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Equipment, pvc pipe, lumber, steel, and so on, essentially a much everything. good luck fixing your house. or for that matter, filling your fridge. many common goods, the ones you bought at a grocery store last year without thinking about, are now effectively luxury items. >> the statistics are staggering. showing food prices rose 4.6% this year compared to last year. and when it is broken down to specific food items, the numbers are even higher. with dramatic increases in meat, poultry, fish, a...

Made it clear that he wants america to be treated fairly. thats whats going on here. theres a high stakes negotiation. but go look at a lot of these countries. you can start with canada. theyre a great friend of ours. if youre a lot of industries in america and you try to do business in canada, theres huge barriers to getting your products in the canadian markets. they dont have the same impediments when they bring their products here. all were asking for is for countries to treat us fairly. i d...

Happen. that being said, what gets missed in this debate is the reason those people showed up and voted for trump in places like michigan and indiana and pennsylvania is because they got left behind. and everybody talked about on the coast, oh, this is -- everythings great and everythings wonderful. were making a lot of money. what they decided to do in the&the republicans in the senate and in the house is say, were going to invest in growth. you cant keep lumping along the bottom and expect any...

Pennsylvania is because they got left behind. and everybody talked about on the coast, oh, this is -- everythings great and everythings wonderful. were making a lot of money. what they decided to do in the republicans in the senate and house is say were going to invest in growth. you cant keep lumping along the bottom and expect anybody whose wages were flat and their costs went up to go anywhere. so they took a gamble. im not saying this is not a gamble. i think it is a bit of a gamble, but the...

Got low enough companies decided to hire people. what youve been seeing for the last seven years is companies hiring people at those lower wages so now weve stocked up all those extra workers and youre starting to see wages go up. since about mid 2015. that is economics, folks. thats not actually presidents. thats economics. >> the president did tweet soon after the jobs number came out. excellent jobs number released. i have only just begun. movement back to the usa. now, were going to bring th...

Conference today before the break and contrast that with trump. the other thing, imagine if trump only today, if the only thing trump did was give that speech at the boeing plant. >> yeah, winning. >> versus -- >> thats a great message. build things in america, look at what im doing. and instead he does all this other stuff, bookending tweets and the morning tweets, this tweet which can get a huge amount of attention about fake news media and the enemy. he cant do it. so this idea of like if onl...

Keep american businesses american. build things in america and sell them overseas. that can be properly addressed with comprehensive tax reform and yet another statement from house majority leader kevin mccarthy saying i dont want to get into some type of trade war. i dont think government should be picking winners and losers. the idea here is lets think of something else to incentivize companies to keep jobs here, to stay here. the only way to do that, they say, is to redo the tax code. >> whic...

Are sold nationwide, even in toys "r" us. and the response? just see for yourself. >> if it is a crazy idea, i think you should really try. >> good idea. i like this. >> reporter: one goldiblock at a time debbie sterling is building girls up by breaking down barriers. cecilia vega. abc news. >> where is goldiblocks for boys? >> filling a hole in the market. >> these things get popular enough. theyll be something. they look cool. >> build things. encourage boys to build. you want them to be a bui...

>> jesse: handy, i bet they are. >> no, we kind of -- they help us organize, they help us build things, theyre movers, because we help people move and unpack. and-- >> i like youre not setting up the stereo type of the lazy husband, i appreciate that. but i admit there are things that i just cant do. just dont do it and doing well, organizing for a trip or getting things together. so youre different than a maid service which would come in and clean. youre organizing things and do different thing...

Resources for public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, police officers. hes actually argued for, he made the case very clearly that its public sector workers that are in the firing of public sector workers who much by these republican governors that is actually holding this economy back. in terms of what were actually talking about, its important that we hire more people, we need more unionization. if you look at germany, one reason their economy is doing better is because they have strong...