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With the headlines. Julie we have one item of breaking news, construction spending. Month over month, it is a disappointment. It looks like it is more than made up for based on the revision from the prior month, an increase of 1. 8 , up from 0. 8 . Getsee that the may bar bigger as the june bar is smallre. A strange situation with the isn manufacturing. The numbers coming out early. We saw manufacturing in the u. S. Cooling in july from the highest level in five months. The reading is down from 53. 5 the prior month to 50 2. 7. Guys. Matt thanks very much for that. I want to check out how markets are reacting to that news. Stocks are trading lower. Take a look at the indexes. The nasdaq is up a little bit. The s p is unchanged. The dow is down. We did have an up month at the end of the week last week. Erik i want to point everybody to what is happening in the oil market. Freefalleen oil in a over the past few days. Brent is really pacing declines. This is more of an international bench
Secretary of state. Joining me from washington is Colleen Nelson of the wall street journal, Jonathan Martin of the new york times, and the newne gearan from york post. How much damage has Hillary Clinton taken . Jonathan it is perception of her strength. Perception drives so much of this. I think it has some of her donors uneasy. It has the democratic elite uneasy. The clinton folks are very upset about what they see as a partisan witch hunt. Privately, democrats especially those close to president obama, and they are scratching their heads about why the clinton folks did not move more quickly on this knowing how aggressive the congressional gop was going to be. Why not deal with it immediately , turn it over, move on . Instead, here we are on the fourth month of the story. Charlie why didnt they do that . Jonathan i think there was resistance because they did not think that she had done anything wrong. They werent going to give in. As you know, that is a decades long tradition with t
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Joining me from washington is Colleen Nelson of the wall street journal, Jonathan Martin of the New York Times, and later, anne gearan from the new the washington post. How much damage has Hillary Clinton taken . Jonathan it is perception of her strength. Perception drives so much of this. I think it has some of her donors uneasy. It has the democratic elite uneasy. The clinton folks are very upset about what they see as a partisan witch hunt. You talk to democrats privately, especially those close to president obama, and they are scratching their heads about why the clinton folks did not move more quickly on this knowing how aggressive the congressional gop was going to be. Why not deal with it immediately, turn it over, move on . Instead, here we are on the fourth month of the story. Charlie why didnt they do that . Jonathan i think there was resistance because they did not think that she had done anything wrong. They werent going to give in. As you know, that is a decades long tradi