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Come out on top. >> alrighty, oliver darcy, appreciate you walking us through all that much. thank you, sir. >> thank you. sticking with amazon here, democratic representative alexandria ocasio-cortez is celebrating reports that amazon may be reconsidering its plans for a new york headquarters. the issue is exposing fissures in the party. cnns alison kosik has more. >> amazon is said to be reconsidering its plans to open a new headquarters in new york city. a "washington post" report says amaz...

Hampshire, were just focused on making sure the welcome mat is out. >> howard schultz? a life-long democrat. if he launches an independent bid for the presidency in 2020, would that be a good thing for america? >> i am very, very concerned about the impact of a potential spoiler here. mr. schultz is a life-long democrat. i would encourage him to get into the democratic primary and test his ideas that way. >> he says, though, in the "60 minutes" interview that some of the democratic ideas were se...

Feel like next time there is an eric cano harvey, we are not going to get flooded. workforce training, getting that middle skill workforce in the country, with 7 million job openings, its a good problem to have. but how do you fill that gap? its a skills gap more often. that something we can work together on as well. >> martha: i want you to talk about what went on in californi california. 12 people killed by obviously someone who was not in his right mind out in california. hes a marine. did se...

>> do you think the president plays any role in that kind of heated rhetoric? >> i always call for him to low down the rhetoric and lower the temperature. it would certainly help. >> yes, it would certainly help. congressman, what do you think you will be able to accomplish? >> i think there are a few things democratis and republicas can agree on. workforce training. we have 7 million jobs opening, and its a good problem but we dont have the skill sets for workers to enter into the jobs. we have...

Economy has expanded about 2.8% per year. during the obama years it was less than 2%. hes doing almost 50% better. theres lots of excess capacity out there. there are a lot of people under-employed. if we get the right trade policies, so we bring back good paying jobs and shift people out of starbucks and into factories and jobs like that, we can win. in addition, hes putting in place a lot of training programs. p i think those those have great potential. >> if you look backwards, the prediction...

Education is really important. early childhood education. the environment is important. the lack of jobs is important. housing is important. workforce training is important. >> this issue of the police and community relationship excessive force on the part of police, this is the issue that caused nfl players to neil. hkneel. how coyou revolve that really, really difficult question? >> first of all, it is a really question. the first and most important thing is safety and security. one of the gre...

So far, the meetings with nato have been talked about by the president calling those a tremendous success. at home hes talking about a booming economy and with the meeting he sang specifically they plan to focus on the important issue of workforce training. i dont see anything about the russia situation right now with the news conference in his comment, comments, but were getting feedback and a sickly edge transcript feed from that meeting with the cabinet so. >> can i add one thing quickly. the...

Deported. it is about refugees being turned away who were going to come to this country. its about the economics of it when we have 3% unemployment rate in many of our states and were starting to lose business in rural areas because we dont have seasonal workers and dont have people that used to do those jobs. that is happening right now. so it is a moral issue, yes, but it is also an economic issue. you look at the arc here. we need workforce training, but we also need immigrant workers to fill...

America, manufacturing jobs. what you need to do when you have these trade deals is also have domestic policies that deal with how do you retrain, what do you do if people need to move to get a job. and we dont do that. we took the trade deals, they increased gdp growth, increased corporate profitability but didnt actually deal with it. whether its 100,000 jobs in mexico or the 400,000 manufacturing jobs, each country has to deal with these internal matters. >> we say, look at countries like ger...

>> i was disappointed. the president spoke about unity but gave a speech that was very divisive. americans have learned we have to distinguish between what donald trump says and what donald trump does. for example, he talked about the opioid crisis and how terrible it is for families and put forth a budget that provides no funding to respond. he talks about how he loves our veterans and he hasnt provided money for the veterans program. keep cuts in workforce training. what i hoped the president ...