good morning, dierdre. we have seen this is the longest expansion ever in u.s.totaling 126 months as of this month. one of the themes of this expansion, even though we're in this record decade expansion, we haven't seen it as the strongest expansion. so if you look at overall gdp growth, the cumulative percent increase sings the start of the expansion in 2009, it's been lower compared to previous economic boom. so about 25% increase there in this current run compared to about 41% in the last expansion that lasted nearly this long so, one of the important factors that the economists are looking at that helped to sustain this record run has been that growth has just been slow and steady all along. now, there are a couple reasons for why that's been and one of the main reasons there is that the economy was coming from such a low point at the end of the last decade. so much of this recovery has been spent coming back from the great recession, deirdra. >> elizabeth, what are economists saying about how long this expansion can continue? what are some of the risk facto

don imus is survived by his wife dierdre and six children. he was 79 years old.k, nbc news. >> and now, back to politics. and a new editorial in usa "today," it has a strong message for democrats saying beating donald trump in the 2020 election isn't everything. it is the only thing. also saying debating wine cellars and fundraisers and free tuition for all won't rid america of an unfit president and the party should focus on the overriding issue, which of the candidates is best equipped to beat trump next november. michael star hopkins founding partner and northern star strategy, wokking on campaigns of president obama, hillary clinton, and john delaney and hannah true drow also with us, politics reporter for the daily beast back for this segment. michael, i will add to what i said president trump has promoted the u.s. foes and ran up massive government threats and palpable harm to america's health care system and turned the once proud party of abe lincoln and ronald agoreagan of adulation cult. it is far more important than who has the most extensive plan to ha

here you see the cass partnership which is a great model of how we can acquire permanently dierdre stricted and affordable cultural use. as well t new grant categoris for cohorts of organizations and individuals who want to foster new partnerships around shared cultural space and while it's providing technicals nance needs assessments and financial planning and other issues that would help support ownership structures. we'll expand on grant for the arts programs that support capacity building for long-term sustainability through core operate and support and capacity building and we would continue our work supporting individual artists across arts disciplines including a new art market program which we surveyed your offices to see who might be interested. learning institute to offer various capacity building and business development support opportunities for individual artists and then support through cultural maxes to make sure that we're reaching all parts of the city through this new fund. i'm open to any questions you might have and help answer as well. >> thank you very much. let's see.

. >> thanks, dierdre. >> abolish our nation's police mounting in cities across the country, in seattleal racism. >> doesn't mean no police. >> what i'm actually talking about is the end of racist policing as currently constructed or something else, that's literally what i mean by it, it's not theoretical. >> in new op-ed next guest explains just how dangerous really is. >> christopher ruffo, welcome and happy new year. >> happy new year, looks like i missed out on the 9 million percent. [laughter] >> what did you think when you first heard about abolished movement? >> you know at first i thought it was a figure of speech or metaphor, as i dug in academic literature n popular literature, like magazine progressive outlets, i was astonished, i realized that the folks actually mean abolishing the police, getting police officers off the beat and in their logic replacing it with what they're saying is either full political and economic equality that would eliminate crime or providing grants to poor communities under this idea that if you can solve the issues of poverty, you can actually elim

. >> reporter: dierdre, who went by the name of cindy, was only 16.ed. she later worked as a computer programmer. and then he told you about the day she died. >> yeah. >> it was like 20 below here, and the weather was bad. the city was shut down. and she told me she had the flu. >> he told us that she had been ill, and that he left for work and that when he got home she was unconscious. >> i called 911. >> reporter: and what happened? >> well, they come and took her to the hospital and went to the hospital and they pronounced her dead. all the doctor said was that she was really torn up inside. it wasn't till i went home and it was couple of days later, i went to the bedroom door was locked. there was a baby sitting on the bed. full-term baby. >> reporter: an unimaginable discovery. the death of a baby boy he hadn't even known he fathered. >> i thought i knew her, i thought everything was great. >> reporter: but what about andrea and heather? incredibly, dwight says he had no idea his wife gave birth to them either. >> and that's the story. >> yeah. >