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Little bit this week. talking a lot next week. top people are going to be speaking the week following. but i'm not looking for a partial deal. i'm looking for a complete deal. >> reporter: do you think you need it before the election? >> president trump: no, i don't think i need it before the election. people know we are doing a great job. i have rebuilt the military. scott and i were talking about that. we spent $1.5 trillion. when i came in, our military was depleted. frankly, we didn't have ammunition. but our military wasn't very bad shape. we have rebuilt the military, got one of the stro...

Products. so they would like to do something, as you know, we're talking a little bit this week, talking a lot next week. and then top people are going to be speaking the week following. but i'm not looking for partial deal. i'm looking for complete deal. >> reporter: before the election, sir? >> no, i don't think i need it before the election. people know that we're doing a great job. i've rebuilt the military. we've -- scott and i were talking about that, we spent $1.5 trillion. when i came in, our military was depleted. frankly, we didn't have a.m. umissiou missi ammunition. mike pence actu...

Capital coming to the best game in the globe which is the trump economy. it's going into our stock market. >> i sure don't see a recession. we had some blockbuster retail sales, consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. really blockbuster numbers. >> president trump and his economic team pushing back against the indicators that show a potential recession may be on the horizon. joining me now is kathryn ranpel. and if the the economic team wants to be glass half full on the economy, go ahead. what i think the bigger issue is when they deny the data. when they deny the facts. first of ...

China, the white house is trying to tamp down worries. we heard over the weekend from sources explaining to cnn that aides talked the president into waiting until after december by essentially telling him tariffs would hurt families near christmastime. two of the president's top advisers on the economy spoke on talk shows. here's what they said. >> in this case, the flat curve is actually the result of a very strong trump economy. what we see now is foreign capital coming to the vebest ga of the globe. it's going into our stock market. >> i sure don't see a recession. we had some blockbuster r...

Ready response for those concerned that a downturn is around the corner. that message -- nothing to see here. >> i don't think we're having a recession. we're doing tremendously well. our consumers are rich. i gave a tremendous tax cut and they're loaded up with money. >> the fact is that the fundamentals of our economy are very strong. and you know it we have more people working in this country right now than ever before. >> i sure don't see a recession. we had some block burster -- blockbuster retail sales, consumer numbers toward the back end of last week. the second half of the economy is ...