we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn. an extraordinary e-mail, what was going through peter strzok's mine, he's a law enforcement officer who is supposed to be disinterested? >> right. he was not disinterested and that's the problem. not only peter strzok and lisa page but they identified at least two other fbi agents, fbi agent 1 and 5 and fbi attorney number one and two who were exchanging similar highly-politicils or texts and what happened here is that these agents, these people at the fbi went into a simple panic, political panic at the idea that both donald trump could become president, they were doing this before the election and then, indeed, after the election. they completely lost professional discipline and there seemed to be no one around to impose discipline and the question is whether that informed some of their decisions. i think the inspector general horowitz gave them a break by saying it did not inform their decisions. it really challenges credibility which can be exchanging texts like that and not have t

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and kate bachelder odell.d the immigration bill failed so miserable? >> it's a good question, paul. there are a lot of authors of the failure, one of them was president trump who did not go out and campaign of the bill to try to get it passed. there are other authors too like the freedom caucus who have moved the goal post on what they are interested in getting in exchange for deal on daca and whose on bill goodlatte bill failed on the floor. but the democrats have been cynical about this discussion as well? paul: they want an issue, they think it will help turn out voters, any chance of anything happening on immigration between now and election for example on family unification of the border in. >> the republicans have been working on a bill on that it's not clear where trump is on signing it at this point and that's one reason why it's delayed an not come to a vote or introduced but -- so i don't see much opportunity unless there's change. one thing that we were discussing is when voters know that both parti

back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn. limit on the pardon power, is there? >> no, there really isn't. one of the great powers that the president has. there is a process. there's hiring attorney, justice department, several thousand people who feel they were wrongly accused or convicted of trying to go through the process. donald trump has jumped over all of that to pardon these individuals and i don't think we should be too doubtful about this, paul, donald trump believes he is in a war with the justice department and robert mueller and he's going use pardons like this to send them a message. every one of these individuals danesh dsouza, martha stewart and rod are connected to prosecutors who have been -- who have had donald trump in their cross hairs one way or another, comey, prosecuted martha stewart and patrick fitzgerald executed rod goyavich. paul: is that proper use of power? we want to use the pardon power if the president -- to enhance justice, not undue justices and not undermine the rule of law. >> one, it is o

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and allysia finally. ruling victory or setback? >> well, i read it as a victory, small victory for religious freedom. i mean, defended the baker's precommerce of religious belief but, you know, there's a strong view out there that say if the commission, which insulted, remained neutral he may not be able or future people may not be able to defend themselves because there's a strong belief among liberal justices that there should be no religious exemptions for antidiscrimination laws. say the little sisters of the poor and contraception, affordable care act, that sort of thing and i think that issue is still very much in play out there among the judiciary. this is a temporary victory. paul: if they had not -- if they had been neutral in applying principles, if they kept their antireligious bias quiet, the commission could have punished phillips. >> i think that's right. they are laying up the decision for court to go further in the opposite direction as long as the commission appli neutrally ily across the

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and jason riley. , what do you think about this case as you look at it from both sides? >> well, i think this is a point that we have been heading towards for a long time and it's been speeding up lately which is to say institutions like harvard, yale, many of these other private schools, they have now become basically about social justice and racial compensation. they make no bones about it, the diversity officers run the institutions like that, professors right about this, this implies in many cases explicitly disadvantages asia applicants and white males because they are what they are known as privileged. this is quite open, there's no question about it. they want to suppress asian applicants and white males. now the question is that constitutional, i have to tell you, paul, part of me would think that a place like harvard and yale, if they want to turn themselves into reperration's actry, they -- factory, they ought to do it. paul: it's called the civil rights act of 1964, jason. the schools can us

we are back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and jason riley. o you think about this case as you look at it from both sides? >> well, i think this is a point that we have been heading towards for a long time and it's been speeding up lately which is to say institutions like harvard, yale, many of these other private schools, they have now become basically about social justice and racial compensation. they make no bones about it, the diversity officers run the institutions like that, professors right about this, this implies in many cases explicitly disadvantages asia applicants and white males because they are what they are known as privileged. this is quite open, there's no question about it. they want to suppress asian applicants and white males. now the question is that constitutional, i have to tell you, paul, part of me would think that a place like harvard and yale, if they want to turn themselves into reperration's actry, they -- factory, they ought to do it. paul: it's called the civil rights act of 1964, jason. the schools can use race a

let's get reaction from the "wall street journal" dan henninger. dan, headlines crossing now and misquoting the president. president said i think i'm very well prepared. i don't think i have to prepare very much. media at nbc and cnn taking the second part of that. your reaction to the criticism there? >> i think the criticism is overstate. secretary pompeo said the president has been briefed. i think in large part, what the summit in singapore is about is president trump meeting face-to-face with kim jong-un and trying to size him up as somebody that whether we can do business with him. i mean, let's face it, liz, the only person in the all of north korea that is going to negotiate this deal is one guy, the dictator, kim jong-un, and i think the president has to try to figure out whether he is a serious person and whether he is serious. he's got to get a feel for the man. i believe that's exactly what the point of this summit is, and the president said there will be more meetings, if he concludes he can do business with kim jong-un. liz: dan, what

elizabeth: let's bring in dan henninger, "wall street journal" deputy editor. great to see you.hat's your take? >> probably there was politics going on there, liz. in a way what kid you expect him to say, yeah, i saw he was using a private e-mail account and he's going to pitch his secretary of state into trouble like that. i don't think obama was going to do that but obama was good at deflecting attention from himself, not getting involved. i think they probably had -- you know, this was a very political white house. they were acutely aware of what was going on around them. elizabeth: and remember when fbi director james comey scrubbed the name from his 2016 press conference in talking about who communicated with hillary clinton's server pep here's the fbi texts that we're talking about between strzok and page. obama wants to know everything we're doing, you know, so we don't know if it was about russia or clinton. but kind of curious they were talking about the obama wanted to know what was going on potentially about his successor who could protect his legacy. >> well, you kno

. >> neil: one of the most brilliant writers i know is dan henninger.e talked about this before with these debates. it's lick a comic book reaction to the way we respond. the left has this view. the right is wrong and wants to kill kids or whatever. and then the right responds to the numbers. you don't come to the table. you don't care. it's politics. the roles reverse in the obama administration. it gets old. for you, it's repetitive. dan says this goes beyond parties here and looks at market forces and how they can help all leaving aside washington. but the people that need help getting into this country legitimately so and folks in this country that could benefit from it. dan henninger here. you point is what? when you say market forces, let them work, what do you mean? >> my point is, we have a problem here and i think we have an opportunity, neil. the problem everybody in the country, a lot of the world, has been watching on our texas border with mexico. it's appalling and people say to themselves, why can't something be done about this after all o

melissa: here now is dan henninger of the wall street journal editorial page deputy editor and fox newsontributor what do you think about this, dan? >> well, i think that the democrats, the liberals, the left are getting out on thin ice i mean it wasn't merely what happened to sarah sanders at the red hen restaurant but also department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen was essentially run out of a mexican restaurant in washington and demonstrate ors show up through the night at her home to keep her awake with bull horn shouting shame at her. this is the kind of behavior that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, and i think that what maxine waters was saying there is beginning to sound a lot to me, melissa, like the anti-war protest of the vietnam period back in the 1960s when a lot of emotional intensity got running and led just like the democratic convention 1968. she is really playing with fire and i think nancy pelosi understood that and that's why she tried to take it down with her tweet. melissa: well maxine waters not new to this. i'm from la and spoke to many reporte

the writer is dan henninger who joins us every thursday morning at this time.. [laughter] stuart: never hurts. and you say that president trump should just let the economy handle illegal immigration. you know, dan henninger, that sounds a lot like open borders, let 'em in and let 'em take the jobs. that's what it sounds like. >> really? no, not in the least. open borders means people walking in whenever they want to. i'm talking about people coming in at legal transit points and exiting from legal transit point ifs they had a work visa that allowed them to do work available and then go home when the work was done. now, conservatives through the obama years have always argued we don't want to do that because all of these immigrants are taking jobs from americans. stuart: yep, true. >> so that was the argument. and i could see how you might get some elevation with that during the obama years because the economy was so terrible, stuart. here comes donald trump, reverses all of the obama regulations, cuts the corporate tax by 40%. you talk about it every day. withi

let's bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, bill mcgurn, alyysia finley

neil: the markets race ahead, even today, and i wonder dan henninger, they don't think anyone will come the economy, the jobs and everything is so good, you don't need to worry about this? >> i think the market is thrilled with the underlying economy. they finally got a strong economy. they are reacting. they don't want to believe that the tariffs are going happen, and if they were, if we did get into a trade war and the economy began to pull back a little bit, the sectors in the economy, the market pulled back, that could have an effect on the november elections because the republicans have an unbelievably strong economy to run on. it's just very difficult to find an economy that is like the wind at your back. and if that wind dies down, the entire republican party, which donald trump has been campaigning very hard for in the rallies around the country, could be in trouble. >> the markets react, stocks go up based on corporate earnings, let's not distill it here. this will come to a test. is wilbur ross right when he shows a can and says it's penny, doesn't have much of an impact and d

melissa: let's bring in today's panel, fox business's susan li, dan henninger, "wall street journal," also a fox news contributor, liz peek, foxnews.com columnist. dan, start with you. i hear a lot of republicans at the end of that report saying they can't understand why the president is so upset, if you flip it around, you can imagine the president walking away from that thing. we had a big beautiful meeting with beautiful agreement. everyone is in love again, no matter what happened. seems like trudeau at very least stuck to original talking points after the meeting. what do you think? is that a crazy way to look at it? >> there is no crazy way to look at it. melissa: crazy no matter how you look at it. >> consider what happened through the g7. president enters the meeting imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum tariffs. first thing he suggests on arriving the russians should be at the meeting, back in the g7. remember when he said that? within 12 hours he was proposing no tariffs whatsoever between europe and canada, and by the time he left he was in a towering rage over justin trud

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the wall street dan henninger, he pointed out today that in order for the republicans to keep control of the house, the republicans need to hold on to 24 seats, but 20 of those seats are in very tight districts including places like florida, new jersey, pennsylvania. the question now is will this immigration fight what's being called this immoral inhumane treatment of separating parents from children? is that going to swamp the story of economic growth that message republicans wanted to bring into the mid-terms. >> well, it could and that's why the republicans have got to recognize no ones going to get exactly what they want, come together get a compromised bill, it won't be perfect, nobody will love it, some people will hate it, but get it done. you've got the republican votes to get that done. do it. get back to the economy, and you can't get back to the economy, the press won't let you but once you pass that bill, and get this taken off the table, yeah the democrats will whine about it but the issue is that point over and republicans can get back to creating the jobs and building a

david: here to react, dan henninger from the "wall street journal."is also a fox news contributor. dann, obsession of the day, the whole pardon question way rudy giuliani answered it. play a tape of rush limbaugh. get your reaction. play the tape. >> the whole point of asking the question is to establish the atmospherics trump has done something with profound enough guilt that pardoning himself is actively being considered when it isn't. never answer a hypothetical. or, answer it with another question. david: what do you think, dan? >> well i would say trump is well aware of the last part of rush's statement, which is to raise another question. david: right. >> as he said in this tweet, this is a game and i'm playing it because i haven't done anything and the one thing donald trump understands, has understood his entire life, if you're not on offense you are on defense and i think that is why he brought rudy giuliani on, was to go on offense and keep pushing the argument. david: instead rudy fell into the trap of establishing the atmosphere in rush's

writers i know, thinkers i know on all these matters, "wall street journal" editorial board member dan henningeri will go ping-pong ball all over the map. president will refer to the trade situation and i'm sure make comments about immigration stuff, on the fact he is overstepping himself and markets are nervous, he has been urging calm, we'll get through this, peter navarro much the same, what do you think? >> if there is calm we'll get through this, trump has unbounded self-confidence. he thinks it will work out. kind of focus what he has done, which is threaten china with $200 billion of tariffs, and say if they try to follow around with this, he will impose another $200 billion. neil: he got mad because they responded 50 billion in kind. you try to do that, another 200 billion. that is start of a war. >> this isn't las vegas. we're not sitting across the table putting card down on the table this is the chinese government. the logic here china has to blink, right? they have to surrender, say basically we give up. neil: do you think that is how it end? >> no, i don't think how it end. i don't

his name is dan henninger.e he writes a piece in the journal on thursday, and he happens to be very good. what is the conclusion here? >> well, i'm sure the tweets have already started without even answering your question. [laughter] let me assert that i said in the column that we are winning on the domestic economy, without question. i mean, there's never been a stronger economy, i don't think, in the post-war period. for that, donald trump gets an a. stuart: that's a strong statement, dan. never been a stronger economy in the -- >> everybody who wants a job now can get one. i mean, black unemployment is at historic lows, his -- hispanic unemployment, it's an extraordinary economy. that's one of the reasons you get into politics, is to to vied jobs for your people -- provide jobs for your people. and trump is doing that. the other reason politics is national -- is strategic, you know, safety of the nation, and that's why we're negotiating now with north korea and presumably doing these trade negotiations as we