Second quarter u. S. Economic growth comes in at over four percent triggered by can see misspending and high exports that is the stain of bill in the new era of trade conflicts also coming up should foreign powers be allowed to own Critical Infrastructure germanys government says no im blocked the chinese takeover of a Company Controlling the electricity grace. About Chinese Investment can childs home countries we have a special report from cambodia. They say is your Business Update on having a home free but thanks for joining me well the numbers are in they no good very good in fact over the last quarter the u. S. Economy grew at its fastest rate in four years and thats positive news for the Worlds Largest economy but analysts say its unlikely to be quite as positive as the white house makes it out. Trump was quick to celebrate the new figures four
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economic growth in the u.s. higher this growth story started in two thousand and nine so way before dawn of trump became the president of the united states so he can t put it all in his own shoulders but if we look that we are rather late in this growth story a growth rate of four point one percent in general is pretty impressive it is impressive that said the u.s. federal reserve has still got its full year growth out where it is holding steady at two point eight percent so is that seemingly meteoric pace of growth envisages i mean is it actually sustainable. well i mean we certainly did see that this administration is giving all it has to push the growth higher but there is clearly also quite a risk involved in this well donald trump grew up in luxury and probably still lives in luxury empty might not have heard the term safe when the times are good so
that s right. there s never been a president who has done more. even bill clinton took six years to get impeached. i might do it in six months, you guys. we are racing. we are racing. chris, the point you made about how i missed the margaret sullivan piece. it is absolutely true. this has been the case for trump since the dawn of trump. you used to get calls when you would cover himling before he was a candidate, everything is so negative. why is this so negative. can t you write a nice story. that is not the job certainly of what journalists do, that is not welcome to washington, mr. trump. it is not a nice town. there is a degree to which we are hitting the expiration date of the learning curve period. he s been there six months now. at a certain point but he s never going to change. this is who he is.
little, too. she is trying to reflect the sense of humor that people found appealing when she was in the early months of the campaign. this is such a hard time for her as she is writing this book, and people close to her hoping that she becomes more self reflective about the pitfalls along the way, but we know from talking to people close to her, they really do blame the media largely for the love affair with donald trump, even when the media were criticizing trump, and pointing out flawing, he was getting all of the objectixygen. right, they had a central complaint since the dawn of trump s candidacy, which is the double standard argument. frankly a number of his republican primary challengers had the same complaint, he was tweeted differently than they