the academics and kind i don t know then on could last all kinds of huge bottom so much fear. about the fate institution in time you make the damn fundaments of any public much my guns cause for me impression which i think of as a force that is the goal so i look for this part of come back also cause. i m. a senior in. an example telling me to move and move all i got to get the country. move. back and i think i m going to say let s. give you something to munch on. as
to absorb things that trump put into play, such as first it was a small number of tariffs on washing machines. then the steel and aluminum tariffs. the markets got jittery, and then they recovered and they were fine. then came the trump tariffs, and they were jittery again and then they re fine. all this turbulence at the end of 2018 is a signal that we re worried about 2019, and markets aren t as able to absorb these his in 2019, especially in 2020, as they were in 2018. and that is something trump is going to have to pay attention to because he cares about the stock market. it s not the same movie come 2019. that s a really important point. richard, stephen moore, who advises the president on economic issues, he tells me no matter what the market does, the fundaments are still strong. and it seems his point has been to me over and over, is somewhat ignore the market right now. is he right? look, stephen moore is absolutely correct in terms of the fundamentals of the u.s.
jeopardy. absolutely. that was a critical little snippet that really helped. then he said this about the economy. the fundaments remain extremely sound. that christmas sales are through the roof. the g.p. in the fourth quarter is looking like close to if not above three again and so i think that the momentum that we saw this year is carrying forward to next year. how long into next year? that s the big question, but at least that just the right tone from a messages team that had a tough time. i don t know if it was a coincidence the president was on a plane to iraq and couldn t tweet out anything. 100% safe is exactly what investors wanted to hear. christine romans, thanks very much. just ahead, a man opens up about the ugly confrontation with his neighbor. was it racially motivated?
don t live in washington zbl? i think democrats who don t live in washington care. is this with the republican base? i don t think that it is. i was just in minnesota talking to trump supporters and they didn t think. i will say though, these stories are going to continue because scott pruitt really disagrees with the fundaments of how the epa should be run. the people leaking are everyone who joined the epa because they cared about the environment and wanted to see policies protect the environment. scott pruitt has basically said the epa shouldn t exist. what you ll see now is 15 or 16, up to 2022. at some point, the president has to make the decision of whether or not he wants to drag scott pruitt into the midterms, where democrats will bring his name up. president trump seems to have made the decision now, that scott pruitt is going to be where he is. otherwise, like tom price, pruitt would be gone by now. democrats are veseizing on the issue. do you see it as something
fundaments where governor romney thinks america needs to go, you can make the argument similar to some of the other general themes tweeted out during his campaign. paris, listen, donald trump called romney an elite jan ist,a stone-cold loser. how do you think people will take that for a key position and mitt romney? we don t know what that meetings s going to be b but all of donald trump s supporters like myself and the millions that voted for him would be proud president-elect trump is showing leader hiship, is reach across the aisle, and the political spectrum, to people who were former adversaries if you will. this is what leadership is. he s no longer running a campaign. he s the president-elect of the united states of america sdoe heso he s going to get a deal done and work with people. that s how you become a successful businessman and the