secretary pompeo never talked about the 25th amendment, not even once. sorry, i missed the beginning, a spokesperson for secretary pompeo says that he never had a single conversation about the 25th amendment, not even once. i asked this person, okay, can i quote you by name? can i say a spokesperson xxx said this? no, no, no, just keep it a spokesperson. it was a lie. they knew it was a lie. and they only pompeo mnuchin hasn t denied anything. pompeo denied it simply because he got a call from mar-a-lago, you know, saying what is going on here. all right, the new book is betrayal: the final act of the trump show . up next, an author moved back to the u.s. and took to the road to investigate what happened to his country since that fateful day of september 11th, 2001. what he found is the focus of his latest book. and we ll talk about that next on morning joe. st book.
revealed. the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, said this. when you buy a building, you reached an agreement to buy a building. now, you negotiate the contract. there s execution work to be done on the document. but the document is substantially done. pantheon economics called the agreement a nothing burger. it s an agreement to not make things worse and keep talking. the damage from tariffs continues with another round scheduled for december. it s a cessation of hostilities. the u.s. is going to get some ag purchases and unspecified agreements. and the chinese are goinot goino get a tariff increase. mr. mnuchin hasn t bought many buildings. i like to do more work before i buy the building. what s harder to do in washington follow impeachment or hit this?
economy. he has essentially handcuffed himself to this economy, to what has been a booming economy. so as he has done so and we look ahead to 2020, he must be nervous. i was going to use a different word but not over the air. let s use your word. this is exactly what he wanted the fed chairman not to do and the fed chairman s his guy. but as other presidents have discovered, the fed is an independent body. you start beating up on them from the white house publicly, they go the other way to prove their manhood, to prove they are independent. this administration would be so much better off if they shut their mouth. mnuchin hasn t been speaking out. he s been keeping quiet. they ought to keep quiet in white house. it s been a week since we all witnessed that bizarre 17 minutes with the president and the vice president was there, when he referred to them as chuck and nancy, all talking