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Capital spending than what you saw in the gdp release. i look forward to seeing the revision to that. the key source data frt the, they were up more than 6%. can i say one last thing. even today, because i was looking at this because im puzzled by the gdp data. in the jobs report, we can look at job creation in the industries that make capital goods, and now we have like the best data in the current quarter for that industry, and it was up something like 5.2%. >> there is a lot of -- >> so emplo...

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Who knew what and said what about meetings. and darrell issa, congressman, a lot of attention about that. i dont think its a small matter and its worth media attention. im not saying the media ignored the strong gdp data, but lets say it was as favored a subject as the cohen tapes and allegations. what do you make of all of that? >> it may be the greatest backhanded compliment of all time. we take for granted that president trump was going to make america great again financially. he was going to...

The april jobs report comes out this morning. what can it tell us about president trumps economy so far, especially his promise of 25 million new jobs over the next ten years? well, i can tell you what economists expect, the unemployment rate still at 4.5%, solid wage growth and 190,000 new jobs. its a nice bump after the slowdown of 98,000 in march. that could be good news for president trump. while he boasted about previous strong jobs reports, he blames weak gdp data from the same period on f...

These protests could galvanize her base if the violence escalates while moderates will have to balance earning voters trust with the risk of alienating law enforcement. i think the violence tells us of a larger frustration in france today. the french sociologist points out every candidate has been knocked out of the election so far, from president holland to the leader of the greens to former president sarkozy to former prime minister. like in so many places these days, france is a country where...

Several factors. fears after global slow down and we will talk about oil prices in a minute. lets talk about the source of uneasiness and thats chinas economy. how much is due to chinas devaluation of its currency last week? also, is there concern that conditions are worse in china than being reported? >> yes. i think thats right. we saw a key gauge of manufacturing this morning. slip it a six-year low and that combined with the devaluation that we saw last week suggests that chinas growth is sl...

The 10% cut and despite the fix on the faa, its still in place for much of the economy. is it freezing things up? >> well one of the very interesting things thats happened in recent weeks is that having the sequester has almost begun to seem like the new normal and theres been almost a sort of grudging political acceptance. acceptance amongst voters. in terms of the tangible impact on the economy, its always been clear that it was going to be a cumulative thing. we didnt just suddenly see a shoc...

taxpayers have been unfairly labeled as lazy. >> and the criminaled cruise line is pushed -- finally pulled into port. were live in the seychelles for that. first up, lets get straight to the european stock market action. these markets have been open for the best part of just over an hour. this is how the indices are performing. a little die cot many between the two eurozone markets. the cac is trading down about .25%. ftse 100 up. what has got their attention. ben bernankes comments a...

brooke sits down with artists as they travel through atlanta. if you want to see some of had her other "music monday" interviews, check out cnn.com/broome. top of the hour. im martin savidge, in for brooke baldwin. herman cain is on damage control. many employees forced to pay more because of weight or lifestyle. and millions right now without power. it is time to play reporter roulette. joe johns in washington, the political world is abuzz involving herman cain. whats the latest...

Despite improveing data, there are concerns we are just bumbling along, latest g.d.p. data show as softening of the economy, are you worried at best, and in no pun intended, we "tread water." >>guest: that is what we are doing. the economy is in neutral. and this is a real danger that any kind of disruption could toss us into a recession. this storm was not big enough to qualify. but i was very disturbed to read this morning that the president not named a very competent princeton economist but v...