue i would point out is that i think we are starting to have a bit of a reckoning in many of the states around the country. obviously, you live in maryland, the beltsville area. marilyn has a high tax structure. even though governor hogan has done a very good job try to keep the state pointed in the right

direction, the fact of the matter is state taxes are too high. the split between the federal and state i cannot speak to for you but i know the average family is saving about $2000 a year. host: independent. caller: yes. to pay forone has the expense of the united states. i would rather the people with the money do it than me that makes about $50,000 a year. it is not extending benefits to the new employees. i lived in houston. the average rate is about $10 an hour. the accomplishments that the president has made, what has he done? republicans stole one of the seats for the supreme court. money fromcans stole

the middle class. when you look at the tax rate, there is a 10% difference in the average income. a 10% difference in the amount of tax you have to pay. that did not help the middle class. what are you talking about? what has trump done to enhance employment? nothing. absolutely nothing. host: can you point to specific policies? guest: specific policies, again, the tax cut is the biggest one. what we have seen in addition to the tax cut and the reduction in regulations, we are seeing this boom in american business right now. you look at one president trump came into office. everyone'sre retirements, not everyone, but to was1(k)'s are pinned at 18,000. we have seen that grow by over one third. hitting records on the dow and s&p 500.

people are seeing their retirements going up. i want to go back to something that you said a moment ago about this went to the wage growth issue. we have seen wages grow the last couple of quarters under president trump at a higher rate actualflation, an substantial wage growth for the first time in decades. the anger and frustration that you have i think is not unique to you. that is something the president really cares about. people who wake up every day, show up to work, earn a paycheck, and realize how tough it is to get by, that is why he is pushing so hard on many factory jobs. that is why he is trying to renegotiate some of the trade deals to make sure we are keeping their jobs in the u.s., realizing we have a long ways to go to make sure we are seeing bigger wage growth for people in america. i totally relate with your frustration. i think that is something the president cares about also. host: fred in jessup, maryland,

a republican. caller: yes sir, good morning. i want to start out by saying thank you for your service and god bless president trump. people need to realize he is our first citizen president. he is not a polished politician. he is not a career corrupt politician. he is doing what he thinks is best for the country. the tax cuts benefited all of us. they went from the highest in the world down to 25%. i think he wanted 22%. i'm a school bus driver. i earned $33,000 a year. i make an extra $200 a month, $50 per paycheck, because of the tax cuts. they benefit me. i am no rich corporate guy. i also wanted to make a comment on the obama energy secretary. allowed aa, that man solar powered company -- he gave them $500 million. three month later, they claimed bankruptcy and fled.

i would like to know what happened to that money. on c-span, he did not mind if gas went up to $10 a gallon to get us off oil. host: i believe it there and get jason miller's reaction to the other candidates in the 2020 field. talked about the former vice president jumping in, and he leads the polls. when you look at those behind him, bernie sanders at 15%, what is your advice to president trump? how would he run against bernie sanders? guest: against bernie sanders, trump will hit him over the head with the socialist rhetoric. it will be a contrast in the way we are going to go in and pull everybody up. people talk about this spectrum of conservatives being here and liberals being here. i think it is really more of a circle where you see that on many of these issues like trade for example, bernie sanders is not that far off from president

trump on their approach to trade, on the effort to make america first. they have different solutions about how to do that. bernie sanders obviously wants a $32 trillion medicare for all, something we are never going to be able to afford. that would make taxes go up in a huge weight. there were a lot of bernie sanders voters who crossed over and supported president trump in the general election as a rejection to secretary clinton in 2016. i think the democrats want a real risk this time with how they treat bernie sanders. bernie can surprise people with his fundraising. people, they never clapped for secretary clinton the way they clapped for bernie sanders. you will see with joe biden, it is telling in his announcement today that he is not having a big rally today. he put it out in a video that looks to the past, does not present a forward vision. when you run for president, you have to give people a sense for

optimism. you have to give people a sense of where they are going to go. if you look in the rearview we were, it is easy for president trump to say you are the status quo and passed. i'm the future. host: joe barton is heading to pittsburgh for a rally. what if the president is up to mayor -- up against mayor pete from south bend? guest: he is an unproven entity at this point. it is a great story that he is surging. it shows that in america people can come from nowhere so to speak just as we saw president obama surge out of nowhere and beat secretary clinton. but the one thing the mayor will find pretty quick is that in the competitive democratic primary like this, the knives come out quick. they will be coming from fellow democratic presidential candidates. they will be ruthless and sliced him up. can he withstand the test? we will see. we will see in the debate.

kamala harris, for example. host: in the most recent reuters poll, she is in fourth place behind mayor pete. guest: she had a huge kickoff, had great crowd support, good fundraising. she is someone trump trump who as a supporter, i would be -- she is someone who as a trump supporter, i would be more nervous running against. they can enthuse their base. here is where, the harris had her deer in the headlights moment. in the town hall the other night, she was asked a question about the whole voting rights for felons. you start seeing those little things. you go back to the little moments. like what michael dukakis made that ultimately tanked his candidacy. those clips whether it is, harris or bernie sanders either not having an answer for the boston bombers or advocating the

should have voting rights, those are things that when you start talking about the rest of the country, people kind of year that and say that is kind of weird, kind of outside the mainstream. i still think kamala harris has a very formidable candidacy. mayor pete needs to watch his back from his fellow democrats. they are coming after him. host: one more. we will stick to the top five in the latest poll. bento o'rourke. guest: his has been confusing. he put up a good run against ted cruz last year in texas. one of my former bosses. he came really close. he showed good fundraising ability, able to put rallies together. i love her president trump jumped out and talked about the hands. beto o'rourke and the crazy hands things going. you cannot look at beto o'rourke anymore without looking at his hands. trump is a master marketer. he seems to be on a soul-searching mission at the

moment. i still think he has the ability to excite the democratic base. but where you have mayor pete or kamala harris or elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, who are all coming with very specific policies and proposals, beto just seems he is on a mission to find his inner child. i just don't really see what his candidacy is about at this point. host: in houston, texas, democrat. caller: hi. good morning. thank you for taking my call. because i'm just listening to this gentleman here. i think he is out of touch with the poor people. with the tax and everything. so i'm trying to see what is going on with these. i have been working all my life people areand rich getting lower tax and the poor people are not.

president obama, he is the one that started with the high wages on that and everything. i'm a real live person down here. i know who is making with the cleaning people, cooking, in restaurants, and who is out there working on streets and everything. president trump has not done anything. has not done tax or anything. he is not dealing with real people. the unappointed wind down with president obama. the debt went down with president obama. -- the unemployment went down with president obama. the debt went down with president obama. here.s just not life i want to see where are you coming from, sir? you are not in the real world. evidently, you are rich. i'm with the poor and everything else. these people are really struggling here. guest: i very much appreciate your question. i have had the opportunity to go

to a good university and be able to provide for my family, but what many people might not realize is i grew up in a single-parent household with my mom and little brother in a two-bedroom apartment. much of that time, we were on government assistance growing up. i know what it is like to go to the linenk, to go into at school and have free lunch and wait until all the other kids went through and have lunch until you went through because you had to tell them you were getting free lunch and you did not want to have people laugh at you are thinking something was wrong. so i very much understand what it is like to have that struggle and to have the electricity turned off or wonder if you have enough money to send in for college applications. i come from a perspective where i very much understand and knowledge that. when i look back at the opportunities that my mom did not have, someone who ended up getting her aa degree when i was myself as an undergraduate in college and other opportunities

became available. but i look at the folks who don't have the opportunity to get that education to get to the next point. this is what i think ministration is doing with so many of these retraining jobs. and the effort increases in vocational opportunities that are coming up, the blue-collar jobs, we see about somebm talking of the new industries people are going into. especially where you are in texas, texas has a booming economy. there are a lot more opportunities for folks in texas now that were not there in years. a lot of that is because we are seeing this energy renaissance. the u.s. is now finally in energy exporter. there are opportunities. there are now more jobs available than there are people in the u.s. that is a good opportunity. i cannot speak specific to your situation, but i know that for a

lot of people, there is hope where there was not hope they couple years ago. host: in missouri, mike, you are next for jason miller. caller: good morning. host: morning. caller: trying to figure out where to start here with all the hypocrisy i heard from your guest. he is talking about joe biden smelled women's hair when donald trump has over 20 women accusing him of assault. i got to wonder why he isn't being investigated for that. obamaly, president brought unemployment down 17% to 7%. forre praising trump bringing it from 7% to 4%. what i just heard your guest say about being a single-parent family and all the things that helped his family get through, now the trump administration

wants to take all those things away from americans. they are try to take health care from americans. the attack on the epa that donald trump has brought on is just ridiculous. if lying and dishonesty is the way of the future, which is what donald trump is, our country has no future. host: mr. miller? guest: so i'm going to take a shot in the dark here and guess that you probably did not vote for president trump. i hope the president is able to earn your vote this next go round. when i was making the point about vice president biden and some of the behavioral things, the point that i was making was that he is the one candidate where president trump can turn that around and make that something -- host: even though the president was accused by 20 women and achael cohen said he paid off

woman? guest: if that will be an issue for them or if they want to support the policies the president is behind, the president has denied these things. people have made their decision going through in their mind in 2016. in 2020, the strength of the economy, america's improved standing in the world, and when they see president trump take issues like trade, for example. trade is a proxy fight for fairness. people think there is a lack of fairness. several of the callers this morning brought this point up as well. there seems to be this continuing divide between people in washington and new york prosper and do better than people across the country. the trade deals president trump is working to renegotiate whether it is nafta, the usmca, the u.s. and eu, bilateral deals with the u.s. and japan or u.s. and india, which will come along after we get through the major

trade issue with china. these really speak to the issue of fairness and how we bring back a lot of these jobs or preserve these industries. here is what a lot of people don't realize. one point on china. we get so caught up in the moment for what is in the new story, top of the news, but we do not think about the future with the real long-term issues here. the next 50 to 100 years of human civilization is going to be dominated by this u.s. versus china trade competition. what president trump is doing right now is protecting those industries of the future. you talked about ever not asked, automobiles, robotics, ai, semiconductors, even aspect of health care, pharmaceuticals, different things like that. if the u.s. does nothing to address that trade relationship now, we will not be a global leader in these industries 10, 20 years down the road. even jobs that people have today might not be here unless we get

this trade equilibrium balanced out here. that is an important thing president is doing. he knows how to turn that back and make a pocketbook real life issue for people in a way no one else does. host: if he does not have a winter .2 on trade, whether it is passing nafta 2.0 or china, is that i concern? guest: he will get a win on china. i'm confident they are moving in the right direction there. the issue is the nontariff barriers and the enforcement that go into it. we need to make sure we can see capital flowing in both directions. i'm confident the president will get a win on china. as he said, not a good deal, he will get a great deal. host: nashville, tennessee, republican, we will go to rose next. caller: good morning, jason. i really don't have a question, but i have a couple of comments. first of all, i want to say that

i love president trump. i thank god for president trump. all of my friends, we all feel the same way. every time he has a rally, we want to see it. we don't care what else is on, even if he repeats the same things over and over. we love him. we love him and we got his back. i like to think of myself as a patriotic american. i love this country. i could have never withstood all the bad media and the lies and everything that have been going on to this poor president and his family. i would have thrown down my maga hat and say you could have this job. i thanked him. the only thing i wish is he would release the unclassified documents that he has the power to release. i wanted to say that the democrats are real arrogant about winning the house in 2018. but i think a lot of people were

disgusted with house republicans under paul ryan. and maybe there is a possibility that the democrats won the house because it was more of a protest vote by republicans. host: ok. i want to take that point. you are shaking your head. guest: i agree with a lot of desperate much everything you are saying -- i agree with a lot of, pretty much everything you are saying. let me unpack this because you are spot on. one of my biggest frustrations as a longtime republican, i've always been republican, but someone who is a longtime activist and political serving roles to help good conservatives to office is when president trump won, republicans in the house and senate literally should have been waiting there as if with a cake to replace obamacare. and they didn't. wastingident ended up

entirely too much time in the first term try to get to a plan that repealed and replaced obamacare. i was very much frustrated with capitol hill republicans not having that ready to go. when you talk about the cloud, the whole investigation hoechst that hung over the presidency for the last few years, despite all the great things he has been able to do, it is important for the president to keep the pressure on the investigators, to keep the pressure on looking into whether there were any illegalities involved in this fisa process in the beginning and how some twentysomething campaigndvisor to the helped launch this multiyear investigation. sounds like there is a lot of funny business that was involved there. i want to see that investigator because until folks are held accountable for things like this, then we can see these deep state folks, whether they be in bureaucracy, on the outlying fringes of law enforcement, make

similar moves like this in the future. we really need to get to the bottom of this. devin nunes on capitol hill and mark meadows and jim jordan have been absolutely fantastic with disregard. i completely agree with you. i would like to see the department of justice ig report and other investigations put out publicly so we can see all these things. i would agree with you also with regard to president trump, the amount of abuse and attacks he has had has been pretty remarkable. keep in mind immediately after the election, democrats said it was the popular vote. he basically tried to delegitimize his presidency, that he won the electoral college and not the popular vote. and then it was james comey. and then we had the entire russia hoax. now once we get past that, it is onto president trump's taxes or whatever thing they are going to come up with next. it is kind of a sad state of american politics right now.

i'm not saying that people need to be president trump supporters. i realize it is a divided country and half of the people watching right now want to throw something at me and the other half want to give me a high five. i get that. any of the things we haven't seen the last couple of years is bad for the presidency and country because of this cloud they have kept over president trump. host: brenda in manchester, democrat, go ahead. caller: good morning. well, first of all about the texas, yes, we need to see the taxes because we need to see how trump is benefiting from his new tax plan. the taxes will show us how he is charitable, who he is beholden to. onto the robert mueller report, there was a lot of collusion. there was no conspiracy. in order for it to be committal conspiracy, you need an agreement, tested or expressed, between the two parties. even though trump and vladimir putin were both working to get him elected, there was no express agreement. that is why there is no criminal

conspiracy. also, most of the reductions were due to ongoing matters. that will be interesting. and the report does indicate that mueller wanted congress to take up the issue of obstruction. as far as you said he is a master marketer, he is a master manipulator is what he is. he brings all this on himself by his own behavior. all the religious folks out there, i don't get it. he does not follow the teachings of jesus. he is mean. he is cruel. he is corrupt. host: ok, i believe that there. james in greenwood, indiana, republican. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: thanks for the conversation today. joe biden, he is a nice guy, very wealthy, but he is 20 years too late. i'm calling from indianapolis. it is like joe biden is entering

a model t ford in the indianapolis 500 this year. somebody called in a couple weeks ago and described joe as male, pale, and stale. right now for this year, he is the wrong gender, color, age. he is a victim of a culture of his own making, where old white men these days are just passing. host: i have to leave it there. guest: a couple of great questions. first with regard to joe biden, i might be a little bit of an outlier in the trump allies and trump world and many in the media who think joe biden is a strong candidate against trump. i think trump absolutely whips biden at the ballot biden turned president trump into the youth click discussion of --

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political and financial times. they discussed the prospects originate in agreement, the potential economic impact and other trade issues that remain unresolved. 1.5 hours.ut >> good morning everyone. take your joining us today. my name is kevin levinson. i'm the executive director of wita. we're excited to have you here today. it continues to be an interesting time in trade. we've noticed that since president trump came to office, our membership has gone up by a third. it's been good for wita's business. i know a lot of american companies are curious about what's going to happen with the trade agenda with china, with usmca. hopefully we'll be able to shed light on that with the focus today on china. thanks, again, to all of you for being