joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist, dan henninger, jason riley and joe ragojoe, says the president is he is going to get to the bottom of this, but the truth is, we know what happens at the v.a., because there have been numerous reports going to this question of waiting lines and cover-ups. what do we know? >> the truth is, we're already at the bottom of this. there has been reports for years going back to 2005 and even earlier, showing that v.a. staff were falsifying some of this information, juking the stats to make care look better than it really was. and it's part and parcel of a much larger bureaucratic culture of deception and low quality. >> why the persistence of the wait lines? >> what you have in the v.a. is a global budget where they say -- >> a cap on spending. >> right. they say here's how much money you're going to have, now go provide care to everybody. and -- >> plus fixed benefits for the recipients. must provide this care free. >> right. so what you have is a world of finite resources and infinite wants. and what they do to control costs is

joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger. and columnist mary o'mcgrady. you've been following this for us. i thought all the e-mails were supposed to have done the least long ago. >> how did it turn up now? >> so did congress and all the media this one came out of judicial watch, a conservative watch dog group who put in a freedom of information act request saying there's more stuff there, we want to see it. they fought it, but they eventually released it last month. >> but it got turned over to the committee in the last several days? >> turned over to the committee and the watch dog group. the narrative put out by the white house, this is all information from the cia, everything we said in the first week after the attacks was based on what the intelligence community -- >> that's what they had been saying. >> it was a protest that got out of hand. but it turned out that ben rhodes was very successful in directing the blame away from the white house and putting the narrative on the video. >> and ben rhodes, he's not like some

dan henninger. the margin counterpart. we will check basketball.id tempo is doing to this market. we are down nearly 200. ♪ stuart: there are some worries about the economy. that is not helping the stock market this morning. then there is david tepper. he has clout within the market. he says he is nervous about stocks. the yield on the 10 year treasury, that is a key rate interest rate. we have tepper, interest rates and inflation. prices at the grocery store up. all of those spikes in one month. that is between march and april. from chicago, here is larry 11. prices are going up like that. why is it that government inflation figures show inflation very tame and very low? >> if you were to ask the people standing behind me, they do not really trust the way the government does accounting. clearly, there is no question. prices are continuing to go up. accounting is maybe one of the things they are having a tough time doing. >> this graduation season. students protested commencement speakers. forcing them out, actually. what dan henninger called the r

dan henninger, it used to be a prominent critic of the obama administration.president doing? what is he doing? >> your tax dollars at work. stuart: i cannot believe that that looks politically good. >> well, what you just described really does not look politically good. world on fire from asia to the middle east. he is trying to change the subject. the subject potentially will damage his legacy. 38%. the lowest in his presidency. meanwhile, the democrats are facing a possible historic defeat at the polls this fall. greg walden thinks they will get 245 seats. if they make it bigger than that, the majority could be the biggest sins of the 1920s. this is a horrible legacy for the president. he is out there raising money to try to reduce that money. he had a big fundraiser in d.c. on monday. he is worried that this will kill him. stuart: we have a democrat yesterday saying, mr. president, you have to go to those virginia hospitals. you have to get your feet on the ground. he is not listening to that. to protect his legacy, that will not work. america is pretty con

we're back with dan henninger and jason riley and wall street journal editorial page editor, james freeman also joips joins us. jason, what's happening here, the tea party challengers aren't fairing as well? >> i guess reports the gop establishment's death have been greatly exaggerated, paul. >> it's not because everybody has suddenly fallen back in love with them. >> partly they're a victim of their own success. >> the tea party -- >> the republican party to the right. and i think these candidates -- the tea party candidates, it's tougher for them to distinguish themselves from this establishment. in the case of thom tillis, you're talking about a house speaker in north carolina took on the teachers' unions, tenure reform, cut taxes, raised the cap on charter schools it's hard to get to this guy's right without being really out there and therefore probably unacceptable to people statewide. >> it also seems, james, sometimes the tea party groups, the senate conservatives' fund that provides money for them, freedom works, picked some bad candidates. matt bevin in kentucky, for example, chal

. >> we're back with dan henninger and jason riley, and kim stra s straussal also joins the panel. >>ink what we're learning, paul is that the voters and the donors on the republican side want to win. the theme here, you have had a lot of outside groups who have been pushing with what's been called the republican civil war, the idea that all of these primaries so a divide between the quote establishment candidates and the tea party candidates. the voters think it's more important to simply choose the best candidates. even though that supposedly come from the establishment, more in a reform direction. and in fact, a lot of people who started out in the tea party today run a lot of the state and local organizations so the divide isn't really there and they're focused on quality and what's coming out in this primaries are better candidates that the primaries have had in a long time. >> the challengers to the incoupi incumbents. >> mitch mcconnell, john cornyn, down in texas, lindsay graham in south carolina. the problem is not that the senate, at least is not conservative enough. it's th

we're back with dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and matt kominski. ident said i want to lay out my vision. is there such a thing as an obama doctrine? >> an obama doctrine. that's an interesting question. i think i finally kwig figured it out. it's taken about five years. there is a -- there are several components to what he is trying to say. one is that, and it's in this speech, that we will only attack an act against direct threats to the u.s. homeland. that we will not necessarily act against indirect threats. and if we are going to take action against an enemy, it is going to almost always be done in concert with others. the united states will not act unilaterally. it will always bring institutions along. and i think the third component, quite frankly, is contained in this phrase. we have been using the money we saved over the last four years, quote, for our investments in a growing economy. he wants to reflow the money saved by not getting engaged overseas into education, health care, and alternative energy. domestic spending. >> mary, does that

joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger. matt kominski and columnist mary anastasia o'grady. matt, i thought all the e-mails were supposed to have been released long ago. how did this turn up now? >> and so did congress. and all the media. this one came out of the request from judicial watch, conservative watchdog group, who put in a freedom of information act request, saying there's more stuff there, we want to see it. that they fought it, but they eventually released it last month, and among these 41 documents -- >> turn it over to committee, though, in the last few days. >> exactly. to the committee and the judicial watch. and among the 41 documents was kind of -- a fairly long e-mail from ben rhodes that basically showed that the narrative of the narrative put up at the white house, this was all information from the cia, everything we said, that leak in the first week after the attacks, was based on what the intelligence community was telling us. >> that's what they had been saying. >> it was a spontaneous protest that g