stuart: thank you, steve cortez.unced who his running mate would be but there's one name making headline this is morning. ashley, who are we talking about? ashley: yep, that would be congresswoman elise stefanik of the hard charging conservative from up state new york. her potential at trump's running mate has been on the rise after grilling three university presidents of that congressional hearing about anti-semitism on campus but insiders say stefanik has been on trump's radar long before that hearing in particular for her loyalty to the form of president and for her ability to drive the news on key issues. in 2019, she served on trump's impeachment defense team and backed his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. stefanik by the way declined to comment on whether she'd be interested in being trump's running mate and hasn't ruled it out either. there's that, stu. stuart: okay, got it. back to markets, please. gaining a little more ground now. there's a nice gain at opening of trading and sold off a bit and coming

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cortez. mr. green is also the author of the 2017 new york times steve bannon, donald trump and the storming of the presidency and epic times columnist roger simon has released his latest book. it's entitled american refugees the untold story of the mass exodus from blue states to red states. mr. simon also authored the 2016 book, i know best how moral republic. if it hasn't already. and finally, washington post columnist and former npr all things considered host michele norris is out with a new book as well. it's titled our hidden conversations what americans really think about race and identity. look for all three of these books to be featured on booktv. in the near future. well, this week on book tv's afterwords program, its former reagan administration, omb director david stockman. his new book takes a critical look at the economic policies of former president donald trump. the book is called trump's war on capitalism. look at the point in time in which things happen. you know, there are obviously some fundamental principles are truism about policy. but the business cycle is important. and when

cortez is really focused on economic populism. and i think my last book, "devil's bargain," was about the rise of steve bannon, donald trump, and right-wingnd mostly, i think, that's focused on a kind of cultural populism, a lot of anger toward immigration. america-first nationalism. certainly, there are some ecomic components. trump is very hawkish toward trade. he put in place steel tariffs the biden administration has kept in place. there are areas of overlap. but to me, it's the cultural element that distinguishes the right-wing populism from the left-wing populism that i write about in this book. geoff: what about the politicians themselves? is there a ceiling of support for progressive candidates, you know, democrats who might support progressive policies? there hasn't been enough support from the democratic base to propel one of the progressive politicians into the white house. joshua: it's an interesting question, because if you go back to 2019, i was embedded with with warren and with sanders for a time during the democratic primaries when they were both running for president. it seemed like in the moment that progressive politic

cortez. it has the story. >> the first televised california senate 3 democrat representatives farber leave adam schiff, katie porter and republican former dodger start stevegarvey. between the 3 democrat politicians, not a lot of squabble with similar voting records. the candidates did make an effort to highlight their differences, for example, on health care. i was one of the original co-sponsors of medicare fraud. if career politicians are talking about their fight 30 40 years ago for medicare for all. but where are we? >> and the war between israel and hamas, no country could refuse to defend itself. it has a duty to defend itself. if you don't have a permanent cease-fire now more people are going to get killed. cease-fire is not a magic word. you can't say it and make it garvey shared his view as a political newcomer. >> i think it's naive to think that we can. asked our government to tell them we're trying to influence them to cease-fire. students at usc, the host university for the debate. >> asked the candidates about housing. how will you ensure that the next generation can actually afford to live in california? first, we have to make college tuit