the economy here in the u.s. is great. despite the president's no end in sight trade war with china, the growing number of economists warning of a recession, the white house claiming they are just plain wrong. for his part president trump is also pushing that same mantra on a tarmac in new jersey yesterday saying that u.s. consumers are doing just fine. >> i don't think we're having a recession. we're doing tremendously well. our consumers are rich. i gave a tremendous tax cut and they are loaded up with money. >> of course most of that money went to corporations. joining me now cnn's joe johns at the white house. you get a window into trump's mind off with his protest, with his tweets, et cetera, but also into his worries. does this indicate that the president here is concerned about the economic indicators and particularly how that might affect his re-election chances? >> right. it's hard to see how he couldn't not be concerned simply because