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Joe, i saw a picture of you with whitney houston at the white house, it is common to bring celebrities to the white house. what are the challenges you have, a picture of you with president bush and michael jackson. it's always a challenge for conservatives in the white house to build better and stronger connections with the african-american community but there are a lot of african-american conservatives, and if the president were trying to elevate his standing amongst blacks in america, if you set up a meeting with somebody prominent like kanye west, how should the conversation have gone? what...

Peter out too quickly. that's exactly what they're doing. >> is any of this, the continuing trade war? >> absolutely. there's a lot of this -- the reality set in. the imf said earlier this week the financial markets haven't gotten the memo that a trade war is important to global growth and rates are going up. they got the memo now. >> diane swank, always great to talk to you. we'll keep a very, very close eye on this for you. it's what i do. i'll watch these markets and keep you posted every day about how you need to be thinking about it. that does it for me this hour. i'm going to be back her...

>> you're in the room that was there right where the tree landed. what was that like. >> scared the devil out of me. if you hear it crack and i could hear something falling, i looked up and tiles in my room rattled, then i heard the tree right there. i thought it was coming in and crushing me in my bed. i was in my bed. >> has the city been by to try to clean it up? >> no. >> that's what we are seeing, municipal workers are trying to come by. they're working furiously to clear up the mess. for the most part, a lot of work goes to the residents. that's what you can see. smell the pine in the ai...

Tenths of a percent. the biggest in the last few days. typically, you see a smoother line. we have seen some jagged lines. this came up. the interest rates on these bonds rise, investors tend to pull money out of the stock market and put it in safer investments, things that pay interest. let's think of the fed as a car, a car with no steering wheel. we have been talking about this for years. has a brake pedal, a gas pedal. when you raise interest rates, it is like tapping the brakes on the economy, slows things down, makes it more expensive to borrow, so you think twice of doing it. when they ...

Tolerate us. so it is more important than a specific deal, anything that we bring jobs into america. >> that's sort of how it went. there are a couple of facts and points that were woven together with a lot of words. it was a wild and weird press conference. that was kanye west with president trump in the oval office this afternoon. the president and rapper expected to discuss violence in chicago, mental health and prison reform over lunch. i don't know how much of that got discussed, a lot of it didn't show up in the press conference. kelly o'donnell is joining me from the white house. we bot...