american dream. as nbc s fact checking team points out, his job numbers are technically correct but trump is overstating wage growth and taking credit for jobs added under his predecessor, president obama. afl-cio president richard trumka who obviously attended the state of the union said president trump painted everything being great in america while optimistic is not the reality for most working families. that may be how his friends are living but the working men and women we represent aren t seeing the same america and his policies are making it worse. the truth is, many of the things he says are undermined by the actual policies he supports. i m joined by richard trumka, head of the afl-cio. let me ask you, mr. trumka, is it true that manufacturing is moving back into the united states from across the border in mexico? that was the picture the president gave us last night. actually, 93,000 jobs were
program. plus the hardball roundtable and the new reporting trump wanted to know whether the deputy attorney general was on his team. it s another example of trump looking for total loyalty from everyone around him. trump bragged about the economy and manufacturing in his speech last night. not everyone s buying it. richard trum cal joins us tonight to make the case that trump has been bad for working americans. finally, let me finish tonight with trump watch. this is hardball where the action is. cuse me, are you awarf what s happening right now? we re facing 20 billion security events every day. ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attacks. actually, we just handled all the priority threats. you did that? we did that. really. we analyzed millions of articles and reports. we can identify threats 50% faster. you can do that? we can do that. then do that. can we do that? we can do that.
espousing go in the opposite direction. you remember he said he was going to make china a currency manipulator on day one. yeah. we haven t heard anything about that recently. since he got into office. last night, he didn t mention anything about what he was going to do with nafta or trade. that was missing from the speech. he talked a little bit about trade in the broad sense but nothing about how he s going to fix it. how he s going to make it better and how he s going to make trade work for working americans. all of that was missing from the speech last night, sadly. well, it was great to have you on tonight. you ve got a powerful message to get out. richard trumka, head of the labor unions of america. let me finish tonight with trump watch. you re watching hardball.
carter administration because of the desert one plan to go into iraq and get our who is tangs back. i just wonder or iran rather. i wonder whether this is the same kind of shot across the bow by this guy victor cha saying i m not going to be part of something that involves such a risk of a bloody nose strategy. he went cy advance one better and quit before he started because he saw where this policy was headed. talking to people who obviously study this carefully and talking to people on the hill, they re worried that even though there was boilerplate in that speech last night as michelle said, it was pretty aggressive cy war going on in that speech about north korea. they had the defector up in the gallery who obviously raised his crutches. they had the parents of otto warmbier who obviously had died shortly after having been
page of let s see what we can work out between north and south korea. trump wants to the try to isolate the north and scare the north if he can and beat the drums as did he last night. well said. thank you so much. there s always howard fineman and michelle goldberg for your reporting here. another loyalty test for president trump. according to a new report, trump asked the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein if he s on the team or not. it all fits into a disturbing pattern because trump asked everybody out to prosecute him, are you on my side. this is hardball where the action is.