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-the-line vote for the president getting his agenda executed? >> i think in most cases it will be republicans and democrat s are now very partisan battles and they voted partisan way. they dont switch any more so my sense is the key is a pleural of voters are independents and the independents got to make the difference and you need about 10 -15% to make the difference. maria: im surprised the republicans arent screaming 4.1 % economic growth from the roof tops. >> they need to be they need to be...

>> its more than that, though. you really have to pay attention to the point baa rkari made. >> carrier wasnt the only company that donald trump targeted during his campaign. he also spoke about the parent company of oreos. listen to this. >> i dont like oreos anymore. >> theyre closing their big plant in chicago and moving it to mexico. >> im not eating oreos anymore. you know that, but neither is chris. youre not eating oreos anymore. no more oreos for either of us. >> so hillary, the chicago ...

Anymore. theyre closing their big plant in chicago. theyre moving to mexico. ill never eat another oreo again. im not oreos anymore. but neither is chris. >> the chicago plant isnt closing but it did lose half of its job to the new plant in mexi mexico. could oreos be donald trumps next deal? >> whenford wasnt moving jobs they were creating jobs in mexico. we have a global competitiveness problem with an uneve tax structure. and uneven trade policy. companies dont know what to expect. and unfair...

You argue that things in the workplace is much more different than people realize. its a toxic environment. why? >> what i say is we dont make room for care gaving. we used to have a world in which men worked in the office and men stayed home and took care of people and those were equally necessary activities and equally important. now we have a world in which for 60% of american women, women are working as well as men, but we havent changed workplace. we havent made room for an essential human ...

Away. and weve got to face up at some point, if you have an economic union, who is actually going to pay the price? >> so this video has come into us. its madrid last night. again, these are people who are protesting austerity measures. >> well, youve probably got about 50% youth unemployment in spain. >> oh, my god. >> that is something that cannot continue forever. youve got catalonia threatening to break away from spain now and asking for permission to hold a referendum or even about to hold ...

We avoided the cliff. for the moment we have not gone over the cliff, the europeans have not gone over the cliff. theyre teetering on the edge. can they put a government together that can implement the kinds of reforms they have to achieve to be competitive within the eurozone. >> what do we know about their ability to do that? >> their ability to do that so far has been very limited. youre dealing with a country that operates in a different way than europe where people retire at the age of 50, ...

Pass greece currently unsustainable debt level if we stay on the course were on. so the the message from greece is twofold. its they have a terrible competitiveness problem that is almost uniquely greece that they have to solve, it doesnt relate as much to us, but the consequences of overleveraging yourself and taking on too much debt we can see pretty clearly in our own situation. >> so, michael steele, just looking at the politics of this, front page of the "new york times" this morning, all t...

there a big, new chill in relations between russia and the u.s.? its all about one man. ill explain. next up, where does innovation come from? well ask the man who totally reinvented a household appliance you use every week or at least you should. then a look at jobs, inequality, and the economy with the nobel prize-winning economist michael spence. finally, think you can solve the euro crisis? well tell you how you can try. first, heres my take. this is thanksgiving week in am...

there a big, new chill in relations between russia and the u.s.? its all about one man. ill explain. next up, where does innovation come from? well ask the man who totally reinvented a household appliance you use every week or at least you should. then a look at jobs, inequality, and the economy with the nobel prize-winning economist michael spence. think you can solve the euro crisis? well tell you how you can try. first, heres my take. this is thanksgiving week in america, an...

ne whos next? ill introduce you to a man famous for predicting political change. and in oslo court, well analyze what breivik said. and can europe survive? should the u.s. government slash its budgets the way european governments are? i was in london earlier this week and sat down with a star-studded panel to sort things out. first, heres my take. watching the apec summit in hawaii last week, i had a feeling we were entering a new phase of global geopolitics. for decades now, tho...