Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
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the long-term question are wages growing, are the right people getting the jobs, the resources, the job training? is american healing and moving together or moving in a different direction? the other thing, of course, you just had larry kudlow on saying trust me, it will sustain itself over time. likely the next quarter will be lower. we all hope it s higher. the elephant in the room is the trade war, whether or not the actions now taken by the president will undermine the great work everybody has done in the last couple years? all you have to do is listen to the farmers who, although some of them are still sticking with the president are sending the message that you re hurting me. the greatest indication that the tariffs are hurting is that they ve had to put $12 billion in place to sustain it while the pain takes course. in luouisiana we have a $6 billion export economy that will be hurt as well. you hope the trade war doesn t impact the economic growth we re seeing today. let s tu
now. if we look back at the temperatures in the gulf of mexico back in the winter when i wrote that story, the water temperature in the gulf of mexico never fell below 73 degrees. texas and luouisiana had their warmest winters on record. new orleans also had its warmest february on record. so there was just abnormal warmth in the gulf coast states back in the winter. the warm water persisted in the gulf of mexico leading up to hurricane harvey. you need that fuel. you need that warm water in the gulf of mexico to power these storms, and we saw that explosive intensification of harvey as it approached the texas coast. obviously the warm water spurred by climate change played a role here. of course there s natural variability. we ve had hurricanes hit the gulf coast for decades. i think there s ooh combination. i think global warming intensified the storm some.