we're back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn, "wall street journal" editorial page writer. this is the protectionist trump who campaigned. this is the protectionist trump we thought might appear. what's the economic and political damage? >> well, i will tell you, paul, i think this is really probably one of the most significant political events of the trump presidency, and it may not end up well. donald trump is famous for making outrageous statements. did it on the campaign trail. he's done it in washington whether he's legislating healthcare, immigration, and with that, you've got senators, members of the house, they all go whatever, it's donald trump. he will change his mind. it is conceivable that before the announcement is due next week, he will change his mind. kind of like a prison warden saying i will withdraw rations and then saying a day later no no it's okay guys and it creates this chaos. this issue involves the entire international trading block of nations. paul: right. >> i think the damage it's done here no matter what he does next week is that his credibilit

let's bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and wall street journal columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow jason riley. jason, 97-year-old, retired justice, why does it matter? >> it matters, paul, because the gun control left has regularly said, listen, we are not coming after your guns, we don't want to confiscate firearms, we want reasonable protections put in place, reasonable regulations, justice stephens has let the cat out of the bag, we want to repeal the second amendment and that's why what he said matters, the problem that the gun control left comes up against after we have one of the tragedies and they want to turn it into another debate on one goal that even well gun ownership is grown in the country, violent crime including violent crime involving guns has been falling, dramatically, for decades and that is the reality out there. paul: kim, the former justice was on the losing side in heller but it was only a 5-4 decision, his view of the second amendment is that it only applies to militias way back in 18t

we're back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn, "wall street journal" editorial page writer. this is the protectionist trump who campaigned. this is the protectionist trump we thought might appear. what's the economic and political damage? >> well, i will tell you, paul, i think this is really probably one of the most significant political events of the trump presidency, and it may not end up well. donald trump is famous for making outrageous statements. did it on the campaign trail. he's done it in washington whether he's legislating healthcare, immigration, and with that, you've got senators, members of the house, they all go whatever, it's donald trump. he will change his mind. it is conceivable that before the announcement is due next week, he will change his mind. kind of like a prison warden saying i will withdraw rations and then saying a day later no no it's okay guys and it creates this chaos. this issue involves the entire international trading block of nations. paul: right. >> i think the damage it's done here no matter what he does next week is that his credibilit

with me now, dan henninger "wall street journal" editorial page editor and fox news contributor.hat do you think about those ads? do you think that will work? >> it won't hurt. that will be on the right track. tax cuts on the state of the economy are do-or-die for these republicans running in november. melissa: we talking in the break about a poll that was just conducted. it says what best describes your feelings about the economy. nervous, that is 47%. much but it was 61% in 2016. you can see it on the screen. it was 30 in 2016. >> it's a fascinating result nearly half the people are nervous about the economy. the economy seems to be doing well. consumer confidence is at an 18-year high. i don't think it is too surprising people have a sense of nervousness down there. melissa: it is down so much, nervousness, it was 70 before. it was 61 now down to 47. people feel nervous about money all the time. >> look what money is doing. it was the market down 700 points last week. today up nearly 700 points. i mean it is like tariff war on, tariff war off. melissa: right. >> i think people

let's bring in a member editorial page, deputy editor dan henninger.a fox news contributor. aren't we lucky? who is mr. little and why isn't he a good candidate according to you guys? >> he is a former auto industry executive, has some roots in new zealand, and gave an interview in new zealand newspapers not too far back, that the area of unrestrained free markets is over. we have to wonder what kind of economy mr. little has been living in because what donald trump has done here in in the past year, with help of former head of national economic counsel is liberate free markets in the united states threw the deregulatory policies that they have enacted. david: absolutely. >> mr. little sound like he would be much more in favor of perhaps reimposing some of those regulations. i think that puts him at counter instinct where trump wants to go now. david: seals like you're saying he is small-minded. we have one candidate, we have full disclosure, have to admit we've known the guy for decades, larry kudlow. that evil cnbc, business network, the less said th

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. >> wall street journal columnist dan henninger, mary kissel and columnist bill mcgurn. what do you make of the pompeo for tillerson change. >> it is the beginning of donald trump saying he is beginning to assemble the cabinet he would feel comfortable with. we went to mr. trump to feel comfortable with the people around him. i think in some ways the rex tillerson issue was really -- unique. with mike pompeo he is getting someone who is on the same page with him. rex tillerson was not on the same page with two institutions, the president with whom he disagreed on climate change, that year-end nuclear deal and north korea but also he went to a great extent alienated from his own state department. this is not a place a secretary of state wants to be so it is no surprise he is leaving the government. >> often a secretary of state becomes a prisoner of the state department and is at war with other elements of the administration. to this case tillerson was at war with the kind of professional diplomats. i always thought that was odd. he decided he was going to reorganize the

david: we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and james freeman. hole can of worms that you open if you start with a new special counsel. we've seen special counsels go far beyond their purview in the past. on the other hand just an inspector general's report may not be enough to do what's necessary to get to the bottom of this. what do you do? >> consider the implications of what's being suggest gd here. we have a problem. the idea is that the justice department is inadequate to investigate it. that's the executive branch of government. and now you have trey gowdy and representative bob goodlatte saying congress is not able to do it, therefore the legislative branch isn't able to do it. this is a failure of american political institutions. what is in between that. the idea that we've had so much polarization and leaking that wu cannot get to the bottom of an issue like that speaks badly of our institutions. i think you should probably stick with the inspector general. david: kim, we've got all kinds of failures in our institution. you have the prob

david: we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and james freeman. there's a whole can of worms that you open if you start with a new special counsel. we've seen special counsels go far beyond their purview in the past. on the other hand just an inspector general's report may not be enough to do what's necessary to get to the bottom of this. what do you do? >> consider the implications of what's being suggest gd here. we have a problem. the idea is that the justice department is inadequate to investigate it. that's the executive branch of government. and now you have trey gowdy and representative bob goodlatte saying congress is not able to do it, therefore the legislative branch isn't able to do it. this is a failure of american political institutions. what is in between that. the idea that we've had so much polarization and leaking that wu cannot get to the bottom of an issue like that speaks badly of our institutions. i think you should probably stick with the inspector general. david: kim, we've got all kinds of failures in our institution. you h

we'll talk to dan henninger of "the wall street journal" that's next. before you decide, you should know that chevy silverado's are the most dependable, longest lasting full-size pickups on the road. which means that ford f-150s are not. (laughs) which truck would you pick? the chevy. the chevy. the chevy. there you go. boom. that was obvious. plus it looks cooler. no doubt about it. now they know what to get me. (laughs) david: markets reverse course from dramatic losses if premarket activity after president trump released following tweet this morning. quote, we have large trade deficits with mexico and canada. nafta which is under renegotiation right now has been a bad deal for the usa. massive relocation of companies and jobs. this is the important part. tariffs on steel and aluminum will only come off if new and fair nafta agreement is signed. then the markets turned around. is the president reining back last week's endorsement of trade wars? we have dep i editor dan henninger and fox news contributor. markets seem to think so, dan. the markets had

. >> wall street journal columnist dan henninger, mary kissel and columnist bill mcgurn. what do you make of the pompeo for tillerson change. >> it is the beginning of donald trump saying he is beginning to assemble the cabinet he would feel comfortable with. we went to mr. trump to feel comfortable with the people around him. i think in some ways the rex tillerson issue was really -- unique. with mike pompeo he is getting someone who is on the same page with him. rex tillerson was not on the same page with two institutions, the president with whom he disagreed on climate change, that year-end nuclear deal and north korea but also he went to a great extent alienated from his own state department. this is not a place a secretary of state wants to be so it is no surprise he is leaving the government. >> often a secretary of state becomes a prisoner of the state department and is at war with other elements of the administration. to this case tillerson was at war with the kind of professional diplomats. i always thought that was odd. he decided he was going to reorganize the

dan henin ever. -- henne henninger. what's the matter with a little venting. >> nothing wrong with it if you are trying to keep your base riled up in support of you. but donald trump needs to take a look at what happened to richard nixon during watergate. richard nixon didn't resign because he lost the support of the american people. by and large through the watergate nightmare he had their support. but he learned he lost the support of his own political party, the republicans in washington. with what donald trump is doing is eroding his political support in washington. the president can get to the point where he find out he's basically alone down there. people don't like washington and they think it's the swamp, by the holds up the president under circumstances like this. tom: he's floating on the swamp? nixon didn't have twitter. what if he could have tweeted. he could have gone the out of it. >> with lindsey graham the twitter thing is so heavy it makes them nervous. twitter exacerbates that. i don't think it can lea

stuart: all right, dan henninger, great headline there, is facebook a frank stein. frankenstein.it. >>> all right, i want to get to the poisoning of that russian ex-spy in britain. russia now blames the brits for the attack. well, joining us is sir kim daughter roach, britain's -- darroch, britain's ambassador to the united states. >> it's great to hear another british accent on this iconic business program. congratulations, we're doing well over here. stuart: wait a minute. will you ever forgive me for becoming an american citizen? >> well, you've kept the accept. [laughter] stuart: the russians say the buritz did it, secret service did it -- buritz did it. -- brits did it. >> the nerve agent that was used was only made by the russians back in the '80s, and it's a military grade agent. they have a track record of using nerve agents, and they have a track record of state-sponsored assassinations. we know they did it, and 25 other countries have joined us in expelling russian diplomats. to -- so i think world opinion knows they did it too. stuart: america came through with a very

we'll have dan henninger from the wall street journal coming up. talk to him about that in a few minutes. so now, should the census ask everyone living in america whether they're a citizen? the trump administration has until the end of this month to decide if the illegal immigrant question will be included on a 2020 census. william la jeunesse is live with more. this is not without controversy. >> are you a citizen? democrats will not answer it and not filling out the census and robbing blue states of political power. >> hello. i'm elizabeth. >> are you hear legally or not? a simple question but should it be in the next census? >> the census is not just a head count. it a snapshot of america. we have good reasons to know who is here. >> adding a citizenship question for 2020 will make -- will probably make the census less accurate because more people will have fear of filling out the form. >> every decade the federal government conduct as census. prior to 1950, the immigration question was standard. attempts by the trump administration to revive it

stuart: that was dan henninger's point.n't see any -- there's no way to force robert mueller or to come to a conclusion. >> no. stuart: there's no way to force him. >> the president can't fire him. the president could direct rod rosenstein to fire him. does he obey the president, or does he do what he thinks is right? how that ends, i don't know. but this is not good news for the president at all. stuart: okay. now, we brought you very, very briefly speaker ryan who is at a press conference, he answered questions, but there was not a single question about john dowd. there were questions about the spending bill now being debated in congress. we've had our own statements on that. is this what you voted for? is this spending bill what you voted for? the judge pointed out just notes ago there is, there's still money flowing to sanctuary cities. >> yes. stuart: and the only way you coulden end them is by cutting off the money -- >> but there's a big improvement, no bailout for the insurance companies. >> weren't the republicans

dan henninger. welcome to our new digs. welcome to you. the dowd resignation, shall we say. digenova is in and his wife sin as well. what's it mean from your perspective. >> working for donald trump is a temporary job. nothing lasts forever with donald trump. what's gone on is indeed interesting and intriguing. baseline donald trump is under investigation by a special counsel, robert mueller, and a team of attorneys. she's got people like ty cobb one of his lawyers dealing with robert mueller. the president feels he's utterly innocent and being abused by the special prosecutor. new jersey nonetheless nonetheless, you have to take robert mueller seriously. and the trump white house reached out to former solicitor general ted olson. that's interesting. ted olson had a big supreme court case, olson vs. morrison and special prosecutors are a nightmare and you have to take them seriously. trump wants to be aggressive against this special prosecutor and it's hard to blame him since he feels he hasn't done anything and joe digenova is the cat's paw to lean on the other lawyers to n

"wall street journal" editorial board, dan henninger that the white house can not be run like a businesspresident trump is running it as a business, as a businessman with tough negotiations but i think there is distinctdation between the globalist elitist voices they had their chance and think he is moving back toward that sort of economic nationalism that won him the election, dan. >> well there may be something to that, charles. i would not too quickly dismiss gary cohn's tenure at the white house, former president of goldman sachs. let's look at the record for the first year. they passed an enormous tax cut reducing the corporate tax rate by 40%. biggest tax cut since 1986. in addition we know gary cohn as director of economic advice for president was driving force behind all the deregulation that took place across almost every major american industry. the result i think is clear. incredible economic growth that we're experiencing this year. rise in the stock market. charles: sure. >> gary cohn had a lot to do with that. charles: not dismissing the accomplishments but saying they were

i think dan henninger is going to say that, are you going to say that?ump as a conservative had to do with his commitments as he said at the cpac conference, there was a question during the campaign what did he believe in, what did he stand for. he said i think i've proven that i am a conservative. i think he has proven that. the appointments of the judgements starting with -- judges starting with neil gorsuch and the tax cuts and the deregulation. and i focused on the deregulation, stuart, as we have on this program. the amount of deregulation that has occurred in one year across a broad swath of energies, tax, energy, finance, labor law, consumer law, it's just extraordinary. i think he went much deeper than any of his primary opponents would have done on deregulation. backing out of the climate change, denouncing it, opening drilling virtually on all offshore areas of the united states. that was very radical. and in that sense is, i think trump is a radical conservative. as to the guns -- stuart: yeah, that's totally different. >> what else did he ann

the wall street journal," i'm not sure i understand it, but we're going to talk to the author, dan henningerto the special election in congressional district number 18. >> yes. stuart: what's march madness got to do with it? tell me. [laughter] >> well, it's that time of year, stuart, and we have our annual division i basketball tournament -- stuart: i know that, i know that. [laughter] >> it's called march madness. it gets tremendous competition. and we had, now in politics we have the equivalent of march madness virtually every day, every week of the year. it's all politics all the time. it's all about competition, and this was about state senator rick saccone versus newcomer conor lamb. and it went down to -- it was what we call a buzzer-beater in basketball. stuart: so you're drawing a parallel -- you're right. i mean, it is all politics all the time. i've never been in such a concentrated political atmosphere as the one we're now in. >> well, my point is, look, we have a special congressional election in southwestern pennsylvania just south of pittsburgh, and this has been elevated. the

daniel henninger is a fox news contributor. dan, if i could have you take a look at this collection of quotes that we picked up. this is a few of them. watch. >> let me talk about north korea. it is naive and dangerous to take a policy that he she guested the other day, bilateral relations with north korea. >> the notion to not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding depp pillowmatic principle of this administration is ridiculous. >> i don't want to be used for propaganda purposes. i don't want to make a situation worse. >> madeline albright said in "the new york times," i held two days of talks in which kim jung il appeared to accept more restraints on the missile program. obviously if this were easy to resolved, it would have been settled long ago. north korea thinks they need nuclear weapons to continue their survival. now he has those weapons. if the talks go through, it would be different. what is your take on it? >> to tell you the truth, dana, my take is your take. you just put your finger on i