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Speakers impeachment comment better today. that hes "just not worth it," >> im glad. whats going on there? but there are a lot of >> reporter: beto orourke this congressional members on your side of the aisle who disagree. morning, beto is -- it was 35 notably representative tlaib degrees but cold enough for a disagreed. your thoughts on this issue. couple deep breaths. your colleagues have said a lot beto orourke ran a 5k, 3.2 of things about the president miles ran it for facts sake in recentl...

High on the presidents agenda, $8.6 billion for that southern border wall. the budget has an additional $3.6 billion in military construction funds to pay back the money the president redir t redirected using his executive authority, a plan lawmakers will likely ignore as the nations debt reaches record highs. the budget also includes an optimistic forecast of americans economy. the white house forecasts the economy will grow at an average of 3% each yearoff the next decade including 3.2% in 201...

Proposal. "washington post" talked about the economic growth projections that the white house is putting out there are simply too rosie for this type of proposal. let me run the numbers by you. the white house is projecting 3.2% growth in 2019, average of 3% growth over the next decade. that is far greater than the other forecasts out there including the cbo, 2.3% this year, 1.7 and 1.8 over the next decade. i know mark sandy is a good friend of yours, the chief economist at moodys. he is saying...

Scenario. the average error for them where they were higher than what happened was 1.4% over their entire term. next year we could be a minus 2 and have the same numbers as the obama guys. there is this sort of democratic policy industrial complex that said its not president obamas policies that making the economy weak. it is something we cant control and you blew wealth people. the rust belt state people no hope. manufacturing jobs are never coming back. that is not donald trumps message. i thi...

His re-election campaign and really pushing democrats on this issue. remember, the budget, yes, no presidential budget is meant to pass and move forward. but the government, congress and the white house, has to get a spending bill by september. what else is coming up in september? the big fight over the debt ceiling. it could end up being quite explosive. pushing for a border wall at a time that the united states needs to figure out how not to default on its loans. >> is it too early to think ab...

Working. lets talk growth. i know you guys are happy and america is happy about the growth number we saw this week in terms of economic growth. you told the "wall street journal" yesterday you think well see 3% or greater growth for the year. my question to you is what could stop that? what could get in the way? namely in a china trade deal doesnt come together would you still foresee 3% growth if the tariffs are ratcheted up? >> well, again, the reason we see 3% growth is the model that 16 mont...

Number? >> the 3.1% number is the correct number. 3.1% is how much the economy glue in 2018 if you take the average of 2071 and compare to the average of 2018 then what happened in 2017 is in there too. so it sort of mucks up the picture. so economists want to look at q4 over q4 and so 2018, gmdp grew 2.9%. b -- 3.1% is the right number. either one -- >> john harwood wrote yesterday that if you use the different measu measure -- >> his piece was terrible by the way. >> 3%, 3.2, 3.4 in the obama ...

Crowd is spending less because of weakened job prospects, waiting to get married and educational debt. student loans the biggest chunk of that trillion dollar followed by mortgage debt. mortgage debt makes up the vast majority of overall consumer debt, but student loan debt is growing the fastest. bloomberg reports since 2009 mortgage debt increased 3.2% while student loan debt glgrew . ahead, a tv anchor held against his will in venezuela is now free. what happened tounivisions jorge ramos. ...

To embrace capitalism, not some state-run, state-controlled socialism that will set our economy back 100 years or more. so give the president some credit. it was a very good turn of phrase. >> bill: let me frame the argument here. ill give you props and show you potholes. optimism about personal finances has klimd to levels. record high 7 million job openings. wages grew by 3.2%. i know you love to talk about it. im seeing retail sales down in december, might be a drag on the markets today. im l...

Evidence of the impact on people in terms of the value of their houses. and then the question is are people leaving? anecdotal evidence is pretty high. theres a 3.2 budget shortfall in new york. new jersey famously even before this law lost its single highest paying taxpayer left for florida. what are the states at risk? what are the states where the raelt wealthy use the tax deduction and pay the highest marginal rates and not surprisingly, they are all blue states in the northeast. the republi...