economy prayed first talking to me about markets is the wall street journal's editorial page editor, james freeman, james coetzee. thanks much for joining us. what is your take on where we are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. we had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think? >> i think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. it's not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible global pandemic but business disruption in china. people from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so that's gonna cut into earnings you expect? take china out for the first quarter, no flights going in-and-out, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, that's going to hit the u.s. >> that's going to hit u.s. companies in the first quarter and for the year. so keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u.s. stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. so that

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is not poised to cut tariffs james freeman. >> i think the -- the answer is if china continues to --ould do in this agreement, why should not u.s. tariffs continue to come down? i think the president has wanted to maintain some tariffs as leverage in case they cheat, but -- i think there is a big economic argument in terms of getting, business investment surging again to hurry up bring tariffs down this is great news, and i hope we get more of it. maria: we will see about the purchases as well coming out of china given the coronavirus crisis and impact, we've got jam-packed hour coming up trade truce china cutting tariffs on 75 billion dollars of u.s. imports, ask exclusive reaction from u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchin live from white house today 8:30 a.m. eastern please join me for that are food delivery apps eating away money hidden fees inside your order might make you loss appetite tables turning i am answering questions from is in this hour submit through instagram twitter do so love to talk to you, first i speak one-on-one with trump organization executive vice president

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economy prayed first talking to me about markets is the wall street journal's editorial page editor, james freemanning us. what is your take

economy prayed first talking to me about markets is the wall street journal's editorial page editor, james freeman

for the first time, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg will be there in with me now is james freemanrnal," fox news contributor with me in studio. nice to see you. elizabeth warren just fired off a tweet, are you ready? let it begin. she says "it's a shame mike bloomberg can buy his way into the debate but at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on donald trump can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an egomaniac billionaire." it's on. >> i don't think that stage is going to have any shortage of egomaniacs and while she may not be a billionaire she's worth about 12 million bucks according to "forbes" magazine. this idea that mike bloomberg is not vetted, i think it's a little odd. not only dealing for three terms with the new york media here but he did participate in a mayoral debate along the way. i think you're going to find and voters are going to find a candidate who is ready to compete on wednesday night. >> bill: let me show you, fox research. wspent about $50 million in the rcp average of polls for michael bloomberg puts him at 14%. i

here is james freeman from "the wall street journal" he also is fox news contributor.ry and coming very close to condemning those who voted for the president, this is a country that is in trouble. at the same time, if we put up the "gallup poll," the americans say they are better off than a year ago, 59%, that is the most optimistic reading that gallup's annual mood of the nation survey has ever recorded. so hmmm. how does that go together, do you think, james? >> yeah, this is the challenge. they're looking for the message. obviously donald trump is not her enemy. he is her political opponent. perhaps some democrats were clinging to the hope that the investigations in congress, the impeachment process would uncover evidence that the president committed some kind of a crime. it didn't. it is hard to say he is unfit for office. the economy is outstanding. so maybe she is getting away from trying to claim that it's getting worse and getting less equal in terms of income. they're really struggling. you noticed in the last debate there was sort of a dissenter, andrew yang,

melissa: here is james freeman, "wall street journal" and also fox news contributor. everybody won. iowa democratic party paid a company called shadow a little more than $63,000 over two payments in november and december. shadow describes itself, a company that builds, wait for it, affordable and easy to use tools for progressives according to its website. what do you think of shadow? they went cheap. it is affordable. they're easy to use. 63,000 bucks. what you do you think? >> i guess the liberal progressive is your assurance of quality there. maybe you want someone who knows how to build software regardless of their political persuasion but this is going to be one of the many questions coming out of this debacle. the first one being, did you really need to build a customized app? i would think there is a lot of off-the-shelf software that is ready to handle this. this isn't sort of the most technical, the greatest technical challenge we have ever faced, getting caucus results from iowa. melissa: and it failed miserably. there were precincts said the app never loaded. no one teste

james freeman from the "wall street journal." fox news contributor.o a story in the journal's news section couple days ago, could be more to it but what's your reaction with the president going in this direction today? >> very welcome news. the idea that china can create a competitor to jet engines to boeing is not a national security threat. it is good news for ge to tell to china, around the world but also another sign that as we hoped trade tensions are easing. connell: right. >> the big kind of overhang in the markets, we see very happy workers, well-can compensated happy consumers but ceos have been nervous about the trade fights. they haven't been investing at great levels. we look at the corporate capital expenditure kind of weak lately. so this is a nice signal to say to companies the president wants them to export and do business around the world. connell: i think there is something wider to it than one "wall street journal" story. the president knows what people say about him, especially the business community. the knock has been he is a pro

get things done especially when they have not talk to each other since last october, was telling james freemanitalian relatives who went decades not talking to each other but for different reasons. they never knew what the reason was. i was surprised by that when i heard that, but to the point of not even talking, that's a little weird. >> i like how you set the bar low, so decades is the kudos standard. >> neil: they stumbled into the funeral. >> nothing is going to get done this year anyway, it never does in an election year, the only thing that might get done would be a big infrastructure plan but a lot of taxpayers would be upset about because a lot of the mo other things, so this is kind of a good year to maybe start repairing relationships a little because you are probably not going to get anything done anyway. obviously the rhetoric is pretty harsh but the president has said at times that they get along, he and nancy pelosi get along better on the phone then at public events when they do spe speak. >> neil: it is hypothetical in your very patient with such questions but i think the pres

bringing in james freeman, mary anne marsh, senior advisor to john kerry, you have been watching thisat you think about all of this over the past day? >> kind of amazing, the in intentional inadvertently state party in iowa has cheated the winner, not just taking away that moment of a big media bounce, but it's creating a cloud here. you have seen a bunch of candidates complain since so many of them have claimed that they did really well, the ones that did not are bound to question the process. they will ask even more when iowa puts out if it does partial results. i would urge them not to do this, because i think they will be compounding mistakes. i don't know what people are supposed to do with most of the results, but not all of them from the monday caucus. >> bill: that will be more than what we had last night, james, because our board was blank. marianne, it is a funky thing to cover a caucus and at 1:00 in the morning you turn on the local television stations there in des moines, and every name that should have a number, and the number is 0%. that has never happened before. >> it

james freeman, assistant editor of "the wall street journal" editorial page.an, radio host of "left coast news." first of all, ethan, i want to start with you. these are the two most powerful people, arguably. mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, powerful. but nancy pelosi on the president have gone head-to-head before. what does this look like going forward? it got really nasty today. >> this is not a good look at all. we don't have an executive republic. we have a tripartite republic. he needs speaker the policy when it gets to budget negotiations. to turn on her in his speech again today is only going to make this acrimonious. there is no effort going on here to repair the relationship. we need these two talking to each other, not just fighting. it's not good for the country. >> harris: james, what did the nation see on display today? speak of the speaker was saying she didn't need the dignity lessons. i think a lot of people probably thinking the leadership of both parties could use some dignity lessons. i do want to say, if people are offended about the trump

smith, fox business dagen mcdowell, the wall street journal assistant editorial passenger james freemaneat to see you. are we going to start the russia meddling once again? hysteria in the country? >> skeptical this time, by the way, i'm not sure what in the donald trump would be helpful to russia, is it increasing u.s. energy production, is it arming ukrainians, is it persuading members of nato to increase defense spending, i think the conclusion that russians meddles as it frequently does and has for years is a sound one. dagen: that's legitimate. >> the idea that they would actually prefer donald trump to let's say a bernie sanders is laughable. maria: it really is, you fool me once, okay, fool me twice, shame on me. i understand russia meddling, this is nothing new, this has been going on for decades. dagen: february 13th briefing, devin nunes was there as well, the top republican on the committee, so this is -- they are paying attention to it but i will just point to let me open my phone a tweet from john brennan on this issue, we are now in a full-blown national security crisis by

we have james freeman, lily garetta and john lonski. you, we always talk the psychological impact of this, people say we're not getting the skinny, straight skinny, from all the people in charge, and that's a rap, every country you go to, now including our own. what do you think? >> a big reason why this is becoming an economic pandemic is because of that uncertainty. in fact, it's interesting, i asked my big data team to see how many people are talking about this. in the last seven days in the u.s., there's been 11.5 million digital discussions about coronavirus. which 54% are negative, so people are scared, fearful and they want to know what this means. neil: how does that compare to the conversations a week ago? >> oh, this is definitely compounding and growing very fast. in china, it's 25 million discussions. but 46% are neutral. that means there is misinformation which means a formula for economic fear, consumer sentiment impacting everything that we are seeing because it's not only the travel and tourism and manufacturing but othe

james freeman, journal street kind of guy, what does that mean the economy is not working for everyonen you have numbers like that that? >> they will have to update talking points, they have been campaigning all year or over the past year as if this is the economy of 2015, 2016 slowing down, stagnant wages, we saw the january job's report, job creation above expectation, wages rising faster than we thought. it's no wonder you see people who are employed and see their wages rising are confident about the future. stuart: i just don't see with numbers like this and outlook like this on the economy, on prosperity, i don't see how the president loses to any opponent, but i'm not asking you for election forecast. >> on the economic side certainly we hope the coronavirus is not a long-term issue, that's something that could change the economic picture, i think the market is telling you that people don't expect that but that's a risk. i would also say there is a risk that the president decides now to engage in trade fight with europe, could have costs in terms of business investment and confid

richard fowler and james freeman from the editorial page of the "wall street journal." morning to all of you. go around the table. thoughts on the state of the union last night. >> i thought it was effective. a forceful, compelling, patriotic speech as you saw there. i think a win as you mentioned. there are sometimes weird comments on twitter. you didn't get any of that in the state of the union. focused and effective. >> ed: democrats seemed to think maybe nancy pelosi ripping up the speech took -- distracted away from the actual democratic rebuttal on policy. >> i sympathize with the argument. vintage donald trump. a campaign speech he was giving and a rally speech. uses similar flourishes with facts that are misleading. one was he talked about creating -- building all these factories. if you look into the numbers. i dug in this morning. there weren't 12,000 factories and things. for his base the speech worked. for the people who like donald trump the speech worked. if you didn't like him the speech didn't work. when you think about this nancy pelosi ripping up the s

joining us james freeman, those kinds of comments and he's made several of them, that's not the way toin politics, you're insulting population, he's going to be in the debate, he will be a target. >> i think what we will talk about the debate is results, he will talk about the thousands of young minority lives that were saved by the safer city that he helped turn new york into and as you know ray kelly, police commissioner through bloomberg years very popular in minority communities because insensitive remarks and bloomberg apologized but they did make city safer. stuart: a huge problem on his hands, he's a democrat, running as a democrats and key constituents are black and hispanic youngsters, that's just the way it is. notice who is in first place, it's bernie sanders. >> yeah. stuart: 31% of the vote, this contest seems to be coming down, divisive contest socialist and bloomberg. >> i hope we do get this this debate finally a real clash of ideas, you've had amy klobuchar raise her hand saying she's not comfortable with socialism, joe biden and halting way explain how socialized medi

leslie marshall, james freeman, assistant editor for the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributor. good morning. leslie, democrat at the table. >> yes. >> ed: there is a lot of arguing. i get it the folks who may have to drop out soon are trying to hard to get their voice in there and interrupt. does it help the democrats to have such a food fight? >> it doesn't help the party as far as unity. but i think -- what i saw last night was moderate democrats really pleading to the people watching and fighting for the soul of the party. a lot of people feel, myself included, that if bernie sanders continues to talk like he does and continues to put forth items on his agenda that not only don't add up financially but can't pass with votes, the democratic party is going to be doomed. the polls can't all be wrong. >> sandra: who are the moderate democrats that you are talking about? >> joe biden, bloomberg, buttigieg, and klobuchar. >> sandra: worth asking, right? everybody but elizabeth warren. she is in between where bernie is in the moderates leaning more toward bernie.

freeman. >> nicholas james mcguffin. >> people tend to think, if i'm innocent, i don't have anything to hide, even though you think what you're saying is fine and it's going to be helpful, it can be turned back on you in a second. >> how would you characterize her personal life? >> when she's around me she just seems really bright and happy-go-lucky and giggly. she's just a really good person. i started to have my concerns when they, kind of, started, i guess, trying to twist my words and the way i speak. >> did she never have problems at home? >> her parents are divorced and her depression maybe has a lot to do with her childhood. >> her depression? >> huh? >> what depression? you were just telling me she was happy-go-lucky. >> she is, she is. >> the first week, they actually wanted to look at my mustang. i signed it over to them immediately. i did not have anything to hide. there was nothing that i was worried about. >> the night that leah disappeared, it's about 11:40, a mechanic, worked the swing shift. he's driving home, and he saw a shoe lying on the road. he thought maybe one of these

also james freeman. great to see you guys. you have a hot take on stuff. >> biggest loser's elizabeth warren. chesterton about it, go all in and anyone that's ever gambled knows how that ends. this is a neighboring state. elizabeth warren comes in fourth she was in the single digits and here's the biggest issue. she refused it to change her approach and her campaign going into this. shefall where there was a public came out by upshot "new york times" that showed her in six google states doing worse than burying sanders and even joe biden and that's her. she started failing then. she used her gender against bernie sanders and try to hit them with that crotch and that didn't work. she also has a massive amount of overhead. this is a business network and according to "politico" she has more than 1000 staffers in 31 states and second only to potentially mike bloomberg operation so she just doesn't have the stronghold of black voters in south carolina the way joe biden does. a joe biden is suffering, don't get me wrong, but he stil