steve rattner has charts on the economic reality. steve, is what he says true? record high. there's reasons for us we can talk about, but that benefits a small segment of the population. beyond that jobs growth and the economy are performing essentially at the level they were performing under president obama. but what is a little concerning is that the so-called trump bump seems to be ebbing. look at the first chart, it looks at consumer confidence or sentiment, expectations, you can see at the time of the election, it was at about an 85% level. there was a trump bump, but since then and in the last few weeks it's plummeted back down to where it was, in some cases lower than where it was before the election. so consumers are getting nervous about the trump presidency, and you can see in the nextchart, in fact, some tangible evidence. this is retail sales growth. the percent by which retail sales increase. if you go back to the 2016 period, we were in 4 % plus or minus. an election around 3 .7 %, a trump bump, and then down to 2.6. that's the low point of any rec

we have frank rooney, morning joe economic analyst, and birthday boy steve rattner. >> 39. >> happy birthdaygoing to find out -- i don't look 65, though, right? >> of course not. not at all. >> i want your opinion. my wife thinks that i should get my eyes done. what do you think? >> just a little tweak. nobody will notice. trust me. >> nobody will talk about it. >> columnist for "the daily beast" and author of "nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world, gordon chang is with us. and washington bureau chief julie pace and former nato supreme allied commander now dine of the fletcher school of law, retired four star navy admiral. >> i actually feel guiltybo

with this we had veteran columnist and nbc contributor mike barnicle, former treasury official steve rattner, msnbc's mark halperin, julie pace and now an msnbc justice and security analyst, matthew miller. good to have you all. before we get to the actual e-mail trail that donald trump jr. released yesterday himself, this bit of recording is significant. quoting from the paper, "as air force one jetted back on saturday, a small cadre of the president's advisers huddled in the cabin helping to craft a statement to give to the "new york times" explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer in the russian government. they debated how transparent to be in the statement according to people familiar with the russians. ultimately the president signed off on a statement from donald trump jr. for the "times i " "times"incomplete that it required follow-up statements day after day. >> really it was a lie. that statement was a lie. it had to do with adoptions. they had to retract it immediately. it got so bad yesterday that donald trump jr. knew the "times" was about to completely expose what he said

we have frank rooney, morning joe economic analyst, and birthday boy steve rattner. >> 39. >> happy birthday. >> no, no, i'm medicare age. i'm going to find out -- i don't look 65, though, right? >> of course not. not at all. >> i want your opinion. my wife thinks that i should get my eyes done. what do you think? >> just a little tweak. nobody will notice. trust me. >> nobody will talk about it. >> columnist for "the daily beast" and author of "nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world, gordon chang is with us. and washington bureau chief julie pace and former nato supreme allied commander now dine of the fletcher school of law, retired four star navy admiral. >> i actually feel guilty about bringing him in because there is absolutely nothing to talk about. >> yeah, i know. >> so how was your fourth of july? >> it was wonderful, you know that. there was lots of fireworks. we went to nantucket and both worked all weekend. i'm working on a rerelease of "know your value eye." how would you be, did you have fun? >> yeah. had a great time. did a lot of work. >> worked on your music. >> yea