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Announcing steel tariffs and all. he expressed during the campaign, to protect american jobs. if you step back, what you discover is that donald trump has already won the jobs war. it wasnt against south korea or germany or china. it was against eight year of suppressed economic activity during the obama years when we had high unemployment. currently the unemployment rate is 4.1%, neil. were virtually at full employment. the big story in this united states now is employers, manufacturers, tech. ...

The focus on these sort of progressive economic messages that the democrats, you know, have always had but seem to get lost in the shuffle when, you know, we got into the nitty gritty of the 2016 campaign and people were focusing on trump and how bad we democrats thought he was and things like that. that didnt end being inawinning message on us. ed: katrina it, seems like everything has been resist, resist, resist for six months. are you concerned at all as a supporter of the president that demo...

They had time to gather independent money, outside money, then mount a very aggressive campaign against barrett. conversely, barrett only add couple of months to secure the nomination and also raise money. not a lot of time to do that. the democrats are feeling that the money advantage was just too big to overcome, that they feel very good about the organized labor movement but it does show some signs -- >> joe, you are dodging my question. >> why did union household almost two in five vote agai...

Here, ed. hes been given a free shot to rail against the republicans. and every time an irrelevant light weight republican type like eric cantor starts talking stupid talk, it failed us for two decades now. americans are gagging on this republican talking point that billionaires or patriots who care about job creation. if we let them get away with their tax scams, if we let them get away with the tax shelter, theyre going to take that money and give it to the american working public. weve seen i...

Obama has been given a free shot here, ed. hes been given a free shot to rail against the republicans. and every time an irrelevant light weight republican type like eric cantor starts talking stupid talk, it failed us for two decades now. americans are gagging on this republican talking point that billionaires or patriots who care about job creation. if we let them get away with their tax scams, if we let them get away with the tax shelter, theyre going to take that money and give it to the ame...

So competitive we could keep prices going up as oil went down as the markets are sliding more. a shame they would do this to the american flying public. >> gary b. we know one thing, when airlines were heavily regulated before deregulation when the government controlled them it was too expensive for the little guy, the working guy to fly. >> exactly. i like chuck, always the working guy, has that southern accent. nobody ever worked with a working guy north of the mason/dixon. chuck should be rai...

Mounted a very aggressive campaign against barrett. barrett only had a couple months to not only secure the nomination, but also raise money, not a lot of time to do that. the democrats are feeling that the money advantage was just too big to overcome. they feel very good about the organized labor movement, but it shows signs of fraying. >> youre dodging my question. why did union households vote against what was supposed to be a union vote. >> i think public sector unions and private sector uni...

Mounted a very aggressive campaign against barrett. barrett only had a couple months to not only secure the nomination, but also raise money, not a lot of time to do that. the democrats are feeling that the money advantage was just too big to overcome. they feel very good about the organized labor movement, but it shows signs of fraying. >> youre dodging my question. why did union households vote against what was supposed to be a union vote. >> i think public sector unions and private sector uni...