james freeman is here. yesterday i suggested less vitriol. i cited example after example of liberal politicians and celebrities using deadly metaphors for their dislike of trump policies but instead of a mia coble, nancy pelosi decided it wasn't their fault and called out republicans for the attack on, wait for it, republicans. >> i think the comments made by my colleagues are outrageous. the the dignity of we would like congress to command. how dare they say such a thing? >> eric: more and more divisiveness from the left. >> when did she say this? yesterday or today. my gosh. everyone will say, how long will the civility last. now we know not very long. i remember after 9/11, you had members of congress standing on the capitol steps singing "god bless america." that didn't last but a few days either. it's unfortunate. i think we need to remind ourselves that would make this a great nation is the fact we can disagree we can even yell and scream at each other. that's part of america. what we can't do is shoot each other. and we have to come to

back with dan henninger, bill mcgurn and james freeman. james, silicon valley did not?ion with open arms but differently there was a might have a friend in the white house? >> it is good to see a change in tort or business look at is generally helpful productive thing instead of something that needs to be controlled and and really diminished. so i think in any administration, there is really no antitrust case because of the hopeful sticks out of your paycheck when you shop there, it does not have a huge market share. you are talking about still amazon and whole foods together, single-digit percentage in the us grocery market. interesting to see what amazon will learn from all of the consumer data that they can get out of these affluent customers at whole foods. >> dan, the obama admission killed off dozens of deals. there were tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars just in transit salons that we had to pay for that. administration, is day and night, is it not? >> it is day and night damage for sure. but the obama administration is basically attacking banks and airl

assistant editorial editor page james freeman and look who it is. former vice chief of staff of the united states army, fox news military analyst general jack keane. good to see you this morning. >> great to be your. dagen: you are here all hour. >> my god, i've never done it before. throw me out if i'm not a. dagen: never. we have high hopes and i know you made the expectation. we'll be talking to you later in the hour one-on-one. we want to move on to the health care bill. 17 republican senators warning they will vote against taking out the current version of the health care bill after new findings from the nonpartisan congressional budget office which the bill would reduce the deficit by $321 billion by 2026 of the number of uninsured americans will increase by 22 million over the same period. after finding for release, a pivotal moderate republican senator susan collins of maine said she would vote no to writing and a treat, i want to work with my gop colleagues in the aca. cbo analysis shows the senate won't do it. i will vote no on mtp, motion

we are back with dan hanger, bill mcgurn and james freeman. d not receive the trump administration with open arms. >> it is nice to see a change in tone where businesses kind of look at generally as a helpful productive thing instead -- >> shock. >> needs to be controlled and really diminished so i think in any administration there's really no antitrust case here because although whole foods takes a lot of your paycheck when you shop there, it doesn't have a huge market share. you're talking about still amazon and whole foods together single digit percentage of the u.s. grocer market but really interesting to think about what amazon is going to learn from all the consumer data that they can get out of the often liberal customers at whole foods. >> dan, the obama administration killed off dozens of deals, there were tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars just in fees alone and we stockholders had to pay for that, this administration, it's day and night, is it not? >> well, it is day and night, david, for sure. the obama administration was b

we are back with dan hanger, bill mcgurn and james freeman. did not receive the trump administration with open arms. >> it is nice to see a change in tone where businesses kind of look at generally as a helpful productive thing instead -- >> shock. >> needs to be controlled and really diminished so i think in any administration there's really no antitrust case here because although whole foods takes a lot of your paycheck when you shop there, it doesn't have a huge market share. you're talking about still amazon and whole foods together single digit percentage of the u.s. grocer market but really interesting to think about what amazon is going to learn from all the consumer data that they can get out of the often liberal customers at whole foods. >> dan, the obama administration killed off dozens of deals, there were tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars just in fees alone and we stockholders had to pay for that, this administration, it's day and night, is it not? >> well, it is day and night, david, for sure. the obama administration was

let's talk about it with james freeman, the assistant editor of the editorial board at "the wall streetrnal" ," alo a fox news contributor. paul ryan is a guy who likes to dream big dreams, can any of this come to pass in this atmosphere in washington? >> it code about this year is slipping away here. it's significant that we see him saying he still wants this once in a generation transformative change, we've got this complicated tax code that he wants to make it easy. health care is taking longer than expected, i think there is an argument to do what you can but you've got to cut taxes now. it has to get done this year if you want to break out of this obama style slow growth. >> jon: the economy is not the stock market but the stock market is at record highs right now. is that because employers and manufacturers are looking for some kind of reform? >> the markets have gotten ahead of where the economy is performing. a lot of it is this expectation, it was called the trump bump initially, i think there is still optimism that we are going to get a big tax cut this year. paul ryan has ske

what does fox news contributor, james freeman, with the wall street journal editorial page think abouthis? seems like recession is a strong word, james? >> no question that friday jobs report was lousy, back to 1970's levels of labor participation in the work force, the number was bad, but it is part of a kind of a confusing picture right now. on thursday, we got the best report in ten years on small business hiring from the nfib. we got a very good report from adp and its pay roll survey. this is particularly odd, we read about with global growth picking up, it ought to be the big companies not the small ones who are doing better. obviously, this morning, we've got a disappointing, but better than expected productivity report. so, i think we're still bumping along in that kind of obama era style normal. no question this recovery is long in the tooth, but there's-- i would stay hopeful if the trump tax cut, deregulation program remains on track and i understand that's a big if. stuart: we keep going back to that, if we get that done this year and tax reform this year, then we'll be oka

dagen mcdowell, editorial page editor james freeman of former ceo of crile and former home depot bob mayor daley with us this morning. busy news day. great to have you back. >> here to hear among the most famous ge loves his thinking these days. maria: yesterday we had that ms. ms. davies stepping away, stepping down. a lot of people expecting this over the years. >> it happened someone suddenly. i think without a lot of fanfare, the article said they started back in 2011 or 2012. it'll be interesting to see several changes as a result of this. you have the article today talk about two liters, jeff and john coming out of financial services. therare no financial services now. we have an industrial company. i'm not sure they ran within ge. it'll be interesting to see how he maneuvers. trento relocated to this but that ceo stepping down. running several businesses over these. how long were you at ge? maria: over 30 years. grover norquist is with us this morning. fox's senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano will weigh in. newt gingrich is fair and a senator, member of the armed servic

gary kaltbaum, james freeman, "wall street journal" editorial page, both fox news contributors. gary, critics on the left like susan collins say we're not spending enough government taxpayer money. melissa: oh. david: people on the right like rand paul saying you're spending too much, you're subsidizing insurance companies. how is there middle ground to be found here? >> let's take each side. rand paul, i think he has to realize this is the only game in town. it will not get better. this is pretty good day at the office if you want a freer health care market. talking about $700 billion in spending cut, excuse me in a tax cut. trillion dollars of spending cuts, and reform where individual states get to decide how they want insurance to be regulated. david: what about the other side? what about susan collins? >> what happened, they accepted the obama premise that the measurement of health care is how many people you can stuff into a government insurance problem, program. that is not the measure of a healthy society. look at medicaid. why do they want everybody on medicaid? it does

melissa: gary kaltbaum, kaltbaum capital management president and james freeman, "wall street journal" editorial page editor. both fox news contributors. gary i feel so hopeful after that open and interview i'm afraid, i'm afraid my hopes are too high. david: don't jinx it. melissa: i don't want to jinx it. help me out here what do you think? >> congressman actually sounded optimistic and i'm not so sure we're getting a lot of that in the last few weeks. look, it is pretty simple. they better get it done, if they don't bye-bye 2018. trouble for the economy also. so, and this border tax, i'm thinking chuck schumer is the happiest guy if they put in a border tax. i read health care in the senate was going to keep 21 taxes so i'm hoping some conservative heads prevail, good stuff comes from this. melissa: james, i mean, i'm almost crying over here, i'm so excited. >> don't cry. melissa: am i getting my hopes too high? >> well, let's see, i guess i would maybe be a little concerned that they still want to go big. they still want to have the big transformational once-in-a-generation reform

james freeman "wall street journaled" he tomorrow page assistant editor, gary kaltbaum capital management mt.. they're both fox news contributors. james sure seems what the congressman is saying is true. there is slow-walking by republican leadership of both these things, both tax reform and health reform, what do you think? >> i think they know they have to get this done. the calendar is getting away from them. i'm not sure they get urgency on tax issue they have to make cuts now, but do it for their political survival, if you don't want a repeat of 2006 as mr. gohmert was saying they need the economy start growing at faster rate. i guess i would be a little more optimistic because i think they do realize the urgency of the situation, but it is important, i agree with him, they can't allow, in caucus meetings and members whining about the twt from hell from the white house today, too hard to deal with, forget that you have a job to do. send it to his desk sign it. david: i couldn't agree with james more. forget it. i know about the tweet stuff. both melissa and i talked for ages about it

james freeman, scott shellady. i'm starting with the tech selloff.s the dip or a sign of really big selling still to come. scott shellady? >> you know what? slow you roll and stay in your lane here. two words for you here, lazy money. when they chase it up, on a momentum, and they're really not just by -- justified being in the stock in the first place, these are the first people comings out. that's what's happening. this is them on the exit as they took the stock higher on momentum plays and no right being in the stock in the first place. stuart: let me see how big the selloff is. >> nearly 100 billion paper losses on friday. stuart: just friday. liz: just friday. what scott is talking about. they're responsible, the stocks, 2/5 of the s&p 500 gain and adding market value to the overall s&p 500. so it's a lot of money at stake here, he's absolutely right. $600 billion equal to south africa and others combined. paper gains so far this year for the stocks, so they're up 600 million. stuart: paper gains of 600 billion, friday, 100 billion loss more los

maria: this is the moment people will be focused on that, james freeman. >> this is the question, whetherdrop a few bombs on the president and not discuss things he doesn't want to discuss. that is what a lot of american people would like these senators and mr. comey to discuss today. dagen: he will be used, expect jim comey to use robert mueller for him if he is asked anything specific about the on going russia investigation by the fbi. again it raises issue can he use mueller as to block him if he is asked about unmasking during the obama administration. maria: cherry-pick the questions he wants to answer. dagen: or i'm a private citizen, particularly looking see how he is pressed particularly by republican lawmakers. maria: jim, do you think this kind of questioning should be on the table. >> it should be on the table but what you're talking about current investigation i don't think jim comey will talk a lot about that. you will hear about the conversations with donald trump. he goes through that painstakingly. he is quite a story teller, if you already when he testified in 2007. maria

names, in fact shall the biggest names in tech headed to the white house today and joining us is james freemanrom the editorial page and james, what do you expect from the meeting? >> what i'm hoping we'll see in the meeting is a strong message from silicon valley, a lot of these companies have a lot of cash trapped overseas and hope they're saying we need the tax cut, we need it now and we need to get that corporate rate somewhere close to the 15% target, president trump, from 35%. throwing in the state levees, highest in the industrial world. >> although many of these guys are making more money outside of america than in america and a lot of them are investing in these countries as well. how do we get them to say, even if they're doing business in china to make the iphones. will it take more than tax cuts? >> certainly. the highest rate in the industrialized world is not an incentive to operate here and i think if you change that huge differential. if you go from being uncompetitive to among the most competitive in the world, which is what president trump is talking about, with the 15%, it's

stuart: james freeman, thank you very much, sir.ock market. this morning we are down back at $42 per barrel. gas price now that is falling serious drop there, we are now at 226, that's the national average for regular and if you look around the country, there are now four states where the price of gas is $2 or below. oklahoma, mississippi, alabama and south carolina. all of them -- south carolina is down average of a 1.92. some other headlines for you. a hedge fund owned by activist invest other daniel lobe bought 3 and a half billion dollar in nestle. activist down there shake up nestle. market likes it. pandora ceo and cofounder reportedly to stand down. a lot of trouble with competition as well. new ceo is coming on board. the stock is open only .79. sea world has been subpoenaed, this is part of a federal probe. the justice department, the fcc, they are looking into statements from executives that claim the black fish documentary brought down the company -- >> they allege prior to earnings release that the black fish documentary

"wall street journal" editor james freeman. radio show host, funny guy, ben kissell, perfect guyo have a on a day like this. i was only being half facetious that all the stuff we're seeing out there would have you believe we surrendered our commitment to this planet. i think "new york daily news" on cover says it all. donald trump, all but drop dead, all of you die. what do you make of it? >> i think there is a lot of hyperbolic language. neil: we don't use big words here. >> i'm sorry. there is a lot of mean words being said about donald trump and his administration. this hits home a lot of individuals, people who think climate change as one of the more important issues of our time. they think this is stab in the back that the obama administration made. it is really, grabbing headline. certainly definitive proof we have actual tangible evidence of what the trump administration will be doing regarding climate. neil: you could argue whatever, whether it is the agreement or just the natural evolution of fracking and push for natu

stuart: i want to bring in james freeman, fox news contributor. what's your take?ing an axe. >> yeah. i'm glad you're pointing out that some of these guys are talking their own book. and this is particularly in the immelt case where they have bet big on providing more efficient energy solutions. we like efficiency, but look, more expensive oil driven up, more expensive energy generally driven up by regulation is good if you're selling efficiency tools, right? be now, as far as iger, rumors that he may consider running for president as a democrat. so like lloyd blankfein, this could be a lot of virtue signaling, if you will. this is one way that ceos who often don't get very good press can get good media attention, by speaking out for this accord. stuart: i gave them media attention. i did that. [laughter] >> good for you for talking about what's behind some of these positions here. because when you look at the substance of this agreement, it was going to fail on its own terms. everybody involved knew it was not going to get the emissions reductions they say are nec

republicans pushing through to get this done before july 4th, james freeman and also, what is your take on this obstructionism, telling nutrients we will do whatever it takes to waste time so this doesn't get done. >> republicans will get it done. it's interesting you look at chuck schumer saying i want 10 hours to read the bill. he took another clip from the speech from the speech come as sane as he often does that this is a terrible bill and he's opposed to it. he'sot a voter here looking to consider the measure. he's already ache instead. the obama legacy project about or how bad it failing they tie it to themselves politically and will do all the parliamentary moves they can do to slow it down. maria: is there any chance that they are able with any business whatsoever that the trump administration has to put forth? that's the whole plan. we impeach him in 20. >> i don't think that will work. if you basically make it impossible to do business, but they are going to do is kill the legislative filibuster, which still exist and allows them to block things they can he measure they can ge