Okay. Welcome to the new age of morning joe. How you doing today, willie . Doing great. Yesterday was a hell of a day, i mean, you started with the payroll tax, but there are about 15 different stories that in any other administration would be a scandal that lasted for weeks and months. It was incredible and i think were about to lay them out. And i think the most incredible part is, for me at least, you adopt trump saying, you know what, lets get russia back into the ga. Never mind the fact that the guy i pointed to run the fbi, the one to run the cia, dni, everybody involved. History. Kirstjen nielsen, everybody, pompeo, everybody said russias trying to undermine american democracy. Lets get them into ga, and blame it on obama that they left, in fact when it was because they were shooting down commercial aircrafts and inkr invading sovereign countries. The president of the United States said i think were going to leave afghanistan and let the russians go back in there. It didnt work
Im alison kosik, its tuesday, august 20th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. President trump and his economic officials are doing everything they can to downplay any fears of a recession, including knocking down reports the administration is considering cutting payroll taxes as a way to juice the economy. For millions of working americans 6. 2 of their salary goes towards payroll taxes. Theyre usually used to finance programs like Social Security and medicare. A white house official said this, more tax cuts for the American People are certainly on the table, but cutting payroll taxes is not something under consideration at this time. However, trump has undercut his staffers before when theyve said he was not considering something. The president continued to attack the Federal Reserve saying the central bank should cut Interest Rates by at least 100 basis points to boost the economy. Basis points are a unit of measure for Interest Rates and cutting the rate as much as trump is suggesting, it amou
C. Lemon, thats your new name. I could be called worse things, this we both know. Listen, lets talk about what you were saying. I think about before that escalator ride before i look like. Now they tell me you look like youre in your 60s. I know ive aged a ton but i think the country, we are inundated every single day especially those of us who have to report on this every single night. Its like news, through a fire hose of news every single day. It is exhausting and its aging. And we dont own it in any way the way our leaders do. Look, it point im trying to make in the closing is pretty basic. This president should be caring about things and taking on battles, he shouldnt be creating them. He sees division as a currency for him. Theres an election coming. Were coming the state of play on a daily basis of whos up and down and what it means for him and why. The economy, he starts fights with the fed. By the way, i dont think hes wrong with the policy, but hes wrong about how he deals wi
Targets to blame for the anxiety. Earlier today trump attacked democrats as well as the chairman of the Federal Reserve he appointed, writing on twitter, our economy is very strong, despite the horrendous lack of vision by jay powell and the fed, but the democrats are trying to will the economy to crash for now the New York Times is reporting in making those attacks the president is, quote, lashing out at what he believes is a conspiracy of forces against him. In private conversations with aides and allies, trumps insisting that his critics are trying to take away what he sees as his calling card for reelection. The Associated Press reports that the president is even wondering if the media and establishment figures are manipulating the data to make him look bad. According to two republicans close to him. This comes as a new survey today by the National Association for business economics finds that, quote, 74 of economists predict the next recession will hit by the end of 2021. In other
The white house said this is necessary to discourage leave entry. Critics call it cruel. And the president said a planned trip to denmark had nothing to do with his talk of buying greenland. Now hes canceling the trip after being told greenland is not for sale. It is with regret and surprise that i received the nows that President Trump has canceled his state visit to denmark on the 2nd and 3rd of december. I had been looking forward to the visit. Our preparations were well underway. It was an opportunity to celebrate denmarks close relationship to u. S. And who remains one of denmarks closest allies. Thats the Prime Minister of denmark there. The president of the United States just called her nasty for saying that. Some early highlights as we await. Well bring you the tape. On the economy the president says, our economy is the strongest in the world. That despite some worries of recession warning signs. The fed, the president said, totally missed on cutting Interest Rates more. On gun