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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wrong. there is some concern it would push migrants to more dangerous parts of the river and it could be a drowning hazard. the river is quite narrow in a place like eagle pass, so having a large set of bouys there upsets the flow of the river. a lot of these migrants, quite frankly cannot swim very well so there is a fear that it will not deter people but make it quite dangerous. the texas authorities hope it will deter people and they won t attempt the dangerous crossing. but most migrant advocates don t think it will have any significant impact on the flow of migrant a. of migrant a. interesting, thank you of migrant a. interesting, thank you for of migrant a. interesting, thank you for sharing - of migrant a. interesting, j thank you for sharing your reporting with us tonight. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. each summer, cornwall s population swells as thousands of visitors flock to the county. i
as 10,000 a day. what this means in practice in a place like eagle pass or el paso, local resources would feel the strain of having to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants every week. local shelters would be at a loss of where to house them. here in eagle pass there is one migrant shelter which would be full very quickly if numbers were too spike like that. there is a lot of concern if those numbers, if we started seeing those numbers again would be difficult to manage at a community level.- difficult to manage at a communi level. ~ ., community level. we mentioned the justice community level. we mentioned the justice department - community level. we mentioned the justice department are - the justice department are suing greg abbott for these bouysin suing greg abbott for these bouys in rio grande, they are designed to deter migrants, do they do that? for designed to deter migrants, do they do that? they do that? for much of the attention they do that? for much of the atten
changed, there s f another cara van forming, folks who want to come from venezuela. we have pictures of the cara van, hundreds from right now, likely growing in the process. there is as we mentioned growing docontroversy over the bouys beg put in the rio grande river because the federal government and border patrol can t or won t stop the illegal flow across the river. texas is trying to step in and install the floating barriers. we ll see if it has a deterrent effect on yet another cara van headed for our southern border. kayleigh: the incoming secretary on foreign affairs of the border bouys, here s what she said, we are sending a territorial inspection to see where the bouys are located to check out the survey to verify they don t cross into mexican territory. what s interesting is the way mexico talks to the united
actually asking the tough questions. so i think the president had an opportunity to call this committee out and say, listee p if you say you have this evidence, have a hearing, i ll come down there. my sonhere, we will come down t, will testify that story. but we all know it s all. locked in the back door. are the fbi, they re not touching it, so they ll never thin tg to to that stage where they can have hearings because they can t get their hands on any of the evidence becausee the been sitting there for years and it s very comfortablfe off the you know, on the very. but more than that, we ve moe seenplayou movie play out befor. this happened a couple of years ago when there was this whole thing about, benghazi, hillary clinton went down there and testified fofor 17 hours and nothing came of it. of course it didn t. right. there wa s all these crimes happened. she did all this stuff with the ouys now in our committeurs, ann the truth started to come out and testify. and so my p