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By far, a streak that still continues by the way. thanks, obama. >> if economic growth continues that the pace, the united states economy will double in size more than 10 years faster than it would have under either president bush or president obama. >> now, since early 2017, after president trump cut government regulations and taxes, he is now at 4.1% economic growth and in true trumpian fashion predicting we could hit 5% growth or more soon to be hauer. the president is talking a lot less abou...

Our recovery here. the second one are these tariffs and retaliatory tariffs that create issues for countries especially that have bad debt problems. turkeys problems are essentially its own. were rubbing a little salt in the wounds here perhaps. >> hows the market going to take this? because theres always been concern that a trade war could result in a currency war. we talk about it often. remember, trump loves to say that china is a currency manipulator. we have watched the currency move a lot....

What could it mean for the other requested documents? >> theres a couple of reasons why this is a significant subpoena. first, clearly it could show past dealings with russia that clearly would go towards possible masking of moneys. money laundering, maybe a violation to the constitution. maybe everyday of obstruction. maybe shedding light on why they want it to go away. it might show shady business dealings or debt problems with russia. but going beyond that, going beyond russia could be showin...

>> another distinction, do you explain for me and our audience the documents, some of them are about russia, not all. what could it mean for the other requested documents? >> theres a couple of reasons why this is a significant subpoena. first, clearly it could show past dealings with russia that clearly would go towards possible masking of moneys. money laundering, maybe a violation to the constitution. maybe everyday of obstruction. maybe shedding light on why they want it to go away. it might...

Documents are about russia. >> there is a couple of reasons why its significant. first, clearly it could show past dealings, business dealings with russia that clearly would go toward possible masking of money, money laundering that might have gone to the campaign from russia. maybe a violation of the emoluments clause to the constitution or maybe evidence of obstruction, finally shedding light on why the president wants the special counsel inquiry to go away because it might show shady business...

Go on tv and talk about illinoiss debt problems? >> i think probably not so much. >> dhs has been headed up by elaine duke up until now. what else does kirstjen nielsen have to confront, specifically borders? >> thats a huge issue. you heard john kelly talk about border security and push democrats -- >> he dodged that question. the president said democrats dont care about security and thats why they dont want stronger borders. >> he went back to obama and hillary clinton voting on borders. i thi...

His response. he will travel there as well as to the u.s. virgin islands. he insists he was not distracted by his feud with the nfl. joe johns has more. whats the latest, joe? >> alyson, to hear the administration tell it, the response and recovery in puerto rico has been going very well despite some of the circumstances on the ground on the island which would appear otherwise. so much so that after several days of slamming the nfl and its players on twitter, the president appeared to get extrao...

The largest municipal bankruptcy in history. is there a fix from washington for what will be a very big problem? >> there may be a fix, but i think its going to take an awful lock long time. interesting that trump and the ve very address illinois went to texas and florida, two state the that voted for him and in puerto rico, a state where hes not popular, yesterday he finally kmeptded on it to lecture them about their debt problems. >> he has been awfully busy, though, talking about alabama, twe...

>> very much. >> bill weir, cnn, puerto rico. >> its so helpful to have bill weir there and our producer there translating, and shes puerto rican, and bill, hes giving us a glimpse into a desperate situation. thats one small sample of people about to run out of medication. >> the reason we will keep telling you the stories, and i know there could be a sameness to it, and you are, like, we get it, we get it. you dont get it. you couldnt be in that situation for a week. they will be living like th...

Duke. that last comment about the presidents, you know, the president has been tweeting for the last few days about the debt problems that puerto rico was in and the infrastructure problems they had before hurricane irma hit. elaine duke saying we will deal with that later. right now they need some help. breaking news out of saudi arabia. the king has announced an end to its long standing ban against women driving. women in the kingdom have been protesting the ban by posting videos and picture...