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Instance are going to you know irans oil if its not going to be sold or sold less to some other countries the chinese are more than able to pick up the slack and in fact iran may be able to actually make more money because were in a title oil market and any price rise they may actually you know they may sell for less of it but may actually make more money at the time i think what the iranians are trying to do and. in response is to pressure the europeans essentially to say you stick with this de...

Imposes these highest of economic sanctions which trump promised tonight he can basically punish and there was the veiled threat there any country that does business with iran iran does iran have any recourse they are i mean europe cannot pick up the slack if the u.s. cuts off all financial sources for tehran. you know this is it goes back to what we heard just earlier and i totally agree with that sentiment todays speech was not about what are we going to be able to have a better new clear agre...

Came out a couple days ago. 4%. ask the american people. >> yes. >> hold on. alisyn, you have 70% of americans today that rate the economy good or great. >> okay. >> before the election barack obamas last year in office -- >> thats a good point. great point. so so why arent wages rising? at a time of record corporate profits, obviously thats important to have a job and important to be adequately paid. >> when you cee lo unemployment, it suggests employers have to pay more money because there are...

Right now. by the way, why is that the case? take it out of a partisan context. explain it to me as a guy who would like to know, why are wages not popping? >> at 3.9%, you would expect wages to be higher than the 2.6% increase weve had. in part, there is much more slack in the labor market than weve had in the past. frankly, i think were starting to see the economy maybe not being what we always thought it was. whether its globalization or automation, the economy is just different at this point...

Had. in part, i think were starting to see theres much more slack in the labor market than weve had in the past. and were starting to see the economy maybe not being what we always thought it was and whether its because of globalization or automation, the economy is just different at this point. but i will say more broadly to your point, the fact that the presidents approval ratings are mired in the lower 40s shows that the economy does matter. but people want a president whose values reflect th...

Employment. we generally think lower than 5% is full employment. i think there are a lot of americans out there to say i havent had a job in ten years. >> yeah -- >> people who dont -- >> i have a job. right. i have a job, but im not one of those americans who believe were at full employment. i think theres still some slack in the job market. you dont see it in the unemployment rate which is, of course, at an 18-year low. there are other indicators that suggest theres still some labor supply lef...

Slack as i mentioned. low productivity. and especially weak bargaining power for lots of american workers. >> steve? >> what do you think? >> i think hes done a very good job at summarizing the problem. its an bigger, broader problem. its a global world of excess supply. >> excess supply of labor. >> compress supply of workers, services, even of commodities. the net result is you cant generate the inflation. you cant generate the job gains. companies are still focusing in on trying to accrue tro...

Michael cohen back the $130,000. what does that mean for campaign finance law? >> rudy giuliani does not cut hillary clinton the same slack as ivanka trump. i find that very interesting. >> she is not a fine woman like ivanka. >> a fine woman. thankfully you have jeffrey toobin. we need legal explanation about all of this. a lot of questions. including when the payments were made. >> we have gary cordaro and a lot of great legal minds. >> thank you. terrific. >> nice to see you. another safety...

Companies pick up the slack if they dont? >> seems like equality for all. seems like a bernie sanders approach with. >> neil: what do you think, charles? >> heres the thing. 11,000 homeless, 5,000 without shelter. 169 died last year, homeless folks. they have a crisis on their hands. looking at a potential way of getting money from different companies. theyre not figuring out how to address the issue what is up with americans living under bridges in that city? the fallacy of their approach shoul...

Primary system works and whether it produces good government. our debate, however, i think was very, very revealing. i thought brett and marthas questions got to real substance and revealed a lot about the candidates. what you saw were two guys at each others throat. evan jenkins and patrick morrisey were killing each other savagely and they just left don blankenship with a wide lane to go out there and be droll, observant, be interesting and not the monster that they said he was going to be. i ...