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Whether or not you think it is irresponsible, many in the political and media worlds have been speculating publically about who might have written the anonymous "new york times" u op-ed. nancy pelosi has her guess. >> who has denied it, the vice president. that was my first thought. >> on the right, former trump campaign aid michael cuputo has been suggesting he thinks it is transportation secretary elaine chow tweeting this picture and saying this. >> this person will probably leave the administration soon and take a bow for what she wrote. it is dangerous to try to fire her because of who sh...

>> dana: president trump take a bow after latest numbers with a booming economy. gdp 4.1%. investors still have concerns the dow is so far today falling about 90 points it's still up more than a thousand points. douglas is former direct of the congressional budget office congressional budget office you were former president george w. bush. tell us about the good news today. >> i think everybody expected strong gdp number and inflation remains contained. that big picture is in great shape. best part is how the economy grew. there was some concern that bunch one time fargos. that didn't happen. ...

Have a certain level. they are not there yet. i will say the bully pulpit has pushed the countries to say yes we will pay more and will be doing that. >> why not go and take a bow and say iv pushed spending -- say i have pushed spending. he is confrontation. >> let's talk about this. joining us from washington is michael burnbaum. michael, is he as confrontational as he was on tv? >> reporter: not at all, christine. he has taken confrontational approach when on camera and twitter. apparently when he is met in the closed-door meetings, he is calmer. same messages that allies need to pay more fo...

What will this tell us? >> relations with all of the people who will be in the room are not good. they are afraid. they are tense. they are incredibly fragile. i don't think trump will reverse himself. i don't think he will have a nice and warm meeting. he will push them on issues on defense spending. he will send signals he wants to talk to putin. >> he has moved them on spending. why not go there and take credit for it and take a bow and keep unity? unity is the theme of the nato summit. >> not this president. this president wants to shake things up and break things when he is ahead on the ...

It is interesting. the president can go to nato and say i have increased spending 25-year high by nato allies. it is reported another 3.8% increase in terms of nations spending to gdp defense spending. he can go and take a bow and bring the group together. he has increased spending. if he doesn't do that, what does it tell you? >> that bores him. he loves the fight. he doesn't want everyone talking about everything being okay. the fight is part of what he does politically. the fight is part of what he is about. he doesn't want to claim credit for things he can. remember, nato is not simply abo...