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issues for the benefit and safety of the american people. by grandstanding and political sizing the investigation into russia s actions, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. james comey is ready to break his silence, seming an invitation to testify in open session before the senate intelligence committee at some point after memorial day. let s go now to riyadh, saudi arabia, where nbc s kristen welker is traveling with the president today. in a few minutes, president trump will officially be welcomed by the saudi royals. what will that look like? reporter: well, this is going to take place at the royal court palace. it will include the first lady and then a little bit later on the president will have a bilateral meeting with king salman. this is a day that s going to be filled with pomp and circumstance and the president will be meeting with saudi and arab leaders. his goal is to have a bit of a reset, to send the message he s n ....
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporate tax cuts would cause a capital spending boom. if you look at the average of the first half of the year, we got a capital spending boom in the average growth is 3.1 percent. it s not often that economists can nail it that tightly and it showed its working exactly as we thought. paul: capital spending in the first quarter was more robust than in the second quarter. do you have an explanation for that? one of the things that happened is for equipment spending you were allowed to expense it retroactive to october ....
i m leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9:00 for my good friend rachel maddow. there will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. for now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. that does it for now. who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again? you can blame me. boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. thank you, nicole. if it s tuesday, paul manafort s trial is officially under way. tonight, collusion confus n confusion. the wild evolution of the president s alternative explanations with yet another dimension of denial. plus, midterm sabotage. our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. facebook you have? s snuffs out coordinated attempts of election interference but as the u.s. government done you have no protect the integrity of the vote? mark my words, america won t tolerate this meddling. and day one of trial number one for the special counsel s office. ho ....
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. that he had been he had testified behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee and apparently forgot about that meeting. i think it strains credulity to believe he forgot about that meeting. so what might bob mueller s investigators be doing now? because miss davis is close to him personally and professionally, there s been some reporting that, for example, she would keep his schedule. of course, the investigators are going to want to deal with her to see what kind of meetings roger stone was taking. even more importantly, to see if before his testimony to the house intelligence committee he had been speaking with her about the meetings he had taken. when you uncover evidence like that, it significantly undercuts a claim that i just forgot about meeting with that particular russian. so there are all sorts of reasons for mueller s investigative team to want to get every bid of rel vaevan ....
63 people were shot in the city of chicago. 10 of those victims at this point have died. one of them a 17-year-old boy who was just riding his bike. 34 of the 63 were shot between saturday and sunday morning alone. and 25 people were wounded within a two and a half hour period over the weekend. we are the ones who can stop the violence in our own neighborhood. whatever the police does, you know, what they do good. god bless them. that s their job. at the same time we cannot keep tying these police hands. will be rob chicago police say most of the shootings were targeted and related to gang violence with gunmen opening fire large crowds. most of it happening in the south side of the city. president trump predicted chicago violence would get worse more than two years ago. tweeting in july of 2016 crime is out of control and rapidly getting worse. look at what is happening in chicago and our inner cities not good. working with gangworkworking tof the ice. if we were talking abo ....