That was President Trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u. S. Economy grew at a robust rate at 4. 1 percent in the Second Quarter. The fastest pace in almost 4 years. Here with a look at whats behind that acceleration is chair of the White House Council of economic advisory. Nice to see you. 4. 1 percent. Economists predicted 4. 4, as you look at the details of the report. What do you like in it . It goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that Corporate Tax cuts would cause a Capital Spending boom. If you look at the average of the first half of the year, we got a Capital Spending boom in the average growth is 3. 1 percent. Its not often that economists can nail it that tightly and it showed its working exactly as we thought. Paul Capital Spending in the First Quarter was more robust than in the Second Quarter. Do you have an explanation for that . One of the things that happened is for Equipment Spending you were allowed to expense it retroactive to october. In the Fourt
Former Westchester County, N. Y. , D. A. Jeanine Pirro discusses the weeks biggest legal stories. Determine. You are right. We may never be able to determine that. But we have determined the fact that he tampered with the tape in the sense he abruptly midconversation turned it off. A guy that goes into a reporter and hides his thing and says im not taping it and its taping for two hours. Thats someone who didnt intend to deceive as lanny davis falsely said. Judge jeanine in order for the government to admit something into court they have to show a continuing custody and no changes or additions or deletions have been made. If they cant prove there are no addition or changes, and we dont know where its been, could that be the reason it was leaked to cnn . Isnt that interesting . Atr last week at this time jay sekulow and i were being
throw us into a recession. The last thing we need. He would undermine the growth that we have had since the great recession. In the event donald wins i have
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
The oval office, President Trump declined to weigh in on the Russia Investigation. At a News Conference with the italian Prime Minister do you feel betray ed by Michael Cohen, sir . A question about cohen and no response. Instead, the president unloaded in his usual safe space where there are no questions, on twitter, tweeting there is no collusion and slamming the Russia Investigation with a personal attack taz Robert Mueller rigged witch hunt and just after the president was tweeting there was no collusion, his outside lawyer was claiming on cnn that collusion isnt a crime. Which i dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. You tart analyzing the crime. The hacking is crime. Add about that, the president relied on his aides. If theres no collusion theres no crime in collusion. Giuliani suggested the Special Counsel may have a conflict and couldnt say what it is. You have to hear the conflict. Not the president. I cant tell you. Not sure. The former mayor railed against coh
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Reporter good morning, martin. Thats right, President Trump is spending the week at new jersey amid the stwirl of Unanswered Questions surrounding that now infamous meeting at trump tower and his son and a russian lawyer, leaving the twhous yesterday, President Trump refused to take questions of his former Attorney Michael Cohen that cohen had advanced knowledge. Trump and his legal team denied. They say trump is privately furious about the legal scrutiny facing him and his circle. Trump is trying to fire off a series of tweets attacking democrats and making remarks yesterday at the white house about the economy because this is all coming at a backdrop for the successful trade talks and what was able to taught strong
growth in the Second Quarter of this year after the numbers came out on friday. Russia has continued to pull focus from the president s economic message, washington was fixated yesterday on an incredibles coin