meetinge, we have the between president trump and president xi. opec meeting in vienna and to wrap up the week, we get the u.s. jobs report. it's almost like the g20 has just suffocated our agenda. there's a lot going on. >> there is. but the uncertainty, i think that's warping it. the real report, one would have thought should be a very big deal. coincident orre lacking. i don't even know if you see the slowing in the economy that we are all expecting. to be forward-looking expectations which is talk around trade, opec. data. the high-frequency and one piece of high-frequency data that everyone is jumping on his initial claims. anything to worry about? >> i think these highly volatile i wouldn't jump into it except for the fact that the market is expecting downward trend in growth expectations. and if you see it supported, you grab onto it and do things with it. at the end of the day, the u.s. .conomy right now continues it's going to slow, it's going to slow in the next year and the fed is going to react accordingly >> and you think we are suffe

in terms of morale and also important to give the president a sense of what is on the ground by meetinging with leaders there and iraqi leaders there. he did have a phone call, and was enough of that done, do you think? did the president, from what we know, get a good sense of what the situation is there on the ground? >> i don't know how you can after three hours. that's just me. i forgive the sunglasses, by the way. i think the comment that was made by the president were in countries that we don't know where they are, that speaks to him and maybe not everybody else. i am sure everybody knows which countries are troops are in, including those that deploy the troops, and he had scheduled a meeting of an iraqi leader and that was canceled, but sarah huckabee sanders said there was not enough time to do it, and i guess we will see in the future whether or not this brings anything forward. this entire trip we should look at is it is just another flash over substance type of thing. he faced a lot of criticism for not going somewhere. thankfully he went and that's a good thing, as a general poi

to provide resources to support the afghan national security to forces are 2024, which is a the meetinge at last summer. what i said was, in my judgment, with so many diplomatic track, the pressure on the taliban was moving in the right direction. were seeing, for the first time in many, many years, one to initiate the afghan owned and afghan led reconciliation process. i'm very measured in terms of making prediction about where we are in that process. anybody studies negotiations knows they really never know where they are in negotiation until it is over. there is plenty of work to be done with regards to the wrists -- the reconciliation process. to be honest with you, i have not recommended that we leave afghanistan. in my judgment, leaving afghanistan would not only create and ability in south asia, but it would give terrorist groups the space within which to plan and conduct operations and homeland in our allies. i would tell you, for those critical of what we are doing, my level of confidence, i had all the answers. confidence, my level of confidence is way out here. if somebody has

taylor: fed chairman jay powell to a meetinge open with president trump. kumbaya preparing for a possible sit down. we are joined now by our fed reporter. why is this meeting a good idea? >> if the meeting does occur, i think the meeting is to basically show good faith potentially on the white house's side, and show they are not planning on firing jay powell, as the president reportedly asked several advisors if he could do late last week. that could be the reason for this meeting. it is not set in stone yet but it seems to be shaping up. that might be the reason. taylor: walk me through what powell has to gain and what he has to lose? out,ve a great story saying there is more to lose than to gain from this meeting? jeanna: probably. we talked to a lot of that watchers and former analysts for this story, and the overarching conclusion was that powell could find himself in a bit of a pickle coming out of the meeting like this. the reason, president trump had this track record of tweeting or talking about his big meetings after they occur and giving his own