Welcome to beg to differ the bulwarks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation

across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the bulwark and I am joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker, who writes the substac newsletter notes from the middle ground and Linda Chavez

of the Nish Ganon Center.

Our special guest this week is Peter Wainer, contributing writer to the New York Times

and the Atlantic.

Thanks one end all.

Well, it is a very smoky east coast that we greet you from.

It's the first time that I've experienced this kind of thing where you walk outside and

you think, wow, my neighbor must have some sort of bonfire going that's blowing right

into our yard, but nope, it's a lot bigger than that and very, very eerie, but anyway.

So we're here to discuss the shape of the GOP field.

Probably this is the final set, though we can't be certain of that.

This week we saw Mike Pence declare his candidacy and he said a number of things that he

has not said before about Donald Trump.

And I'm going to ask Pete Wainer to comment first.

He said, President Trump's words were reckless.

They endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol.

And he said, the American people deserve to know that President Trump also demanded that

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