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The horrible world of george w. bush and he used george w. bush as a foil. the first few months blauk wara obama was in office, he picked on others. millions of americans suffered under the slowest recovery in modern history. when he won michigan, he won it by counties that voted very significantly for obama that swung significantly to trump. 1.8, 1.9, then to 3.2, 3.0 under donald trump. >> thats not the best rationale. i hear you on the other part. >> that would be true if what we were talking...

Theres a lot of research now that suggests that the country actually wantins a version of t affordable care act and they want democrats to improve on that. in a typical presidency. what i also think is interesting is 22 states have actually lost manufacturing jobs in the last few years and what that says to me is even though trumps base i think, voted more for culture than the economy it does leave an opening for democrats to talk about what hasnt happened under the trump administration. all of ...

Security plans today. $200 increase across the board for everyone who gets social security and everybody who gets disability payments. it will literally lift millions of people out of poverty. and you know who is going to pay for it? the top 2%. this is about our country. we need to get some balance back in this. you know, let me just make one small pitch. we know from the data that the 99% last year paid about 7.2% of their total wealth in taxes. the top 1%, they paid about 3.2%. if we call on ...

The last time we had a recession eight years ago. we had six years of economic growth. currently we have strong economic numbers. we have unemployment at 3.7%. wage growth 3.2. strong numbers across the board. and its not hard working americans that turn us into recession. its economic policy of the government. its in large part due to what the president has put into place the tax reform, regulation reform, those policies have helped to date help us to avoid something to the tune of a recession....

Growth. currently we have strong economic numbers. we have unemployment at 3.7%. wage growth 3.2. strong numbers across the board. and its not hard working americans that turn us into recession. its economic policy of the government. its in large part due to what the president has put into place the tax reform, regulation reform, those policies have helped to date help us to avoid something to the tune of a recession. just because liberals and critics say it doesnt make it so. >> one at a time. ...

Business confidence and poor investment climate. there are some things out there that are negatives but were still doing pretty well as a whole. >> im wonder how folks at home balance what are conflicting numbers here. global economy is slowing, theres no question. trade war is having an impact on the u.s. economy, no question. manufacturing is slowing down, no question. should folks at home look at that as an indicator of where things are going in the coming months just for their own economic s...

U.s. companies adding 130,000 jobs in august. unemployment rate holding steady 3.7% near the lowest level in five decades. here is charles payne host of making money fox business network. they expected more jobs. they were hoping for more jobs. this is the low end of that. >> yeah. thats the part of this, of course, that i dont like. you can quibble whether were near what they call full employment or anything else. the more nuanced parts of this report were phenomenal. the thing i would like the...

130,000 jobs created in august. that is lower than the 150,000 that were expected. that 130,000 number actually got there by virtue of the fact that the u.s. government hired 25,000 temporary workers in preparation for the census. the private sector creating 96,000 jobs. the lowest number since february. 11,000 jobs were lost in the retail sector. 11,000 jobs lost in the transportation sector. on the bright side, though, unemployment rate held steady at 3.7%. wage growth continued to increase. i...

Expected, one thing that was hotter is wage growth. 3.2% higher than it was at the same time last year. so more people are working. wages are going up a little bit faster than we thought. it is kind of like that mixed report. thats why wall street is more confused right now. >> that makes a lot of sense. live from cnbc headquarters. appreciate it, dom. thanks. >> you got it. >> why some hurricane dorian victims are refusing medical treatment. wait until you hear why. were back with the gut-wrenc...

3.7%. thats near a 50-year low. wages are rising slowly in this country, and in fact they came in better than expected. 3.2% higher in august than they were last year, about .4% higher than they were last month, so thats good. the labor force participation rate is growing. more people are entering into the labor force, but all in all, this does mark a bit of a slow down from recent months and from last year where we have seen 200,000 jobs average per month last year. were back in the 100,000 ran...