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The economy will keep booming over the next decade propelled by further tax cuts, reduced regulations and infrastructure improvements. but not all economists agree with this big forecast from the white house. for more were joined by chairman of the white house council of economic advisors kevin hassett. thank you for being here. weve dug through the report. it looks pretty rosie considering some substantial things have changed in recent months. so first tell me if this is correct. economic growt...

Issue. when you look at, in my state, we need workers for some of the jobs, especially in rural areas. we have a 2.8% unemployment rate. 70 of our fortune 500 companies headed by immigrants. 25% of our u.s. nobel laureates were born in other countries. so i see it as an economic imperative. you and i talked about privacy legislation. we need to start looking up at the challenges instead of just fighting down, and i call it the river of our divide as on my announced next to the mississippi river....

Had five republican co-sponsors at that time, and i think there are more to come. everybody wants to get to a solution here, and i just wish the president would put a little faith in the process. and, you know, he came in with a budget last january, anderson, for $1.6 billion for border security, and he got it. it went through the appropriations committee. it was approved. it was in the bill that went through the senate -- the senate appropriations committee and the house appropriations committe...

Are more to come. everybody wants to get to a solution here, and i just wish the president would put a little faith in the process. and, you know, he came in with a budget last january, anderson, for $1.6 billion for border security, and he got it. it went through the appropriations committee. it was approved. it was in the bill that went through the senate -- the senate appropriations committee and the house appropriations committee, and so i guess what im saying is thats evidence that we can a...

Economics explosion in growth in all three, the cbo projects public debt will rise, and thats bad. stock index futures are higher. it looks like a bounce back from what was a terrible day on wall street. the dow fell 660 points, and thats 2.8%, and thats because of apple, the slowing growth in china and the trade tensions, and the nasdaq closed down 3%. that apple decline was 10%. that is the worst day in nearly six years. it spread throughout tech, and big names had their worst days in six or s...

Him. >> the house asks us to meet at 10:30. we will do that and have a discussion. at 11:30. excuse me. 11:30. >> they told me 11:30. maybe the real meeting is at 10:30. >> pelosis first speech after reclaiming the speakership brought on the largest numbers of women in the house. and the dow dropped 660 points yesterday. that is 2.8% after apple warned it will miss its quarterly sales forecasts. apparent le plunged 10%. the worst decline in six years. s&p fell 2.5%. nasdaq fell 3%. closing bac...

Points. 2.8% after apple warned it will miss sales forecasts because of weakening growth and trade tensions in china. apple plunging 10%. the s&p fell 2.5%. nasdaq fell 3%. back in bear market. the administration officials are warning of more china trouble ahead for corporate mechaniamer. the chairman of the economic advisers council kevin hassertt says more companies will downgrade their outlooks. >> we have the u.s. growing at 3%. the fourth quarter is looking at 3 as well. that is having an i...

>> reporter: now at home, the little girls mother believes the shooting was a hate crime that has left a surviving daughter shell-shocked. >> she hasnt dropped a tear, and it scares me. it scares me, because i dont know whats going on in her head. >> just an awful story. will carr with us from houston tonight. and will, authorities are now investigating whether this could be connected to a similar shooting in 2017, an african-american man was randomly shot by a white man in a pickup truck, and t...

♪ time now for your friday news by the numbers. first 2.8. thats how much social security check also increase by next month. on average, thats 39 extra dollars per month. largest increase since 2012 and partly due to increases in medicare costs. next, $10 billion thats how much the marijuana industry is worth according to cannabis research firm. 250,000 people work in the pot industry. finally 32, thats how many babies were born this year to employees at birthing unit at minnesota hospital. lo...

Whats next? but this is definitely something that should have happened a long time ago. he did it, but i mean should we really be commending him because presidents have done this before. its just been a while. it took him a little bit longer to get there than we expected. >> yeah. patrick, speaking to the troops, i mentioned this in the open of the show. the president overstated the pay raise the soldiers got every year. he said, because of me, you got a pay raise. you got a 10% pay raise. you k...