stephen moore, after a weekend like this which i would call tumultuous, can we use that word? a good word. >> you know investors don't like that, investors don't like uncertainty. they see this. they see president trump focused on things that they don't think are important, tax cuts, regulatory reform. what does a weekend like this do to his hopes to move things forward? >> just a couple things before i answer that question, just to respond to what austan was saying, this has been an eight-year bull market. if you look at 2015 and '16, the market was kind of -- it grew a little bit, but flat. since the election of donald trump the market is up 15%. that's a pretty big increase in just two or three or four months. this poll of the economists, who cares what economists think. look at the evidence that the stock market is up, investor confidence is up, purchasing orders by businesses are up. you can feel it out there that people are feeling more buoyant -- >> stand by on that -- >> on your question about the weekend. christine romans earlier on the show nailed it. she was right.

my friend stephen moore wrote about this in a recent op-ed and said why not?0s and the kennedy tax cuts and we had 3% growth and why are things now so marketedly different? >> in terms of generating that growth? >> why is it impossible? >> nothing is impossible, it just isn't likely. we have a much larger debt going forward and it will grow quite precipitously with entitlement growth. we have a different international scene now. >> absolutely. the world is in a kind of chaos in many ways and there are parts of the world that are just a nightmare. >> china's got a debt crisis and who knows when that will blow -- we have productivity and baby boomers are aging and we have an aging population here and we have limits potentially on immigration which is a good thing for growth and you have productivity that's flat and there's nothing in this scenario that's changed. >> except you have a lot of young folks out of work. >> yes, but that also brings in at what rate are we talking about low-wage service jobs because those are the ones growing real wlee fast and that wi

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stephen moore, heritage foundation, a former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign.what did you make of the president saying this? it also seems to stand at odds with what he said previously, nobody knew how difficult health care was. >> i don't think donald trump has any credibility left on this issue of health care. he said he only had plan "a," there was no plan "b." all of a sudden a couple of days later he has plan "b." presumably has plan "c," "d," "f," "g." every time he takes a stand it looks like there's no stand there. a lot of republicans called his bluff over this health care, and he it turns out was -- there was no ability. he had no ability to stand his ground. so i don't know what he's talking about. unless he's talking about maybe a back channel with, what? the democrats? maybe donald trump -- i mean, the chance that donald trump is actually going to be making a deal with democrats and have enough votes with a few republicans to come up with some changes strengthening the affordable care act, i'll eat my hat but it would be great if he did that. >> st

let's discuss this further with stephen moore, a former economics adviser for the trump campaign.ou on. >> great to be with you. >> good to have you. president trump is pushing for tax cuts but also big spend ppg how do these numbers add up? wreck it down for us. >> i cringed when i heard some of the spending increases that he talked about in the state of the union. i'm an old style fiscal conse e conservative and you're going to have to make cutbacks in spending. this deficit if we do nothing is headed to a trillion dollars over the next few years. so the outlook is bleak if we do nothing. we need to do a couple of things. first of all, we need to get the economic growth rate up, from 2% to 4%, you substantially ib crease the amount of revenues that come into the government and that does a lot to bringing down the deficit. but then you have to look at the other areas of the budget that need to be cut. now that report that you just showed mentioned a lot of them. by the way, there are a couple minor details i would take issue with. medicaid is not off the table. obamacare and medi

let me bring in jane newton small, contributor for senior economic analyst, stephen moore, a former economic advisor for the trump campaign. good to see both of you. if i have to interrupt, do you understand, we'll go to vice president mike pence momentar y momentarily. listen to what the president said about what lawmakers should do next. >> i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it's imploding, and soon will explode. and it's not going to be pretty. so the democrats don't want to see that. so they're going to reach out when they're ready. >> again, as athena was reporting this morning, trump tweeting that obamacare will explode and we'll get together and piece together a great health care plan for the people. do not worry. what's the messaging here? you know, jay, in terms, look, we're seeing mike pence there enter the room when he does speak, we'll try to make it quick and go to him. is it a mixed message, while the president is saying, obamacare is horrible, terrible, we are at some point, going to go bac

>> austan goolsbee, stephen moore, that is a question for another time. we will get to that next. great discussion. >> we always have a good time. >> all right. russia hitting back after senator mccain tells cnn there's a lot of shoes to drop when it comes to the investigation of u.s.-russia ties or ties between russia and the trump campaign alleged during the election season. why the kremlin calls the senator's remarks absurd. bp engineered a fleet of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. but they're different.d kind it's nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we've used real ingredients, whole nuts, and natural flavors from the very beginning. give kind a try. i tell them the thickness of your enamel determines patients they ask me about whitening all of the time. essentially how white your teeth are going to be. the strength of your teeth needs to be there in order for that whiteness to last. i would definitely rec

. >> joined by stephen moore, senior economic adviser for the trump campaign, heritage foundation. were there details in terms of how things would be paid for? >> just got confirmation this was virtuoso performance for donald trump. i worked with donald trump on the campaign and always said there's a good and bad donald trump. and we saw the good donald trump tonight. >> we're familiar with some of that. >> why is this important? latest "wall street journal" poll, approval rating is 34%, and can't govern with approval rating less than 50%. needs to get that approval up. if he does, makes what he wants to do legislatively so much easier. two things he has to do this year. obamacare, see how that looks. and second and maybe more importantly, get the tax cut opportunity. wasn't specific about the details of the plan but that has to get down. >> you know rick, businesses want that tax cut and details. don't wait, do that right now. get it done. i wish he had said send me a bill and i'll get it done. >> lot of republicans wish they would have heard about that already. feel it's pushed d

my next guest stephen moore.senior economic adviser on the trump campaign, a distinguished visiting fellow of the heritage foundation here in washington. you can't dispute anything she just reported. >> i'm going to take ir. a couple of things. it is true there are 94 million americans above the age of 18 out of the work force and it is true it's a record. >> most of those people are retired or they're ill or raising a family. there's a tiny percentage of that 95 million or actually as she pointed out accurately -- >> i'd take issue with that too. it is true baby boomers are retiring by the amount of 10,000 a day. i'm a baby boomer. u was born in 1960. the labor force participation rate. people in peak earning years from 18 to 65, people who could be in the work force, he's come to an all-time low. in fact, the decline is actually most severe with younger people, not older people. older people are more likely to be working today. >> the 95 million figure he put out last night is misleading. you'd agree with that.

. >> an adviser to the trump campaign, stephen moore and robert reich, faced off. >> i think it's hocus-pocus. the republican plan and health care throughout the campaign and what they're saying today, was two featured. repeal obamacare, that is what they have scored. they haven't scored replace obamacare. it's going to be replace with something else that will reduce costs, that will provide more competition and will make it more economical for people to buy insurance. you can have a system -- i talked to the republicans where they say, the first two or three years, people in the system are not going to lose their health insurance, as the cbo reports. one other thing, anderson. i thought this report was a little bit exaggerated because under the current system, if we don't change things, tens of billions of people are going to lose their insurance because the costs are escalating. i was in arizona two or three weeks ago. and the premiums for health insurance have doubled. people can't afford it. they're going to drop their health insurance. the idea that everybody is going to have health insu

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to discuss, former obama administration council of economic advisers chair austin goldsby, and stephen mooretin, i remember when president obama liked the idea of public-private partnerships for infrastructure spending. what exactly does that mean and do you still believe it will work? >> well, we don't know exactly what it means, because there weren't a lot of details in this speech by president trump, which is fine, this is not normally a big policy-heavy address. if you look at previous presidents. i think in this case, there was a subtle shift of language when you saw there. in the campaign he had been saying it is a trillion dollar infrastructure program and now it is to be a program to induce a trillion dollars of spending, which i think means some kind of tax credit for private building of infrastructure. so there the whole question is going to be, is this stuff that was already going to get built -- be built anyway, and how do private sector projects qualify as infrastructure? i think it's not going to be a trillion dollars of what we normally think of as infrastructure, which is sor

a lot to discuss with my panel joining us, cnn political director, david chaleon and laura and stephen moorend cnn political analyst, david gregory. david, this effort to repeal and replace obamacare, it's going to have a lot of trouble getting through the way it is right now, the house. but the senate potentially looks even more problematic. >> it's a real test for the president in terms of his deal making both within his own party and probably less important with democrats since there's not support there. his ability to coral republicans around this core promise, also a gateway to getting broader tax reform becomes really really important. if he doesn't have enough control over republicans to get it, it's a hard thing. i think this clash that you're seeing is the pragmatist at some level in president trump who doesn't want to take away all of an entitlement already been given with conservative ideology which says we have some real problems with the entitlement aspect of this, the big government aspect. there's a lot of hurdles to get through. >> if he fails, stephen, to get this through kr

i want to thank my guest stephen moore. i want to thank trevor noah and everybody watching at home.e had an honest conversation. it got messy at times. it's your time. keep talking at dinner tables and neighborhoods. we will be back next thursday with special guest kareem abdul-jabbar. cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> searching for the truth. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. a white house under siege with no answers after five days of questions, about president trump's false claims of wiretapping by the former president barack obama. tonight, well, there's news on both camps from both camps that they have spoken since mr. trump's weekend tweet storm. but the former president, president obama, is angry. plus another signature campaign promise, another botched roll out after years of promises. how has a launch of the bill to repeal and replace obamacare gone so wrong? signs tonight that president trump while still trying to sell the plan may already be questioning it. we have a whole lot to get to this hour, in the next couple of

stephen moore talked about more legislation to come, all with the midterm elections getting closer.l begala, gloria borgia, jeffrey lord and senior contributor to the american spectator. he also worked in the reagan house. correspondent for the new yorker and matt lewis. so jeff, how does the president square what this man does with the promises he made on the campaign trail? >> in terms of the cbo and all that? >> yeah. >> first of all, in my youth before i worked for ronald reagan, i worked for a congressman on the budget committee. and i did his budget committee staff work. i can only tell you, great people and all of this sort of thing. but they don't always get it right. to wit, our friends at the weekly standard say in 2010, the cbo said that 23 million would be enrolled through obamacare by 2017. it's now 2017, and that number is 9.2 million, which means they were off by 14 million, 48%. that kind of thing happens. >> what they say is they didn't realize that first of all, medicare, that some of the states would opt out of the medicare expansion. >> but that's my point, ander

according to the united nation's humanitarian chief stephen o'brien, who has pleaded for help for people in yemen, somalia, south sudan and nigeria. andy moore fatima. she lives in yemen, where two thirds of the population need food aid, and 7 billion hungry. the united nations has been told the famine across four countries is now the biggest crisis for the organisation since it was founded in 1916. for the organisation since it was founded in 1945. we stand at a critical point in our history. already, at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest unitarian crisis since the creation of the united nations. —— humanitarian crisis. now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. in south sudan, more than 1 million children are acutely malnourished, and there is a cholera outbreak to deal with. the un says billions of dollars is needed from the international community to feed the international community to feed the hungry, but so far only a fraction of that money has got through. the overall requirement for south sudan this year stands at 1.6 early in dollars —— $1.6 billion. as of now, we have receiv

according to the united nation's humanitarian chief, stephen o'brien, who has pleaded for help for people in yemen, somalia, south sudan and nigeria. andy mooreed fatima. she lives in yemen, where two thirds of the population need food aid, and seven million are hungry. the united nations has been told the famine across four countries is now the biggest crisis for the organisation since it was founded in 1945. we stand at a critical point in our history. already, at the beginning of the year, we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the united nations. now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. in south sudan, more than one million children are acutely malnourished, and there is a cholera outbreak to deal with as well. the un says billions of dollars is needed from the international community to feed the hungry, but so far only a fraction of that money has got through. the overall requirement for south sudan this year stands at $1.6 billion us dollars. as of now, we have received 9.3% of that amount, and more funding is urgently needed. some food aid is being delivered. the un