A morning news show that includes interviews, features and banter among hosts. Pete and barack obama as well. That kind of anemic growth is the new normal. And a lot of economists said that as well. Griff, you brought this up. You should get credit for this. I will read it one of our reports in October Of 2016 cnn surveyed 11 economists on whether the economy would ever reach 4 g. D. P. All said no. Quote one economist his name is Robert Brewska he said pigs do not fly. Trump donald trump is dreaming that it would get to 4 . Breaking news this morning, pigs do fly. They actually do. [laughter] because we hit 4. 1 . If its on the folder its got to be true. Think about it, economists and everyone in the establishment said no, no, no. 4 cant happen. We are managing americas decline. We are a second rate power. Our economy is stuck in the mud. Trump said no we can unleash it again. America can be great. Economic engine of free market works. Abby we are still dealing with this. Griff the Pl
A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo
Gotten from people inside and outside the white house that the president referred to countries like el salvador and haiti, honduras, some african nations as sholes in a discussion with several members of congress including senators and house members on both the democratic and republican sides and they are talking about a fix for daca. The president again despite the multiple confirmations tweeted out this morning the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but not the language used. What was tough was the proposal made. Bill hemmer asked the white house advisor for Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp about what the president said. Lets watch that exchange. That language wasnt used . I was not in the room. It was very clear that he in his tweet he said language was not used. Multiple sources say when the subject was broached about these are countries that had temporary protective status for a lot of people. The president rescinded the status for people from el salvador i
Reporter in the second full year of the president s administration. Infrastructure is a large part of that. Officials hope they can get a number of democrats on board with that. The same is theication with immigration, though the white house floated immigration proposal of the last couple of weeks, and democrats rejected it so far. The white house has a plan to offer a pathway to citizenship for 1. 8 million called dreamers, those brought to the United States illegally as children. The administration wants in exchange border wall funding and end to chain or family migration and the diversityvisa lottery system. The administration defending that proposal against attacks from the left and the right. Senior official involved in the state of the Union Planning says the president will discuss trade and security, and transportation officials fan out across the country and celt president s message, rick . Rick what are you hearing about the reports that the president wanted to fire Robert Mue
Mcconnell also a spokesperson for House Speaker paul ryan said that the speaker is committed to doing a daca deal when its something that President Trump is willing to sign. But, first things first, we are staring at a deadline and deadline pressure here on capitol hill is often what forces action. So they have reached agreement on the spending deal. Yeah, we will be watching them count votes in the house. If Speaker Paul Ryan has signed off on it and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi has signed off on it. One can presume they have rallied enough support to get it across the finish line it would give two years of certainty in terms of allowing military planners to be able to plan for operations over the next couple of years. And it would also avoid a Government Shutdown. Now, the democrats are celebrating some of the domestic spending. We have heard more money for opioid addiction and other domestic priorities and so, look, democrats have leverage in the United States senate. You ne