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we are back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn.the presidents iran strategy and how do you define that? >> i don't think we can define it. he waivers from getting accolades from ron paul for not doing anything to please you more hawkish people like me. he pulled back and he pulled back on the attack in response. when please criticize 40 started talking about the obliteration of iran. i think we don't know. i think it's important because we don't know what he's going to do to step back and say what is the goal? that goal listed denied the iranians a nuclear weapon. they get a weapon it's a big failure and if they don't it will be a success. paul: but he does seem dan to want to get the iranians back into the negotiations to redo the agreement, the 2015 obama agreement for right now the iranians don't have any interest in it. they don't seem to want to come back at all so do we ratchet up the pressure and wait him out? >> that's right. as the president just said i have all the time in the world as well. suggesting he may try to wait

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joining me now is bill mcgurn. hey there, bill. >> hey, blake. blake: you think that's about right?he primary polls right now, so it's not that unexpected a pick. blake: right. i remember, you know, it's june 14, 2019. i remember where i was june 16, 2015. and that was almost four years ago in the lobby of trump tower. and if i'd given you or anyone had given you a top three republican, it probably would have been bush, paul and pick someone else. >> absolutely. it could come from, you know, someone not besides one of those three, reasonably, right? >> look, biden has a big chunk, you know, plurality of the voters, and all the rest is split among the other candidates. and so if the other ones coalesce around someone else, it could be anyone else. and i think the first debate will tell us who has the ability to inspire. none of the other ones are distinguishing themselves. you know, joe biden at least is distinguishing himself saying i'm a moderate, i know how to work, how to get things done. everyone else seems to be trying to move as far left as they can. blake: glad we got the deb

liz: let's bring in bill mcgurn. on d-day. >> you see the crosses behind you, it's probably not the best setting. but this is donald trump. if you take a swipe at him, he's going to swipe back. and i will say, i wish he hadn't said it at d-day like that but she did say something pretty nasty about him. liz: so what is your take on her saying she should go to prison. >> it's insane. so you're saying that you're okay with someone who is guilty of criminal behavior remaining president. immean, impeachment is the mechanism the founders gave us to remove these people. look, she's doing two things at the same time. she's trying to tell people, hold your horses on impeachment because it won't necessarily help us. on the other hand she's throwing gasoline on the fire when she makes comments like this. liz: does it make any sense in snr i don't thin?>> i don't thie sense. liz: do you think she's masterful. >> i think she's stoking fires that she claims to be putting out. she said we're in a constitutional crisis. said that bo

joining me bill mcgurn. you write it's not easy to turn 1 million prosperous people into political dissidents, but that is what china might have pulled off in hong kong. the question is, are people in hong kong basically setting themselves up for a loss? >> yeah, look, they're desperate. hong kong is among the most law abiding places. i lived there for ten years. i never saw police with shields band tons and tear gas and pepper spray. it's inconceivable to see the police battling like that with people. people are desperate. some of the people say to their children, go build your lives in america. the people out there today are saying we don't have a choice. >> julie: do they have a choice? >> no. because it's all done by china. look, british ruled for 150 years without these problems. but they did it not by being a democracy, but by being sensitive to hong kong's concerns. what we're seeing there is the face of president xi. the person who doesn't blink at putting prisoners in prison in their own territories

here is bill mcgurn from "the wall street journal."s is a fun side story not a lot of people going out on the trip. at the press conference, he was watching that live. he made a good point saying he is going to dubeg, hope i'm saying it right. he can't wait to go. the golf course is great. put in a nice commercial about it. interviewing people. we love him, he provided a lot of jobs in the town. what are your thoughts on that? >> people who provide jobs are generally popular in towns like this. my understanding that the visit to ireland is not an official visit, mostly to see his his golf course there. and he will probably enjoy it. melissa: no doubt. it was interesting too, to see them talking about their trade relationship, especially at a time when, you know, he is having all these different spats with different countries over different terms. if you look at ireland, the united states accounts for 70% of the foreign investment in ireland. direct investment, 700 american companies employ 155,000 people. this has sort of been the mode

in new york, bill mcgurn main street columnist for "the wall street journal" and susan page washingtonu chief of u.s. essay today. an awful -- the secretary of state comes out and says iran is responsible. >> bill: right, look the president has made clear he's willing to negotiate but part of the negotiations are being honest. in the past, we have covered up with iran has done. i think the secretary is right. they are feeling the squeeze and they should be called out. and i think there needs to be a response to this. >> bret: susan. >> susan: you know, we've had the president and the recent past talk about his desire to get back to the negotiating table with iran, but certainly we seem to be getting further away from that point and not closer to it. as we heard from the supreme leader, quite an embarrassment for the japanese prime minister who was there apparently caring a letter from president trump which got rebuffed by the supreme leader. of course, the great concern is that this could lead to a direct military confrontation by either calculation or by miscalculation in this region,

let's bring in the "wall street journal" board member, bill mcgurn. >> i thought from democrats the greateste was vladimir putin and russia. it turns out to be the u.s. economy. not a single positive word for the private economy. it treats every company as thousand asthough it's predatord squeezing its workers. people are feeling it. liz: kamala harris flip-flopping. watch her say this. >> once and for all, do you believe private insurance should be eliminated in this country. >> i don't. the question was would you give up your private understand for that option and i said yes. >> you heard it differently than others. >> probably because that's what i heard. liz: that's hair splitting. >> this is the democratic problem. they are all with people of similar views, at odds with mainstream america, then they say nutty things and then the next day say i have to walk it back. liz: bernie sanders never answered questions, he just argued. he refused to answer how a single payer plan has worked even in his home state of vermont. >> it has not succeeded in other states. >> we'll do it the way real cha

bill mcgurn, you're terrific. thanks for coming on. thank you for watching. "lou dobbs" is next right here on the fox business network. have a good evening. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. talks between the united states and mexico continue tonight with only days before the administration will swipe a 5% tariff on exports to the united states. >>> a warship only 100 feet from colliding with our philippine cruisers in the sea. >>> president trump and the first lady are home. they've returned from their extraordinary six-day trip to europe and a state visit with queen elizabeth ii and outgoing prime minister teresa may np in normandy, the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of d-day and a brief visit to ireland. more on the president's most successful overseas trip, edward lawrence with the story from the white house. ed? >> well, lou, president donald trump and house speaker nancy pelosi have been trading jabs back and forth. as first reported by politico, house speaker nancy pelosi told her colleagues that she didn't want to see president trump impeached,

we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn.esidential speechwriter, what did you think of the address? >> if it was excellent. i think one of his strengths is the speech, he gave a great went to poland before. i wish you would do more of them. he tends to prefer the rallies, but when you're in this kind of setting you're also speaking to all of the american people. so it sort of lends itself. i was living in europe when ronald reagan came, it it was hard to believe 35 years ago but think of the changes, the soviet union is gone, the different challenges we have. i was are also visiting right after clinton came. so it is interesting to watch but i thought he did a great job on that. and points the differences today. paul: dan, what you think is the performance across the week? because i mean, the president loves the ceremony. he loves that stuff. he does it well. but do you think this is a change in his tone about europe? >> well, it was a change, i don't know, it's a complicated question about a change in tone about europe. he

we have bill mcgurn. let me ask you about that.ooed for saying -- doesn't sound that crazy, medicare for all. might not be the answer. socialism is the future. what do you think? >> i wasn't surprised because of the people that were delivering that message. so john heckenlooper was there. and the positive democratic field -- >> neil: so they want to stand out. >> they want to run centrist campaigns. they're being true to the policies. if you look at -- joe biden wasn't there because he was at the human rights campaign dinner. he's not advocating for medicare for all. >> neil: bernie sanders made note of his absence. >> bernie is struggling. i get his game there. it's a lot more about the person -- >> neil: if someone has the crazy view that maybe socialism or talking about it might not be our party's future, that's kind of weird. >> yeah, look, someone in either party that said this just ten years ago wouldn't have been recorded as controversial. many democrats used to resent when republicans put the socialist label on them. a lot

paul: let's bring in "wall street journal" columnists bill mcgurn and hohmann jenkins.alk about mueller. what do you think he was trying to accomplish? >> well, i think he wanted to put his report, say what he did and kind of defend himself. finish i think, unfortunately, the worst part of that statement was when he said if we could have exonerated him, we would. for a prosecutor stand thing before a department of justice logo tose talk as though a prosecutor's job is to exonerate, which totally upends the presumption of innocence which ought to apply even to donald trump by people who don't like him, i think that was just outrageous. and it's the same thing that james comey did with hillary clinton, you know? we won't prosecute, there's not enough to prosecute, but he did all these awful -- she did all these awful things. i think in the future they're going to have n to narrow what e special counsel -- i don't like the special counsel, i'd rather they get rid of it, but narrow what the special counsel does, what kind of report he or she issues and try to avoid some of