Plus: Trump's Thursday night address, the SAVE Act's overnight vote onto the defense bill, and the number 8647 carved into the National Mall — all in today's episode.
CNBC just ranked the ten worst states in America to live in. Every single one voted for Trump. And here is the part they did not want next to the headline: nine of those ten "worst" states GAINED population last year, while the blue states doing the ranking bled residents by the hundreds of thousands. Chuck walks through the numbers CNBC left out, the one word they used to justify the whole list, and why the map of where Americans are actually moving tells a very different story than the one you are being sold.
That is not the only fire burning. Trump has a prime-time address to the nation set for Thursday night, and overnight the reason it has Washington nervous started to leak. In the dead of night the House pulled off a 215 to 211 vote that changes what happens next in the Senate. Someone carved a message into the ground near the Lincoln Memorial, and the pool got drained over it. There is a new inflation report, a Kharg Island answer from the President himself, and a killing across the Atlantic where what police found in the home changed the whole investigation. Six stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
