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Rubio did. when he was in a position where a lot of people thought he was going to lose, i'm going to say, yes, florida, one of the oldest states in the union were we're going to have to raise social security to 70. we're going to have to look at means testing. on medicare, guess what, we're going to have to cap spending, the rate of increase there. listen, any corporation -- >> you don't say get rope-a-doped by the democrats and lose the 2012 election if they were frank. >> they'd get hammered but remember, bill clinton tried this on us, 1959, medi-scare. he's like republicans are cutting med...

Of indiana, who a lot of people talk about as a sleeper candidate for 2012, has talked in the past about survival issues for the country. so there's national security issues but issues like entitlement spending, issues like the debt, where he and others in the republican party want to bring to the floor a conversation, a real adult conversation about what to do with some of these huge spending problems and debt problems. if the tea party is a real force in republican politics, they may actually put to the center some of these fiscal issues and leave some of the social issues behind for the rep...

That's what i'm looking at. low inventory, strong cap spending will carry us for several more quarters. >> the president wants to talk about these numbers, but one problem he and the rest of the white house have right now is competing storilines. right now even if he wants to talk about a point and the thing that is outweighing this message, the questions surrounding the meeting with the russian lawyer. neil? >> neil: all right. ellison barber. thank you. let's get the read on this from a former heinz ceo, bill johnson. great to have you here. >> good to see you, neil. >> neil: we've had these...

20 trillion-dollar plus economy. the first time a country has hit that milestone. one of the strongest parts came from that exports, recent trade actions by the trump administration have pushed up prices for some u.s. goods. steel, and aluminum are examples. the export number added 1 percentage point to g.d.p. consumer spending also strong in the second quarter. it's two thirds of our economy. so it certainly moved the needle. this was the first full quarter that investigators could see the effect of the trump administration tax plan. the one voted into place in december of 2017. here's the di...

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