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Numbers underlying this high gdp report. and one of the things i found very hopeful for the future is business investment, what theyre investing in. new plant, new equipment, new technology, which leads to more jobs that has surged. so theres a lot of business optimism out there, and im sure donald trump is going to have a big smile on his face when he talks about these numbers. >> lets also to be fair here, but it into context because there were four times during the obama administration where ...

The president deserves every right. we have seen this before. if you go back to the clinton administration, you had quarters with 7.8%. george w. bush administration, 6 6.9%. obama had a high of 5.2%. this presidents high, 4.1%. the question is sustainability. to that big question, you heard christine talk about how some of the soybean exports boomed because those farmers were like, okay, the tariffs are coming, lets get this out of here now. is there any evidence -- or when will we have evidenc...

Perhaps even more important is that we only invest more than $40 billion just since last year. its my cost to make sure we deliver. that we have substantial increase in defense spending in the years ahead and our work together with all our allies and of course working closely with president trump and his leadership, his strong message is having a clear impact, allies are increasing defense spending. >> which is what you said before. in fact, 100% of allies are increasing spending. youve said tha...

The lead and stood up to putin along with president backup and they decided to up natos defense spending. and lets just call a spade a spade. the president says it is unfair to the u.s. and taxpayers, but theyre budget is determined on the side of each individual economy. the u.s. wants to spend more. europe thought that europe was safe after the collapse of the solve y soviet union. they said that is exactly what they have been doing, collectively 5.2% more since 2014 when they took the decisio...

President trump said on the campaign trail to the black community in 2016, vote for him because what do you have to lose? >> african-american unemployment has reached an all-time record low in history. kanye west must have some power, because you probably saw i doubled my african-american poll numbers. we went from 11 to 22 in one week. thank you, kanye. thank you. >> in april of 2017, the unemployment rate was 7.9% in the black community. there has been movement under this president with jobs a...

Behind those numbers donald trump said on the campaign trail to the black community in 2016 vote for him because what do you have to lose, listen to the pres. today touting his support from kanye west. >> african-american unemployment has reached another all time in history record low. kanye west must have some power because you probably saw i doubled my african-american poll numbers who went from 11 to 22 in one week, thank you. >> in april 2017 the unemployment rate was 7.9% in the black commu...

Majority. >> paul: she won by 5.2. it was 38 points for the republican in 2016, 52 in 2014, 28 in 2012. these are the western suburbs of phoenix, sun city, middle class retirement community, republican country, james, 5 points only. >> republican country and for that reason in those prior elections, not really contested by democrats. what you saw in this one was a very aggressive effort, lots of volunteers, lots of knocking on doors, phone calls, et cetera, more than your usual effort. now, this...

>> paul: she won by 5.2. it was 38 points for the republican in 2016, 52 in 2014, 28 in 2012. these are the western suburbs of phoenix, sun city, middle class retirement community, republican country, james, 5 points only. >> republican country and for that reason in those prior elections, not really contested by democrats. what you saw in this one was a very aggressive effort, lots of volunteers, lots of knocking on doors, phone calls, et cetera, more than your usual effort. now, this does poin...

Senator harry reid warned his party against in an interview this week. >> ive been through an impeachment and theyre not pleasant. i think the less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country. >> paul: were back with dan henninger, kate odell and james freeman. so james, whats the lesson first of the arizona special election victory? >> republicans have a challenge this fall, trying to buck history and to hold onto their majority in the house in an off year, in a mid-term elect...

All right. so the republican candidate won last nights special election in arizona but the results, the republican winning, may be the strongest sign yet of the serious peril facing the presidents party this fall. republican debbie lesko beat democrat had i ral tipirneni by 5.2 points in arizonas 8 there congressional district wit president won by 21 points less than two years ago, a swing of almost 16 percentage points in democrats favor. when you look at the district, there are a lot of reason...