Small stake, he completed the deal last october and he faces more legal hot water because earlier this week, these that the billionaire would have to face a lawsuit for waiting too long to disclose if you have invested in social media company. And lets say theres no love lost between them after paying 20 million to settle a case back in 2018, his other company, elon musk to write at the agency saying that an american tv interviewer, i do not respect them. How long the role continue to raise Interest Rates and volatility in stock as well as the markets. The direction could come from jobs on friday. For more analysis and where the us economy is headed in the final quarter of the year, lets bring in the Investment Firm joining us from San Francisco its good to have you with us on nation Business Report and a lot to look at when we look at the economy and what do you make of the Labour Market is there a need for cautious optimism . Market is there a need for cautious o timism . ,. , market
unfair this is nothing like what happened with clinton or with nixon. in that maria: and they re racing it through. you ve got to get this done quick. jonathan you are the hi is a dem turley is a democrat who didn t vote for the president. he says this is the weakest, thinnest and most factless impeachment in american history. and what s interesting is they tried to go after this man s job when he simply called it as he saw it. he would say things were right or were wrong, and he was the only one remember what pbs said after this hearing, he was the only one in the room that did not look partisan. had nancy pelosi listened to that hearing, she would not have called for the articles of impeachment. maria: not only that, but we keep getting better economic data, all of this stuff that s making americans feel better. we had had that fantastic numbers on jobs on friday. we talked right before you left for thanksgiving, and we talked on this program about how a lot of your colleag
nobody s riled up except for those of us who sometimes get leaks. and the other thing that gary pruitt said on face the nation, amy, is that they re already feeling the chilling effect. they re having difficulty with sources. understandably. right and so that becomes a question, is it going to take something in the magnitude of a watergate, are you going to need the pentagon paper, something like that. to get the political atmosphere to change in order for people to say, actually, you shouldn t, we should be seeing more of this and the public saying we should be seeing more of this rather than it being tamped down. what about the other piece of this, the administration, the white house is trying to get some resonance for going out to protect the middle class. he talks about jobs on friday, and everybody is focused on the irs. there s no echo chamber for the for the message. that they re trying to i think it s, there s two sides to this. it s definitely difficult for
changing policies of stimulus spending mate matters worse and job numbers would have been a whole lot more. economy healthier. what is your reaction to that argument? i think its weak argument in light of the fact i guess some 3.7 million jobs added in the last year or so. unemployment down to 8.3, 243,000 new jobs on friday. growth across all sectors. i think what romney should have done is celebrated the fact we re finally recovering and suggest there are different policies that he would pursue from the president but by needlessly harsh and partisan he is playing to base and not advance ago broader argument. gregg: they accept the notion that president obama inherited an abysmal economy. it was sort of getting worse and worse when he took office. during his term the jobless rate