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Business investment has flat lined. the economy is really starting to weaken here. it's going to start asking the consumer side of the economy which has been the bright spot soon because job growth is now slowing. and if job growth slows further unemployment will row rise and the consumer will know about the trade war. >> it's a dark and grim scenario and should be scary for people. but nia when trump was asked about the economy late today here is how he sees it. >> the fact that i won lifted our economy greatly. and if i didn't win it would go down. and frankly, if for some reason that happen...

Seeing or at least the stock market you're seeing earnings reports, especially on consumer companies, coming in showing very good responses as well. starbucks, a lot of social media companies, new followers, et cetera. so consumer side is good. the business side is what's the problem and you have to imagine how much better this number might have been if not for these trade tensions because that in my mind, paul, is what is hanging over that business investment number is a lack of certainty and when companies aren't quite sure what's to come, that's when they close the checkbook. >> also hangin...

Seeing or at least the stock market you're seeing earnings reports, especially on consumer companies, coming in showing very good responses as well. starbucks, a lot of social media companies, new followers, et cetera. so consumer side is good. the business side is what's the problem and you have to imagine how much better this number might have been if not for these trade tensions because that in my mind, paul, is what is hanging over that business investment number is a lack of certainty and when companies aren't quite sure what's to come, that's when they close the checkbook. >> also hangin...

Normalized rates we have today? that would have been so easy. markets up big since 2016 election. >> there was some sign, technical market signs with bond yields a few months ago that were sort of the historically have been a harbinger of recession as year, a year and a half later. then there were the markets more recently on christmas eve that was a very ugly session. the market was open for half a day. we were off 600 points. but i equated that to the black monday session of october 19th, 1987, whichs what the worse single day session in the history of the market. it was not -- it did not an...

"reliable sources," brian stelter has been following this all week. from a politics standpoint, it's a risky strategy. when they're worried about midterms, they sort of lay back. as we know, trump is not most presidents. is there such a thing as too much trump? >> when i see him giving all these interviews and taking all these questions, unfortunately, because he is so loose with the facts, it's like more pollution being added to the air. >> from like the consumer side. >> i wish it weren't so but more pollution because it means there's more spin and more misinformation out there but from a po...