worse. in this report, the 42 1/2 hours a week. that s a high since right after the second world war. that s the capacity we re running at. i m going to stick by my original prediction. eventually this year, we ve squeezed everything out of the economy. shy of giving people raises. this is what happens at the end of an economic expansion. we re there. the second it happens, it s going to pop and the president is going to say tax bill. he can take credit all he wants. quickly, before we go, the treasury team is in china talking trade. the most recent report is steve mnuchin demanding that the trade deficit go down. we balance our budgets. right. the trade deficit is a consequence of the amount of money we re borrowing. this is within our control. we can handle this. we decided not to handle it when
the same thing with nato. martha: talking trade and nato, the first interview since being sworn in, u.s. ambassador to germany, richard grenell, do you like that handle? it sounds very pleased, just call me rick. martha: tell me what that was like today, we said in the intro, it took forever and was held up in the senate for months and months and months. look, i am humbled and honored, it is amazing paid one of the reasons why i got really focused on candidate donald trump and mike pence and the ticket and to really try to push forward was simply because they askew politics and they are really focused on the american people and the american taxpayer in particular. and what i saw last friday when i was sitting in on the meeting watching president trump negotiate with chancellor angela merkel was a culmination of 25 years working in the
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ntsb said by the time they complete this entire investigation, which they re just at the beginning stages, it will be sometime between 12 and 15 months. long time to wait for answers. dana: thank you for that report. bump stock venture is closing up stock. sly fire solutions will shut down its website next month. the founder said the accessory allowing semiautomatic weapons to fire at a rapid rate, but demands for outlawing the device increase after several mass shootings, especially the las vegas massacre where the gun man used bump stocks to kill 58 people and injure hundred morse. the company is facing a lawsuit related to that attack. and we have the president at mar-a-lago. we re talking trade. what we will be doing now mostly is trade, as the prime minister, they ve done very well with the united states. we have a very big deficit. we re going to weed that down. hopefully, get a balance at some point in the not too distant future. but we have a massive deficit
we appreciate it. breaking news, sanctions or no sanctions. a battle of words, the trump administration and whether russian sanctions are coming or not. donald trump in mara lago with japan s prime minister a talking trade and north korea. it may be a breakthrough. john roberts is next with the big story breaking tonight. helped put a roof over the heads