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President, given all of the different growth metrics that seem to play to his favor? >> yes. and ill tell you why. i think what donald trump does not understand is, look, one half of the american workforce has not had a pay increase in 20 years. the reason is we arent -- were not treating unions scaquare. we dont have an adequate minimum wage. our tax system has been hugely skewed to the wealthy. were not providing adequate access to education for our kids. all of these things are things that i ...

Than ever. do you believe this is the right strategy ahead of 2020? does repealing obamacare give democrats another platform just to court voters? >> you ask if thats the right strategy. thats not a strategy. thats more presidential noise. there is no plan. the president promised coming in the trillion dollar -- or $2 trillion, whatever it is, infrastructure program. that hasnt materialized. infrastructure is a piece of cake, compared to the complexities of health care. one thing we do know is t...

Or so. where you have a president from one party and a house of representatives controlled by another party and not much get done at least legislatively you see the president through pushing executive authority to its very limit and sometimes pass that limit hence you see a court battle over where that authority ultimately lie and you see the president go abroad to try to get signature achievement were seeing that right now with donald trump and his trade battles abroad. so this is not an uncomm...

Where you have a president from one party and a house of representatives controlled by another party and not much get done at least legislatively you see the president through pushing executive authority to its very limit and sometimes pass that limit hence you see a court battle over where that authority ultimately lie and you see the president go abroad to try to get signature achievement were seeing that right now with donald trump and his trade battles abroad. so this is not an uncommon stor...

In the last couple days even around that meeting at the white house, you know, the comments about the other presidents who are able to govern while being investigation and the presidents doing big infrastructure program to suggest she was praying for him, which felt like a very bless your heart kind of moment and also the idea that she wondered if he perhaps needed intervention. she has been needling him and this is clearly his attempt to hit back but using, in this case, distorted video which s...

Economic journalists, we would love to see an infrastructure program. it is not something that has been successful in years gone by. >> and the fact that the presidents background is a builder, many people thought, this is going to be his lane. and we should point out one other thing, sarah sanders this morning stepped outside the white house and talked to reporters and said, this is a witch hunt. when are these democrats going to actually do something that they were elected for in terms of a le...

>> and three weeks ago they sat speaker pelosi to accuse down, pelosi, schumer, and ft. president trump of a cover-up minutes before she and the when mick mulvaney was out of congressional democrats headed to the house to try to discuss town and they had a good, productive meeting about an infrastructure program with the president? infrastructure. >> well, i think it is rather and its not as though calls for the presidents impeachment or outrageous for the president of the united states to go st...

Right now, how do we build an economy that works for everyone, not just few at top, how do we make sure if you have diabetes, we will bring down the cost of prescriptionve drugs and build a infrastructure program that will -- >> okay, i know, that but specifically reparation? is that something that will be in democratic platform, idea ha were going to pay reparation, compensation to descendents of victims of slavery. >> that will be discussed. what i think will know discussed at ledge during thi...

But with democrats are talking most about right now is, how to build an economy that works for everyone and not just the few at the top? how do we make sure that if you have diabetes, that we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs. how do we have an infrastructure program -- chris:specifically reparations. do you think you will be something in the democratic platform ? the idea that will pay the country or the country will pa , compensation to the victims, descendents of victims of slave...

Democrats are talking about it. but with democrats are talking most about right now is, how to build an economy that works for everyone and not just the few at the top? how do we make sure that if you have diabetes, that we will bring down the cost of prescription drugs. how do we have an infrastructure program -- chris:specifically reparations. do you think you will be something in the democratic platform ? the idea that will pay the country or the country will pa , compensation to the victims,...