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doug schoen and david avella. good morning to both of you. big, big game scheme here, doug. you worked in the west wing. >> i did. >> bill: what affect does it have and how long does it last? >> i tend to agree with newt begin rich. it doesn't last long and doesn't mean a thing. it's a distraction the media likes. i wouldn't have sent a cease and desist i would have ignored a steve bannon. >> bill: the left is going nuts. their hair is on fire. >> that's it. this just helps the left spew venom and support the tds disease. trump derangement system. >> bill: the right is fighting the credibility of bannon and the author of the book itself. weigh in and i'll get a few things here. >> this book by michael wolf is more appropriate for the national inquirer than for the national history books. doug is spot on. these books aren't new and rarely are they relevant a month after they are written. but just as doug is also right. democrats will cite this book verse and song and only show americans more and more that they are more worried about obstructing and preventing the agenda of th

joining me, brad blakeman and doug schoen, former advisor to bill clinton. brad, let's give him a grade a through f and tell us why. >> a strong "a." he'spo new to politics. he took the toughest job in the world. we have a new supreme court justice. growth in our economy, full employment at 4%, a new embassy being established in jerusalem. built, americans being put back to work. close to 2 million americans are added to the rolls. butli the president hit the grod running.he 73 judges confirmed, a record in the federal court system. the president has a lot to be proud of. rick: doug, i'm guessing you are going to give him a slightly different grade. >> the undeniable fact is the economy has been very good. and it's the case that the president has asserted american power around the world. the problem from my point of view is i seek bipartisanship. we are looking at the government shutdown and i'm sad we weren't able to get an agreement on healthcare. and the president unfortunately has been a little bit more divisive and polarizing in his rhetoric and tweets

to brad blakeman on @foxnews for grading year one of my presidency with an "a," and likewise to doug schoen for the very good grade and statements. working hard!" you're the most powerful man in the world. why do you care what the replacement weekend guy at fox news thinks? is this guy brad blakeman the person trump has been trying to impress the whole time? "brad blakeman? i like to think of him as 'dad hug-man.'" ( laughter ) also, mr. president, you can't start a tweet talking about watching fox news and then end by saying you're "working hard! ( laughter ) you're watching tv, you just said so! what's next? "just ate three cheeseburgers, and a filet-o-fish. dieting hard!" ( laughter ) ( applause ) i'm reading that wrong. unless he's just confessing. "trump no like work. working hard. trump want watch tv." ( laughter ) of course, this saturday marked the trump presidency's one year anniversary. there was going to be a huge gala at mar-alago to celebrate. donors had paid $100,000 for tickets, which got you a meal for two and a photo with the president. not bad. normally if you want a meal

let's bring in doug schoen. see if he agrees with me, former clinton pollster. , doug, and i think you know it. >> i think it is nonsense. what's even worse, stuart, why can't the democrats instead of this resist, resist, resist, say, very simply, let's negotiate, mr. president. let's test the speech and see if you're really committed to what you say. i just wish they would just stop it, stuart. stuart: but they're backed into a corner. they're backed into the corner of absolute resistance to absolutely everything, and i think last night was a turning point. i think people are finning to realize this. i think it is turning point for president trump. >> certainly good news for president trump. but to my way of thinking, the way the democrats should handle it, is to put the wood to him and say, okay, let's talk about immigration, let's talk about infrastructure. let's's see if you're true to your word wanting to negotiate all the tough points. stuart: i don't think he did the democrats any good at all when louis gutierrez somed out pause the crowd was chanting usa,

look who's here, doug schoen. "america in the age of trump," and he's a fox news contributor. i'm told he's still a democrat. [laughter] so, doug, are the -- you've got sunshine behind you, you're in miami, aren't you? >> and i'm still in florida, oh, yeah. stuart: you can't get out and you don't want to get out. >> no. stuart: are the democrats, are you guys in november of this year, are you going to run against the emerging prosperity in america? >> i think there's going to be an election based on the need for change, a president who -- despite the good economic news, stuart -- has low approval ratings, who has had one signature achievement that itself is not popular, and i think the democrats will run against -- i'd feel better and i know the audience would if the democrats had a competition of ideas -- stuart: yes. >> but what i've seen so far suggests that the party and me once again will diverge in strategy and tactics. stuart: i think you've lost your own party. i think that's what's happened -- >> i think t

bush and doug schoen a former advisor to president bill clinton, also a fox news contributor. to you both. >> good evening. rick: who better to judge and grade the president? brad, let's start with you, give him a grade a through f and tell us why. >> he has a strong a. here's why, we have a guy who is new po politics who took the toughest job in the world being president. we have a new supreme court justice. we have growth in our economy of over 3%. we have full employment at 4%. we have a new embassy being established in jerusalem, which is something that is long overdue. we have pipelines that are being built. we have americans being put back to work. over close to 2 million americans are now added to the rolls. we have so much possibility yet ahead of us but the president this year hit the ground running. 73 judges confirmed a record in the federal court system. the president has a lot to be proud of. rick: doug, i'm guessing you will give him a slightly different grade? >> i do, and look, i'm a democrat, but i try to be nonpartisan about this. the undeniable fact is that

doug schoen and molly hemingway. question to senator kennedy was do any of your democratic colleagues want to give the president a victory on anything? you heard his answer, doug. he wasn't so sure about that. >> look, i'm not so sure, either. what i can say with certainty, bill, is if the republicans don't have a clear position on border security, on the wall, on the compromise immigration plan, on the children's health program which the president distances himself from today, if the republican position is fluid, i can tell you what the democratic position will be. it will be no. the republicans have to come to the table with a bipartisan senate deal or something like that and i suspect at least nine democrats will go along. >> bill: reach deep back into your big brain there. do you think dick durbin wants to go to the white house for a signing ceremony on immigration? do you think he is willing to give that sort of victory to president trump? >> i don't think dick durbin is but i think there are 10 senators up in st

doug schoen, former clinton pollster, still a democrat. >> still a democrat. stuart: with me now.st night -- >> yes. stuart: you know what i'm talking about? >> i do. stuart: there was senator elizabeth warren, bret said what about the companies like the massachusetts utility that's lowering tax bills? >> right. stuart: she said, just a giveaway to the rich. around she implied she would raise taxes if she got in power. how are you going to do this? >> well, i'm not going to do it. and i am not the kind of democrat that elizabeth warren or bernie sanders are. and i think we have to celebrate people like steve and what he's done, all the while as a democrat and part of the loyal opposition saying that the tax bill, at least in my terms was not ideal, to many americans it wasn't ideal. stuart: okay. surely not going into the election, democrats, not you, the democrats, surely not going into an election saying, we're going to take those bonuses back, we'll raise taxes on -- >> no, i don't think so. i think the democratic argument will be that the rich need to pay more. which is, a sta

fox news contributor doug schoen is with us now.re so be 60 votes in the senate to pass this bill. my position is, that senator schumer has deliberately shut it down for political advantage. what say you? >> i think there is blame, stuart, to go around, on all sides. look i would be for, i think like you for a clean bill, just get the government open. that being said i don't think mitch mcconnell went far enough to get the 60 votes, i would certainly agree with that part of your comment. stuart: senator schumer is in position of shutting down the legal government of the united states in the interests of illegal immigrants. that is what he has done. >> well, stuart, there is plenty of blame to go around -- stuart: that is what he has done. >> there was bipartisan agreement from the senators that the president didn't accept on daca last week. i'm disappointed that that didn't go forward. i'm disappointed that short -- senator schumer and the democrats taken position they have. i blame all side. stuart: senator schumer's base will not