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And that would be good to do. but disbelieve anyone who tells you they can double the growth rate or anything crazy like that. >> yeah. so, john, let me ask you that about the growth rate. because we want to get there, but i think every president no matter what party youre from would like to have low unemployment, good stock market and high growth. this isnt partisan. in other words, if it were easy to do, lots of people would have done it. it is certainly easier to achieve these bumps in growth...

Getting ahead of steam, more than they need. and many of which are not. so if youre the average investor, dont try to game this system. were all still trying to figure out what does well under a trump administration and what doesnt? there is a real case to be made for the fact that some of these stocks, particularly banks and financials, are now valued higher than logical thought would suggest that they should be. >> as i like to say, ever since election night, lets try to find the pony in the c...

Overtaken them. so i think thats probably going to happen. the one thing i think hes going to look to do with congress that i hope they do get done is something on infrastructure, maybe tie it to tax reform. weve got these huge needs and that could create many more jobs and put jets behind the economy, which would be great. >> but that gets back to the question you said earlier. the problem with the republicans -- and its not that one party is always right, and one is always wrong -- but when yo...

Building highways? >> you are assume the leadership of the state knows the roads they need fixed. they put it in the proposal for the money in the first place. >> so you get the roads fixed free? is that whats going on? >> understand thats the underlying thinking here. again, this is something that republicans often led on. this was something -- >> absolutely. >> creating the interstate highway system is something we did. >> eisenhower. >> its something we have always bought into. >> let me get ...

We democrats, this reflects what we concern ourselves with. >> youre concerning yourself with fantasy over practicality. >> what is fantasy about building highways, roads, and schools? >> its suggesting the federal minimum wage, theres never any cost to anything. theres never any downside. no, its all upside for you people. >> you believe -- >> unemployment is a leftist proposal. >> its your position and our position is here. we dont agree. so lets agree to disagree. >> we caved last time and re...

We democrats, this reflects what we concern ourselves with. >> youre concerning yourself with fantasy over practicality. >> what is fantasy about building highways, roads, and schools? >> its suggesting the federal minimum wage, theres never any cost to anything. theres never any downside. no, its all upside for you people. >> you believe -- >> unemployment is a leftist proposal. >> its your position and our position is here. we dont agree. so lets agree to disagree. >> we caved last time and re...

>> reporter: they would, don. they would say this is our reality, rockets fired in from gaza, controlled by hamas, a palestinian fraction that says israel has no right to exist. palestinians would say, you keep building settlements in the west bank, thats way beyond the borders. you keep building highways that go right through our communities so you connect jewish communities. the israelis point to rockets, palestinians point to construction. both sides have their reasons, but both sides have th...

Race to get as far right as possible, even people who previously had been known as mainstream conservatives are moving far to the right. and my guess is thats why chris christie decided not to run, that as conservative as he is, he couldnt become the kind of extremist you would have to be. the american people as a whole say put people back to work, hire teachers, put people back to work building highways, let us do some things to clean up the river and lets pay for that, by the way, by taxing th...

Martha: once you make that decision to pull out or draw down troops, everybody who may lose their life from that moment on until the even of thaitd that mission runs the risk of being an unnecessary death. so if thats whats going to happen. if we are going to turn things over to the afghan police and secure systems built and trained in afghanistan, then maybe we should leave immediately. >> the reality is, i just got off the phone with a couple generals this morning who understand what needs to ...

There are jobs out there across the board. as you know, the recovery act has given high-speed rail, building highways. the range not just for the highest end jobs here, it covers just about everything. >> what are the sectors of the economy doing well. >> the bureau of labor and stat ifbs came out with jobs report and payroll numbers friday. really interesting, david, temporary help spiked about 48,000. why is this important? a lot of people hire temp help before they hire people fulltime. you a...