i had other issues going on, too, but everything that was adding up, you know what i m saying? yep. but you have to look at the positive side of it, rochelle. you have to look at the positive. he caught a ticket. but he didn t catch a ticket for threatening to hurt somebody. he didn t catch a ticket for making noise i never said you re dead in the water, but you re not going i am, rochelle. if i get into a fight, you can do that. administrative, all you want, i don t care. i m not saying you re dead in the water. you know i am, rochelle. but i don t know. you had a setback. that s all it is. no one is saying you re dead in the water, but you need to make sure that you re maintaining yourself up here with no issues. rochelle, can i ask you a question? honestly? you ve asked me ten questions. yeah. do you honestly think that what i caught a ticket for was really that bad for me? for me? the ticket wasn t bad. it s the fact that you were getting escalated so quic
deputy labor secretary. clint watts, and elise jordan who worked in the state house. people are going to say this is purely political. this is all about the deep state out to get the president, in your mind, what kind of information, what kind of conversation, would have been had that would prompt this kind of whistle blowing? i can t imagine anything that wasn t bad. we have seen how the fallout from it is. i can t believe that an intelligence official, it has to be someone at a very high level, they have to have been concerned to such a level to want to bring this complaint, and i m sure they knew this was would create an extraordinary ripple effect in government. i think what is also essential
about going into recession or not going into recession. late 2015, early 2016, there was a contraction in the industrial sector that had some echoes of what s happening now. it was driven by forces overseas what was going on in the chinese economy. and that probably contributed to trump s victory. on the coast the economy wasn t bad, in the industrial heartland it was in a bad spot. there s ways this could turn into something painful for americans, does impact the election in 2020 that doesn t fall into the recession category. if it does, that s a different matter. there s a stretch, but i get it to a degree. you ve seen past administrations do this because the american consumer is such a giant piece of the machine here. so you can t to keep consumers confide confident. you need to keep them spending. if they stop spending, you re in trouble. that 15 and 16 incident is
geico for your boat. enjoy the water, enjoy the savings. bill: u.s. economy all eyes gdp growing 2.1% beating expectations but it is lower than last quarter. stocks reacting kind of fox business anchor lauren simonetti is here now. there is a kind of feeling friday for the dow jones industrial average. the report wasn t bad. gdp second quarter. 2.1%. a slowdown, not the 3.1% in q1 but still a good number. the problem, you have your painting two different stories. the consumer is spending up
president the accusations of sexual assault assault. where the calls for that? there are not any. that said, i think that i originally had written a column about al franken saying i think he should resign and i later on wrote a cold wlum saying i had rethought that and i don t think he shut have been time for invers gags and a sense of proportion. not saying what he did wasn t bad. if in fact he did it. it wasn t the same thing as what a harvey winestein did. that was the moment that we were in when this happened.