Cheryl veronica . I hosted so im ready to be done. We have a lot of news coming up this morning. Our top story this hour was, well, it was christmas, americans spending more money online for the Holiday Season, ecommerce sales jumped more than 18 compared to last year overall. Holiday retail sales excluding cars rising more than 3 . Thanksgiving did fall later this year which pushed a lot of retailers to start sales earlier. President trump touted the news, heres what he tweeted. 2019 Holiday Retail sales were up 3. 4 from last year. Biggest number in u. S. History, congratulations, america. Veronica, your reaction in the middle of all this political abusinesabyss thats happening , you have an economy and consumer thats on fire and we have numbers to prove it. It sounds like youre trying to get away from washington but this is great for the party of washington, for republicans, for the president. This is a great economy for him to be going into 2020 with. Theres a ton of devi divisiven
The 2016 election was it a fluke or is this the new conservative Republican Coalition that is the Republican Party. We decided to thousand 16 wasnt a fluke. This is the new Republican Party and i think puthat both establishment parties democratic and republican and larger institutions including my profession, still have a hard time wrestling with understanding who this coalition is, how it formed and that donald trump didnt cause it, he is the result of it. Lets take a deep dive into your reporting and insight can you write the following. The concrete notion of donald Trump Presidency did not formally crystallize until the wee hours of november 9, 2016. In many ways there has been no other sunrise in american politics since the entire nation remains stuck in the moment to surprise notice the countrys politics had realigned. Yes. Absolutely. I think that pretty much sums it up whether you voted for donald trump, didnt work for him, i think most people would recognize thats where we are
Make a wish, hanukkah. Thats right, President Trump hosted a hanukkah reception at the white house. Its his favorite holiday because no matter how hard he tries, he cant misspell it. [ laughter ] in a new interview, House Speaker nancy pelosi said that she never watched President Trump on the apprentice, and then trump said he never watched her on golden girls. [ light laughter ] you were blanche, right . According to reports, Rudy Giuliani has reached a divorce settlement with his third wife they opted for divorce after she realized he was difficult to live with, and he realized she didnt have any dirt on joe biden. [ laughter ] according to reports, during a hunting trip to mongolia earlier this year, donald trump jr. Killed an endangered sheep even worse, he bored it to death by reading from his book [ laughter ] Time Magazine has announced that teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is its 2019 person of the year when asked what she thought about time, thunberg said, we probably h
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