Reporter it would be natural for them to be very nervous as well as campaign staffers. If the economy is always going to be on trial when it comes to a president ial election when there is an encumbent. President trump was always going to be judged by the economy, but particularly this president has made it the central focus of all of his campaign. He has gone as far to say if you elect any democrats, youll never see this again. Im the one who created this. Theyll take it away. The economy will crash afterwards. You have to stick with me. Obviously that all goes out the window if the economy crashes before the 2020 election. You have a couple of things going on here. First of all, you have a seemingly strategy from the white house, which is deny, deny, deny. As you said, what recession . What is anyone talking about . We saw that all morning long with peter navarro, with larry kudlow. They essentially denied that farmers are feeling the heat because of all the tariffs. They deny that a
kong today. despite pouring rain, hundreds of thousands hit the streets in peaceful protests against the government. 11 straight weeks of demonstration. still, hong kong officials say they will not give in to the protesters demand as cnn s ivan watson reports, the protesters are not ready to give up either. sunday, the skies opened up over hong kong, a tropical downpour that did not stop this sea of humanity. a mass protest against the government s handling of the worst political crisis hong kong has seen in decades. if the authorities were hoping that this protest movement would fizzle over time, they were terribly wrong. even pouring rain hasn t dampened the protesters enthusiasm. from hong kong s victoria park, the crowd trudged west. among them, desiree huang, here with her husband, mother and sister. it is pouring rain out here.