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Confidence -- business confidence. >> we have to leave it there. catherine, appreciate it. david, final thought? >> i disagree obviously. voluminous amount of red tape and regulations in washington gave businesses a great deal of confidence to invest and expand. and the tax cuts did have an impact. i have to agree to disagree on those two points. >> data suggests otherwise. >> a coming up next more new polling on the president's job approval. the state of california over cars and clean air, california governor gavin newsom joins us tonight on 360. family meeting! busy! well, i'm going to t-mob...

Commentator "washington post" opinion columnist catherine ramble. catherine -- ram pell, sorry. >> it's okay, everybody gets it wrong. >> there won't be a third. what do you marek -- at the very least, mixed messaging. the white house says they're not talking about payroll tax cuts or looking at it, the president says they are, then they are not, then they are. >> i think what's interesting here, the common theme behind this sort of flip-flopping on both tax cuts and trade as well as a bunch of other dumb ideas, i would argue economic ideas this administration has adopted, it always follows th...

Looking at tax cuts at all yesterday very clearly, although the day before he said that they are. the day before that the white house said they aren't. now today the white house says they are. just from a messaging standpoint they clearly seem disorganized. >> from a messaging standpoint it could be cleaned up a bit obviously. but i don't think -- look, i think if we learned, nothing is off the table in this administration, right? there's one decider in chief here, and until he says it's completely off the table, it's not off the table. so just because -- >> even if he says it's off the table,...

The economy. >> how much -- how much of what we're seeing in the economy, catherine, do you think is a direct result of president trump's own decisions, how much is just a global cycle? >> so, presidents generally get too much credit when the economy is good, too much blame when the economy is bad. they can affect things on the margin. and i would argue that the things that he's done that he attributes to -- that he has used to explain why the economy has been growing are basically overstated. right. we had again, a temporary fiscal stimulus from his tax cuts that is now fading. to the extent ...