Climbing a little bit here 10 minutes into trading. bill: i ll make you a wager. i say we end up in positive territory today. i ll say triple digits. the number was good. not a disappointment. you met it. you ve talked about it for weeks. heck, you campaigned on this number. remember candidate trump saying 2% is not good enough for america? you put me in there i ll get you back to 4 and we ll grow to 5%? you cannot be satisfied with the current trends? that s what he campaigned on. sandra: chevron, exxonmobile. they re waiting on the dow on the lower-than expected earnings shaving a decent amount off the dow at this moment. the gdp strong. the president should be out to speak in a few moments from now. bill: we need to check the watch at the white house.
Politically it s interesting that the president is going to these places where i think his base is, right? he seems to be approaching this as a base turnout election. it will be interesting to know what would happen. bill: i would take issue with that. i don t think this is necessarily where his base is but where you find the toss-up battles for control of the house in november. i disagree. i think it s in suburban districts. bill: kansas two and three, these are very close elections right now. you also have close elections in the suburbs of pittsburgh, some of the suburbs of southern california. these are elections districts that hillary clinton won and republicans control. that s i think a tough place for the president to go to and that s why you go to more of the industrial midwest states and districts rather than suburban districts which might get hurt from a trade war that raises prices on consumers. as well as i think the
The mid-terms i won t aggressively engage in a trade war right now. i ll slow it down. he is getting negative signals from republicans on capitol hill. secondly, i m not going to have vladimir putin in here before the mid-term elections. sandra: it could be part of his strategy, too. you talk about a president unlike other presidents has a long, long-term strategy i believe in terms. he brings up these things like the tariffs and he likes to point out he is convinced even larry kudlow that using tariffs as a tool is a very effective way to get countries to do what you want to do and, of course, let s not forget he ran a campaign on the notion that we re already at a trade war at least with china and have been they ve been at war with us for a long time and taking advantage of us. that was a very, very effective thing for him. but i do think that, bill, he is clearly going for those middle voters whether it s a base election or whatever, he
Steps here and small steps there, well eventually they can lead to big things. i m not saying that north korea is going to give up its nukes someday. it may never come to that. but you don t have you don t have any more testing. no more missiles are fired. it seems like a red hot situation has been cooled for now. cool for now. i think that s an accomplishment in and of itself. the question ultimately to me is will the administration s own stated policy of complete denuclearization ever come to fruition? have these steps moved us closer to that? i don t think we have a good answer on that. i think the small steps are certainly good at cooling from where that really hot moment was about a year ago. but the nuclear program for north korea is so fundamental to its own conception of itself as a state that it is not going to be easy.
going back to his grandfather. let s talk about twitter, shall we? sandra: shadow banning. is this a legitimate concern? the president has been tweeting about it. bill: there is no doubt about it. i think the social media organizations are admitting that it is a problem. although sandra: twitter said they re changing their policy. bill: what is it? it has to do when you are searching for somebody who is a conservative and or republican and it makes it more difficult to find. sandra: if their name auto pop later or not. they say if you re a conservative like jim jordan or ronna mcdaniel their name doesn t populate in the search. this is grievance policy. no shortage of conservative i m going to say, if it was the case that they were saying we re blocking some conservative leader i would say