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Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red
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Back with a discussion on the economy and how its going to affect the 2020 election. Joined by the president of the Economic Policy institute and joe griffith, research fellow, finance and regulations at the heritage foundation. For both of you economy what do we see the economy playing into the 2020 elections. Lets start with you. Jesse. K you, i think in the past, the economy has been a pretty good predictor the outcome of president ial elections. In other words, in the economy is trunk the incumbent tends to reelected or the incumbent party and if the economy is weak, the opposite tends to be case. I think this year might be a little different for a couple of reasons. One is the economy is kind of quite ased, its not cut and dry like its good, its bad. News from such different places best for two bill clinton, defeating an incompetent, bush. S george h w he had won the gulf war. We entered a mild recession. President clinton want. 1996, bill clinton one despite having a lot of havin