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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 we ve 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 long-term. the president is telling americans the growth is here to An evening newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day. there s a ....
Opponent. there s a big difference between those two things. i think the tradition has been if a foreign government is trying to involve itself in the democratic process, senior campaign officials find out about it, that s a line where that s a place where a line is drawn. that line was not drawn here. we know now that russia did an enormous amount throughout the campaign to help president trump, going to the length of stealing e-mails from the dnc, from senior clinton campaign officials. we know that trump denied regularly and consistently up to a couple weeks ago it seem, until he took it back, that russia had done anything to help him. so no, i do think this is different. it s one thing to try to get opposition research on an owe poe meant to talk to owe pen opponent, to talk to other people but when you have a foreign spy service coming into the campaigned and a number of campaign officials taking a meeting, it s a different ....
Every campaign does not try to coordinate with a foreign adversary to get dirt on an opponent. there s a big difference between those two things. i think the tradition has been if a foreign government is trying to involve itself in the democratic process, senior campaign officials find out about it, that s a line where that s a place where a line is drawn. that line was not drawn here. we know now that russia did an enormous amount throughout the campaign to help president trump, going to the length of stealing e-mails from the dnc, from senior clinton campaign officials. we know that trump denied regularly and consistently up to a couple weeks ago it seem, until he took it back, that russia had done anything to help him. so no, i do think this is different. it s one thing to try to get opposition research on an owe poe meant to talk to owe pen opponent, to talk to other people but when you have a foreign spy service coming into the campaigned and a number of ....