0.7% compared to the last three months of 2016, the weakest quarterly showing in three years. gdp is the most comprehensive measure of the economy. cnbc's senior economic reporter steve leesman joins me now. before he clarifies, i'm going to do it. steve, it's probably a bit unfair because we measure other things compared to the year before. if you look at gdp growth compared to the same quarter a year before, it's about 1.9%. not as bad as it looks this morning. the same it was all last year. this is short of the 3% that steve mnuchin says they're trying to get to. >> that's right. i mean, i'm not sitting here putting the blame or credit to the president, in the sense that this is, you know, one month he wasn't in office. really, in a president says you'll have an effect on the economy, it'll come later. first of all, first quarter data has been anonymously weak for a