he plays the piano, keyboard and guitar. he will be here for our all summer american concert series. brian: wonder if he can play all those instruments. steve: he has been here a couple of times. welcome back. this year we have the addition of the mclemores from masterbuilt. they are out on the square, fox square making us breakfast. there is john jr. john, what are you making today? steve, we are making some burnt end reversed cedar wings. we actually did this for super bowl with you guys. we are spicing it up a little bit for good afternoon mcgraw and the all-american summer concert series. we have got a triple threat sauce. it is a smoked wing, bring it up to temp, 225 degrees for about 45 minutes. and then we have a pineapple chipotle, barbecue. i will show you the absolutely beauty shop. what was that those are the wings? those are the wings, and this is the results that you get right here. it is a perfect, crispy, burnt end wings. what we got for the all-ameri
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. In the white house. The first lady if President Trump would hammer his successes and tweet less about lebron and this off stuff, it would allow people to focus on what hes done and his administration have done well. Thats called an unforced error. The president is once again putting focus on that Trump Tower Meeting, potentially complicating legal matters for his son over the high level sitdown donald trump junior, jared kushner, and then Campaign Chair in his second week of his trial, Paul Manafort had with a kremlin linked lawyer and alleged Russian Intelligence Agency an oligarchs representative and an interpreter. Whats wrong with that . Well, lets look at the shifting story from the white house and the campaign. The New York Times first broke the news of the Trump Tower Meeting more than a year after it happened. Donald trump then released a
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and for us it s noon. we have been up since 2:00. two minutes after the hour. the president took a risk. he did an interview first time in four months not on camera but did it with the associated press and a guy named josh boke. he answered some questions. he seemed to have an edge to him. i guess he had a lot of pent up energy and wanted to get his side of the story out. one of the questions was on recession. he does not think it s inevitable although the numbers that are coming in, the feds actions might lead to you a different conclusion. he said you talked about a recession, first of all it s not inevitable. secondly, we re in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome this inflation. it s bad. isn t it kind of interesting? if it s my fault why is it in every case why is it the case in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher? you ask yourself that i m not being a wise guy. someone should ask themselves that question. steve:
national debt. but the government has added about $1.6 trillion to the debt balance since trump took office. let s see. 21 billion in revenue from tariffs. less the 12 billion farmers leaving just $9 billion. nowhere near enough revenue to make even the slightest dent in our debt. maybe i m missing something. let s bring in some experts. john harwood and josh boke. when we go out and speak to farmers and speak to factory workers who could be losing their jobs, we ve heard over again, they re saying you know what? we ve had trade issues for years. we re glad the president is taking this issue on. maybe it s going to hurt us in the short-term. maybe we ll be collateral damage. we ll accept that. are we getting it wrong? first, steph, you re not
missing anything. this is an economic gibberish argument the president s making, and to the extent that people who are on the short end of the stick economically from that argument are nevertheless embracing what the president s doing, that is a leap of faith they re making for somebody they see as an ally on other issues, and sort of their trust they re trusting he has their best interest at heart. if you talk to economists, nobody thinks they re going to come out ahead through the policies which, in fact, are going to be destructive to the american economy, and destructive to many of the people who voted for donald trump. gosh, all right. well, josh, i want to ask you about your story from the ap. from last may to this may, 58.5% of job gains were in counties that voted for hillary clinton in 2016. and it s a similar story when it comes to job losses.