Shellady and moodys economist john lonski. Welcome to both of you. Scott, what do you make of what is happening right now . Maybe because of stormy weather, folks expected to participate in Online Shopping more than otherwise would be the case. How do you sort of look at that . The shocking numbers, Online Shopping still has not eclipsed bricks and mortar. Depending who you read about 20, 25 . What do the malls look like when there is 50 50 . There is a still room to have Online Shopping area. I think bets, ultimately death knell at some point in time but right now it is small. We need to see 10 billion, the market would love. That would be something good to underpin we see what happened today. U. S. Economy, u. S. Consumer, the way they feel, it is a good recipe. Stuart john, youve been telling me the consumer is the key to this recovery and even when ceos, cfos, sort of dialed back expectations or not hired as many or ratcheted down their plans, the consumer had none of that. Is that
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
department as a personal police force to pursue his critics and political enemies. here s what he said about it in an interview with uni vision last night. i could certainly happen in reverse. it could certainly happen in reverse. what they ve done is they ve released the genie out of the box, you understand that, they ve done something that nobody thought would happen. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly i say, go down and indict them, mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business, they d be out. they d be out of the election. it s all out loud now. so out loud that in a statement, a spokesperson for the trump campaign sought to walk it back and clarify trump s remarks saying the ex-president was simply highlighting the dangerous example president joe biden is setting which only makes sense if you say his conspiracy theory that the work of joe biden and not the end result of years of investigation
Investigation. Also this morning, the New York Times reports that former National Security adviser john bolton is in negotiations to testify. Bolton has been described by many as alarmed with the alleged quid pro quo with ukraine. He called it, of course, a drug deal. And this morning, cnn learned that democrats were already discussing the scope and scale of potential articles of impeachment. Well tell you how wide they will cast the net. And yet another major development. A source tells cnn that the attorney general bill barrs investigation of the origins of the 2016 trump russia investigation is now a criminal matter. And that designation allows federal prosecutors to subpoena witnesses and file criminal charges. Democratic chairman adam schiff and jerry nadler responding overnight saying it also raises profound concerns that the Justice Department has lost its independence and is being used for President Trumps political whims. Joins us to talk about all of this, political analyst m