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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let\u2019s just do 25, 26, 27 in order here. Here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd. I mentioned this. This is F. Chuck Todd today on NBC special coverage of Trump\u2019s remarks about the second quarter GDP news. The infobabe, Savannah Guthrie, said (paraphrased), “Meet the Press moderator, F. Chuck Todd, whose wife works on the Bernie Sanders campaign, talking now about Trump\u2019s remarks. It\u2019s 4.1%. That\u2019s a rate we haven\u2019t seen in four years, F. Chuck. The president with a good economic story to tell. He wants to highlight it amidst, obviously, the Russia investigation and facing the midterm elections as well.”<\/p>\n
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TODD: You could tell there was sort of an urgency in the president\u2019s voice that bordered on almost pulling a muscle trying to pat yourself on the back.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What!<\/p>\n
TODD: You could feel that he knows there\u2019s all these other headlines out there that are not —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop the tape! I watched this. He didn\u2019t pull a muscle at all. This is an out-and-out falsehood. Trump didn\u2019t pull a muscle. He wasn\u2019t desperately trying to praise himself. He was simply trying to overcome this kind of bull crap! He went out there; he knew this was the kind of bull crap he was gonna have to face after this great bit of economic news that this country hasn\u2019t seen in eight years. He wasn\u2019t desperate. He wasn\u2019t this. He was very proud, and he should have been! All right. (sigh) Resume this debacle of a tape.<\/p>\n
TODD: — this morning Michael Cohen, involving the Russia investigation. Frankly, even on the economic front he got a lot of grief about trade from even fellow Republicans while traveling in the Midwest. So today —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop tape! Because they don\u2019t understand what they\u2019re talking about here! Even the Republicans don\u2019t even know how to talk about tariffs in the right way now. Anyway, that\u2019s F. Chuck Todd. That\u2019s F. Chuck Todd. As Trump\u2019s going out there after he\u2019s spoken about the 4.1% and great economic results that we got from his policies, that\u2019s the Drive-By Media trying to tell you that Trump is desperate to change the subject because of Michael Cohen, because of the Russians investigation and because of Mueller and because the Russians stealing the election and all that garbage! So Trump went out and spoke, and here is Kevin Hassett. He\u2019s the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and he\u2019s telling a little story about all that has happened in the Oval Office leading up to the policies that gave us this growth rate today.<\/p>\n
HASSETT: We\u2019re very, very happy, because, remember, the president promised his policies would deliver 3% growth, and, you know, now we\u2019re looking at four. One of the nuances in the data that\u2019s really striking and is very favorable to the second half of the year is the inventory subtracted about a whole percentage point from the GDP number. So what happened was instead of producers being able to keep up with consumer demand and increase their production as the surge in their demand for the products occurred, you know, they had to run down their inventories. And historically when that happens, then they have to jack up production in the second half of the year to rebuild their stocks. So, you know, it\u2019s about as positive a report as you can get because it suggests that you\u2019re gonna have sustained growth.<\/p>\n