June 12, 2016

This week’s political show was This Week on ABC. It aired on June 12, 2016 and has George Stephanopoulos as the host. This week’s guests were Secretary Hillary Clinton and Senator Bob Corker. The pundits were Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist. E.J. Dionne, Matt Dowd, Sara Fagen, and Roland Martin.

The main topics were the presidential candidates and the economy. Hillary Clinton was the first to be interviewed. When Clinton was asked about the problem with her email usage during her term as Secretary of State. she froze up and started going on about how the rules on the topic weren’t clear. During Hillary Clinton’s interview George asked what she thought about raising gun sales tax by 25%. She then proceeded to dodge a direct answer, and claimed we should use “sensibility” with gun rights. The next interview was Senator Bob Corker. When asked about Trump being racist Bob Corker attempted to divert attention onto Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Bob claimed that he does not support the Muslim ban threat, but does believe in building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants. He also claims that we need to raise the tariffs to help boost the economy. Throughout his interview he mostly answered his questions directly and cleanly. However Clinton never really answered her questions directly and just slung insults at Donald Trump. The pundits, E.J. Dionne, Matt Dowd, Sara Fagen, and Roland Martin, talked about the election for their part of the show. They seemed to all lean towards Clinton for president, but they all agreed on Gary Johnson might be able to change the tide of the race due to pulling votes from Trump or Clinton. Paul and Grover discussed the economy and its effects on the election. Paul and Grover both came from different perspectives on who will win the election and provided a good look on both parties opinions on the economy. Now starting off with the host. George is an excellent host, he asked questions that kept his guest on their toes and seemed to not favor one side over the other. To me Hillary Clinton was a terrible guest on the show she dodged most questions and just insulted the Republican party. Bob Corker was an adequate guest he didn’t dodge too many questions but he also didn’t fully support his candidate as much as he claimed. Roland, Matthew Dowd, E.J Dionne, and Sara Fagen gave a new outlook to the information the show gave me. Paul Krugman and Grover Norquist gave good information about the economy but they argued more than explained, in my personal opinion.

All in all Clinton needs to stop dodging questions, Trump needs to be open to a little bit of change, and in the end it may just come down to who we don’t want to be in office.