[applause] it's a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. jason is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, regular columnist for "the wall street journal" and a commentator for fox news. in his new book "false black power?," jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and prioritization of pure political power in which he argues that failed to produce significant results for african-americans. the book includes thoughtful responses to jason's arguments from two leading black intellectuals, john mclaurin glenn lowry. this slender book that packs a powerful punch. as one blogger noted, what makes this book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of its writing style. he made it look easy to dance, so it is rarely expressed his elegance so natural that it seems effortless. how did you get to write this? there you go. it's available for just $10. six dollars on kindle. jason may not get rich with this book, but hopefully she will open a few minds. please join me in welcoming the fearless in the peerless, jason riley. [applause

the bipartisanship i extended tax reform create less ask dan henninger, and jillian melchior and jason rileyjason, what to make of this bipartisan -- >> how long will this last week we will see. who knows? even with the deal on the immigrants. on the daca, so-called dreamers.we are getting different messages depending on who you are talking to. donald trump says we are not as close as nancy pelosi and chuck schumer but we are close. but we will see. i think in terms of immigration, they should make a deal. i think these dreamers are very popular. much more popular than the president frankly. but also, the restriction, the immigration restrictions in the publican party do not represent the republican party good let alone the country when it comes to dealing with people here illegally. i think this will be a very popular thing for the president and it would also give them a chance to do something that neither george w. bush nor barack obama was able to accomplish. and donald trump likes to get a compliment. he likes that he likes to get things done.>> suggested we define who we are talking abo

the bipartisanship i extended tax reform create less ask dan henninger, and jillian melchior and jason riley. jason, what to make of this bipartisan -- >> how long will this last week we will see. who knows? even with the deal on the immigrants. on the daca, so-called dreamers.we are getting different messages depending on who you are talking to. donald trump says we are not as close as nancy pelosi and chuck schumer but we are close. but we will see. i think in terms of immigration, they should make a deal. i think these dreamers are very popular. much more popular than the president frankly. but also, the restriction, the immigration restrictions in the publican party do not represent the republican party good let alone the country when it comes to dealing with people here illegally. i think this will be a very popular thing for the president and it would also give them a chance to do something that neither george w. bush nor barack obama was able to accomplish. and donald trump likes to get a compliment. he likes that he likes to get things done.>> suggested we define who we are talking a

we are back with dan henninger and jason riley. ight between trump and the nfl? >> i think, the nfl, paul, is winning, what started by protests by some players about how police are treating young black men in the country has sort of morphed into an antitrump protest that you're seeing and i think more people are joining it and when you see the owners kneeling with their players as we have seen recently, i think that is evidence of who is winning this. paul: uniting the owners and the players which is some achievement. [laughter] paul: but don't most americans, would trump have a point that most americans agree with him about honoring a flag or has this become a much larger issue -- >> i think trump supporters agree with him. i think that different people view protests differently. trump has tried to frame this as a questioning patriotism of the players. i think many, many americans view this differently. paul: how do they view it? >> they feel that the players have legitimate grief is how they view it and -- i think we can get into

we are back with dan henninger and jason riley. een trump and the nfl? >> i think, the nfl, paul, is winning, what started by protests by some players about how police are treating young black men in the country has sort of morphed into an antitrump protest that you're seeing and i think more people are joining it and when you see the owners kneeling with their players as we have seen recently, i think that is evidence of who is winning this. paul: uniting the owners and the players which is some achievement. [laughter] paul: but don't most americans, would trump have a point that most americans agree with him about honoring a flag or has this become a much larger issue -- >> i think trump supporters agree with him. i think that different people view protests differently. trump has tried to frame this as a questioning patriotism of the players. i think many, many americans view this differently. paul: how do they view it? >> they feel that the players have legitimate grief is how they view it and -- i think we can get into this if y

let's bring in kim crossle, james freeman and jason riley. let's start with you. share his view that this is a relatively good effort in emergency management so far? >> i think it's one of the best efforts we have seen since the history of emergency management. great cooperation between the state and federal authorities. and that is key to this. and just the people of houston and the people of texas who used all the technology and everything else at their disposal to help each other out. paul: that's an interesting part of this. the cooperative spirit of texas. >> it has thrown trump critics off their game. they were anticipating and were ready to go to school on it. we have seen cooperation between the local official, the labor tech scary of transportation. we are talking about the first lady's footwear on the left. paul: you have got to give credit to the mayor and the governor. the coordination does start with the local officials. they had security people out in force, and you don't see a lot -- there is a a little bit of not evacuating. but it seems it saved l

let's bring in kim crossle, james freeman and jason riley. let's start with you.ou share his view that this is a relatively good effort in emergency management so far? >> i think it's one of the best efforts we have seen since the history of emergency management. great cooperation between the state and federal authorities. and that is key to this. and just the people of houston and the people of texas who used all the technology and everything else at their disposal to help each other out. paul: that's an interesting part of this. the cooperative spirit of texas. >> it has thrown trump critics off their game. they were anticipating and were ready to go to school on it. we have seen cooperation between the local official, the labor tech scary of transportation. we are talking about the first lady's footwear on the left. paul: you have got to give credit to the mayor and the governor. the coordination does start with the local officials. they had security people out in force, and you don't see a lot -- there is a a little bit of not evacuating. but it seems it saved

jason riley, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." olivia knox. >> if paul ryan and mitch mcconnell couldn't deliver on any of the stuff they kept promising donald trump, it was only a matter of time before donald trump would decide he would work with other people such as chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. for president trump, a lot of house republicans have been useless had best. there's little downside to pivoting away from them. having said that, donald trump was elected in part based on his ability supposedly to make great deals for the american people. i think he believes this will avoid, it will lessen the likelihood of government shutdown. wanted to get in return? i don't think we've dealt with the debt crisis at all. we have very few leaders who care about the situation other than the house freedom congress. >> bret: we are told the republicans started it 18 months and they were whittled down. they got down to six. the democrats held the line at three. in the president agreed. in 2013, another debt ceiling negotiation, business

fox news media analyst howard kurtz, adam palmer, and jason riley, "wall street journal" columnist andfellow at the manhattan institute. jason, your thoughts? >> well, i think a number of nos or concerns could grow, actually, bret. i'm not actually sure if mitch mcconnell will have this bill next week. i understand john mccain's concern here. i think it's a principle stand. he wants to return to regular order. he doesn't want to ram through something on a partisan basis the way the democrats did with obamacare. but the problem is i don't think there are really any good faith efforts to work with publicans on this they do not want to return to regular order. the bernie sanders, elizabeth warden, kamala harris wing of the party is ascendant. they are moving left on health care, bret. i think john mccain is on a fool's errand here. >> bret: there was a bipartisan effort from murray and the... who else... lamar alexander. they were moving forward with a save obamacare piece of legislation. it would've not done anything close to what graham-cassidy is doing. >> correct. these are deafly fin

brian: "wall street journal" writer, jason riley, you said you couldn't stand for the national anthemrms of patriotism. it was considered a form of idolatry. when i left the religion and for my teams i like thatted. my dad was jehovah witness and they were divorced. steve: growing up in a country where everybody stood for the national anthem, it had to be hard. >> it was hard. one of many things that i didn't stand growing up in the religion. i'm not challenging the patriotism of the players. i'm questioning what is being protested has basis in reality. the players say increase of shootings by police of young black men they're protests. i think there sin crease in coverage of shooting, thanks mostly to social media, that is the not same thing saying there is increase in the shootings. the data does not show that. take new york city, where we are for example. in 1971 cops shot 314 people in new york. 91 of them or 93 of them fatally i believe. fast forward to 2015. they shot 23 people, 6 of them fatally. that is 93% reduction in police shootings and police shooting fatalities over four

jason riley wrote an article in the wall street journal similar to your sentiments.e guidance for the land, what should they do? >> well, they need to get to the core problem, which is the lack of parent principally supervision, you know, for these kids at home. now, that's a big, you know, bigger issue to deal with. but you certainly don't address it by saying. okay. you can be a miscreated school. my son was in an inner city school here in st. louis, and we're talking 3rd graders who were cursing their teachers and hitting their teachers. one kid i can tell you specifically his mother dropped him off at school and took off to work and the principal just took him up to his office and had him stay there, and then they didn't even continue with the three-day suspension. so they're letting these kids become discipline problems at an early age and the unfortunate problem is once these kids become teenagers and even young adults, they are worse discipline problems. steve: and they're not doing it because they have hit an arbitrary quota. a crazy story, and i'm glad you b