short-term effect and no long-term benefit. ayesha, the same way the former congressman puts it, i think you only have a few tools in your chest. you can cut spending. raise inflation. cut taxes during a potential recession you can work monetary policy to some extent to create more money. if it s going to be invested. right now i m hearing the country, the rich people are swilling, swirling with cash. they don t want to invest it. they don t believe in it. they don t want believe in this rock em sock em economy of trump s. they bought back stock at the corporate level. they benefitted from it in terms of their own wealth. you buy back stock, you own more, right? yeah. everything worked out for them. now we have a situation with no more tools. facing perhaps economic trouble. and that s the fear, is what happens now if there is a recession, is president trump, is this administration ready for it? and this is not an administration that has been great with crises and usually it
republicans say this is what we need in order to make america great again, something big. you know, and, again, maybe he s thinking small. go for greenland. maybe they throw in iceland. while we re buying countries, why not canada at some point? the president ought to focus on problems right in front of him. too many liberals in canada for them. thank you. well, barny bernie sanders wants the denmark economic model and this president wants to buy half the country. thank you, barny frank, ayesha rasko and charlie sykes. coming up, president trump is firing blanks on gun control. i don t want people to forget that this is a mental health problem. we have very strong background checks right now. well, it s a mental health problem. you re right. the president reversed a form proposing tougher background checks, then backing down. watch him, by the time the senate and the house gets back, there will be nothing on the plate, except these mental