economy in sort of a tax on american consumers. here is steven mnuchin on fox news sunday with the administration's view of the economy. take a listen we'll see if you agree with any of it. >> the single biggest thing that everybody is talking about here in france is the u.s. economy. it's the bright spot of the world. we have growth. people are now talking about doing tax cuts and cutting regulations in europe, so people are looking at the trump economic policies and wanting to replicate them because that's the reason we have all of this growth. leland: anything from steven mnuchin you agree with? >> you know, i hope he's right. i hope he's right, but that's not the view from the u.s. congress. we are looking at all kinds of forecasts that are telling us that we may be facing a recession next year, and you know, the business cycle is hard to control but the trade war is a self-inflicted wound. this is something we've done to ourselves and i've got to tell you, the last few days, there are basically two big groups of