immigration. i hope that i mean beyond just one problem of immigration. you can mention the word comprehensive or you don t have to use it. a lot of politicians don t like the word comprehensive immigration reform. but i think we have an opportunity to do the whole immigration picture, and that s what i m looking to do ultimately. but we want to fix this problem. does anybody else david, do you want to say something? mr. president, the last year and a half has shown an absolute turn around in this economy. we were faced with eight years of 1.9% economic growth. we focused on regulation, energy, taxes. this year we put a dodd frank bill, and what this administration has done is freed up $6 trillion to go back into this economy. this is real job. 3.5 million new jobs. this economy is moving. the rest of the world is paying attention.
immigration. can you use the word comprehensive or don t use it a lot of politicians don t like the word comprehensive immigration reform. i think we have an opportunity to do the whole immigration picture: does anybody else want to say something? mr. president, the last year and a half has shown an absolute turn around in this economy. we were faced with 8 years of 1.9% economic growth. we focused on as john said regulation, energy, taxes. this year we put a dodd-frank bill, bipartisan bill and freed up a couple trillion dollars. what this administration has done is freed up $6 trillion to go back in the economy. this is real jobs. 3.5 million new jobs. 870 regulations. this economy is moving. the rest of the world is paying attention. nato has doubled their investment in terms of their military spending. we have a new trade agreement with korea. we are heading in the right direction. i just hope that we can
more inclined people are, legislators are able to listen to the complaints of small and medium banks, and large banks to say, okay, that s reasonable, let s make that change. as you indicated this is not a repeal of dodd-frank in any way. it s a tweak to regulations bone on large banks, medium-size bank side, with capital requirements and oversight for those banks between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets. but it also reduces reporting requirements and some of the regulations on those small banks. and it s why you got not only republicans but a significant number of democrats in both the house and the senate making this happen. and putting it on president trump s desk. the democratic critics of this appeal are citing wall street record profits saying these wall street banks don t need regulatory relief. but the thing is it s not about
2009. congress will rule back parts of dodd-frank bill. is this smart common sense good idea? and it does not in any way weaken the regulations we put in there for the bank or that were there to prevent the kind of crisis we had ten years ago. no, that barney frank talking. and new fears that china is becoming the greatest threat to the u.s. president trump is confident in his brand. in the end it will work out. can t tell you exactly how or why. but it always does. it s going to work out, okay? well, that s not true, it doesn t always work out. we re going to start with the legal game of connect the dots. the question is does that put pressure on trump s fixer to cooperate with the government. i have a great team here to figure it all out. first, let me break down exactly where we stand.