and other countries are taking advantage of that. what do you think about the scope of our presence at some of these rule setting meetings? what are your plans for the future? senator, we need to be there. we need to be active. we need to be capable. we need to be value added. we need to come prepared to engage and work for america s interests in these multilateral discussions. i think you described wto in this article. sounds like we share that sentiment. i couldn t tell you why we weren t there. i don t know if it was an absence of people or the absence of focus. i view those as important to get the international rule of law that s in accord with our view and not the chinese view in that particular instance. you have concerns and i will do my best to make sure we re there and we re capable. appreciate it, that answer. i want to get a little bit of clarification with respect to an answer that you gave senator menendez at the outset coming back to that meeting with the president
release her first book of photography. it s cold of love and war. that s it for today. have a great week and we will see you next fox news sunday . i am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the united states economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1 percent. if economic growth continues at this pace, the united states economy will double in size. more than 10 years faster than it would have under either president bush or obama. paul: welcome to the journal editorial report . i am paul gigot.
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporat
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporate tax cuts would cause a capital spending boom. if you look at the average of the first half of the year, we got a capital spending boom in the average growth is 3.1 percent. it s not often that economists can nail it that tightly and it showed its working exactly as we thought. paul: capital spending in the first quarter was more robust than in the second quarter.
do you have an explanation for that? one of the things that happened is for equipment spending you were allowed to expense it retroactive to october. in t
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all this is ken vogel of the new york times and also the law firm of butler rocca and dershowitz, former federal prosecutor georgetown law 0 professor and legal analyst paul butler. former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york also an msnbc legal analyst mimi rocca, and professor emeritus at harvard law school, alan dershowitz. he is the author of the book the case against impeaching trump. thanks to all of you for being with us on this sunday night. ken vogel, i want to start with you just in terms of what we ve been seeing out of the white house from this president today. what prompted this flurry of tweets? well, clearly he s fairly under a lot of pressure. michael cohen is coming out publicly and releasing the tape of the conversation regarding a payoff to a woman who alleged he had an affair with her, has seemed to set him off in a way we haven t seen hi
no question about it. talk to your doctor about chantix. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live in washington from 7:00 to 9:00 eastern. tonight the president lashes out against robert mueller claiming conflicts of interest. plus russia gate travels to the worst airport gate in america. don junior and robert mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at reagan national airport. at the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. later we ll talk to senator chris van hollen about matters
foreign and domestic. he floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. but we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a greatest hits of grievances against special counsel robert mueller. quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a ver