rudy giuliani. him making good on his promise, i am here to work with the special counsel. he respects me. sure enough, we have heard that he has spoken to him. how what rudy was saying coming out of it? look, it was a start. what rudy said was less significant at least in these news accounts, including our own, is what a bunch of us were hearing about the meeting from people who were briefed on on it, which was it was productive. previous meetings have not been that productive. there was a lot of listening going on. one thing giuliani got a lot of credit for is sitting and letting mueller folks talk, which did not happen a ton previously. that said, this is just one day. at the end of the day, if they can t get to an agreement whether this is an honest approach for an interview on the scope of the questions, on what types of potential jeopardy the president might be putting himself in, there s not going to
wage hikes from their employers in the first three months. 6.3 million workers are getting a one time bonus or a wage hike. that s how you convert the 4.3%. there are 148 million workers roughly in the united states. i get it worked for the 4.3%. what s the argument that it will continue to work. first that s a lot of people. and don t forget those numbers are the numbers that we get from scraping news accounts. people say we are giving a wage increase because of this or that. that s going to be the minimum number. there are few companies that give bonuses and doesn t tell the media about it. but there are lots of businesses that are not news worthy because they have got 20 guys. right. real wage growth right now is the highest it s been in eight years. but it s still a small number compared to corporate profitability growth. they been true for the last 20 years. especially the last ten years.
leadership. it s going to drop in three or four days now. but pieces of it have started leaking out in news accounts. you get the portrait of the disdain really that the former fbi director holds the president of the united states. and we set the scene, i guess, to early january 2017, president trump is about to take office and his intelligence team comes to brief him on the threats, including the russian threat, and what has just occurred, the interference in the 2016 election. and then james comey pulls him aside to brief him on the now infamous russian dossier. here s how comey describes that interaction. take a look. i started to tell him about the allegation was that he had been involved with prostitutes in a hotel in moscow in 2013 during a visit for the miss universe pageant and that the russians had filmed the episode. he interrupted very defensively
under 21. news accounts describe these as victories for gun control and they are but they are not victories for america. even if you hate guns, you hate gun owners, you want to repeal the second amendment entirely, you should not be celebrating this development. you should be worried. there is a threat to you and the country and here s why. bank of america is the second-largest american bank by assets. a lot of nice people work there. it s huge. it holds more than 10% of all bank deposits in america. the company is big enough that if aligned with other companies and took direction from progressive groups, as it is in this case, it could make sweeping changes to america without a single vote being cast. this is a change. it used to be that the political activists lobbied lawmakers in congress when they wanted something changed.g they gave money, those donations will work order, the rest of us good to see it happen. that is happening less and less. now, they lobby big companies and the l
considering firing him. the kinds of people that used to say, oh, he d never fire mueller when you call them privately are now saying it s on the table. i don t know. i want to come back to your reporting last night, mike schmidt. everyone has been using the word triggered around the table. in december, by news accounts that deutsche bank was had been subpoenaed, that walked up to the red line that the president articulated in an interview with you and peter baker and maggie haberman. this seems way over a different color line. this is the access hollywood tape, his sexual relationships with porn stars and others. so, if the deutsche bank news accounts turned out to be false had him calling in the firing of bob mueller, what do you think the effect of your reporting today and the reporting on the cohen raid is having on conversations about mueller and rosenstein s job security? well, that s the thing. i mean, the president isn t always someone who keeps his word. so, even