joining us now is ken brown from "the wall street journal." welcome back. >> thank you. >> what are the investment figures telling us? >> broadly you have the government spending and all the things that everyone wanted to grow, services, private industry, shrinking or not spending as much. >> i mean, it is that transition of a production oriented economy and a consumer oriented economy. easier said than done. >> these numbers were scary because we have seen so the first half of the country china's grown based on a big boom in credit. the government is lending money and banks and we saw this time sort of a stop in not the lending, the lending kept going but spending by private businesses and also slow down in the service sector and the areas hoping and what you're looking at now is when's driving growth in china is government is building airports and government is building train lines and all this other stuff. it is not the recipe they need. >> supposed to move away from and highlighted a bankruptcy a couple of months back and yet even that fir

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he sort of created donald trump, might be a marriage we might see. >> brown: jane hall, ken doctor, thankch. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. talking to poet of you after four interesting days in cleveland together. >> you can't get enough. >> woodruff: you're right. everybody's speculating about hillary clinton's choice for vice president. we got word a few minutes ago that maybe she will tweet about it in the next few minutes. we're keeping an eye on that. meantime, what should we be -- what do we know at this point about what she's thinking? do you have insights you want to share with us? >> i do. i have, in my pocket. now, hillary clinton emphasized she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene, and that is it takes serious responsibility of her appointments and the people around her, and that's probably the strongest argument that can be made for tim kaine, the senator from virginia who tried to talk with hillary. but i have no inside informa

ken cuccinelli says you guys cheated. one said this is fascism invoking the term brown shirts. what's your reaction? >> i'll go back and say these are some desperate, disgruntled romneyites doing what they can to throw a wrench in the works. it's not going to work because actually, what they've done is they're going to probably bring more exposurexposure, which is . people are going to tune in tonight and tomorrow night to see what else might happen. we want more americans hearing donald trump's story. hearing melania's story tonight. as we nominate and confirm donald trump tomorrow night. at this point, now they're talking about the vp candidate. it's desperation. it's not going to work. the party is uniting. so that's how i dismiss this. and say, you know, i'm a glass is half full guy. this could bring more attention to the speeches tonight. the nomination tomorrow. people thinking there might be something else going on. the more people that hear donald's message see his great family on television. the better for the trump candidacy as he moves in to november. >> you watched the same scene we just