Gone through in the book ship of fools. Stay cheerful. Its our duty. See you monday. Sean welcome to hannity. Great news for the United States of america. The economy is booming after months of projections, the Second Quarter gdp numbers are officially in with over 4 growth. In other words our economy is now moving at its fastest pace in four years. In moments we will explain what this means for you and highlight the president s historic economic track record that the rest of the media and the democrats are ignoring and the days of obamas pathetic economic stagnation are now officially over. Today i interviewed the president about the roaring economy. And so much more. Well play the highlights, plus
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Officially announced that the Second Quarter gdp grew at a whopping pace of 4. 1 . Thats double the average yearly growth under obama. Under obama they nearly even made 3 . The first u. S. President in u. S. History not to have at leas
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. And we now understand its burned 83,000 acres. Something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what its like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. You can see that firefighters, some of them working 24hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. Thats what they are up against. Not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. We are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10 or less during the day, which is critical Fuel Moisture for us, which means that we have 100 probability of ignition. So we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the Equipment Fatigue because the fire is causing the
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Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. President trump is spending the weekend at the golf resort in bed minu bedminister, new jersey. The news of a booming economy and the president fulfilling a Campaign Promise overshadowed by the latest bombshell in the russia investigation. The man who once said he would take a bullet for trump is now telling special counsel mueller the president knew about that infamous 2016 Trump Tower Meeting ahead of time. This is something the president has repeatedly denied. And now the president is doubling down on that denial. Cnns White House Reporter Sarah Westwood joins us live from new jersey near the president s golf club where he is spending the weekend. How is the president handling
this . Reporter President Trump is settling in for a weekend facing many Unanswered Questions about that 2016 Trump Tower Meeting involving his son, donald trump, and a russian lawyer. Trump refused to answer questions about those claims from his attorney Michael Cohen. T
A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo