ben kissel. and he is the one putting twisted thoughts in your head. host of the anthony -- anthony cumia show. >> a new poll finds 7% of voters ended friendships over the election. while that number may seem low to you it is probably because the polarization was built in before this year and most cross party friendships have ended already. the researchers asked the facebook users if they ever blocked or unfriended someone over politics. 44% of liberals said they had. that's compared to 31% of conservatives. those numbers don't surprise me. they gave everyone permission to say so long. and the huffington post asked and answered can't we be friends and disagree. and look at this facebook message i received from an old friend. i looked at your current show and was shocked at how ignorant you sound. you use your ingenuous wit and public posture to stand for what is right in the world. goodbye to my carrot bag lunch buddy. you have to understand i am in show business and i only hear certain words. as i read that, all i heard was to brilliant tom shillue, y

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel. dan, i think the bigger problem is donald trump, no question about it, than the wikileaks thing. how big a crisis is it for the trump campaign? >> it is truly a significant political crisis. the personal aspects of trump aside, you know, i'm reminded of a similar political crisis, paul, that was when richard nixon resigned the presidency. why did nixon resign? it wasn't because of watergate. it wasn't because of the missing tape. nixon said he resigned when he lost the political support of his party. and donald trump is in the process of losing that. you have all of these politicians coming out like senator mike lee, mike crapo, bob are barbara comstock, that is a problem. donald trump is sitting there three points belowton. he has to get that above her number to win the election. this is not going to help that. >> before we get to these republicans, i want to ask you, what's your reaction to how donald trump handled this with that first quasi apology and then the later one where he a

their teacher is jean kissel. >> when we first started objectivity was not even on the , scale. but given definition of writing, journalists, and separation of professional action and personal feelings, we can make it through hours of interviews before anyone becomes less than objective. and that is an incredible step. the importance of remaining objective to be able to do the reporting. i have one student now who wrote a story about his best friend, who asked him to go to jihad with him. this man said no, i have been accepted into the irc journalism course, and i think i will stay here. when it is finished, i will go with you. one day, this man went home for lunch, and his family gathered together and told him to sit down. that the martyr had been brought back from the front. then they told him, they said gently, that it was his friend and he had been beheaded. and now, before going back to class in the afternoon, he was asked by his father to go with other men and take a grave and -- dig a grave along the road and bury his friend, which he did. and he made it to class that day

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel. dan, i think the bigger problem is donald trump, no question about it, than the wikileaks thing. how big a crisis is it for the trump campaign? >> it is truly a significant political crisis. the personal aspects of trump aside, you know, i'm reminded of a similar political crisis, paul, that was when richard nixon resigned the presidency. why did nixon resign? it wasn't because of watergate. it wasn't because of the missing tape. nixon said he resigned when he lost the political support of his party. and donald trump is in the process of losing that. you have all of these politicians coming out like senator mike lee, mike crapo, bob are barbara comstock, that is a problem. donald trump is sitting there three points below hillary clinton. he has to get that above her number to win the election. this is not going to help that. >> before we get to these republicans, i want to ask you, what's your reaction to how donald trump handled this with that first quasi apology and then the later o

we're back with dan henniger, jason reilly and mary kissel and james freeman.nd mary, will we look back if trump loses on the last week as the week that did him in. >> i have to say voters are frankly appalled by trump after the second debate. he lost big-time among women. there -- he is basically even with hillary when it comes to the independent vote. but he is not appealing to those people -- >> with his message and response. >> no, absolutely not. just some numbers here for you paul, he lost women by 12 points, down 12 points in a week. suburban women down ten, this is from the fox news poll and white college educated women by seven and republican women down by six in a week. his favor ability ratings went down and she is up by seven points. not a good picture. >> let me put a couple of other numbers up. honest and trustworthy for them, and hillary clinton not honest or trustworthy and 64% say trump isn't. james, so that is a wash. here is the big number. 56% of the voters say donald trump is not qualified to be president. and only 31% say that about hillar

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the former reagan/busch ticket and steven senior vice president of global strategy group and mary kisselditorial board member for "the wall street journal." let's talk about the gettysburg speech right here. that was the highlight of the weekend, mary. your reaction? >> trump is good when he focuses on policy. you saw in the third debate that's where he won over hillary clinton and some of those policies are terrific. school choice, cutting taxes, getting rid of obama care. some of it is terrible. the same that we heard from trump. but, again, trump always loses when it becomes about him and his ego. he goes off on these tangents about globalism and the establishment and clinton machine. that is time that he should be spending talking about hillary clinton and what life would be li like. >> which is why i can't believe, steven, that the race is where it is right now. if it were anyone else, a lot of these missteps that trump has done would have taken him out and, yet, she so disliked. and that keeps haunting her. >> i think that is some of it. the thing that is remarkable about trump is

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel. dan, i think the bigger problem is donald trump, no question about it, than the wikileaks thing. how big a crisis is it for the trump campaign? >> it is truly a significant political crisis. the personal aspects of trump aside, you know, i'm reminded of a similar political crisis, paul, that was when richard nixon resigned the presidency. why did nixon resign? it wasn't because of watergate. it wasn't because of the missing tape. nixon said he resigned when he

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel. dan, i think the bigger problem

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel.

mary kissel. james freeman. and in washington, kim strassel. dan, i think the bigger problem is donald trump, no question about it, than the wikileaks thing. how big a crisis is it for the trump campaign? >> it is truly a significant political crisis. the personal aspects of trump aside, you know, i'm reminded of a similar political crisis, paul, that was when richard nixon resigned the presidency. why did nixon resign? it wasn't because of watergate. it wasn't because of the missing tape. nixon said he resigned when he lost the political support of