intent. what involvement the president in particular had in potentially crafting a misleading explanation for one of the core pieces of evidence in this potential obstruction case. that s going to be a very important interview for robert mueller. it just shows that there is a very thorough and careful examination how he may have participated. kimberly atkins, lawyer and reporter for the boston herald. fellowship rucker. guys, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. the republican exodus continues on capitol hill. trey gowdy won t run for re-election. we told you this was a busy day. mark murray joins me next. except for these two fellows. this time next year, we re gonna be sitting on an egg. i think we re getting close! make a u-turn. u-turn?
window within lack of leadership for democrats. if they are shopping for their candidate at the golden globes. you are right, it comes up every few years. what you re looking at is the democratic party, they are looking for anybody that just doesn t sound like a leftist kook. i thought oprah winfrey did a very good child. but a presidential candidate she is not. it will be interesting to see what democrats actually cling to this or if this is going to end at the end of the week. dana: marie, is not the worst idea i ve ever heard. she s a businesswoman. she super popular. maybe she would be the right person to put on the ticket. republicans nominated a reality tv star and he won. all of these old rules about what is acceptable during a presidential campaign, i think those have gone out the window. oprah probably won t run but where she could be helpful is getting voters out and
and it s already busy about 2020. who s going to run, who won t run? what s going on the big deal? the presidential race is already on us. democrats, do they have a chance to do anything in the presidency? who knows, but it will start with the midterms. let s see if they can build on the momentum they got at the end of 2017. also this morning we ll look at the state of the u.s. economy. will it keep booming or will that change in 2018? but first, let s get a check of your head lines at the news desk. happy new year, i m boris sanchez. we start with an update on the situation in iran. 12 people have died during five days of anti-government protests there, according to state media. president trump tweeting less than an hour ago that it is time for change in iran. he called that country a failing state, saying the people are hungry for freedom. officials meantime are denying that the government is
chief business correspondent christine romans. happy new year. i give you heat for it but it s true. things don t continue to go up forever and we have been seeing something that, by economic standards, is getting close to forever. it is a remarkable, remarkable run this economy has had and you just look at the last year. 2017 was a great first year for president trump, it really was. it was a continuation of what has been eight or nine years of a remarkable recovery from the depths of despair, quite frankly. jobs, very, very good last year, but they were very good the year before, too, and now it s going to be presidential strategies you guys, presidential policies and what congress does that s going to take this foundation and propel it into 2018. you could almost argue that it was years of policies of janet yellen and central bankers that were driving things and now we re heading into a new period, a new period of tax cuts and a very strong economy, and central banks raising i
there s been a lot of records broken. give us context. his supporters have said again and again that aren t we lucky to have a businessman running the economy now, and not a community organizer or liberal politician. i d like to show you what that looks like. the president trump, he had his first year up some 20% in the stock market. the first year of president barack obama was up almost 29%. not apples to apples. not apples to apples, coming out of a crisis. when you look at the stock market it has been unbelievable. record after record after record in this year, but look in context, you guys. this is a run that has been going on for a very long time. we had i think seven of the past nine years double-digit returns in the stock market. that is an old bull. so what happens now? it s overdue for a pullback but you do have macro economic winds blowing in favor of the economy continuing to grow and grow solidly. resolutions for the new year, what do you want us to do? i want you