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29,297 the close on the dow. Economists are blaming big slowdown on trade pressure and tariffs, what do you say, john . There you go, this is as expected, china was much more vulnerable to imposition of trade war and u. S. Economy, china has a very strong incentive as ambitious as it might be. Dagen one thing i will point out that we have a record in the stock market here in the United States, in the meantime the democrats are trying to remove President Trump from office, we will get to that in a second but there are good numbers coming out of china, the index jump today highest level since 2015, this is probably a better leading indicater than Economic Growth, the wall street journal writes also about this, the price of copper is up more than 7 in the past 2 months, again, industrial metal used around the globe, anothe ....
Were glad you made it in. It was tough. I made it through the weather. Its good to be here in a very warm environment sgll congratulations all around. Thank you. Lets begin. The white house the calling the move desperate and totally illegal. Msnbcs Rachel Maddow releasing two pages of President Trumps 2005 tax returns. The documents revealing that the president paid roughly 25 tax rate on about 1553 million in income. President trump hitting back does anybody really believe that will a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mail box and found my tax returns . Nbc news, fake news. Im not quite sure what the tweet receivers to, does anybody believe he went to his mail box and found the tax returns . The fact that its fake news doesnt have any relevance to the fact that the white house was quick to say that yes the president paid 38 million of tax on 153 million in income ....
This is an in-depth historical piece about president richard nixon and the trouble he made for himself when he leaned on officials in his own justice department both to try to influence the course of the watergate investigation, but also specifically to get them to feed him information on the ongoing case. james baker, ex-fbi general counsel now providing an impressive history lesson on how one of the articles of impeachment against nixon was in part about him opening up a back channel of communication with a senior justice department official that was designed to inform him about the inner works of the watergate case. joining us now for the interview is james baker, former general counsel of the fbi and co-author with sarah grant of this fascinating spotlight on this part of history. mr. baker, it s really nice to have you here. i know you don t do things like this often if at all. so it s a real honor to have you on the program. thanks, rachel. first time ever. i promise it will ....
Anybody else at the justice department who might be feeding president trump information about the mueller investigation. is it clear under current justice department rules that somebody at the justice department would be in trouble if they were doing that? yes, and particularly so if it was done to help the president undermine the investigation, the integrity of the work of the men and women of the department of justice. right. so, the president is the head of the executive branch and the justice department is a part of the executive branch. and so in theory, the president is entitled to know what his branches i m sorry, what his agencies are doing. that part is okay. but if it s to undermine the investigation which, by the way, rachel, is about him. uh-huh. that s a problem. and so i think the analogy that jim baker draws explicitly in his article, implicitly on your show, is very important. the truth will out is the way that one ends basically. the truth will out. the r ....
Counsel of the fbi. again, a man who does not do introduce like this. i really appreciate you making time to be here and talking to us about this piece. thank you very much. thank you, rachel. all right. i have some more questions. stay with us. we ll be right back. the greatest wish of all. is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, and a complimentary first month s payment. only at your lincoln dealer. ....