Good evening. Thanks for joining us.

There is breaking news tonight.

There's new reporting in the Washington Post

on White House discussions at a senior level

of another tax cut to head off a possible economic slowdown.

Now, the Washington Post is citing three people familiar

with the talks who say the White House is looking

at a possible cut in payroll taxes

and that talks are in the early stages.

The meantime, the White House is knocking down this idea,

saying telling us that cutting payroll taxes

is not under consideration at this time.

They've said the same to the Wall Street Journal.

Now, if the post-three sources have it right,

what's significant is this move would be evidence

that within the White House,

there's real concern the economy could be weakening,

which is not the message they've been saying publicly at all.

In fact, they're running pretty much a media campaign

of denial and deflection and scapegoating.

So it's not the way we say it.

And of course, it's nice to have the mainstream media

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