Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments ago, president george h. W. Bushs remains arrived by train in college station. Next is a Burial Ceremony at the george bush president ial library. We will be keeping an eye on these proceedings as the 41st president is officially laid to
rest in a few minutes. Well take you back there, but were going to begin tonight with yet another piece of reporting that raises questions if the trump administrations Foreign Policy is for sale. It raises other questions about whether bob mueller might be invest
very strong economy for the last few years and has picked up since the obama administration and has done positive things like regulatory cuts and tax cuts. but there are signs and he admitted today that this war that he s engaged in with china, it s a battle that s having an impact. it s creating uncertainty in the markets and business investment and is probably knocking off a couple of 10ths of a point off gdp and is slowing down the economy a little bit. he s trying to look at things that may counter that. i would say this. i have to give the president credit. president obama didn t take on china. the economy wasn t that strong. president bush didn t take on china. jennifer knows, because she s from michigan, there is a lot of folks who want us to take on china, who are tired of china eating our lunch and give the president high marks for doing the battle and risking his
investors were convinced, i think the market may be off more. already interest rates have fallen quite a bit, there s what we call a run for safety in it the bond market. people selling stocks and buying bonds because they want to hold onto their principal. they re afraid of what might happen. ali, i ve been watching this for a very long time. there is no instance when the president made it appear as if there would be more tariffs that the market has rallied. the stock market does not like tariffs at all. economists evaluate these as negative for the economy, negative for growth. one estimate out today is that these mexican tariffs, which shaved three quarters of a point off gdp, and i can tell you our cnbc all-america survey done before the mexican tariffs show the american public largely does not approve of the tariffs or the president s trade tactics. all right. a and, steve, at this point, when you talk when you look at i said something i probably shouldn t have said when i l
united states wouldn t shave a point off gdp. their oil exports, while important, are nowhere near as important as they were a decade ago. the president uses these explanations, rationalizations, but our trust interest is in geopolitics and no administration would jettison that relationship. why does he jeopardize it, by not showing the public what his interests really are with saudi arabia? when they start when they gave the donations of the income they received in the hotels, they made a donation recent it will for x amount of dollars and said, take our word for it, this is what we believe we have to donate. any other administration would give all of the information out there because they had nothing to hide. and by not doing it, at least makes you think they must have something to hide. that s the thing. it s the perception, that was always the concern of the clinton foundation. we re going to actually, i believe, sneak in a quick break here and then we re going to come back
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