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Workers. like every other candidate, hell be considered, im not making that decision. my executive counsel, my members in each state help make that decision. it is not richs decision, it is the memberships decision. >> neil: you are also the big chief, this doesnt happen without you weighing in, right? >> no, they make that decision. they actually do. i didnt -- endorse any of the candidates running today. >> neil: let me step back and understand, do you think things look good for the economy ri...

Then the average american, weve had flat wages for working class americans for 40 years now. we have 3.9% employment. lowest its been since 2000 and the wages are still -- steve: a huge point. we can keep the conversation going with the next guest. they brought this argument home as it were. theyve been going around the country traveling. interviewing trump voter to find out what brought about the stunning 2016 election upset and theyre here next. author of the new book "the great revolt." dont ...

Then the average american, weve had flat wages for working class americans for 40 years now. we have 3.9% employment. lowest its been since 2000 and the wages are still -- steve: a huge point. we can keep the conversation going with the next guest. they brought this argument home as it were. theyve been going around the country traveling. interviewing trump voter to find out what brought about the stunning 2016 election upset and theyre here next. author of the new book "the great revolt." dont ...

Stepping into a world few women enter. >> one time elizabeth invited us to have lunch at the harvard faculty club. i had never been there before. you look around and you say, were the only women here. >> the 1980s and 90s are a time when more and more americans go broke. the ivy league professor is asked to sit on a commission to review bankruptcy laws in 1995. >> it starts with flat wages. it goes to rising health care costs, rising housing costs, costs of getting a kid educated. how the middle...

Stepping into a world few women enter. >> one time elizabeth invited us to have lunch at the harvard faculty club. i had never been there before. you look around and you say, were the only women here. >> the 1980s and 90s are a time when more and more americans go broke. the ivey league professor is asked to sit on a commission to review bankruptcy laws in 1995. >> it starts with flat wages. it goes to rising health care costs, rising housing costs, costs of getting a kid educated. how the middl...

The tax reform results. >> we have had a dozen meetings with companies. the results are the same wherever i go, small or large business that the tax reform legislation is helping them to be more successful. last week i was in a company in ohio, you mentioned all the stuff you hope is going to happen, get wages up and help people deal with flat wages and higher expenses, true in my state and around the country for the last decade. its exciting. its helping everybody. workers come up to me and say...

View in the world that sees life in the economy as zero gain. your gain comes at my loss, therefore we cant do it. look at where this got us. the worst recovery since world war ii. flat wages, and an economy limping along. stagnation is a breeding ground for a class based society where elites predetermine the outcome of our lives. they will tell you this. just hand over more freedom to the bureaucrats and they will figure it out. they know more. well be okay. hand over more of your hard earned d...

Big corporate donors to the republican party and then put a pretty face on it. >> do you disagree with the notion that a lot of these corporate tax reduction will not only help big corporations, it will also help smaller corporations and cause economic growth that could help middle class americans in terms of jobs, in terms of wages? >> so lets look at part about jobs and wages. this has been the big republican lie for decades now. they have argued that, hey, if we just cut taxes for those at th...

>> they are going to have to start downsizing obamas presidential library. soon. theres not a lot to go in there, juan. the only thing he has left stronger has been the republican party, domestically, obamacare is going to be reduced to rubble. internationally, the iran deal, he got troops out of iraq, and he killed bin laden. i think only one of those three things is going to stand the test of time. >> and he spent a lot of money. >> huge debt, flat wages, weakest recovery since world war ii. i...

But there is no other trump coming. >> blown away at the speed of which four years ago, after the romney loss, the g.o.p. came out with our autopsy. everyone said what is going on? is the republican party on its heels? have we just gone liberal in the country? and one election cycle, the 2016 cycle, its gone from that to now the democrats have to perform an autopsy. the last ten years or maybe longer, have they become an outdated entity? i think they have. its ten years of flat wages, ten years ...