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james freeman, starting with you, what do you think? >> a fairly relaxed donald trump.ve been reading a lot of anonymous sources saying he is unhinged and volcanic over this "new york times" op-ed. i think you saw a pretty relaxed and restrained and comfortable president talking about what, i think by any measure is a very good economy. trish: it is. i mean, i love the jobs report today. ned ryun, i love that wages are growing. that has been a very big problem over the last 20 years if you can imagine. >> that's right. >> wages were not budging. now we're looking at nearly 3% growth. it is a start. >> yeah, no, i like the point, the point that he made about the manufacturing jobs, trish. obama assured us that those manufacturing jobs were gone and never coming back. already 400,000 returned and maybe we'll get to 600,000. and, the unemployment numbers, with african-americans and hispanics. i thought the figure was kind of fascinating, trish, i wasn't aware of it. record unemployment among women. lowest it has been in 65 years. the idea trump came in and made everything

dagen: to quote james freeman -- >> all right a guy i know.r growth plateau, more than nine years into an expansion which is incredible and it's ultimately those productivity gains that will mean higher wages for the middle class and a better quality of life. >> that's the plan. so far, so good, i would say. >> so far, so very good. dagen: you said you think the market would be higher if not for the concerns about tariffs. do you feel there's pent-up buying spree somewhere. what would investor who maybe are concerned about that need to see in order to step in and buy more stocks? is it a completion of just the nafta deal? >> i put out a piece last week saying why isn't the market higher, as if i'm whining, right, all-times. on a valuation basis we're not. the valuation market has come down the last three years because earnings have expanded substantially and in our view, between here and the end of the year, we've had the market going to 3100, we still have it -- that's another 8, 9% from here and further next year and we would say between her

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morgan ortagus, james freeman and dr. mike, great to see you, dr. mike. thank you for joining us. >> of course. >> good morning. maria: what's the most important? >> i think the bolton speech yesterday about the icc, refusing to have u.s. jurisdiction there is really important, has consequences for soldiers and troops. maria: we will talk about that, they named a date for vote for brett kavanaugh being the 13th, that's something certainly something to watch. >> it's another record, number of job openings in the u.s., 11 jobs for every ten people looking for jobs. maria: that's incredible. >> people quitting more than double than people are getting fired, great economy. maria: strong economy, more economic data out this morning and we will see how hot it is when we get inflation data. house majority whip louisiana congressman steve scalise is with us this morning. joe wilson going to give us the impact on south carolina coming up and act one group founder and ceo janice bryant who is on forbes' list of america's most successful women entrepreneurs, looking

james freeman is the editor at the wall street journal.mer clinton strategist abdomen chairman of the poll. the new small forces. thank you so much for joining us. i want to kick it off with your new op ed, mark. people prosesle when -- brissel when i use that term. i've come to accept an unelected group of experience that are taken over with their own power and came to believe they were on a mission to stop, defeat, or remove president trump for crimes they would fine or manufacture. wow, powerful words, manufacture. >> we see week after week what one thing after another. i'm steel getting over learning that bruce was a go between for chris seal that was fired while his wife had an undisclosed relationship for people paying for the dossier and working on it. the potential rosenstein allegations as mccabe probably fired back at rosenstein because once you divide the people and put them under pressure you will find incredible revelations here about what they were doing and what i would have to say was a mirage. >> we have stayed on this sto

james freeman is with the "wall street journal's" assistant editor. they looked around, the first month when we did have new manufacturing jobs. this whole controversy to me is an admission from democrats and progressives that trump is rockin' with the economy. >> the democrats are concerned about the economy and how it will play in the elections. he has a badge it wand called tax cut deregulation. unleashing american energy. i think what's heartening about the trump economy is not just that it's hitting urban and metropolitan areas, but it's extending to blue collar work. it's astounding and the credit should go to donald trump. charles: he brought up something i have been saying for a long time. i hi historians and economists should measure presidents the day after the election. the economy goes in full swing, the stock market does what it thinks is going to happen. there is an immediate reaction that is tame marked at inauguration day. there is overwhelming evidence there was instant changes in the see you keefe our economy. >> i think that's right

charles: ashley is with us, "wall street journal" james freeman. real quick, when will the recovery get some respect? >> i think people want to see more on the wage gains. give some respect. markets have given it a great deal of respect. when you see the wage surges that, we have very tight labor market. i think they should be on the way. charles: funny, guys, real quick, last week there was survey people being happy at work. like a multidecade high. there is 23 components of it. when i look at components. people were thrilled with the people they work with, commute to work, interest of work, at very problem, promotional policy, bonus plans. liz: people are happy to go to work after labor day? whoo. charles: another great topic. still no deal with canada. those talks will resume. joining us fox news contributor james freeman, the official introduction. also on "the wall street journal" editorial board. author of a book, be booms, busts, bailouts at citi. thank you, james. even when they said there was no deal the tone of the conversations seemed to

all down fox business dagen mcdowell, the wall street journal assistant editorial page editor james freeman and national analyst morgan ortegus. >> good to be here. maria: what a day. we have rosenstein meeting with president trump, is that meeting going to still take place now that we have the two on the hot seat today in capitol hill, what do you think in. >> yeah, the president said he doesn't want to fire rosenstein. i guess some republicans house members right disagree but looks like he list -- lives to fight another day. dagen: and the hearing, of course, christine blasey ford, more accusers coming out of wood work, the story one represented by michael avenatti, the attorney for the porn per forme stormy daniels, this woman, the accusations strain. maria: there's anonymous and anonymous story. what's with all of the anonymous? dagen: we have breaking news overnight coming out of senate judiciary committee that it was last night that judge kavanaugh assaulted christine blasey ford. there's a lot to dig through this morning. maria: there really is. joining the conversation this morning

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editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and bill mcgurn and assistance editorial page editor james freemanod to have y'all here, dan, let me start with sparticus moment, cory booker turned out willingness to fall on the sword as he was putting it was all an act that he had permission to release the papers that he claimed he was going to release in a very self-sacrificing mode. he had permission to release those the night before. >> yeah, we all remember kirk clowglas, cory booker as far as you can get from the bravery of that movie. [laughter] >> he's running for president, you know, it was one thing after another, cory booker or kamala harries who is probably also running for president, david, people complain all of the time of the degree of polarization and degree of politics and they ask where it coming from, we had a two-day display by the democrats on the committee on what the basis of this partisanship and polarization is, it was relentless, there was absolutely no effort to engage the nominee and more serious, speech after another, senator blumenthal calling the president an undiete

could not be higher for the fight for control of the senate we are back with dan kim strawsel, james freemanme start with you you wrote in your column this week that if judge kavanaugh is forced to withdraw that will be a disaster for republicans in the midterms explain. >> well, look, there is a reason democrats are fighting this fiercely not just because they disagree with kavanaugh's ideology, or even that they want to spare their colleagues from having to vote on this before midterm it is because they know this is a fabulous issue, with their base. it rile them up gins up enthusiasm will be out there claim if they kill this claim look, give us a majority in the senate we will hold that seat open until 2020 when we win back the white house, conversely would be demoralizing to republicans gave senate white house two republicans in part off to a say over the supreme court, they do not appreciate tactics consider a failure of will by republican leadership. >> i agree with kim about that, that is even if the president nominated somebody like barrett to if kavanaugh withdrew before the electio

await for the president i'm joined by assistant editor for "wall street journal" editorial page, james freeman and american majority ceo ned ryun. let me begin with you. i was looking at your notes. you said we have devolved into the theater of the be a sudden her. what part of this is the most absurd in your opinion? >> where to start. honestly, dr. ford and her lawyers have been given every opportunity to bring forward her accusations. even, ashley they offered to send staff out to california to have an interview with her and i think it is time we probably hit a stop button on this. we got to the point, now democrats seem to think the fbi is their personal investigation arm. they got that impression when comey was head of the fbi but that is not how it works. the fbi does not have jurisdiction. cavanagh has been through six background checks. ashley, i've been through a background check by the fbi for top security clearance at the pentagon. they are extremely thorough. they go everywhere and dig into everything and ripple out asking as many people as possible. i have to tell you if you have

welcome back we are joined by our panel ed rollins is a former campaign manager for reagan bush 1984 james freemanistant editor of the wall street journal editorial page both are fox news contributors great to see you talking china with these tariffs that we're going to see tomorrow from the president as well as mid-term elections your thoughts on this new doubling down of these new tariffs. >> yeah it is a serious move and politically dangerous move because this unlike the previous rounds which hit the manufactures, these are tariffs on a lot of consumer goods so consumers are going to see higher prices and you have to believe the retaliation from china as has been their pattern is going to target trump states, agriculture so there's a question of how patient farmers who generally like the president are going to be with this trade fight. maria: you say on the one hand the tariffs are going to hit every day ordinary americans because it's just consumer goods on the other hand the retaliatory tariffs hit the farmers? >> yeah and bicycles luggage people will see those prices, the president has been

attorney andrew mccarthy, new york congressman tom reed, and "wall street journal's" james freeman. >> we love them all. the dow closing in negative territory for the third trading day in a row. again it was much worse earlier. it was dragged down by shares of 3m, nike, disney. we know why nike cowas down. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. i want to focus own a positive. amazon, a trillion dollars, didn't stay in that category but hit it today. >> it was exciting, amazon, and apple, new all-time highs. we'll get to amazon's trillion dollar mark in a moment. let's look at the major averages. as you noted another positive we had been down nearly 160 points, dave and melissa. look, we're down just 11 as we close on the dow jones industrial average. the nasdaq and s&p up five straight months in a row. we talk about nike. colin kaepernick became famous as he led the protests for the national anthem. now he is the face of nike with the "just do it" campaign, believe in something, even if it believes sacrificing everything. this brought so much controversy, so ma

with me is mike lee and "wall street journal" editorial page assistant editor james freeman. mike, i want to start with you about the tariffs. the market does not seem to be reacting. this is not in the grand scheme of things, if you are a farmer having to have a $12 billion government bail-out or you work for a newspaper in tampa bay where you are being laid off, i'm not diminishing that, but talking about the trillions of dollars you are bringing into the country, you are only talking about $200 billion, less than 10%. is the market not reacting to this because they think there won't be an escalation and because the numbers in the grand scheme of things are small? >> yeah, i think you just hit the nail on the head there. this is a much bigger deal for china than it is for the u.s. we are an 800 pound gorilla in terms of trade due to our trade deficit, so we have the ability to push people around whan and we are trying to do here is not punish our trading partners. it's to get them to open up their markets. if china would do a better job on opening up their markets and reduc

david: we have james freeman and adam lashinsky to talk about tesla. story of the hour is the hearing. let's go back to it. [inaudible]. >> don't apologize. melissa: hearing a little of inner workings as they get settled into their seats and decide to have a chance to go. let's listen. >> and again today, that mark judge was a close friend of yours in high school. now dr. ford as you know has said that he was in the room she was attacked. she also says you were too. unfortunately the fbi never interviewed him. we have not even have his attendance here. the chairman refuses to call him if she is saying mark judge was in the room then, he should be in the room here today. would you want him called as a witness? >> senator, this allegation came into the committee -- >> just asking the question, would you want him called to be here as a witness. >> he already provided sworn testimony. this 458 mitigation has been hid epden by the committee. >> it has not been investigated by the fbi. the committee refused to -- >> it was dropped on us, sprung. >> it was no

president trump apparently called james freeman of the wall street journal who wrote in opinion piece saying that after he was on fox news giving credit regulatoryident's policies, president trump called him and had a discussion. mentioned that trump himself said that while he described the relationship with japan is a that could beaid threatened when he tells them how much he has to pay. a continued focus on trade deficits on the part of president trump, even with an ally like japan should come as no surprise. president trump has imposed tariffs on japan and threatened automobile tariffs. japan has salt a good relationship. have worked together on north korea but apparently trade tensions still exist. kathleen: with friends like this, who needs enemies? greg sullivan joining us from washington. still ahead, our exclusive with alibaba founder jack ma. hereby he thinks he could do more good outside of business. rishaad: first,clarfeld financial and how to play the markets. looking at opportunities outside the united states. that is on the way next. rishaad: this is "bloomberg daybreak:

charlie gasparino is with us, "wall street journal" editorial page assistant editor james freeman, alsomes, on this, it could change the dynamics or at least delay a solution, right? >> yeah. i think the question is, is the president setting the table here for a productive negotiation that ultimately leads to china treating the united states better, treating our companies better -- neil: i'm dangling these over your head. >> right. or is this a long-term strategy to drive production, manufacturing, from china to the united states. he really doesn't care whether there's a deal and that would be if you want to be concerned about maybe that outcome that he's looking to permanently manage this trade in a way that he thinks will benefit the u.s., i think that recent tweet about apple would be an argument there, that this isn't necessarily a negotiation, it's just an effort to move more manufacturing -- neil: you are assuming a method to the madness. or is it impulsive craziness? >> i can think of many things that are great. tariffs are not the greatest. listen, we don't know exactly what don

onward and upward, to the "wall street journal's" james freeman, new york city council minority whip joe borelli, finally susan li. susan leaving the other accusers aside, because the committees would want time to get to talk to them, apparently not the public venue scheduled for tomorrow how do you think this is going to go, what should we be watching? >> mitch mcconnell said it best, should be adherence to fairness and presumption of innocence until proven otherwise. that is pretty much what the senators should look for in the hearings tomorrow, really throughout the rest of the week and the vote. neil: joe, wondering how would a democratic senator on that panel, pass up opportunity to throw out these other allegations? >> you will not see that the democratic senators will play for the cameras and -- neil: you would see that? >> i'm saying they would bring up as many sordid details from the other accusations without any corroborating evidence whatsoever. if the message and topic stays on kavanaugh's alleged behavior not his probable actual behavior, then they would. neil: mr. froma

"wall street journal's" james freeman is here, fox business's deirdre bolton and late but not least noelle nikpour. if you could tell us who wrote this? >> i will tell you. i need a contract from fox if i am out of business, i will have no one hire me for campaigns. neil: what is the advantage, of keeping it anonymous? >> well, what i told you before we went on air, the reason why this person wants to keep it anonymous because he feels like -- neil: it is a he. that has been ascertained. >> we think. we don't know. the person probably feels like i am a true patriot and i am between the american people and donald trump. and me and all my cohorts that are working together to make sure that he, you know, doesn't do this or, whatever, the situation is, at hand, he feels like he is the person between it all. which means, if you, what we were saying, if you go out and say, i'm mr. so-and-so, i wrote it, i'm proud, bye-bye, that means everyone around you will get fired. everyone that was your friend, everyone thaw knew associated with this person is out. that means -- neil: say it's a cabinet off

james freeman fits the bill. i need your help. the man on your screen, jeff, do not be alarmed.ughter] first question to you, why is the market up? we have got all of these trade wars in the background? why isn't it down? >> i have said before, ignorance is bliss. [laughter] this has been essentially, a paper tiger. president trump has been threatening tariffs, but not executing to the extent that he is threatened. so the market which is momentum driven, has been primarily focused on whether or not president trump carries through with the threats. as of now, he has not. and the market on a day-to-day basis, singularly focused on china. will rally and decline based on where we go based on the threats. >> the finance. >> thank you. [laughter] how about big tech?>> was that a compliment? >> where is the big tech we met we will not see twitter is down again and i see, facebook. that one is down a little bit. but alphabet up, amazon up, i think microsoft is up as well. james?do we have to wait for some kind of trade deal with china and/or canada before we see a huge rebound for the t

james freeman. "wall street journal." leslie marshall. fox news contributor.ief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell. the man on the spot today. did he use knife fight? >> he loves knife metaphors. usually a phone booth. >> bill: what he is referring to is texas and tennessee. places that you probably six months ago did not think there would be competition. what's going on? >> in a cycle like this. the party in power. the first mid-term after you win a presidential election is dicey. over the last 100 years there were only two occasions where the party in power hasn't lost a significant number of seats. 23 seat majority in the house you can see where it becomes a problem. what has gotten less focus is the senate. he rattled off all the states starting with north dakota, montana, indiana, new jersey, florida, they are all in play. republicans feel good but it will be a battle right down to the end. >> sandra: what do you think, james? >> i think you have very happy consumers in the united states. we're seeing that. i think republicans need to make it a referendu

james freeman is assistant editor of the wall street journal editorial page joins us. all of it but he is giving us in a much more disciplined way than the normal politician a very methodical rollout of his program and it is working. on the economic side manufacturing revival he promised, august giving us the best manufacturing report in 14 years and go down the line on economic statistics. steve: when you look at excerpts from the bob woodward book, it is so chaotic it is crazy town, they think he is crazy. >> a lot of people look at mister bernstein, his former writing partner is the least responsible but because you have bernstein on cnn, non-doctor issue in long-distance diagnoses, now mister woodward, i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. but my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. she said, get the one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's gentle rounded brush head removes more plaque along the gum line. for cleaner teeth and healthier gums. and unlike sonicare, o

brad blakeman, richard fowler, fox news contributor and james freeman of the "wall street journal" editorialx news contributor. i think james should sit between you two. would that be more fair? the end of democracy as we know it, brad. it's over, man. you can take the l out of lover. >> hillary should take the advice of mcarthur, she needs to go away. the democrat party is full of has beens, biden, hillary, bernie. fowler. the other thing is if you don't have has beens you have socialist democrats. i think their party is in crisis. if i were advising democrats hillary needs to buy an island and rule that. >> sandra: did we miss something that happened in the greenroom? >> i want to address some of brad's comments. what the president said today in the interview where he said i don't have an attorney general. that speaks to what hillary clinton is talking about in this op-ed. jeff sessions while appointed by the president serves the american president. when he took an oath to the constitution i think that's problematic and she is speaking to that. attacking faithful workers of the justice dep

>> lee carter, james freeman, jason chaffetz, three of my favorite people. >> thanks for having us. >> the new book. >> the deep state. now on book stands. went on sale yesterday. get it. >> one of my favorite people as well, stuart varney. stuart: good morning, dagen. good morning, everyone. the market continues to shock and amaze trade war with china, climate change is a dire threat. hillary clinton says if trump isn't checked our institutions will be eroded. yet, despite it all, the market is at or near record levels. investors from all around the world keep putting their money into wall street. america it seems is the place to be. that dealt with money. it is looking good this morning. politics, that is a very different story. let's call it kavanaugh chaos. let's call it the sliming of a well-qualified jurist. brett kavanaugh's accuser will not show up to answer questions. she alleged sexual assault over 30 years ago. she wants a fbi investigation first before she appears before congress. fbi says it is not its job. we don't know you how judge kavanaugh's nomination prospreads. it