process that s being undertaken now. there s a lot of work to be done. it is still an active scene. we are being assisted due to size, scope, intensity of this scene, being assisted by the fbi, forensics unit, dhs forensics unit, and virginia beach state forensics unit. medical examiner is on route, protocol for the medical examiner s office. right now we have a lot of questions. the whys, they will come later. right now we have more questions than we have answers. we re a little more than two hours into the event and we used the wordy ve event, that s a co term, a devastating thing that happened that none of us want to talk about, this devastating incident that will change the lives of a number of families from our city. so my goal will be to update you and confirm additional
those gains year over year. and that whaer what we are seeing. you re saying. that s whys in key to. this initial trying are didn t happen. we saw a noise increase in investment the first quarter after the tax cuts were passed. which probably would have been things that would have been set in motion before the tax cuts happened, right so it s hard to say businesses were suddenly able to build this factory or what have you. like in the next month after the tax cuts passed. no not necessarily one of the. we is. with we don t see that we saw, you know, equipment investment following. we saw an increase in ip investment but, again that s not the mechanism we are talking. about. final word dma the lower rate allowing businesses to write off new investment in the year they are made. this is something that is immediate and we did see both before the tax cuts because it was visible retroactively and right after. and it s too early to tell all
answer to any of those logical well-reasoned whys. director mccabe is right that the attorney general should want to know if he s focussed on national security or the rule of law or the integrity of our electoral process, if on the other hand he s mainly concerned with defending donald trump like he s a defense attorney, then he probably doesn t want to know. unfortunately when he look at the attorney general s recent actions there s no reason to have confidence in his ability to represent the united states as opposed to the president. just with this incident with the tax returns, the the justice department wrote a memo that said that the that the treasury department doesn t have to turn over the tax returns. that s in direct conflict with a memo that we now know a treasury department employee wrote that said that the treasury secretary doesn t have a choice. he must turn over those records.
donors. i gave her a c this week. when you re arguing about the rules that the party committee has set up, 65,000 donors or 1% in three polls, right now she s going to make the debate stage. she s at an average of 1% in three national polls. but she doesn t have 65,000 donors. she s complaining about that. i think that s a worrisome sign. when you start complaining to the refs about the rules, it usually means you re losing. if there s any solace for senator gillibrand, it s that she s getting a higher grade than at least one person. yeah, so the 23rd candidate in the race, bill de blasio, the mayor of your city there, john and erica, i gave him a d. look, when i was talking to your producers last night and they said, why a d for de blasio? i wrote this, why? i wrote a lot of whys. what is the genesis of the candidacy? he s not well liked in new york city. he s not well liked to the extent people know him nationally. i guess it s i m the tough guy
they don t know what s in the report. republicans were buoyed by the the fact there were no new indictme indictments. we don t know the whys of all this. did mueller decide not to prosecute because there wasn t sufficient evidence or because you can t prosecute a sitting president? we don t know the answers. why not a face-to-face interview? the president s lawyers should feel proud of themselves for that. i think that the questions about whether the trump campaign crossed lines it should not have remain to be seen. he s got to sit back. he can t take a victory lap. you know, we could be in a political situation where the president claims vindication and democrats say no, no, no. look at what s in the