"wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger and columnist, mary o'grady and bill mcgurnbill, what do you make of the president's response? >> i think it was right. it was the right tone. a president needs to to and visit. he is a national figure. i also think the tone of the people out there, we saw incredible stories of bravery and it's a very american story. people in official positions standing up and not running away from the fire. there was a marine that stole a car to drive people to the hospital. the security guard who got shot and doctors, it is an incredible story. the government has a big role. a lot of people took initiative themselves. amid the heart rake there is a lot of inspiration how people, ordinary people based. >> yeah. i think in the aftermath also the law enforcement in las vegas has been really impressive. sheriff lombardo has been holding these press conferences and speaking very clearly being careful what he knows and what he didn't know. the press is hounding him and they -- he held his composure, like bill, said, very heroic story. >> days when

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn, mary kissel. n the white house, you know presidents have to make calls like that, what did you make -- >> yeah, when i was in the white house, i saw president bush do this quite often, meet with the families and, in fact, i brought in two different moms of marines that had been killed, one jewish mom from vermont and one catholic mom from massachusetts. it's an incredible thing to watch people deal with the commander in chief on whose order, son, husband, brother probably died. john kelly brought two terrible atranscribe identifications -- he was a marine commander who gave orderers knowing that it would result in the death of very good marines. paul: he speaks with tremendous moral. >> read speech the day after his son was killed about two marines who stood ground against truck bomb, it's just an incredible kind of thing. paul: dan, do you think there's going to be any fallout from this in the good sense that we have reached the low here when we are politicizing grief and sacrifice from soldiers w

and a possible -- live within heninger, james freeman and economist, bill mcgurn., this is the big test here in the post trump era.ed gillespie, i know him well. you guys know him well. it seems to be a perfect candidate for republicans virginia but he is trailing. >> he is. the president is not popular in virginia. he is not all that popular much of the country. ed gillespie, i think even that is down the space currently, we have learned from senate race last summer and he is a very good closer. did not team up a little short at the lend but very good campaigner, very savvy guy. then for people who know him, what's exciting is the possibility that you get a guy who is not just a political expert but has real intellectual horsepower would be a policy champion and not a seat warmer in the job. a big upset if he can figure a way to pull it out. >> as jim said, democrats are not supportive of donald trump. and. >> i have known edward 20 years as a colleague in the white house. his as conservative as they come. unfortunately campaign is not quite on his issues. it is s

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and wall street journal editorial board member, mary kissel. bill, you have been in the white house, president have to make calls like that? what did you make of this? >> when i was in the white house, i saw president bush do this often meeting with families good in fact i brought in two different mothers of marines that had been killed. one jewish mother from vermont and one catholic mom from massachusetts. it is an incredible thing to watch people deal with the commander-in-chief on his orders. your son, husband, brother, probably died. brought to terrible attributions into that. for when he is the father remarried so he is gone through it that way. also, he was a marine commander that gave orders. knowing that it would result in the death of very good marines. >> he speaks with tremendous moral -- >> he does. i heard people that googled it, go back and read another spacer john kelly gave the day after was killed about two marines that stood their ground against a truck bomb. it is an incredible thing. >> to think that there will be any fall

bill mcgurn. we'll continue to keep an eye on this hearing. >> catherine herridge is standing by live to break it all down. to people out in the audience while these hearings are going on we're scribbling and taking notes. catherine herridge is the best one at picking out what she has heard that makes a difference, that's news. what have you heard? >> well, two exchanges melissa that really jump out at me. the first came from the ranking democrat on the committee dianne feinstein asking the attorney general jeff sessions to confirm that he was called upon by the president along with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to write a recommendation about james comey and whether he should be fired on may 9th. then senator feinstein said, did the president ever talk about lifting the russian cloud that was hanging over him and the attorney general said that he could not answer. he wanted to respect the confidential nature of his discussions with the president. so this is the issue of executive pri

let's bring in dan hen anyone officer, merry an establish that o'grady and bill mcgurn.ll us about the team. is it dysfunctional? >> i don't know that. president trump is unusual president in his conduct of foreign policy or anything else. that is not news. presidents wax and wane in enthusiasm for the secretary of state and state department. nixon didn't care for it so much until he put henry kissinger over there. john kerry able to execute president obama's foreign policy on iran with susan rice calling shuts. he is running foreign policy out of national security council and department of defense. rex tillerson is something of an outsider. the problem because trump has non-stop battle going on with the press, any distance perceived between tillerson and trump will be elevated and used as a wedge between him and donald trump's foreign policy. >> okay, but you have put this in the context of trump and his cabinet. he publicly attacked jeff sessions, mary. publicly fired tom price after humiliating him in public. he is two or three times at least, at least two, contradict

david: and we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn.ence of a true democracy, that you have dust-ups like this every general ration or -- generation or so. what do you think? >> i would say if paris is well worth the math, tax reform is well worth president trump not p responding to every insult, you know, in a tweet or something at least until after the vote. look, the good news, i think, in all this for someone like me that cares about the output is i don't think either corker or flake are john mccains. in other words, i don't think that their personal pique with the president is going to translate into a no no vote on tax reform. i think corker said so explicitly, and i can't imagine jeff flake voting against tax reform either. david: all right. well, kim, the gop establishment has never liked outsiders. donald trump is many things, he is clearly an outsider. he prides himself on that. but they attacked ronald reagan, they viewed him as an outsider even though he was a politician, even a abroad, i mean, maggie thatcher was attacked b

david: and we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn., that you have dust-ups like this every general ration or -- generation or so. what do you think? >> i would say if paris is well worth the math, tax reform is well worth president trump not p responding to every insult, you know, in a tweet or something at least until after the vote. look, the good news, i think, in all this for someone like me that cares about the output is i don't think either corker or flake are john mccains. in other words, i don't think that their personal pique with the president is going to translate into a no no vote on tax reform. i think corker said so explicitly, and i can't imagine jeff flake voting against tax reform either. david: all right. well, kim, the gop establishment has never liked outsiders. donald trump is many things, he is clearly an outsider. he prides himself on that. but they attacked ronald reagan, they viewed him as an outsider even though he was a politician, even a abroad, i mean, maggie thatcher was attacked by the establishment of t

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