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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Things that are not truthful for donald trump. We dont have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from Michael Cohen. The only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he Wasnt Recording Him when he actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few ques...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohe...

Vote on this issue? you dont think it will be record unemployment? you dont think it will be gdp growth of 3% to 4%? >> but their wages arent rising? >> harris: yeah, they are. >> if you ask someone specifically how this economy has helped them, they will say -- >> harris: who are you asking? there are people in the middle part of this country and senator ernst and others who talk with me in the midwest they have to get tariffs straightened out. nobody would disagree with that. >> they do not be...

Everything is the best or the worst with the president. >> i feel like trump is guy. everybody is the best or the worst with that guy. economists are going to debate whether donald trump deserves any credit or whether its tally as good as it looks because what youre seeing in wages is not as good as these baseline economic numbers. wages arent rising. when you talk to most people out there, theyre seeing the dow is up and everything is plugging along and unemployment is down. they might say dona...

Us. everything is the best or the worst with the president. >> i feel like trump is gu guy. everybody is the best or the worst with that guy. economists are going to debate whether donald trump deserves any credit or whether its tally as good as it looks because what youre seeing in wages is not as good as these baseline economic numbers. wages arent rising. when you talk to most people out there, theyre seeing the dow is up and everything is plugging along and unemployment is down. they might s...

Rid of debt tax and alternative minimum tax, it goes on and on. theres a lot of specific in here. >> yeah, this is really an exercising growth economics in that the reforms youre talking about are immediate permanent and enough to -- deep enough to improve incentives. this is a plan to get us out of 1 to 2% growth rut and this is why wages arent rising and businesses arent investing and standards of living arent going up. >> dan, the fact is that we tried this before and most notably during reag...

Bank knows, you are getting nothing for having your money in the bank. thats what it means when interest rates are zero. thats the bad news about zero interest rates. good news, youve had cheap car loans, cheaper mortgages, cheaper variable debt like on credit cards and that was supposed to be good for the economy. will it happen today? will they finally raise interest rates? when they do, loans will be more expensive. if you need to refinance your mortgage, i suggest you do it today. if youre o...

Suing to have the president enforce now. there is a bit of irony in this. >> rick, can you answer for me where you see this year in presidential politics? i ask that as a key to the debate the party on immigration, the party on foreign policy, national security policy and these grassroots issues on health care. >> i talked about it across the country. were a very divided country right now. thats not necessarily a bad thing. were having really good debates on national security, other thins. what ...

Security policy, and then these kinds of grassroots issues on health care and the like. >> yeah, this is -- i talked about it across the country. were a very divided party right now and i dont think thats necessarily a bad thing. were having really good debates within the party about our position on national security, our position on immigration, a whole lot of other things. what we need though is a positive vision. one of the reasons i wrote "blue collar conservatives" just recently was to prov...

Critiquing the nature of the obama recovery. even if you dont think barack obama is actually responsible for it, his best message was always, theres a lot of people out of work, a lot of people long-term unemployed, wages arent rising, but he could never convincingly make that case or stick with it. >> at the same time, chris, we havent been able to make the case that this government has been shedding jobs for the first time since weve had a recovery and a recession. >> 600,000 down, by the way....