CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 20, 2019 13:13:00
Economic slow down. this is despite saying publicly the president included that the economy is just fine and that he and his advisers have no concerns about the possibility of a recession. cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns has more details. and joe, this is typically the kind of tax cut you would consider as the economy is in a recession or much closer. does this indicate that the white house is seeing something more worrisome here than they're letting on? >> that's the kind of thing certainly you would see to try to boost consumer spending. obama did it back in 2011. and, you know...