joining us art dan henninger, joe rago, an editorial writer, kate bachelder odell. a warning is this? >> it's a big warning. i think ron himself just put his finger on it. wa president trump and the democrats were energized. we are in a new political era. energy and keeping the parties energy up is an important thing. the amount of money pouring into democratic campaigns, soliciting candidates right now is extraordinary. the republicans needed to have ted cruz going to give speeches, they put in a lot of money at the end. donald trump is making robo calls. the burden is really on the trump presidency to get victories, and keep the party energized or they will have trouble down the line. >> here is the argument you make, brownback sam brownback governors are a popular there. he is a republican, estes was the treasure, it's an open seat, open seats are always closer than incumbent seats. so don't over read this. that is the republican don't worry crowd. >> it's a special election, you cannot predict turnout, who knows what will happen. i think this is still a warning.

paul: joining the panel, dan henninger and brad stevens and mary kissel. bret i gather you support this military action, why? >> it's retaliation for a barbaric attack. and one we should have conducted when the sarin gas attack started almost for years ago. and it's important for the trums administration to distinguish itself, to put putin, the north koreans, the iranians and chinese on notice this isn't a president who is going to ringpr his hand indefinite -- going to ring his hands before taking action. paul: as far as you are concerned, this is important because it signals a departure from that change policy. saying on its own. saying i'm not barack obama. bret: this was morally and strategically right. paul: this is being received well by and large around the world. many people are saying this is proportionate.e. it didn't go overboard it responded to that one airfield where the pentagon thinks the chemical attack came from. but what about the fact there are five other airfields that assad used that we didn't attack. mary: it was proportionate because

. >> jon: joining me for more on this is dan henninger, executive editor for the editorial page in "theall street journal." you yourself wrote a piece that caught our eye "the trump presidency begins." everyone has been counting down the days until we get to 100, you say it is just beginning. >> so. every new presidency has a learning curve, and the thing about this presidency is trump came into it and able larger than life figure, all donald trump all the time, no way to get away from the trump phenomenon. it was driven by social media, he drove it himself with his tweets, the controversies over the travel ban. i think we are getting to the point where we are getting into equilibrium between trump he will always be a large figure in the realities of the road both domestic and in politics and things with syria and north korea. donald trump is discovering, as he says it sometimes, these issues are complex. they are. i think he is beginning to consult with the people who can inform him about things like tax policy and policy in the middle east. >> jon: as you well know, he's accused of fl

melissa: dan henninger, "wall street journal," gary kaltbaum, kaltbaum management. what you do you think, dan? >> sound good to me, melissa. he is getting conversation going. i think there will be a big event th wincentive people. i'm t ing about the ssibility of a government shutdown and release of gdp figures fofirst quarter which people think will be relatively weak. going into the president's first term it i think everyone is going to say we've got to do something to get this economy going again. look, we're at the end of a recovery looking a little long in the tooth after eight years. this is just the moment i think to start presenting a proposal like this. melissa: gary, what do you think? >> i think we need the biggest, gigantic, juiciest tax cut we've ever seen in history. melissa: i love of the sound that. >> last year, the economy, our economy sent the government, just federally $3.3 trillion. they still couldn't balance the budget with that either. it is an absolute sin what has been going on. the only way to get the economy growing is to let the economy k

we are back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn and mary o'grady also joins us. upper hand in this fights between the cities and the federal government? >> i think the cities have the upper hand only in the sense that federal appeals courts have ruled that if there's no warrant for the city to hold the individual and only what they call a detainer, then there's no obligation for them to -- to keep the prisoner or hand them over to ice. paul: even if they're illegally documented -- undocumented, i mean, illegal? >> yeah, they just say you have to have a warrant and if you only have to have a detainer, that's not enough. paul: this is an order to detain somebody who is undocumented? >> right, basically the problem is that most of the cities are saying, look f he's wanted for homicide or, you know -- paul: serious violent crimes. >> in the case of new york 170 serious crimes. for example, if he's a gang member, the cities say we have no obligation to hold them and they have released people like that. paul: states are sovereigns, cities have sovereignty and federal g

quarter of the year, joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, kim strassel and james freeman. well, joe, let's talk about the tax plan because even though the press says there's not much to it, there's a lot to it, the details layed on wednesday, business taxes for small and large companies cut down 15%, they are going to level the playing field between the big and the small by getting rid of a lot of the special deductions, one time tax to bring back 2 to $3 trillion in capital from overseas, very simplified individual tax rates from 7 brackets down to 3, lowering of the top marginal rate, getting rid of debt tax and alternative minimum tax, it goes on and on. there's a lot of specific in here. >> yeah, this is really an exercising growth economics in that the reforms you're talking about are immediate permanent and enough to -- deep enough to improve incentives. this is a plan to get us out of 1 to 2% growth rut and this is why wages aren't rising and businesses aren't investing and standards of living aren't going up. >> dan, the fact is tha

: well, and the freedom caucus has been lambasted by "the wall street journal" editorial page, dan henningerte about it today, and karl rove had a op-ed, said bad excuses for republican fratricide, was the headline. >> and the other thing is, look, in terms of donald trump trying to bring the freedom caucus in -- like i say, in the short term this might be be doubling down on beating them up -- but what's the alternative? this idea of working with democrats,? look at nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, they want to stop health care reform at all costs. they want to leave obamacare in place, they don't want to give him a victory on tax cuts. so if the alternative to the freedom caucus is nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, i've got news for you, it ain't gonna work, so he is going to have to come back to the freedom caucus. maybe split 'em in half, split 'em in pieces, he's got to work with them. dagen: real quick, do you think they get health care done and infrastructure spending done this year? >> highly unlikely. at least a trillion dollars for infrastructure, where's that going to come from? some

dan henninger of "the wall street journal." mashable chief correspondent lance ulanoff. gary, first of all about these h1b visas. as we heard from jeff, 80% of them go to workers who are paid less than the median wage. the big question here are they hired because they're cheap or are they hired because the companies can't find talent elsewhere? >> combination of both, but leave no doubt, companies are trying to cut costs. i have seen companies that actually keep their workers on to train people that are coming in with visas and fire those workers. so it is pretty much been insane policy. it is good that it is looked at. it is good something will get done. david: yes. >> we need a much more level playing field. davi gary, i'm pushing you. we have breaking news. i want to squeeze it in here. yahoo! is reporting their first quarter results. ashley webster live in the newsroom. what are the numbers and how is the market reacting, ashley? reporter: david, this is the last earnings report we will hear from of course yahoo! as they get sold to verizon. i will get into that in a

carter, conservative review president, dineen borelli, last but not least, "wall street journal" dan henningerf. begin with you, d with you, dan, do you think the good follow-through the president invoice on this is good follow-on his domestic agenda. >> you i think so. what happened with syria is big plus for trump. he is now getting to get his wings. this is forward momentum. this will cary through into the domestic agenda. after the easter recess they will take up taxes. trump is obviously looking more presidential on the domestic and foreign policy front. not just the domestic game here, neil. overseas, xi xinping sitting next to him while cruise missiles are firing, the middle east understand there has been a reset. the asians understand that there has been a reset. they understand the united states is back and they will lead, obviously so and with much more certainty and confidence than we've had. neil: dineen, i'm the resident nerd here at fox so i follow market reaction. the initial market reaction futures and asian markets were tumbling. i can't assume the timeline but stabled when fo

. >>> among our guests this hour, bret baier, dan henninger, texas attorney general ken paxton, chris harmer and mercedes colwin. a lot of good ones. david: a packedded hour of good stuff. meanwhile the dow ending down just 6%, 6%, six points. it actually came well off its lows during the day and, in the last couple of minutes, ended almost in the flat line. let's go straight to gerri willis at the new york stock exchange. gerri, it was way down, and then kicking its way back today. >> we did have a bit of a turnaround here david, that's right. the words are on the lips of all traders down here, geopolitical risk. if it is not syria, it is russia, it is north korea. one headline traders said they were trading on today, one from donald trump. this is his quote. north korea is looking for trouble. that is what our president said. as a result, investors flocking for safety. we see the vix, that is wall street's fear gauge, hitting a five-month high today. so investors worried. they're nervous. what else have they done? they have gone into gold. gold prices, gold miners going higher, in t