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
griff: this is my favorite part. abby: they weren t so optimistic about where we would be today. griff: cnn, donald trump promises 4% growth. economists say no way. l.a. times if trump thinks he is get more than 3% economic growth, he s dreaming. pete: this is important, that is truly the way the elites viewed our economy. the way elites viewed america. china is on the ascendant. the international order is on the ascendant. america the nation state these things are on the decline. he ran against that very theory and for capitalism against socialism and that s what has happened. griff: paul krugman of your beloved failing new york times. pete: master of conventional wisdom. griff: after the president was elected in november he said with regards to what we can expect, putting an irresponsible ignorant man takes advice from all the wrong people in charge of the nation s economy would be very bad news. a terrible thing has just happened. i don t think anyone would disagree that 4.1% wi
and litigating border security and ice against the party that says we don t want a wall and we want to abolish ice, they feel like those are winning messages. that was the weekly address. you choose what you talk about each week and they re staying focused on those issues. abby: they need that morale boost because you have so many in this country helping to protect us and make us safer. it s really difficult when you have local leaders and local mayors around the country that don t want to support ice. that want to make it more difficult. that tell their cities don t report things. don t help ice do their job. that s exactly what we heard from the mayor of philadelphia. jim keny, right? is that his name who we hear from all the time. he said we are not going to provide them with any information so they can go out and round people up. i cannot in good conscience allow the agreements to continue. all of us have ancestors who were once immigrants. all of us. this the complete opposite mes
business owners have said i feel like i can hire more people. i feel like can i provide more for my family. that makes me a happy person. griff: yeah. abby: that has a real impact on the elections. it will be so interesting to see how the mid terms play out. with the economy doing well, the democrats, what is their message going to be, right? i think they are still trying to figure out what their soul is who they are. hard to do when the economy is doing well. griff: what you summed up is confidence. they have confidence in the economy. you know, there is another thing happening across the country as we have all traveled and that is the lack of confidence that so many and really the lack of respect that people have having for ice, for our law enforcement. and, you know, that was something this week that president trump will not let go. these law enforcement officers, whether they be ice or border patrol or others, to know that he has confidence in them. just real quick, pete, let s tak
has no better friend than president trump. i have been a street cop to white house 30 some years. and i think he will recognize this as if he were watching, this he would pick up the phone and call doj and call the attorney general and say we need more training, we need more equipment. we need to work with the communities. pete: interesting point. the ire would have come from the police community who did that now the ire is more public. have you social media, videos out there. briefly from awful you, sergeant larkin, what needs to change for this to improve? you know, obviously, better relationships with the public. i mean, you know, speaking for my own police department, i know we are active out there in the community trying to be that type of relationship with people. but just as, you know, joe talked about, the social media right now is huge because officers we ll relevant respected and now it s actually almost encouraged on social media, it s posted it s shared when an officer is