. >> what sort of stories did you do at the wall street journal quex. >> i started off with politics the early eighties and late nineties and investigating politicians for possible corruption and campaign-finance abuse, ethics in washington and government and over the years that involve two different types of investigative journalism with financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals, financial crisis and savings alone and after 9/11 started to branch out to international criminal such as terrorism and organized crime crime. >> what was peter's role at the journal? to make he was my editor we were stationed together in brussels which is the headquarters. a foreign correspondent for most of his career from mexico to brazil to singapore than ended up in brussels with me. >> what type of clients did you attract at fusion gps quex. >> involved in complicated cases trying to figure out if they were competing adequately or if there were irregularities or contracts those of the big two. >> and you did open-source research quex. >> my specialty was documents i was known as the

we were both at the "wall street journal" my partner and i for many years, peter fritsch, and the news business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. it started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. i was in my mid-40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. the emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. >> host: what kind of stories did you work on at the "wall street journal"? >> guest: i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaign-finance abuses, ethics in washington and government. over the years that evolved into different types of investigative journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the savings and loan scandal, financial crisis. overtime after 9/11 i started branching out in

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"the wall street journal" is mostly behind a pay wall right now, and if you want good journalism, and you recognize the fact that the purpose of a newspaper is to make money, if you want good journalism, you're going to have to pay for it again, and i hope you are willing to, because if you do not, you will not get it. so maybe that is a thing to think about area if you let your hometown -- so maybe that is a thing to think about. if you let your hometown newspaper subscription lapse, which i did a few years ago, because the quality was diminishing. is there something i can subscribe to that you find rewarding? i would love to see us get into the habit of that again. i find it amusing. i will post an article of mine on twitter, something i have written for "the national review" "or other, and someone will say, "i cannot read it. it is behind the pay wall," and the implication is, "how dare you do something like that," and i always say, "well, have you considered a subscription," but i would like to see us pay for journalism again. erika: earlier, we were speaking a fair amount about a

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with author and wall street journal columnist jason riley, author of, author of in: the case for open borders," "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed" and "false black power?". >> host: jason riley, author, columnist, contributed to "the wall street journal," fox news contributor and among your books, "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed". i want to begin where your book concludes, quote, liberalism has succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. >> guest: i believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually and they have been at it for some time. unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting blacks is primarily victims, defined by their victimization first and foremost and the follow-up that we have a government program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood so it is a political strategy. >> guest: there have been a number of books about lending johnson's great society. was a failure or success? >> >> guest: if you look at the

this from the wall street journal. party. it begins, congress has left town for the year, but alas, not before another bipartisan spending party that has typified the trump presidency. the numbers are likely to have more long-term impact than impeachment. a discretionary spending bill, and this year's debt exceeding $1 trillion. guest: crazy. that editorial is exactly right. you have a bipartisan agreement on the hill, and it is not a new one, where they are allowing the government to grow out of control. and it has a lot of federal spending that is driven by social security and medicare, and you have the baby boom generation retiring, increasing the amount of money spent on those. social security passed more than $1 trillion last year. that is spent by the department of health and human services. in addition, you have massive and bothnary spending, parties in congress are doing absolutely nothing to try and roll that back. host: in the number we have been referring to, courtesy of debt clock, the nation's debt, $23 trillion.

that includes the wall street journal.i was recruited by a black gentleman that had been an editor for a number of years. in terms of the g.i. bill, i don't know if he has his facts straight there but there are blacks with attended college in the 50s and 60s. the gentleman i'm writing about is one of them who attended college on the g.i. bill. and he's quite thankful for the g.i. bill. he also mentioned something about deindustrialization. as been a problem in the inner cities. these committees have disintegrated. getting the order wrong here. the factories left after these societies had fallen into disrepair. the riots of the 1960s happened first. then the companies left these areas. so you have to get the order right. sometimes people don't. >> we are taking your text messages. a lot coming in including this from a viewer saying, police shootings are down because of protest and demonstration. >> again, that's not what the record shows. i mentioned new york city earlier. 1971, i believe there were 314 police shootings. by

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let'slet's bring in john from te "wall street journal." >> i think they wanted to hear what the intelligence committee decided. that will be voted on, bad on to jerry nadler in the judiciary committee where the trial will take place. then they want to see this thing through. they don't want it to drag on. they have asked the president if he wishes to testify, other members of his administration. so leaving the door open as to what witnesses would be impaneled, though nadler and others said there will be constraints on that. we want this to be very much focused on the issues at hand and not extraneous political

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i commuted into an office for more than two decades at the wall street journal. so it took a little adjustment, but i find it more productive now to just simply be able to get started right away. >> are guesses jason riley with your book in-depth. lemay first asking about your father. you're right about him in your book your parents separated when you were young, but your father was silver much in your life as a child. >> yes he was, and i think it made a big difference. he was an excellent role model, not only my father, i grew up in my mother was very religious, and we attended church two or three times a week. in the congregation was full of black men who took care of their families, and dress a certain way, spoke a certain way, behaved a certain way, so i was very fortunate i grew up around a lot of very solid male role models. and i think it made a big difference. and imo think today, part of the problems that many blacks, particularly the young blacks isks they don't have that stability. they don't have role models in the community orr even in the home give

the "wall street journal" he is saying the president wants his day in court suggesting he wants vindication in all of this. how does mitch mcconnell satisfy that? you need 51 senators to move anything forward. it is razor thin when you have a 53-seat majority. i imagine a lot of stuff could fly up in the air that cannot yet be predicted. you reference byron's point there. but can mitch mcconnell really satisfy the commander-in-chief through this process? >> you know, i don't think it will be long. and i think the president needs to consider whether it's a good idea to call a bunch of witnesses. if you call rudy giuliani or a bunch of other people you don't know what's going to happen. as it stands now the charges are weak. these two counts aren't going anywhere. he will be acquitted. have a lot of witnesses, this thing is prolonged. i don't think it's a good idea. i wouldn't dismiss it out of hand but as your earlier guest said a couple of days for this. think of the people in the middle. you are giving it fair and due consideration but you aren't extending this thing beyond all mrausabilit

as "the wall street journal," kimberley strassel points out why did the fisa court stone wall for sog? remember, congressman devin nunes laid this all out nearly two years ago, and the court was suspiciously silent. and even more unfortunate, the deep states abuse of power is just the latest chapter in a long line of malfeasance and corruption inside of the washington swamp. as i lay out a new piece on foxnews.com which is up right now, the democrats spying on political adversaries is nothing new. from the irs targeting conservatives to the obama and justice department spying on reporters to the corrupt shifty adam schiff with the subpoena process to collect phone data of the president's allies, the blatant hypocrisy of the left could not be more obvious. but the good news is, we are inching closer and closer to holding those that abuse power accountable. fisa abuse has been exposed. the durham probe is a full-scale criminal investigation. in a deep state reckoning is on the horizon. 20 may now for a reaction to all of this is author of the fabulous book "witch hunt" fox news analyst

kimberley strassel, member of the editorial board at "the wall street journal."irst to you. we assume this come to an end at sometime after the new year. what about this back-and-forth and how both sides of plated? >> maybe impeachment is now like other things from the 1970s, "star wars" movies, premarital, open collared shirts of the office place. maybe it's something nobody cares about anymore because maybe it just doesn't have the punchoe that it once did. this is sort of fitting end to sort of process i don't think is going to move anybody's heart one way or the other. >> bret: a.b., are the democrats waiting for another shoe to drop, do you think?ho how chuck schumer plated today with the press conference, trying to keep the pressure on. >> i do think, they think they are going to have two things. the wish that more revelations surfaced and that trump is driven so crazy he asked badly, like the tweets we saw today. trump does not want to hear majority leader mcconnell onit "fox & friends" saying i'm not anxious to have his trial so she can take as long as sh

they asked because our specialty is business research we have "wall street journal" background and mitt romney was very complicated, business career and it wasn't the sort of subject that an ordinary political research firm would be well-equipped to do. it's something we set out pursue, it was approached at my desk. >> where you financially successful? >> the company is. has done quite well over the years. not mitt romney style well off but it's nice. >> was operation bangor? >> it was named, we name our projects using random categories. sometimes we name the four cities. the idea is just to not have it, what the project was about. it was initiated in october of 2015. that was a look at donald trump business career and his long history of lawsuits and bankruptcies. anything that would be significant or relevant and political context and campaign. >> who instigated at? >> an associate of mine from washington and politics, said he would be interesting. in that case, it was originally my approached him. i asked him if he knew anyone interested in donald trump and he said i might. >> who an

triballization of politics becoming almost complete, gerry seib mentioned in his "wall street journalrry's piece, i guess this morning, one of the things stood out, there is almost no space for two parties dissenting views, polarizing the president, the latest journal he cited in the journal poll, we know this already 91% of republicans self-identify approve of president trump. 6% of democrats approve. 85 point gap. as he points out 20 points wider than at this point in the obama presidency, many people said, that is polarizing, not compared to this. people really are so dug in, huh >> they really are. i have never seen numbers like that. you can go back to the nixon era, you won't see numbers which the parties are so polarized. we're where we are in this moment of tribalism. it started, around in the late '90s. 2000 election being so close didn't help. iraq war added to it. president obama put, he had a chance to sort of diminish that but instead he poured gasoline on it, like comments i won, cutting off republican input. attacking the republican budget un-american. this deepened the

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author of the fabulous book "witch hunt" fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, along with "wall street journalist kimberley strassel, thank you both for joining us tonight. kimberly, i want to start with you. you have an op-ed in "the wall street journal" today. it really points out the problems on the side of the fisa court. because they were put on warning nearly two years ago by devin nunes, and yet, they did nothing. >> yeah, and it isn't just that he exposed this publicly. he actually reached out to the fisa court. i published in my column two letters one in february 2018, 1m in june 2018, in which he detailed the ways in which the fbi had misled the court. the second letter, actually, contained or had accompanied with it a classified letter that listed examples of this happening. and in both cases the fisa court just blew off the committee. sent these very perfunctory responses that said, they really didn't want to know about it. and as we know, they closed their eyes and ears to it until they no longer could avoid it because of the ig report.d >> jason: no, look, proving yet again that

joining us from all of us here at wall street, we all wish you and your family a beautiful christmi'll see you n. 's be nine hello and welcome to the wall street journal at large. we are just days away from christmas when christians around the world celebrate the birth of jesus more than 2000 years ago. since that time of course the church founded by his followers have gone through extraordinary changes. its face the challenges of maternity from reacting initially to the scientific breakthroughs of. [inaudible] that raised about orthodoxy is responding to the calls it should be more open and accessible to the masses. always threads history. to dealing with society's changing views on marriage and sexuality. many, many other challenges too. during these and other periods of stress, especially over the last few centuries some have thought and argued the catholic church might become irrelevant. disappear into the dust of history. my guess is says instead of being overwhelmed by modern times come the churches not only survived as it clearly has, but is actually key agent of change for the whole world. he is george whiteoak, catholic scholar and distinguis

"the wall street journal" reporting that the saudi government is now probing when the shooter was radicalized in the kingdom last year. welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm ed henry. can you believe some of the left are making a big deal about how president trump has bigger salt and pepper shakers than his guests at the white house? rich -- hush limbaugh joins -- rush limbaugh joins me later this hour. the i.g. report is finally being released tomorrow, so we may have a split screen for some of the coverage because democrats also set to have a big hearing in the house judiciary committee presenting the evidence they say they have of the president after the release of a lengthy report. and chairman jerry nadler this morning says he'll presume by introduce articles of impeachment later this week. lawmakers on both sides reacting this morning. >> we have asked the president, we've invited him to testify, to send witnesses, we've invited him to send his counsel to cross-examine witnesses. he's declined to do all of this. if he had any exculpatory evidence, they would have brought it forw

from the annual wall street journal ceo council meeting, this is 30 minutes. rahm emanuel was the mayor of chicago between 2011 and 2019, also former white house chief of staff. they will be interviewed by my colleague who see at her -- editor live journalism as the wall street journal. please welcome them. [applause] to do a couple of case studies and we have a short amount of time. quickly, let's bring everybody up to speed. first, most people here, the headlines about the 700 mu dollars amazon plans to spend in the next few years. give us a quick overview on how that works. $700 million, 100 thousand workers over the next six years. it's an aggregation of different upscaling programs. our front-line workers, we give them a program we call career choice. we prepay 95% of tuition and books up to $3000 a year so they can learn skills in fields like medical technology, bookkeeping, other tech fields. them for other jobs that will take them outside of amazon. in addition to programs like that for front-line employees, we have programs like our machine learning u

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connell: the other issue you've had issue with this week is this wall street journal report, right? l came out with a story i believe it was out there on christmas day, and it says that huawei's received as much as $75 billion from support in the chain government whether it be tax breaks, financing and cheap resources and what have you. it all added up to they say 75 billion and huawei disputed that you've given us and others a statement disputing that number and i want to focus on part of it the $46 billion that the journal reports comes from loans, credit lines and other support from state banks, direct lending from state banks, where the implication, i suppose, is that you would have a competitive advantage over european companies and/or american companies that don't receive that kind of support is that number accurate, $46 billion loans credit lines and other support? >> no it's not. connell: what's the real number? >> the real number is about 40 billion less than that. connell: so 6 billion. there's about 4 billion that are lines of credit that have been provided to our customer

. >> hello welcome to the wall street journal at large. it's a time for celebration, reflection relaxation and indulgence as we come together to enjoy the holidays look for jr. for millions of high school seniors the less about joe enjoying the festivities and more about anticipation and stress. as colleges began notifying those who applied for early decision, whether they've been accepted. in january deadlines loom to apply for regular admission. now getting into college and graduate with good degree is seen as an absently essential to job and lifetime earning prospects these days. sure we have the model of college dropouts like bill gates and mark zuckerberg to inspire us, bonilla sure and entrepreneur a genius like them you're going to need that diploma. but in recent years the cost of colleges made some whether the investment is really worth it. students sign up for education loans that leave them tens of thousands of dollars in debt. with the average annual cost of in-state public colleges more than $25,000 and doubled out for private

. >> welcome to "wall street" journal, thanksgiving is over. i hope you had a restful and happy holiday. it's that sacred time of year we get to reflect on important things in life, the true meaning of the holiday season. we go shopping, black friday, super saturday, will be spending, spending spending. the traditional idea of retailing at this time of year, rushing to stores like walmart at 4:00 a.m. on black friday for that 84-inch tv, it's changed in recent years. the shopping frenzy begins earlier in some ways, inevitably ends. these are days stores and malls are adorned with holiday lights, santa claus look-alikes and like friday sales are advertised long before anyone has even purchased a turkey. amazon and other online retailers, important for money is handed online sales. digital retailing has been so rapid and extensive in recent years, there's been widespread talk on a retail apocalypse. in recent years, famous names like toys "r" us, and borders book had filed for bankruptcy and money more have stroke. it's overdone. nine out of ten

volker if you read a very good article i just scanned in the wall street journal, the editorial the news report. his view is that the market will turn and i agree with that. i just don't think we have much to worry about. i will just say this. we do have a problem sir with the world economy has slumped. this is the only country, the usa is the only country showing prominent economic growth, and i think the signal of the stock market means 2020 growth is going to be much faster than 2019. you may agree or disagree and i appreciate that. let us not forget, some of the incentive oriented supply-side policies that have worked throughout history. namely, lower marginal tax rates, rolling back unnecessary self regulations, and attempts to reduce trade barriers. these are classic and neoclassic incentive oriented policies, my former boss ronald reagan used in my current boss is using. i think that's your problem for world growth. i think the central bank obsession is just wrong, and i think they are looking through growth measures. the g-7 will be here in the u.s. at camp david in late spring e

the "wall street journal" reporting that tariffs on chinese goods that are set to go into effect this sunday could be put on hold, but is donald trump simply over giving china yet another extension? a fox business exclusive with the president's top china trade adviser, michael pillsbury. he knows how trump is thinking. is december 15th the hard deadline for china to put pen to the phase one paper? >>> and to buy or not to buy. that is the question, assa saud aramco gets set to become t publicly traded. the nyu professor who flagged wework as a totally hot mess before its ipo collapsed is here to answer the big aramco question. >>> plus we now have the video of elon musk joyriding in malibu in his new tesla cyber-truck over the weekend. we will show you more of this as charlie gasparino tells you if tesla's stock is about to rev its engine. >>> peloton was doing just fine today until one short seller two hours ago put out a note. less than an hour to the closing bell. let's start "the claman countdown." liz: we have this breaking news. secretary of state mike pompeo and russian foreign

. >> the wall street journal's c.e.o. council held a discussion on robotics, with the founder and c.e.o. of boston dynamics. >> we're gonna talk in this next topion with one of the engineers in this field, who is developing all sorts of machines that can do new functions in the work place. and we're gonna demonstrate that well. so please welcome to the stage, marc raibert, who is the founder dynamics. of boston he's going to be entertained by a columnist at the wall street journal. [applause] >> marc, i'm not sure i belong you most certainly do. but we have a -- >> it's great to be here. guest, ie a late believe. one more guest. we'd like to welcome to the room. are.ot, wherever you >> come on in, spot. the robot, who is walking in from the back. thele sitting close to aisles should keep their hands in their laps, please. spot doesn't piet but -- and danielle is operating spot for the show. you must be sensational at parties with thing like this. >> we actually, at thanksgiving, home. one at and it was great fun. spot is

the stage mark graber to his the odyssey of boston dynamics and interviewed by jason at "the wall street journal." [applause] >> mark i'm not sure i belong here but you most certainly do. it's great to be here but have a late guest i believe. we have one more gas. we'd like to welcome to the room spot wherever you are, come on in spot. this is spot the robot walking in from the back. people sitting close to the aisle should keep their hands in their laps please. it's not going to bite and danielle is operating spot for the show. mark you must be sensational at parties is something like this. >> on thanksgiving we had one at home and it was great fun. spot is a very exciting robot. surfer is robot product and we have been shipping it for about two months. let me tell you a little bit about it before we get started with their interview. for this demo danielle's driving a radio to the pro pot. the robot has its own brain brand their cup of computers and their. they are a bunch of cameras and there's a camera on each side two on the front and one in the back for doing things like navigating up the s

what was the "wall street journal" -- susan: the "wall street journal" report was basically saying china offered no confirmation on the phase one trade deal. now, we will be hearing from the state council of china in a very late, 10:30 p.m. beijing time press conference. to be honest, i have never seen a press conference that late from the chinese government and that usually indicates they have some pressing news to get out there, and the attendees list includes economic and cultural office and government affairs individuals. i think it's a positive for the phase one trade deal. stuart: you think it's a positive? susan: i think it's definitely positive. stuart: it's wait and see, obviously, but it hasn't taken -- the president's tweet hasn't taken the market down that much. let's see what the chinese have got to say. all right. the market has opened. we are dead flat to slightly lower, now we're up a point on the dow industrials. i think we are pretty much the same story for the s&p. have a look at that. we were going to have a big rally at the opening bell but that really faded. as for