and >> and joining us our political panel, national reviews rich lowrie and wall street journal's jason riley good evening, gentlemen. the president says the president says race relations relations now are better than what he took office. jason, i'll start with you, do you agree with that? >> no. of course not. >> he's the president. >> he says a lot of things i don't think they're better and i don't think he's done much to make them better. this president and this administration has shown they're not interested in bridging racial divide. or i should say they're more interested in exploiting our racial division for political gain, and that's what we've seen repeatedly, whether we're talking about eric garner or michael brown or voter id laws or criticisms of his administration. this is a president and this is a presiden administration that is quick to play the race card. >> richard, nodding your head. >> substantively, person to person race relations are probably the best they've ever been in this country, but it's very easy to forget that because every time someone relaxes has made a critici

. >> and >> and joining us our political pan panel, and the "wall street journal's" jason riley. good evening, gentlemen. the president says race relations now are better than when he took office. jason, i'll start with you. do you agree with that in. >> no of course not. laughable. >> >> he says it. he's the president >> no i don't think they're better and i don't think he's done much to make things better. this president and administration has shown they're not interested in bridging racial divides. or i should say they're more interested in exploiting the racial divisions for political gain and that's what we've seen if we're talking about eric garner or michael brown or criticisms of his administration. this is an administration this is an administration quick to play the race card. to >> rich, you're nodding your head? >> i think >> i think that's right. substantive i think the president is right. person to person race relations are probably better than they have been in the country. it's very easy to forget that because every time someone in the last six years has made a cri

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let's ask kim strassel and jason riley and james freeman.im, let's talk first about the challenge to the speaker, 25 votes, a lot of votes against the speaker in the end. >> look i mean yes, there were 25 votes. on the other hand, there were always 200 members of the republican party in the house were always going to vote for the speaker and there wasn't a candidate who was gripping anyone's mission this was never going to be much more than a side show. they feel john boehner has not been aggressive in putting the test to barack obama and it does pore tend his biggest challenge going forward, managing his own office. >> does this signal more republican disorder to come even with their fortified ranks of additional 14 seats or so? is this more trouble to come? >> getting the extra 14 seats gives boehner some leeway, but i think it does go back to why he is going to focus the first six weeks in particular on issues that do tend to have a lot of u.n. nimty. there were a lot of democrats that support the bills as well too. >> good early sign of

jason riley, editorial board member of the "wall street journal." a.b.ard, associate editor of "the hill" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. george, your overall thoughts on this policy these moves and the fallout? >> many of the critics of the policy soup to assume the cuban regime will crumble when its founding dictator dies. the problem with that is that the soviet regime survived the death of its founding dictator by 67 years. the soviet regime survived the death of his successor stalin. it began under the presidency of dwight eisenhower. as did attempts by the united states to bring the regime down. the regime has survived the presidencies of eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter reagan bush, clinton, bush, and obama. that's 11 presidencies. it's not going to fall by itself. we don't know what will work but 50 years of futility is probably about enough. >> jason, as we've heard in this hour critics of this policy say this was the time because the soviets are no longer supporting like they did, neither is venezuela because of

wall street journal jason riley is here. and ellen is here. she's also a fox news contributor. both. jason, let's start with you. paul ryan saying that he won't attempt it. he has other things to do. what do you make of the race -- >> he has a nice committee he'll be running. he's a detailed guy. i think he wants to be in charge of the committee. and i think this is not that big of a surprise. cheryl: he's young. >> he's young. doesn't have to do it this go around. what's more interesting, the more interesting development is romney getting in or talking like he's getting in. and bush talking like he's getting in. two guys that will not only occupy or be tapping into the same donors, but also the same voters. they're really occupying the same part of the political spectrum which makes it interesting that both want to jump in. cheryl: i'm noti'm not sure those same donors will be with mitt romney this time around. especially those voters in florida that he made the remarks about the 48%. where you have bush with the family name. >> between romney and bush bush does a little bette

jason riley, editorial board member of the "wall street journal." a.b. "the hill" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. george, your overall thoughts on this policy these moves and >> many of the critics of the policy seem to assume the cuban regime will crumble when the founding dictator dies. the soviet regime survived the death of its founder. the cuban reek yeem began under presidency of dwight eisenhower. and survived 11 presidents so it's not going to fall by itself. we don't know what will work. >> as you've heard in this hour critics of the policy say this is the time. so far yits are no longer supporting what they did. either is venezuela. if this is the time, critics say this is a lifeline. >> well, what we've learned is that if you let the countries like china and vietnam you can have relatively economic free countries that co-exist with political repression. and that is what we have in cuba. you have to remember, or that is what we can have possibly in cuba. you have to remember that while the u.s. is not been trading with cuba for a

rich lowrie and jason riley, rich, let's start with you. there's quite a few inaccuracies in that statement. >> i love the caveat that it's not a pa gortive term. we heard at the end of that the end of the speech we heard the airy reck ret about how we need a more united politics. here the next day the vice president is out calling anyone who is take inging advantage of these vehicles to save and invest a a trust fund baby, which goes to how insincere the rethetoric was and how stuck the administration was on the class warfare politics. >> how is this going to work for them? as often is the case a lot of people that get labeled rich they don't feel rich after they pay the bills and isn't that much left over and trying to save for college. they are unhappy that they might be in that category. >> it's a blatant misrepresentation of who all benefits from tax cuts on investment income. half the country owns stocks either directly or through 401(k)s. it's his goal to raise revenue to pay for these other programs that the president laid out free