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>> yes, pompeo as secretary of state and tom cotton as his successor in the cia. >> thank you very much. were taking a sharp turn on wall street as news continues to develop on the flynn deal. domin dominic, what can you tell us? >> you know that they act as a realtime kind of handicapping system, a barometer. we have a dow that was down at its worst levels, 250, 300 points. this was on the heels of the reporting and whatnot. what weve seen in the last half hour or hour or so is a redistributi...

Troops. >> michael crully, whats your own barometer on how far we are from normal? >> you know, brian, there are a lot of days in this presidency where i try to rewind and imagine reading these tweets or these headlines even 18 months ago, two years ago and it would have been just incredibly surreal. and now its just another day in the trump presidency, and we marvel at it. in the nourker they wrote a great piece talking about the russia investigation. but the metaphor was a frog being slowly bo...

On thanksgiving day. >> michael crowley, whats your own barometer on how far we are from normal? >> you know, brian, there are a lot of days in this presidency where i try to rewind and imagine reading these tweets or these headlines even 18 months ago, two years ago and it would have been just incredibly surreal. and now its just another day in the trump presidency, and we marvel at it. but, you know, ryan lizza in "the new yorker" wrote a great piece that was talking about the russia investiga...

During other thanksgiving week would go to help give food out to the homeless or veterans. i remember president george w. bush would thank troops. he once even surprised them in iraq on thanksgiving day and we have the president instead tweeting his anger at a private citizen for not thanking him enough. >> michael crowley, who is your own barometer on how far we are from normal? >> you know, brian, there are a lot of days in this presidency where i try to rewind and imagine reading these tweets...

Troops. >> michael crully, whats your own barometer on how far we are from normal? >> you know, brian, there are a lot of days in this presidency where i try to rewind and imagine reading these tweets or these headlines even 18 months ago, two years ago and it would have been just incredibly surreal. and now its just another day in the trump presidency, and we marvel at it. in the nourker they wrote a great piece talking about the russia investigation. but the metaphor was a frog being slowly bo...

Roy moore does win. if you listen to what the president said, if you deny the allegations, you get the benefit of the doubt and politics. thats a strange barometer i think. going forward, its very different and politics versus the private sector. the private sector, the mere accusation, goodbye. in politics, you either get sent to an ethics committee. maybe you pull an endorsement, but the guy will still be alive. right now, it comes down to pure, raw power politics. do we want to keep the senat...

That? >> it doesnt. the biggest problem of the american economy right now is soaring inequality. in the 20th century, the median voter could expect to have their standard of living double about every 25 year. and that stopped, thats gone. so now you have a bill that is written to increase the accumulation of wealth in the top 1% of people and towards corporations. which you can read the election results from last year in many different ways. why did people vote for trump? theres a lot of explana...

Going to have a tremendous impact. >> reporter: 1.5 million jobs have been added to the u.s. economy since the president took office. unemployment has fallen to just 4.1%. the lowest in 17 years. still, wages have room to grow. they are only up 2.4% year over year. not much of an improvement. more dramatic is the 28% climb in the stock market in the year since the election. >> under this pro-america system, our economy boomed. >> but the president inherited an already booming economy. either way...

>> reporter: but the fact is the president inherited an already booming economy. either way the stock market is a poor barometer for how most americans are doing in this economy, and research shows that 80% of market gains only benefit the top 10% of urbaners. now critics are warning that the presidents tax reform package will mostly benefit businesses and the wealthy. what the middle class really does need are jobs and wage growth. and the whole trickle-down sales job has been belied by every h...

Fallen green beret or a hundred other outrages. and i think when we think about the las vegas shooting, johnny smith, african-american young man, he runs into the gunfire. he saves 33 peoples lives. hes running towards a group of children when he is shot twice. and its a white cop who runs into the gunfire to save johnny smiths life. thats also america. >> uh-huh. >> and i think that decent people are saying enough. enough of the lying every day. enough of the degradations, the cruelty, the mean...