is. two more signs of a slow economy emerged yesterday as the commerce department reported that growth in domestic product declined to 1.9% in the second quarter. and the federal reserve cut interest rates by another .25%. that s terrible, according to donald trump who, of course no, that was terrible according to donald trump a few years ago. but he said that would be horrible to be president when growth was that slow. steve rattner, you, of course, the kids that were excited about the world series were especially excited because there s a doubleheader here today on the 31st. halloween and your chart. so they re all very excited, very excited about that. you know, the fwhing ththing ab 1.9% growth, let s talk about this up front before the charts,
committing crimes by doing that if they had phones, so many of those people could have been inside. right. like they re on the absolutely. they are actually on the committees that can hear this testimony. but they decided to sit outside and make an ass of themselves. again, as general haden said, commit crimes because they ll degrade themselves as much as possible just to get on donald trump s good side. but like trump, they are treating people like they re stupid. up next, time magazine is looking at rudy giuliani s bewildering turn from america s mayor to president trump s attack dog and chief. i m afraid the dog may be rabid. it s running around in circles right now. a first look at the cover story next on morning joe. lr story next on morning joe.
certainly not been a transparent process. it s been limited and closed and, frankly think there we re moving toward a preordained result. i mean, if you think this is fair there is not fair at all. they re trying to create something new that i think is just substandard and dangerous to the presidency. the process seems to be treating chairman schiff as though he were a de facto special prosecutor. notwithstanding the fact that he s a partisan member of congress, his strange behavior is all rind colluding fabricating a lengthy quotation and attributing it to president trump during an official hearing which he was sharing. no due process now, may be some later but only if we feel like it is not a standard that should be applied to any american and it should not be applied here to the president of the united states. you know, willie, it s so sad, actually. these poor republicans, can you imagine if you had to defend donald trump? it is just it is but you don t have to. the
part of a personality cult where you elevate a man who puts his own interests above that of you, your party, the conservative movement, the constitution of the united states, and, of course, the united states of america itself. and in this case, jonathan lemire, you have the white house also that is so erratic, that lies to the american people so much, that lies to members of the house so much, that lies to members of the senate so much that it s really hard for them to figure out exactly what the game plan s going to be because the president just isn t capable of telling the truth. one other thing on laura ingram s statement last night, she said that if republicans don t blindly follow donald trump there will be disaster in 2020. they blindly followed donald trump into 2018, remember all the stories that he s sending troops down to the border and
we talk about it an awful lot. but, i mean, the evidence is is unavoidable. it s obvious that donald trump s trade wars not other causing manufacturing recessions in pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin, but all across the globe. yeah. that is absolutely right. the great irony of the whole economic situation is that a year and a half ago the international monetary fund said that global growth has never been as broad based and sustained as it was around the world then. that was 18 months ago. they ve been cutting their forecast steadily since then and it is exactly because of the trade war and it is exactly because of donald trump having started the trade war. so, again, among the many irony of this, trump came into office saying i m going to fix this economy has actually made the economy worse off than it was when he got here. so our great fed chairman powell yesterday dropped the