Thats it for me. Im gigi stone woods. The news continues right now with my colleague, david, whos been tweeting this whole hour constantly. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Good afternoon, im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. We start this hour with President Trump who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. The president ending his week touting fridays economic numbers. Secondquarter gdp growth of 4. 1 , that is the fastest pace since 2014. Hes not been able to change the subject, avoiding all questions about the latest revelations from his former personal Attorney Michael Cohen who nbc news reports is prepared to tell investigators that President Trump had prior knowledge of that nowinfamous june, 2016,
view that meeting differently perhaps in light of what we heard on that tape, in light of what weve learned this week. Cnn reporting, other outlets following here, that Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump did know about
special prosecutor and suggest that this is over prosecution. that he is out to get the president. and that they are using superior efforts to get him. they are just targeting him t and i think they ll basically circle the wagons. but the nationalist cause basically doesn tal lowell for interference in terms of facts or issues. or behavior. it all comes down to one simple question. are you for this country, the old republic, if you will, use bannon s term, or against it. if you are on the side of immigration or any side of diversity or multinational, any kind of multi lateral foreign policy, anything that suggests that negotiate with other countries to work with them, to work with europe, to wrk with the chinese, anything that takes us away from that basic us against the world mentality. so something like this, this whole discussion of the