A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Could trumps own policies undermine the economic uptick. White house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. Healer in chief . Well talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. You elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Former new orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. There are now 100 days until the midterm elections and President Trump is dealing with two different realities, positive Economic News and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. Late saturday night, one of the president s current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an
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A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. Preferable to allout standout with democrats. This president is a bully and he will try to intimidate all of us. Hes not going to shut down anything. We are not going to be intimidated by bluffing or bullying. Some republicans voice reluctance of idea of shutdown before the midterms. I think we are going to make sure we keep the government open but we are going to get better policies on immigration. The president i think wantstous have policies that work for america and work for americans. One major consideration is if and when might change consider kavanaugh and republicans want to confirm them around deadline. The president has meeting with world leaders, perhaps we will learn more about pool sprays behind thinking but this is certainly a Big Development that we are going the talk about this
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Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
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changes. charles: the fact that it s all reluctantly lower to sort of acknowledge this is a situation, not necessarily a new paradigm but interest rates were with us for a very long period of time. is that also suggest that our own federal reserve could even be cutting rates more? you know, i can t comment on stead policy but the low rates are a reality. you know, when we look ahead and we see deficits persisting above a trillion dollars and we see debt rising, we still see interest rates sticking up in the future right is the deficit situation becomes worse but for now, we understand interest rates are low. he doesn t see mike the deficit is having an effect on race right now. charles: phil, thank you very much, we appreciate you working and your time. president trump looking at yet another world leader to this group. how would that play out in the u.s. and abroad?
pushed off the effects of the sequester so there s some extra spending this year and next year and that is going to help keep the economy afloat as well. charles: what about this deficit situation? for a long time everyone was concerned about it but now it feels like maybe no one is. you hear some folks on talk shows talk about a fork political assumption but their hearts can be in in a considerg how much their debt went up under the previous and administration. where are we going with this? where is the proverbial cliff? that s the challenge. we look at markets and we see long-term interest rates still pretty low and so as you said, the fiscal situation is challenging. that is nonsustainable but interest rates don t reflect that sow in our forecast, we pushed on interest rates. we look at the market. even with a lower interest rates as you said come on the deficit gets larger this year because of the added spending so the cliff is out there. what we can tell you where and when but