efforts to influence the 2016 election. attorney general barr also clears the president of obstruction saying mueller did not find enough evidence for the charge but did not exonerate him. now crossing across the political spectrum s senior editor kelly jane torrence. is there any surprises for you in this summary of what the mueller report is about quick. not really. i expected it was a surprise to people in washington. there will be a lot of money changing the hands the next couple of days. so many democrats mostly thinking that mueller would find and reveal evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and clearly did not.
the fundamentals of the economy are still great. the stock market is down. we both know it goes up and down. unemployment still at a historih low. business confidence is high. gdp is still solid so the fundamentals are still good. that s the incoming acting white house chief of staff on the economy. if president trump this morning put it in his own words on twitter tweeting the only problem our economy has is the fed. if they don t have ae feel for the market. if they don t understand necessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders. at the is like a powerful though my powerful couple who can t score because he has no touch. eli lake, conservative writer kelly jane torrence commentary writer for the washington examiner, tom rogan. so what about the state of our
is proper authority. that most people think that this agency is doing good. yeah, there could be kind of a public blowback on this one. kelly, moving on to something else, i want to get your reaction to the president saying that time magazine was going to maim him man. year, tweeting, time magazine called to say that i was probably going to be named man person of the year. i said, probably is no good. what is the question to the president s frame of mind, time is saying, no, it doesn t work that way? it s a great question, because it does suggest the president s frame of mind. here a man that was elected president almost almost every analyst s predictions, quiets an about accomplishment.
every i and cross every t, in terms of speaking the truth to the letter to these investigators. they re definitely worried that flynn is cooperating, and maybe others as well that we don t know about. kelly jane torrence, daniel lippman, so we appreciate the both of you. thank you. the traditional start to the holiday season continues. happening now, it s small business saturday. plus, we ll tell you why macy s and lowe s had a whole lot of unhappy customers during the peak of black friday. shostakovich playing
house wants to use this time in which there s no permanent director and mick mulvaney is in there to revamp the agency. they put out a statement last night, saying that they look forward to what mulvaney will do in that post. we ll keep you posted on what they have to say, christi. abby philip, we appreciate it. thank you. let s just be clear, this is a government agency that has an extreme outlook over your potential financial future as it were. let s talk more about this with kelly jane torrence, and daniel litman, politico reporter and co-auth of politico play balk and paul callan, cnn legal analysts. daniel, let me start with you, come monday, as we heard, this watchdog group is going to have no idea who is reports to, two, apparently. how is that going to play out? i can only imagine, are the two directors going to be fighting over office space or,