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Mike D's avatar

Good Job Rick. Glad you stood up to her. She, just like Trump, can't answer a straight question.

Rick Newman's avatar

Thanks for watching, I know it was painful!

Rick Becker's avatar

Counterpunching with facts and truth, and staying on topic, Rick. Good job!

Rick Newman's avatar

Low bar, but thanks!

Freddie Baumgartner's avatar

I loved your face when she said the oil prices will come down and, the economist have been proved wrong before. So basically she made this a political issue which i no she would. You can not deal with people who are just dishonest and, simply say it from two different view's. She the mouth piece for Trump pucker's up an lies.Like i said i hope it end's soon but i doubt that it will.God Bless.I love it when you smile at the absurd.

Rick Newman's avatar

Can we all smile at the absurd! That's the mission...

Pete Bather's avatar

Great job Rick staying on track and on topic. Not sure who the news nation audience is, but you came across as the "serious" (my new word for smart) analyst. Its hard to believe that even the audience on the right would not be a bit cringed by Carla. Does she have any background in understanding markets and finance? Might not have been a fair fight. Agree the commentator did a good job of giving Carla a voice but tactifully challenging her arguements.

Rick Newman's avatar

Mystifying why NN would think anybody wants to listen to hacks like that. Makes me want to golf !

Amalan's avatar

NewsNation needs to find a better person to balance if they are concerned with balance at all. Carla was way off on her own putting up political points for questions that are technical in nature. What has threat from the Mullah regime have to with the American economy? How did she get 55 million on H1-B visas and illegals when they started out with 13 million illegals and the H1-B new visa issuance is capped at 85,000 per year? Pew Research estimates the illegals are around 11 million in 2016, and Trump himself claimed that the estimates are wrong and the number is 30 million in his campaign in 2015 (just like his claim that unemployment rate was 40%). So all of a sudden the illegals have gone to 55 million -- why doesn't she say 100 million while she's at it? Trumpsters don't check facts anyway.

Rick Newman's avatar

You did more homework on these issues than I did. Nice!

Dennis  Nelson's avatar

You did a great job Rick! On the other side of the debate was a wind-up doll throwing political garbage against the wall to see what might stick. Kudos to the moderator as well as she had to listen to the wind-up doll duck, dodge and weave evading the direct questions.

Rick Newman's avatar

Thanks for watching!

Double-A's avatar

Exactly what Freddie said... you were able to hold your poker face until 7:00 when she started talking about economists being wrong and you lost your composure, but in a good way... smiling at the absurd! They have the same old, tired tropes to offer about foreign-born people being the root of all our problems. Well, I'm a foreign-born person who finished grad school here and then had a reasonably successful 30-year corporate career... the "commie" Ronald Reagan was the one who let me into the US for grad school, the "well-known socialist" GHW Bush helped me get my H-1B on his way out of the WH, and then I became a citizen under the "radical left" GW Bush administration 20 years ago! This Republican party has sadly lost its moral bearings.

Rick Newman's avatar

NewsNation should have you guys on!