More americans are fighting just to hold on to what weve got because if incomes are growing, its not as fast as the cost of Prescription Drugs and saving for retirement, housing and education. And thats when the numbers on a page are looking good. Now that were starting to see a downturn coming out of the manufacturing sector, it just demonstrates how out of touch the president is and how destructive his policies have been. Hes managed to hang on, tack on an extra couple years to the obama recovery. That might be good news, but now were in a very precarious position as an economy and as a country, especially in places like the industrial midwest. Mayor pete, thank you so much for joining us. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of south bend, indiana. Reminder, mayor pete is at the 2020 Gun Safety Forum in las vegas. The forum presented by march for our lives and giffords and moderated by our own craig melvin. Watch it streaming on nbc news now and msnbc. Com. See you back here at 3 00 p. M. Thanks fo
eastern. right now katy tur picks up coverage. good evening i m katy tur 11:00 a.m. out west and 2 nm p washington where the president is telling americans that your lives, livelihoods and very freedom are at risk if he is impeached. in the past days the president s approval has plummeted and support for impeachment, even among republicans, has increase md ch the president has gotten even angrier on twitter and on camera. what will he say today in a moment when he appears alongside the president of finland? they re about to hold a news conference. will he repeat what he s been saying on twitter, quote, the do nothing democrats should be focussed on building up our country, not wasting everyone s time and energy on b.s. will he repeat what he s been saying in the oval office? they re the do nothing democrats. they don t do any work. all they want to do is try to win the election in 2020. so they come up with this impeachment nonsense and everyone knows, the
implementing or might say, flag, i want to flag something, this is not normal they call those people the deep state. i call them the american government, right? you can call them the deep state. they have sworn an oath to protect the constitution, to put the nation ahead of their own percentage interests i m not sure at this point that the president could say the same. michael crowley, going over to the white house, we just saw him, the president, in that oval office spray with the president of finland. it seems like between that and what we ve been watching on twitter that the wheels on the bus are coming off. reporter: yeah, even by this president s standards it s been pretty intense today. even before that session in the oval office as house speaker nancy pelosi and the house intelligence democratic chairman adam schiff were speaking from the capital, president trump was responding to them in realtime on twitter. even as their press conference was going on, the president was b
he had the added element in that his impeachment was about a sexual affair involving someone not the first lady so he had the domestic troubles that were very, very clear to all of us who were covering the white house at the time and covering the administration at the time. but they got things done. it didn t stop everything else. but in contrast, this president was at the u.n. last week and every time he walked past a camera he would stop and talk about the bidens, not about what he wanted to accomplish with north korea, iran or coalition building and you re seeing it again today. geoff, he tweeted that he wants to get infrastructure, health care et cetera done, but we haven t heard him talk about it. he s mentioned it in passing op twitter. what we saw this morning with nancy pelosi was that she very she came in and spoke in the first part of that news conference about the legislative accomplishments that they are trying to get done and she tried to keep reporters focussed on