Consumer spending, you see the fact that we are in a historic moment in terms of our economic growth, i mean, this is the first time in four years that weve seen the gdp break at 4 . It was Larry Summers who said if we get to a 3 growth that it would be fair enough to say if you were to believe in tooth ferries. Jon Allison Barber is reporting from berkley heights, new jersey, near the president s golf club where he is spending this weekend. Allison, how big a deal are these numbers for the white house . Reporter for the white house they seem to be an enormous deal. Any time we speak to anyone from the administration or hear any interviews with President Trump or even from Vice President pence, what they want to talk about is the economy and gdp growth, despite warnings from some economists that the growth is not sustainable longterm. The president is telling americans the growth is here to
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half a dozen of them depend heavily on wagner group are not only security for also resourceection traction. certainly there s been criticism of american lack of involvement in africa. president biden has planned to visit the country before the year is out. wave been hearing on officials from both sides of the atlantaing pretty slow going, but it does seem like kyiv is making some progress. what s your assessment to how it s gone so far, but what else do they need to do in this fighting season? it s been going achingly slow any win no matter how small is significant. so we re talking about the town in south, and this seems to be an opening as the preview to your report said to the sea of
workweek, but today on sunday we are absolutely wanting to follow this for more flash flooding concerns there in the northeast. is there some connection between the flooding in the northeast and the heat in the south and the southwest? yeah, there is, that s a great question. there is a couple of sort of connective tissues here. the first is this high pressure that we have been talking about. the heat dome that s here. and so that s sort of it has a circulation like that. it brings the hot desert air into the west and brings the jet stream sort of come up here and it has to stay here. and so we get it s bringing the smoke down from canada, and then it s bringing rain showers into the northeast. so we have got the moisture from the atlantaing. so it s that same pattern. the other big connective tissue is climate change. you look at all these. i mean, if you are in almost any part of the country, it s like a patchwork quilt of warnings here.
state or story national gun laws, do you think the priorities of national democrats may have been misplaced? yes, i do. i believe those priorities they really were misplaced. it s almost insulting what we have witnessed over the last few years. many of our presidents, they saw these numbers. they knew that the inner cities, particularly black, brown and poor people live, they know they knew they were dealing with this real crises. and it took this president to state that it is time for us to stop ignoring what is hang in the south side of chicagos, in the brownsvilles, in the atlantaing. of our countries. if we don t start having real federal legislation, matched with states and cities, we re never going to get this crisis under control. steve: what s interesting about what eric adams has to say is the fact that he is going to sit down with joe biden later today at the white house. because joe biden needs to talk about this crime waive so he is
passing a baton at 120-mile-an-hour and atlantaing dead center on target. vice president pike members sitting down with maria bartiromo. you can see it tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on sunday morning futures. . i m jon scott. thanks for joining us. watters world starts next. [national anthem]