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Positive move in real wages. how do you explain that? >> its very difficult to explain right now given that unemployment is relatively low. its usually low. employers say they cant find workers, and yet as you point out wages are flat. its unclear whats going on. wages always rise during a recovery, but were in like one of the largest recoveries on record. some of this may be compositional, the younger people coming into the work force, maybe earning less than the boomers who are retiring. some ...

Efficiency, nothing wrong with that. neil: thats a mistake in strategy? >> im not saying that. i think we should always evaluate government agencies to see if they are efficient and effective. >> neil: i.c.e. to be clear. >> there is room under the tent for the democratic party including people who want to be -- neil: i dont see that. if youre a moderate democrat, i dont know. i dont know. nan, what do you think? >> to your point about communities of color, the president has made inroads into de...

Our prayers are with those families. thank you. still ahead, a day after nationwide marches against family separations at the border, president trump warning democrats that taking on i.c.e. is a losing battle. are democrats playing into the presidents narrative that they are anti-law enforcement? well discuss. plus an emotional reunion in miami between an immigrant mom and her daughter. we will take you there. first, heres cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. hi, christine. >...

>> neil: wait a minute. >> the snacks are the benefits. >> neil: the snacks are the benefits? >> along with cash. >> neil: id say keep the 401(k) thing. >> neil cavuto that is irresponsib irresponsib irresponsib irresponsible. >> neil: it is. >> i could be paid in twinkies. >> neil: thanks very much, deidra. you hear a lot about the bonuses and all of that. this is intriguing here. we talked about companies like verizon giving stock and apple doing a version of that. what do you think of these d...

Washington in a huge way, so i would probably 65 or 70% achievement rate in a very, very tough business. remember, the city is trying to stop him every morning and he continues to plow forward. heather: and president trumps approval rating it continues to rise as well. the latest fox news poll, take a look, 45% of voters approving of the presidents job performance. thats a huge bump up, 7 points since october. we will see if that continues to rise after the state of the union address. well, the ...

But my guess is were going to see a bit of a sugar high in the economy for the next 18 months to two years where growth does bump up because weve done all this stimulus. this is not the right time for stimulus. but it will be a bump up. but when we have that crash after the sugar high, the debt is higher. youve seen responses throughout the economy. there will be also responses in monetary policy. we will not be able to see the higher growth levels that we really need. and were going to need a l...

Nonpartisan group, and i look to them on things like this, and they said when you do lower the business rate, 70% will go to workers in terms of wages and benefits, and particularly with the tight labor market we have now, theres no question in my mind you will see a bump up in the wages, and we are seeing it in the last quarter after a decade and a half of flat wages and higher expenses, and that middle class squeeze is what results -- >> they definitely need help. this is identifying the probl...

Significant bump-up for medicaid, up to 25% because it is defined as a low poverty state. it would get carve-outs because it is a low density state. including is automatic enrollment from any alaskan native who has benefited from the alaska program into the medicaid program. these are changes that almost entirely involve alaska alone and the type of things that lisa murkowski has been very concerned about. the cost of care up there is extraordinarily high, the size of the state and the populatio...

Industrial companies, manufacturing concerns and benefit from say chinese, north korean coal or maybe north korean seafood and the wood products industry. this will be difficult to do and live -- they are saying that this was said of course before the latest test. so they may have a change of mind after this latest test but we may have to do this unilaterally or with allies or not do it through the un. >> is is difficult just from a procedural process? that the treasury department has to identif...

Korean seafood and the food products industry. this is going to be difficult to do and lavrov is signaling what the russian intent which is this was said of course before the latest test so they may have a change of mind after this latest test but we may have to do this unilateral or with allies. >> trish: why do you think its difficult? is it difficult from just procedural process, the treasury department has to go out and identify all these people and its a little bit of a puzzle figuring out ...