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crowded. the early presumptive choice for many, former vice president joe biden, has seen his poll numbers slip. his campaign has been dogged by gaffes and lackluster debate performances, plus he continues to deal with questions about his involvement with you -yard line. ukraine. senator elizabeth warren is facing real resistance especially from the democratic establishment over her plans more fullty trillion -- multitrillion dollar social programs. senator bernie sanders too is plagued by worries about his european-like socialist proposals. and with south bend mayor pete buttigieg has made inroads especially in iowa, he remains in fourth place. just last week former new york mayor mike bloomberg filed to be on the ballot in alabama and later addedded arkansas saying he's concerned a fading biden will mean the democrats will end up with someone far too liberal. and this week deval patrick announced that he was throwing his hat in the wing. he fears the current candidates won't be able to beat the

sitting president. and, of course, there's always hillary clinton, isn't there? although she insists that she's not running, she's been dropping subtle hints that maybe, just maybe, she might change her mind and go for a rematch with the president. on tuesday she told the bbc i, as i say, never, never, never say never. and i will certainly tell you i'm under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it. who might break out of the democratic pack, and how will the politics of impeachment play out? here to help answer those questions is someone certainly well versed in democratic politics, mark penn was hillary clinton's chief strategist in her 2008 campaign and is also a key -- was also a key adviser to bill clinton. he join ares me from washington. mark, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. gerry: let's start with politics of impeachment. seeing these hearings we've had this week, do you think they're

moving needle in terms of public opinion at all for next year's election? >> well, i don't think anyone is winning in the sense that people are always trying to say, well, who's gaining a political advantage out of what's happening. i think that the more this goes on, the democrats are or up to charge that all they did was with impeachment, and the more president trump feels compelled to respond to everything that is said or done, more he also tends to dig himself in. you know, i wish he'd be listening to president clinton's advise, which i was quite surprised this week about how to handle impoochment which is to -- impeachment which is to let other people handle it. gerry: both sides' voters will be energized by this, democrats because they really want to see the president removed from office, and they'll go out and vote against him, republicans because they regard the whole thing as a coup d'etat.

that conventional wisdom right? >> well, i think that is right. i think each side's revving up their base. but general electionses, unlike primaries, are not decided by bases. they're decided by swing voters, and swing voters right now don't like president trump, they don't like the democrats, and they don't like the republicans. and so they continue to dig holes into their bases while leaving swing voters perplexed about how are we going to get things done in this country. gerry: how many swing voters are there these days? we hear about the base and it's all about turnout. how big is the panel of persuadable voters? >> well, i often say we're a 40-40-20 country which is to say that you'll get about 40% that would impeach trump regardless of any facts and side with democrats on almost all issues, and there's about 40% that would agree with that famous statement that president trump said that he should shoot someone on fifth

avenue, still get there support, and there's about 20% that actually is capable of going back or forth depending upon how issues and how things in the country may themselves out. and i think that 20% is underrated and important. gerry: you saw very close hand the impeachment of president clinton more than 20 years ago. that did seem to work out different, it did work out very well for his party in the 1998 midterms. >> well, i think, i think much to the republicans' chagrin, it did. and i think that we stuck, i think, quite strongly to a message that, hey, i'm out here doing the country's business while the republicans are playing partisan game, and i think we were also very successful at discrediting the whole idea of trying to impeach the president on the basis of his relations with monica lewinsky. gerry: as you said earlier on this, as on many, many other

things, it doesn't look like president trump is any mind to listen to president bill clinton's advice. instead, he seems to want to get actively involved in the impeachment process himself, constantly sort of live tweeting it. does that, i mean, is clinton right? it's better just to stay out of it and let the democrats kind of create the scene that they're creating for themselves? >> well, look, at the time i was part of devising a strategy that says, look, in any crisis the most important thing to americans -- and even in corporate crises -- is can the leader continue to lead the country effectively. that's the most important thing when we delivered the state of the union or went to united nations, the country said, look, the president's the president x this whole impeachment thing will play itself out. then we appointed a group of people to go out there and battle every day, and except in those time when it was shul necessary, we kept the -- absolutely necessary we kept the president above the fray.

and that's why president clinton had a 73% approval rating which is something you don't see in this country i'm not even sure that given the partisanship it's even possible anymore to have that kind of a approval rating. and our economic conditions were about as good as they are now. gerry: have you seen any evidence that the impeachment process so far is changing president trump's approval rating in it's been going on, obviously, now for a couple months. >> no. i think in general the president's approval ratings have been unaffected by the ukraine situation. but he's at 45, not at 65 or 70, so he's 20, 25 points back from where president clinton was at that time. he has an election coming up, so so things, i think, are seen even in a more partisan nature. i notice democratic numbers actually have come up a little. i think democrats are energizing their base. democrats have been saying when is the party going to do something about donald trump, and so i think in some sense the

party base is definitely rewarding the democrats. and i understand there's record fundraising on the republican side. so, you know, in terms of a divided country, i could think of nothing that promotes energizing the base, raising money and more combative election and electorate than going through an impeachment trial. gerry: mark, stay with us. we're going to take a short break, and when we come back, we're going to get on to that 2020 democratic field. want to get your does your broker offer more than just free trades? fidelity has zero commissions for online u.s. equity trades and etfs, plus zero minimums to open a brokerage account. with value like this, there are zero reasons to invest anywhere else. fidelity.

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hillary clinton, won't rule out a run. maybe, you know, who knows, al gore -- [laughter] you know, how is this going to shape up? >> well, look, i've been saying for quite some time that it was likely that one of bloomberg or hillary clinton or john kerry or a couple of others would get in the race given the fact that no one in the field was break over 30% in the polls consistently. and i think you saw that bloomberg saw an opportunity, and he's moving forward, and i think he's very much moving forward and will have a strong candidacy e if biden doesn't really pull it through in the early states. i think it puts a lot of pressure, you know, on the biden campaign. look, i think hillary, i've said, could get in, has a tremendously positive rating with democrats. if not a nationally strong rating. but i think the window is now really closing. these are really the last couple of days that someone can get in

and i think really play in enough states to make a difference or get in in a meaningful way. gerry: you really do think that hillary clinton, i mean, you know, two time -- twice she's run, twice she's failed? are you hearing a lot of clamor for her to get in? i know she said this week that many, many, many people are calling on her to run. is that true. >> >> well, you know, i ran a poll recently in which we put hillary, bloomberg and kerry in the mix, and she was tied with biden. so i think there's no doubt that she's looking at a strong possibility of coming back. and remember nixon had the nomination twice and was given a second chance. look, i'm not, i'm not selling it or unselling it. i'm giving an observation that there's a realistic opportunity for her. i think had he prison above the fray after losing -- risen above the fray after losing 2016, i think she would have been in a much better position.

that's not exactly what she did. but if we don't hear from her in the next couple days, i think you can consider that book closed. gerry: do you think we will? >> i think at this -- i give it about a 40% chance. so, you know, no one has a very high probability of getting in or being president, but, you know, at this point i would have thought she would have made the decision about now. gerry: all these names from the past -- bloomberg, hillary, john kerry, others -- what does it say about the current state of the democratic race that all these other people might be considering or actually are getting into it? >> well, it say within the democrat party there's been a bit of a leadership gap, particularly a lot of the office holders have held onto their offices, and is so they didn't really give an opportunity for the next generation to advance. i think in many ways when you look at the overall age of either, a lot of the candidates and the potential candidates. and so this leadership gap, i

think, is emerging here where the strongest new leadership is coming out more on the left, and 40 president of democrat -- 40% of democratic voters are moderate. they saw biden as a potential leader, and as you said, his campaign -- look, i wouldn't count him out by any means. political figures have a way of coming back from being down and out. if you can come back in hawaii hawaii -- in iowa and new hampshire, i think bloomberg would probably not bother. but he's got to do that if he's going to take the democratic nomination. by the way, i think it's likely going to the convention. i don't see anybody right new in this field -- now in this field getting a majority of democrats the way -- gerry: right. they've changed the way that it's, essentially, proportional delegate allocation from each state, just about. >> if you get 15% or more, you get your proportional share of the delegates.

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front-runner. the early days, of course, we don't know. and if she gets the mom nation, she -- nomination, she simply can't beat president trump. too liberal, her health care plans just completely unimaginable. do you think that's right? >> i think that it's a very, very difficult course for elizabeth warren to beat president trump and her $50 trillion plus health care plan that would eliminate all private insurance, i think, was a huge setback to the momentum that she was having. i think people were listening to the overall great slogans, medicare for all, let's have reduce inequality, claiming she was a capitalist compared to bernie sanders being a true socialist, and then out comes this program that i think became a huge liability and then created both fear and opportunity; fear that if she got the nomination, that she would lose to president trump, and opportunity in the sense that then there was a new

opening that bloomberg and perhaps other will get into. gerry: she did, her numbers do seem to have stalled in the last month or so. she seemed to be on very much a continuous upward trajectory, but she seem to have stall out. >> well, a $50 trillion plan will do that for you. [laughter] gerry: what about bernie sanders in this contest for the ultra-liberal vote, is it possible that he could still somehow steal the nomination as he tried to do in 2016? >> well, i think he's got a constituency, particularly among younger voters, he does fairly well with latinos. he was the first really for free college, and i think the real, i think, issue here will those two fight each other to the end or the at the convention or otherwise one of them drop out or get together. if they get together, i suspect they will achieve close to a majority voting bloc, and it will be up to the, up to the superdelegates to really decide

it. but separately, it's pretty difficult for either one of them to get the full nomination. gerry: as we stand now from your polling and your judgment, which candidate, democratic candidate has the best shot of beating president trump? of existing candidates or dream candidate that you could imagine. >> oh, i definitely think biden has the best chance of beating president trump because what did president trump do? president trump took the working class voters out of the democratic column and put them in his column. at the same time, suburban voters that had been staying republican have now in the midterms trended quite significantly democratic. so you're seeing a realignment of the whole country. to win, trump needs to hold onto his working class voters and win the suburbs, and that's the problem he has. biden significantly cuts into his working class constituency. with him as the nominee, unless he in general doesn't fare as

well as he has in the past, he could make significant inroads in the midwest. gerry: what are biden's biggest negatives? >> well, look, people are questioning in some way whether those gaffes are representative of his ability, and i think some of the things that happened with his son and whether he was or was not attentive to it are real issues. and so those two are emerging. i don't think it's affecting his democratic support because the people who are supporting him just really, really like him, you know? they see him as uncle joe, they see him as honest, they see him as having helped president obama. the problem is he has not been able to grow beyond thatting constituency. gerry: finally, because we've got to wrap up, mark, democrats do have a habit of sort of spreading themselves out, trying all kinds of contenders. somebody reminded me at this stage in what was then the 2004 democratic race which was eventually, obviously, run by john kerry, wesley clark was leading at that point. and we also had, of course,

howard dean. so there is a tendency for democrats to sort of try out something new, isn't there? before they come home, as it were. >> in the very first poll i ever did in 975, we left -- 1975, we left out one of the presidential candidates. who is it? jimmy carter. no, forget about it. [laughter] so, yes, there's a tendency for there to be real surprise. on the other hand, the problem here no one has a clear majority say, you know with, gore had or hillary clinton had. and at the same time, a number of candidates have significant constituencies that they're going to be holding onto, and that's why i think you're going to wind up at a convention. gerry: thanks, mark. my thanks to mark penn. and just ahead, why the impeachment investigation in the house could impact a lot more than donald trump's presidency. ♪ ♪ i saved hundreds on my car insurance

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gerry: this week -- the television networks, but the substance didn't really match the form. for all the talk of a grave constitutional process, i think we all know how this drama ends. it's like watching professional wrestling; a lot of rhetorical

rolling around the canvas, but let's face it, if donald trump is not impeached in the house and then acquitted in the senate, something will have gone ea wry with the promoters' plans. the spectacle less about fulfilling constitutional obligation and more about appealing to voters as they go to the polls next year. the democrats hope the attention will sow doubts and spur their own supporters to come out to the polls. republicans think exactly the same, only the other way around. the problem here is the supposedly rare and unique constitutional thought of impeachment. and with an election less than a year away, surely a better chance to try a president's judgment. please be sure to follow me on twitter, facebook and instagram. i'll be back next week light here on -- right here on "the

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investors should be thinking about right now. we're heading into a big week for retail earnings with implications for the housing market, upcoming holiday sales and more. kkr making a play for walgreens in what could be the largest leveraged buyout on record. are similar deals on the horizon? and aramco set to go public next month, what impact will it have on the oil market and stocks? my colleagues, ben leveson, laura ruin lin and jack howe. jack, let's briefly mention at the very end of the day on friday the market nosed above 28,000, the dow above 28,000 for the first time, so traders will head in with a mile as they rerue retail earnings, home depot versus lowe's, the battle that one team always seems to win. >> yeah, it's not much of a battle. home depot's always better. lowe's stock is usually cheap because home deusually does better -- depot usually does

better. this is the era of no excuses in retail. if you own shares of a store chain and they're not doing well, it's not the consumer, people don't like them, people don't need them. consumer spending's probably going to grow 3% this holiday season, maybe 4%. walmart just put up the best numbers it's had in years, target doing very well taking share from some of the chains that are struggling. there's an ugly bunch that's going to be reporting this coming week -- macy's, l brands, i would throw gap in there. if they're not killing it right now, the environment is not going to get better. jack: is there a road back? >> i'm worried that sometimes you hear a myth that retail is struggling right now because the consumer's not strong enough. the consumer is fine, spending is fine. retail is struggling because we have too many stores, and some of these are chains that we don't quite need anymore. i don't want any part of a turn-around story in retail right now. there's some parts of the market

where, you know, turn-arounds look interesting. retail's not one of them. jack: ben, let's go to you on saudi aramco. huge ipo with some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes as to who actually wants to own that. tell us what's happening. >> so saudi arabia has this large oil company which is responsible for handling all the oil that they have -- >> which is a lot of oil. >> a ton of oil. they've been wanting to ipo this for four years now. the country was trying to get a $2 trillion valuation. there have been problems along the way -- falling oil prices, the murder of the journalist, khashoggi, things like that. looks like it's going to happen now. jack: why are they choosing this moment to do it in in they know we're going to hit peak oil atom point, and they also know they can't rely on having an economy that's just reliant on oil. so they need the money to build out other industries. so they're going to sell some of this off to investors both in

saudi arabia and institutional investors around the world. you're not going to get a valuation on in the same as you would on an exxon or a chevron. this is a totalitarian country, and they get lower valuations than other companies. jack: and it's not even going to be available to individual investors, right? an institutional play? >> an institutional play. there are going to be retail investors who can get it in saudi arabia it, i but the for me and you, it'll end up in some of of the mutual funds that we own. jack: and some will probably refuse to own it because of the issues jack a raised. lauren, you are talking about walgreens which is getting the hairy eyeball from one of the original barbarians at the gate. >> the barbarian's back at the gate, jack. kkr is looking at doing a $70 billion leveraged buyout of walgreens. this would be the biggest leveraged buyout ever, but it's really not about drugstores, it's about debt and the fact that debt is very cheap today because we have such low interest rates. so there's a desire to lend at

low rates, and there's a desire to buy. jack: you don't have to have great returns on a company as long as you can get up off that low bar. >> that's exactly right. we've seen the appetite, basically $30 billion in bonds to finish its deal for allergen. >> they make botox. [laughter] >> i look at walgreens, i'm thinking are they eyeing cvs. they're moving to health care. we now think of cvs as a health care company. maybe there's some sort of way to expand or extend this business to address health care and, you know, grab some of that margin instead of trying to show more in the candy kyle. jack: can you explain that dynamic, maybe they could cobble together that sam sort of -- >> there's so much cost bloat at hospitals and other places that if you can offer health care services at a drug chain like this where you face a lot of

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putting it into a high-yield savings account, things like this, i can help that customer much more than if i were to save them a marginal, say, 1% on taxes every year. jack: so i think the interest rate is interesting because you pay 1.6, 1 is.5 on checking, and both banks lend out at high rates what's your path to probability? 25 basis points is what you charge investors, how can you make money eventually at that level? >> so we're not public yet. our aspiration is to ipo in a few years, and yet we have a great business model. we're able to serve these half a million customers with just 300 employees. we're very efficient in how we deliver our solution, and it's scalable, right? adding banking services, for us, creates another way to everybody our customers, to do more for

them, and that just improves the business model further. jack: so doubling isn't going to mean 600 employees. >> that's right. jack: thanks very much, jon. coming up, our ideas on what you can do right now to improve your portfolio. but first, holly newman kroft gets a seat at the round table. that's next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> investors put a lot of effort into saving enough money for retirement, but then comes a different challenge, how to manage that nest egg after you retire to you don't run out of money. in this week's cover story, barron's focuses on what you can do to create ab income stream during -- an income stream during retirement. joining the round table, hol hi are newman kroft. -- holly

newman kroft. lauren, i want to start with you, what are we looking at in this week's baer ron's. >> we have a whole cover package on how to spend what you've managed to save. and we lead off looking at the role of dividends in a retirement portfolio, and we look at ways that companies which have helped employees set up 401(k)s and other ways of saving are now starting to help them withdraw money at the appropriate times whether it's through system mat ific withdrawals or adding anaughty product -- annuity product. jack: holly, you work with clients who face this or will soon. what's the big picture? what is the problem that they're trying to solve? >> i think the problem is how to manage yourself through retirement, have enough money so that you don't have to compromise your lifestyle in an environment where you have to build a portfolio that has some risk. you know, many years ago, 20 years ago you could have a portfolio that returned 7%, 100% in fixed income. you certainly can't do that today.

jack: because bonds were yielding 6, 7%. >> correct, yeah. jack: so, lauren, one way we're attacking now is income stocks at least can send off, what, 2 or 3 or 4% if you want to push it. >> exactly. and part of the idea in our dividend story is do you live off the dividends, or do you live off a combination of the dividends and the principal. how do you address that? >> yeah, i think you have live off a combination. we look at a total portfolio return, because sometimes you have to stretch for yield in order to support your lifestyle, and we think that in doing so you would be taking unintended risks. so if you look at a combination of appreciation and yields, you can manage that in a tax efficient way and maintain your life. >> and do you do it through a combination of funds and individual stocks, or do you stick just with funds? >> well, it depends on the client. it certainly depends on the size of the portfolio, but i think it's a combination of funds and separately managed accounts, but we would call smas, i think it's through a combination of

active management and passive management, i think it's through diversification. >> even people who are on the cusp of retirement, you know they should have a certain percentage in stocks and they're telling you the market's at all-time highs, i'm worried about the crash. what do you do, do you yell at them, scold them this. >> that doesn't usually go over so well. [laughter] i don't think that there is a certain percentage that any one person should have in stocks. we don't believe in model portfolios, so you have to look at every sing client, how much -- single client, how much money they have, how much risk they can stand. we certainly want our clients to be able to sleep at night too. but what we explain is we don't you to have to compromise your lifestyle, so the earlier you start saving, the earlier in your investment lifestyle you take risks, the more you can tilt it safe when you're on the -- >> i should be saving. i knew i was doing something wrong. jack: there's something called

the 4% rule, you can take 4 percent out of your portfolio and supposedly you hope it'll last the rest of your life. do you subscribe to that? >> i think it's a really good starting point. you can spend 4% of your portfolio without dipping dip p, that's the concept. so you would probably target your portfolio to return about 6% so that you can compensate for the spend as well as inflation. and although inflation's been so low for so many years, the expected return -- can or expected inflation is 2%. jack: obviously, it is so hard to get income right now. are there any areas that look juicy to you that maybe the market has missed? good areas for income? and on the other side, any really scary areas you're staying away from? >> nothing so scary. we like preferreds. they have a nice yield -- >> sort of a hybrid kind of stock with a bigger dividend. >> correct. it's about 5-6%, and if it's fixed to float, it doesn't have a big risk of inflation, so we

do like that. we like high yields, but we think you have to be careful. we like active management because i think in the index there's a huge allocation to one sector, is so there's some unintended risks that you may not be aware of. we like emerging market debt, although it's quite volatile and risky, it has a nice yield. but, again, we believe in active management there because within the index you may not know that it's over 50% allocated to china and -- >> sure. >> that's a big risk too. jack: go ahead. >> finding those capital gain stocks to sell when the market is up like this, it's easy. what to you do like at the end of 2018? do you feel you have to change anything at those timeses? >> if you look at the context of the last ten years, we've had almost nothing but gains. so at the end of '08 -- sorry, '18, you could offset with losses, and it was really an opportunistic entry point.

if you had some dry powder or you were holding some cash, if you had taken some gains over the summer, you could go back into the market. jack: people don't understand sometimes losses are a good thing, you can harvest them the, save on taxes finish. >> yeah, they don't understand sometimes taxes is are a good thing. they're sort of a high class problem sometimes. jack: thank you so much. that's a perspective we don't see too often. up next, the round table give their investment ideas for the coming week. stay right there. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> jack, we heard from a entrepreneur doing a start-up trying to disrupt the banking industry, you're writing about the biggest of the big tech companies trying to get into banking. >> yeah, the google check account.

all they need to do the work is a bank to do the actual banking. this is a story -- apple has a credit card, they just need a bank, goldman sachs, you know, to do the banking part, the plumbing part of it. google's relying on citibank. this is an anti-disruption story. jack: exactly. >> the profits have been remarkably steady over the past 130 years, there was a study last year that showed that. we keep hearing about fin-tech disruption, none of these companies want to carry a big book of credit. look how much flak apple caught recently over that card and charges of gender bias. never mind that goldman sachs handing the actual -- handling the actual portion of that. lending and love about do not go hand in hand, big tech wants no part of this. jpmorgan and citigroup, i see those as good buys right here. jack: everyone loves their iphone, right? people, i use google all day long. i don't know that many people who say i love my bank.

[laughter] so why would a google or an apple want to even get into that business? >> i don't think they do. and you hear about all sorts of upstart companies, they've got a great checking account, low fees. look, offering the customers easy checking, that's the easy part of the business. now turn that into a profitable loan book, that's the hard part. jack: in barron's tradition, we want you to go into the week ahead ready to make your next move, so give us one actionable idea. lauren, we've been talking a lot about income. you're on the income cook. >> the vanguard dividend growth fund reopened in august, it's got a stellar record, about 11% total return over five years, yields about 5.5%. and buys defensible dividend growers. jack: and for you, ben, it's chicken. >> pilgrim's pride. the stock has doubled this year, but it can go even further. >> the alternative to alternative meat, i might say. [laughter] jack: thank you, guys. to read more, check out this

week's edition at barron's.com, and don't forget to follow i on twitter. that's all for us, see you next week on "the barron's round table." ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, the radical dimms' impeachment extravaganza rolls on. but unfortunately for schiff and the dimms they are more promotion than production. three star witnesses up, three abysmal performances. if this is schiff's trial run, he's done. the factors of the schiff impeachment turkey keep propping this mess up but they should bring the curtain down on it all. today they trotted out the former ambassador to