we are back with dan henninger, jason riley, and kim. did he turn. >> there would be several reasons for it. the central issue of collusion, i suspect mike flynn was essentially broke, very expensive to defend yourself against a federal prosecutor, been in the military his whole life and ran out of money. secondly it looks like he did lie to the fbi, that is a felony and for whatever reason he said these things to the fbi that remains a history. there may have been other problems for mike flynn like relationships with the turkish government, the work he had done. larger charges and his son who was working in the company as well could have been a target of mister mueller and part of the deal may have been he got his son set aside in all this so my clinton had a distinguished career as a public servant for 30 years and now he faces the prospect of going to prison for 6 months. paul: james comey, former fbi director told the house intelligence committee in march that his agents decided general flynn had not lied about those meetings and yet

we are back with dan henninger, jason riley, and kim. did he turn. >> there would be several reasons for it. the central issue of collusion, i suspect mike flynn was essentially broke, very expensive to defend yourself against a federal prosecutor, been in the military his whole life and ran out of money. secondly it looks like he did lie to the fbi, that is a felony and for whatever reason he said these things to the fbi that remains a history. there may have been other problems for mike flynn like relationships with the turkish government, the work he had done. larger charges and his son who was working in the company as well could have been a target of mister mueller and part of the deal may have been he got his son set aside in all this so my clinton had a distinguished career as a public servant for 30 years and now he faces the prospect of going to prison for 6 months. paul: james comey, former fbi director told the house intelligence committee in march that his agents decided general flynn had not lied about those meetings and yet

jason riley and "wall street journal" columnist. and sarah sanders from the washington examiner.e the senior politic writers for u.s. news and world report. gentlemen and lady welcome. david the top headline? >> he said robert mueller will be fair to him in this investigatio investigatio investigation. sarah westwood. i think that's the white house staff attorneys calming the president down. knowing he is in a precarious legal position to not push at mueller. that was the most anding. -- interesting. he said no collusion. he is still maintaining innocence but is allowing special counsel robert mueller to do his job. >> could make white house staffers gray? >> we heard that president trump gave no head's up to the staff. it was the right place and the right time for the "new york times" reporter who was having lunch in mar a lago. there were some things that president trump said that his staff may not have liked. we talked about what rights president trump has and doesn't have in reopening the clinton emails investigation. what was most interesting was the centric tone talking abo

racial divide, the kinds of thing president obama was saying, was that divisive, or i think of jason riley, a commentator at fox, at the manhattan institute, an african-american who talked with me about being stopped for driving while black, those things happen. >> those things happen, racism does exist. the left wants to focus on stories and make things better. if president obama stated he was talking about in poor areas and poor neighborhoods. but the left doesn't want to talk about reforming education in those areas which is the equalizer to poverty in this country. one of the things president trump is going to do is address the policies and issues to make things better. adam: love to have the discussion about poverty. we've interviewed the harvard professor who wrote the book our children and the greatest indicator of poverty in our country regardless of race. single parent household. nothing against single parents. >> i'm a single mom, been tr. adam: we'll have the discussion another time. let me wish you a happy and healthy new year to you and your family. >> to you as well. adam: th

and jason riley, "wall street journal" columnist and senior fellow at the manhattan institute. . >> nice to see you. happy holidays. >> your reaction to the back and forth today over social media, jason? >> well, it's hard to quibble with the substance of what president obama said. cyber bullying is a problem differentiating real miss and fake news and parents frankly are worried about all of this. at the same time i think that president obama knew exactly what he was doing when he weighed in and asking. read the transcript of the interview. he knew they would be taken they have been taken. and you know a lot of presidents when their successor gets in office they sort of back off. don't weigh in on the debates. president obama hasn't done that. from time to time, he weighed in on the travel ban. he has weighed in indefensible obamacare. he has taken a different route here. this is another example of him doing that. >> mike: move, your read on the former president weighing in on. so current issues and today on social media? >> i think that one of the greatest challenges we face t

laws, jason riley from "the wall street journal," an african-american conservative had a great column talking about how if doug jones had lost, then there would be trying about voter i.d. laws in alabama. so this certainly, the integrity of the ballot box has been something that on the left and the rirkght, people have been raising flags -- >> voter i.d. laws are different than voter fraud. there are studies done about voter fraud and it hasn't been credibly proven to change the results of any election. voter i.d. laws have been shown to really affect whether or not minorities vote or poor people vote. whether they have access to the i.d.s, the money to get those i.d.s and access to the offices to get those i.d.s. there's a big problem in alabama about access to driver's license offices. they closed a number of them in areas where the minority vote was higher than -- or could have been potentially higher than the caucasian vote. i want to dip in really quickly to -- >> i think the voter i.d. laws are very -- >> we'll come back to you. montgomery, alabama. let's dip in and watch as dou

manhattan institute senior fellow and the author of false black power jason riley. up to the news. people were shocked. how could that person not have been found guilty of her killing? clearly, he's the guy who pulled the trigger. >> clearly. i have a seven-time felon who should not have been in the country in the first place firing a stolen pistol and killing someone, and he essentially gets off with a hand slap, i think if you ask me. i mean, the jury went so easy on had me you, i just think it has a lot of people shaking their heads. how could this happen? steve: the last line of your wall street journal column is so provocative. it said kate steinle was also a victim of ideological jurors sending a message to the president. >> yeah. we know that donald trump is not very popular in san francisco. i think fewer than 10% of -- he won less than 10% of the vote last year. and it could be that the jurors were going to send a message to the president. he made illegal immigration a big deal in the campaign and perhaps they wanted to push back. because it's hard for them