. >> here to debate, mark lauder for trump's 2020 campaign and mark levine. he is a virginia state representative and a strategist. mark, i want to start with you. biden's gaffe's derailed his past presidential runs. are you and the democrats concerned that we're seeing more than slips of the tongue? >> no, not really. joe biden is a known quantityth and his gaffes are far less than those of the president. so you did some selective o editing there. you cut out where he said the poor people can do as well as the wealthy kids and the white kids as much as the black kids. but he phrased it wrong. he corrected himself immediately. it's different from this president. he uses racism and white supremacy to divide the nation. a slip of the tongue is different. >> mark, even msnbc wrote the former v.p. can't afford for voters to see him as an unpredictable risk. mark lauder, is that a danger? >> even "the washington post" asked democrats if they should reevaluate their presumed front runner and his electability status.re let's correct one thing. these are not gaffes,

joining me tonight, special assistant to president trump and communications director mark lauder. i'm the leaker or the victim. >> liar and leaker. confirmed end of story. this knows what we've known for a long time. and jim comey put himself, his biased political interest ahead of the interest of the market people in the fbi and there's no shameful or disgraceful accusations you can make to a public employee than to tell them that they put themselves above the needs of the country and he should be inching forward. >> obviously he is not ashamed and i don't know if we'll see more pictures of him in the woods but he says he's the one out in apology. so you know he admitted to everything he said. he did it for a higher purpose. is that going to fly, obviously the media likes to buy into his narrative. will it work? >> no because his higher purpose was his own purpose. not the needs of the government or the justice department or the fbi. the ig report said you set a dangerous precedent for the tens of thousands of people that work in that department that think they can put their judg

lauder. the last day of the week, the month and the summer, sort of, labor day marking that unofficial end of summer and our traders are at the new york stock exchange and the cme group to help us out, talking about what's coming ahead in september. that's what is on all the investors' minds. we have john, chris and ira. john, i will go ahead and start with you and say i'm not looking in the rear view mirror. most investors are looking forward, thinking about the tariffs that go into effect this weekend, they are thinking about the fed and is it going to cut rates. do you think that september will see some calm ahead even as august was so volatile? >> well, september has also been historically a pretty volatile month. but we do have some interesting data out there. we have investor sentiment at all-time lows. meanwhile, we have fantastic unemployment numbers. unemployment at 30-year lows. this is not typically the type of environment, 2% gdp growth, that's slow but it's not recessionary. so a lot of the recessionary rhetoric goes to investor sentiment. when it goes to extreme, that stuff usua