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with me now, bill mcgurn. you want to say it, bill mcgurn. >> bill mcgurn.l street journal" guy. >> one of them. stuart: yes, one of them. what is your response to what joe biden just said and my editorial? >> i think that's right. in 2016 one of hillary clinton's biggest mistakes when she said we'll put a lot of coal miners out of work. she was actually being quite honest about her policies. joe biden, a lot of other democrats have the same policy. they seem to be making the same mistake. they don't realize for a lot of people that you mentioned in these states, the war on fossil fuels, is a war on fossil fuel workers. as you mentioned, one of the other benefits you didn't mention it has liberated foreign policy we're not hostage to opec or venezuela or russia anymore. so it has given us a lot more flexibility, am i going a bit too far though, i often do, i'm wondering if i go too far now, because, say the election, presidential election hangs on rather obscure, not widely understood drilling process? >> right. stuart: maybe i'm going a little far. >> maybe

we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn.ch mcconnell. [laughter] why do you think she finally gave in? >> well, i think it's because mitch mcconnell has been remarkably consistent from the start about this. he has both said that the house was not going to dictate senate rules, and he's also said that the senate was going to conduct a trial much in line with the clinton impeachment trial the last time around. and that consistency ended up being very persuasive with his republican colleague, even the moderates -- folks like mitt romney or susan collins -- who gave him the votes to say, yes, let's start. in the face of that, even democrats understand that they could not win this battle, and they have conceded. paul: yeah. of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi seem to be in league here, with chuck schumer demanding witnesses and pelosi backing him up. some democrats in the senate were finally losing patience, dianne feinstein, joe manchin, some others, said let's get on with it. they had even lost support among democrats. >> well, i

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mcgurn. thank you very much. >> you're welcome. i want to bring in scott shellady back in again. i said good-bye. i want to bring him back in. illinois resident. according to the census bureau, illinois has seen a population decline for the sixth straight year. i take it this is a tax exodus, scott? >> 100%. they named jb pritzker our governor, u-haul sales man of the year. in october of 2014 i moved to indiana because the taxes were getting ridiculous. you rent your house back off the government even if you own it out right. over the last decade, illinois lost more residents than any other state in the union. that will continue to be the case as we have less and less people to tax. taxes are going up in illinois. they will continue to do the same thing and wonder why the goose with the golden egg has left the state. stuart: the tax exodus is a big theme on the program. i'm glad you made. exodus, scott. see you soon, scott. >> all righty. see ya. stuart: administration is considering putting titler requirements on disability paymen

bill mcgurn, former chief speechwriter for president george w.h, fox news contributor, good to see you as always. we know that money does not always translate to votes, but does this at least question the theory that sanders has this high floor, no ceiling to be the nominee? >> it could. as you pointed out, every debate features democrats complaining about billionaires trying to buy the election. there at the end is poor old tom steyer, desperately trying to buy make the election. >> leland: [laughs] >> he can't break up of 2%. was interesting about that is if you look at the joe biden and pete buttigieg, they are almost mirror opposites in the sense that biden has managed to hold onto the lead even though everyone sort of expect him to tumble. but he can't attract the fund-raisers, maybe because they don't think he can do it for the long haul. whereas buttigieg can do great with the fund-raisers, but he's got a real problem with african-american voters. >> leland: mainstream candidates, the young guard, the old guard, that you point out. back to

here is bill mcgurn from "the wall street journal" he is also a fox news contributor.were really fascinating about these disclosures. one, i mean, just how much money bernie sanders pulled in ahead of his other rivals, even after all of this time, all these campaigns, also, the top five companies they work for, amazon, starbucks, walmart, the post office and then target. what do you make of that? >> right, right. well you could say, i think bernie would say it proves that people are for me have some grievances with their employers. he is a formidable candidate. he can't be dismissed. he has nothing to lose by staying in now. he has money that can keep him going and with elizabeth warren's star sort of eclipsing, i think the case for him is a lot stronger. a lot depends on joe biden. what's interesting about the donor numbers that have come out, we're always hearing that the top priority for democrats is to beat donald trump, and assumption has always been that bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, a little too far left. that joe biden is the best chance of beating him. mel

i want to bring in bill mcgurn. dana perino is still here. the president is getting going on his defense today. >> this is the first time he's going to have his defense heard. that's one of the distinctions between the senate trial and the house impeachment process. >> trace: the interesting thing is, pat cipollone will have a chance to defend this. a lot of the country will say now we're getting two sides. >> dana: pat cipollone for the white house general counsel will be joined by three other lawyers. one of the things that will be interesting. not only will you get to hear from him, but mitch mcconnell said you have to turn in a written brief by noon monday. the democrats get to do the same. but i think those written briefs will be very interesting. hopefully they won't be 500 pages long and boring. >> trace: one of the big things people were looking for, he did respond to the parnas thing. he said i knew what was going on. i didn't do anything without the word from rudy guliani. the president said i don't know this guy. >> he has his own

"wall street journal" editorial board member bill mcgurn. gibbs wealth management management president erin gibbs. welcome to both of you. good to have you. erin, begin with you, end with you, the markets on this notion used to be they climbed or dropped based on whatever news we hear about news in china but now the virus in china. >> it is certainly scary. though it has been pretty contained the stocks that either have a lot of exposure to china revenues or are definitely travel, hospitality. companies have to close a few points, like disney closing parks. if you look reaction how many stocks are hit it, has been somewhat of an overreaction because these stocks are priced pretty high. neil: right. >> longer term what we're seeing a much bigger reaction to emerging markets and chinese stocks. which means if investors find the emerging markets and chinese stocks are too risky, they might actually eventually put money into the u.s. which is definitely safer. so this could actually, as we've been saying, could potentially be beneficial not only

bill mcgurn, former chief speechwriter for president bush and fox news contributor.lov is here, as well. welcome to all of you. >> welcome, ed! >> ed: glad you're all here. >> we couldn't miss your first day! >> ed: so kind of you. >> sandra: good morning to all of you. chad, set this up for us. what will we see happen here? >> we are about to see the conclusion of the impeachment that began in the house. all these things are sort of distractions because we know the outcome. pretty much -- >> like the acquittal. >> they won't get 20 republican votes to acquit. so all of this is a lot of sound and fury about little details i don't think are going to matter in two weeks. >> ed: jessica, what about lindsey graham saying that it's either all the witnesses were no witnesses? are democrats prepared to entrepreneur joe biden were others coming in, if you want to get john bolton or lev parnas? >> i think they are becoming increasingly open to it. sherrod brown on the sunday show said, "call hunter biden, what is he going to say? i got a better job because my dad is a powerfu

mary anne marsh, former senior advisor to john kerry, and bill mcgurn from the lawsuit journal.a columnist there. you are fired up. kick this off, david. what you see where do you see things when the sweet? >> fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. this is the second time adam schiff has tried to get an investigation about the president going that is ultimately going to end up nowhere. secondly, more than the senate democrats running for president who want to stroll over, it's doug jones and gary peters you want this trail over. in michigan, independent voters that don't support this, and certainly this doesn't help doug jones in alabama. >> sandra: up regardless, this meeting is happening tomorrow. we will see where this goes next. bill? >> it's kind of a charade. we've known the outcome from before the impeachment started, because they won't get 20 republican votes. i think we are seeing now is the house impeachment, the kind of rube goldberg way they went around it. it's all coming out in the wash. if they wanted witnesses, i think it would have been interest

david avella, mary anne marsh, and bill mcgurn.eet journal" columnist, former chief speechwriter for president bush, and a fox news contributor. good morning, all. david, things seem to be sailing along for the president and now for john bolton. >> not surprising, "the new york times" has been part of the circuits from day one and they want to be part of the grand finale, clearly. if they have the transcript, they should release the whole thing. >> the transcript of -- >> i'm sorry, the manuscript. they are to release the whole thing. it's all speculation, we don't know what the manuscript says. let's have it out there. also, the president's team now has two days to respond to this. here's the reality, and bill made the point last week, there is still not 20 votes to convict the president. >> sandra: the president is responding to it, at least come on twitter. he wrote this. "i never told john bolton the aid to ukraine was a tide to investigations into the democrats, including the bidens. never complained about this at the time of