Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Putin meeting all around us in that setting. But they are also hearing the president in very few words undercut the investigation. The president also hit some other big topics like the border wall and of course smacking the media. Heres some of the highlights. Were fixing walls all over the border. And were going to start to get very nasty over the world. Anything i want, they want to oppose. I just figured out how to do the wall. Ill say, i dont want to build the wall and theyll insist on building it. I just figured that out right now. They can make anything bad. Because they are the fake, fake disgusting news. So fake, fake disgusting was a sort of updated iteration. There was cheering and jeering at us in the work area that is
the president getting funding for the wall. Remember, a Republicanled Congress has not supported the president in funding such an endeavor. Joining me to discuss, matt miller, an Msnbc Na
it s time for money, power, politics. it is jobs friday. employers added 157,000 jobs in july and the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%. a still strong and humming economy that the president is happy to show off at his rallies across the country. joining me now, financial times s brendan greely and cnbc contributor ron insana. to you first, brendan. we re adding jobs. we have a low unemployment rate. the economy is doing well. doing great. here s one of the issues. it s the same comeconomy that w doing well during the obama administration. the haves and the have nots. those who are dependent on wages. many who stood up in 2016 and said, obama, can you stop talking about the great economy, i m suffering. they re still suffering. wages remain relatively stagnant. why? well there are six different reasons. i think economists are uncomfortable talking about power. and politicians are uncomfortable talking about economic power. the assumption has always been if you don t like your job