improvements. we're back with dan henninger and bill magern and james torrent also join us. bill, how big a victory was this for religious freedom. >> i think it's a big victory. i said before in mid evil times they debated angels on pinheads. today we debate whether a playground that's lutheran can qualify for funds. i will say i don't think these are the biggest religious liberty cases because it's about funding or the previous cases, the supreme court that was 9-0 about running their own business. where it's really going to clash are the cases that they are going to take like the cake baker cases from colorado. paul: whether or not they can exercise conscience in relation to gay marriage. >> lesbian rights. that's where the real nasty clashes are going. paul: 7-2 elena kagan joined the majority. >> and stephen breyer. >> societ society thaso hethat>> gorsuch didn't jy deciding the limited circumstances of this case. so the majority is leaving willinwiggle room for future ca. paul: what do you make of the cases between the liberals. >> this is a case in which it's a question of how abso

is an editor dan henninger. mary kissel and columnist bill mcgurn. so dan, you heard ambassador bolden. do you share his urgency here and what do you think trump will do? >> i do share his urgency paul glad you know the question is, how have we arrived at this point of urgency? i mean you know that during the cold war between the united states and soviet union we had the nuclear standoff, there was a lot of serious thinking around the idea about deterrence i'm afraid after the cold war ended we start thinking about that subject and we have gone through several presidencies watching north korea filled his nuclear capability without any serious thought about how we would deter that. and as he was suggesting it is not does not 300 nuclear urged sheila about pete iran knows they are surely pursuing nuclear capabilities there is a possibility that terrorists get their hands on a small nuclear weapon and i think that the time has come to start recommissioning the sort of people who can think about actually deterring this convention wasn't made clear weapons. but you run the risk here.

to bring in a couple guests to talk about what the president was talking about. we have dan henninger. melissa: we are going to blake burman at the white house. latest on that one, blake. reporter: think there, melissa, david. this is the start of the white house rolling out "made in america" week. you heard the president talk about 10 or 15 minutes, what this does this day and potentially throughout the rest of the week, allow the president to get back on the economic message we heard from him. the need to pump up american manufacturing jobs. the need to level the playing field as he put it. here was president trump just moments ago. >> remember in the old days they used to have made in the usa, made in america but made in the usa we're going to start doing that again. we'll put that brand on our product because it means it is the best. reporter: however the critics of president say he and his family need to look inward when it comes to this topic. democratic national committee put out a statement regarding president and his daughter ivanka trump. quote, made in america week is is the epitome

with dan henninger, joe rago and bill mcgern. it was supposed to be energy week. the president's tweets got in the way of that instead of energy week it was energy hours, energy day. nonetheless, a lot going on behind the scenes on policy. what's happening? >> that's right, paul. that speech was given around 3:30. about the hour the entire media was, you know, obsessing over the mika bi brins tweet. he is going to allow drilling for artic and atlantic. is he going to accelerate the creation of pipelines. going to have a re-think of nuclear policy. more permitting for new coal mines. he is going all out full speed ahead on energy policy which arguably at this point, paul, is the strongest card donald trump has played since he has become president. >> what do you mean the strongest card you mean economically, strategically or both. >> economically and strategically. economically, because the united states is now beginning to export up to a million barrels of oil a day, unprecedented because of the revolution in fracking. strategically because energy secretary rick perry was talking

on board? let's ask "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, assistant editorial page editor james freman, and editorial board member joe rego. joe, the bill has changed for the better or worse and how? >> well, i would say both. this is a bill that's moved to the political center. it's moved leftward. it's worse in the sense that it gets rid of a lot of the tax -- it keeps a lot of the tax increases on investment income 3.8 percentage -- >> that were part of obama care. >> that were part of it. >> that republicans promised to repeal? >> they did for years. and it spends that money on other stuff. it's got 45 billion for opioid treatment. it's got a lot more up front medicaid spending. it's good and better in the sense that it retains the fundamental medicaid reform. that's really the most important part of this bill. moving to a per capita block grant -- >> to the states from the federal government. >> right. a lot to the states and putting the program on a budget is first time since 1965. >> that still is the part in your view that is worth really wort

dan henninger, assistant editorial page editor james freman, and editorial board member joe rego. joe, the bill has changed for the better or worse and how? >> well, i would say both. this is a bill that's moved to the political center. it's moved leftward. it's worse in the sense that it gets rid of a lot of the tax -- it keeps a lot of the tax increases on investment income 3.8 percentage -- >> that were part of obama care. >> that were part of it. >> that republicans promised to repeal? >> they did for years. and it spends that money on other stuff. it's got 45 billion for opioid treatment. it's got a lot more up front medicaid spending. it's good and better in the sense that it retains the fundamental medicaid reform. that's really the most important part of this bill. moving to a per capita block grant -- >> to the states from the federal government. >> right. a lot to the states and putting the program on a budget is first time since 1965. >> that still is the part in your view that is worth really worth passing this bill? >> it is worth passing for that reason. the new bill als

like a hero's welcome it's interesting we'll have corker on i'm reading dan henninger's piece in the "journal" today, which is what i would have talked about that is the real story behind medicaid and how tough it will be to get any governors or senators in some of these moderate states that have adopted medicaid, it will be tough to get these guys to do anything now they're using the opioid -- this horrific adetection we're seeing all over the country, using that as a reason not to do negotiate about medicaid it's a revealing piece, i didn't realize some of this i didn't realize doctors get paid by medicaid 66% of what they get if it was medicare. so doctors are not excited about it most of the states that have paid -- that have medicaid, e! their second biggest expense they had to push other things aside like education it's a mammoth sort of all-encompassing entitlement at least it's turning into that. becky's back i'm here, as you say, the team -- >> the team. >> the team, two of us >> santoli >> yeah. >> mr. market timer, the dow transports hit another all-time high >> yeah.

money from obamacare. dan henninger, wall street journal deputy editorial page editor. it's hard to keep money away from republicans. >> yeah, that's for sure. the shrewdest thing the architects to obamacare did was insert a law that said if the states took new medicaid patients, the federal government would pay 100% of the costs. and as we know, medicaid is one of the biggest expenses the states have second only to k-12 education. and 13 republican senators took what essentially was a bribe. charles: ironically, when you add in the federal dollars, they spend more on this than k-12 education because of those federal funds. guys like you were warning them, don't take it, don't be seduced by it. if you're someone like kasich, it looks like manna from heaven, but we all flew it came with a cost. >> yeah. ohio so far hats gotten about $3.4 billion in federal funding because of the new medicaid enrollees. so the republicans out there are hooked, and now you've got these moderate senators saying, oh, don't do anything to reform medicaid too much. that is just a fool errand because they h

week where he defended vigorously western values. come on in dan henninger, he has a column in the journal. i said this on the program this morning, president trump is a missionary over there in europe, you're laughing, why? >> you have to take on mission work to europe, last pope, pope benedict tried to do it. it was about their survival. the reaction on the left, he goes over there and says that the -- we should align with the polish people on behalf of family, freedom, faith, government and they're saying this is like an at-right dog whistle to world voters in the united states. if trump were to sang the star spangled banner they would say it's an alt-right values. it was a choice between hillary clinton, the successor to barack obama or whoever was running against her. what do i mean by that, barack obama is a man of the left and i think the left has never been comfortable in this country with the kind of difficult system the founding fathers set up, the system that's suppose today protect smaller units of government including individuals. when the left gets an idea, universal