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This is according to the labor department, mike. african-american unemployment is at the lowest point on record, yet it is still well above the jobless rate for whites, hispanics, or asian americans. a big problem with president trumps claim is that -- claims about the jobless rate had been falling for a long time before he took office. and the declines dont appear to have picked up speed. so how do you answer that? >> i answer it by saying it is a good thing for this country that african-americ...

A lot of money is a problem forty five billion euros thats the amount that this new government could spend the problem is there are projects on the table that are worth almost double the amount of some one hundred billion euros are projects worth that the social democrats in the conservatives put on the table here so now everyone has to give up on some of their projects and this is of course a hard thing to kill your darlings and particularly for the social democrats its mostly in the field of s...

Spending a tremendous amount on public schools, on public pensions and people are sort of blind to it because theyre able to write this off. well, no longer, thats going to be the case. i think that governor cuomo realizes his head could be on the chopping block if they dont make some really changes. instead of digging deep and saying how are we going to reverse this, he said were going to sue. i think its absurd. david: rich, i tend to agree with sabrina, on the other hand, there are people who...

Looks like today. >> you feel safe. its a vibrant town. >> detroit is alive. >> describe it growing up? >> just a place my parents not to go. >> now? >> a place where i was here with my parents last weekend. >> [shouting]. >> it was just 4 years ago in 2013 when detroit filed the largest bankruptcy in american history. >> for decades everything was taken away from us. businesses, gas stations and movies theatres moved out and people moved out. >> detroit is still a billion dollars in debt. some ...

$85 billion. to fix it, we need to set aside the arbitrary notion new defense spending be matched equally by new nondefense spending. >> democrats are digging in, saying there needs to be a matching increase on domestic priorities. >> we can start on the budget with opioids, veterans, health care, pensions, childrens health insurance, disaster aid. they corepublicans dont want the so-called dreamers, children brought to the country illegally by their parents, to complicate budget talks. there is...

Healthcare and pensions, with childrens health insurance and disaster aid and we can resolve the fate of the dreamers and say to the hard working kids saying that america has a place for them, too. >> theres calendar pressure on capitol hill with lawmakers and the white house facing a late night january 19th deadline to come up with another funding agreement. neil? >> neil: lets see if they can do that. mike emanuel. so january 19th. thats the do-or-die date. lets get the read from ron desantos....

We need to end this lottery system that we have seen time and time again as a failed and a flawed system. what get back to the things that work. with that people into our country illegally every year, the most generous nation in the world. lets strengthen that legal system and border security in place and i think you can see an agreement that can be reached. >> white house official tells mick mulvaney and white house legislative affairs director marc short will meet with leaders of congress at t...

Well see. how the russian investigation got started, with george papadopoulos wine-soaked night in a london bar. >> in that conversation he let slip that hes aware the russian government has political dirt on hillary clinton. when the e-mails started to come out a few months later, the australians very close ally of intelligence to the united states, they come to the fbi and say, hey, we have something you should note. and jam -packed january. congress getting back to work facing deadlines o...

>> right. he was talking about renegotiating nafta. >> will you work with the president on that front? >> oh, ive been very clear, i probably agree with the president on nafta more than most republicans do. i think its really -- i mean we have lost so many jobs in the state of michigan that have gone to mexico where theyre paying much lower wages, the environmental standards, its almost impossible to compete. my job is to represent the working men and women of my district. trade and pension, ive...

What authorities are saying you need to know now. plus, washingtons big to-do list. by meeting taking place this week at the whrous. what we can expect as a government shutdown looms. >> we clearly have to get a budget passed in january and make it long term. but theres so many other subjects. pensions, healthcare. i have been living in a hospital the last two weeks with my husband. i cant tell you how many people come to the room crying, scared to death. we have to do better. psoriasis does tha...