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There's a reason. that trend began under the first black president of the united states. obama. >> you should have the president of the united states including trump touting that the african american unemployment rate is down. 5.5% is a good thing. and he should say that. the problem is he takes it another step and tries to parlay that into saying he does more for black people than his predecessor. unemployment when obama started was 12.7. it went down from 7.7. it's gone down to 5.5. which is good. it's a smaller drop. when president trump comes out and speeches like today and says no one has...

Someone who makes racist statements, white supremacist statements, hateful statements and also have a good economy and also have good jobs numbers for african-americans. those two things can happen at the same time, but as you noted with that chart there, the other thing is, it's not even a good argument if it was a real argument because the numbers for president obama were better. under president obama, from the day obama took office until the day he left, black unemployment went from 12.7% to 7.8%. overall unemployment went from 7.8% to 4.8%. even president trump's favorite stat, the stock m...

Murders in new york city. today we have 289 a year. it's 86% reduction. in 2015 and 16, there was a bit of an uptick in violent crime. i'm happy to say that crime is falling once again. according to the fbi's ecr report, both murder and violent crime went down in 2016. just last week, the fbi released their preliminary crime statistics for the first six months of 2018. they're only preliminary numbers, but they show a 6.7% decline in murders a 12.5% decline in robbery and a 12.7% decline in burglary compared to the first six months of 2017. we can't rest on our laurels. we should acknowledge t...

Are very frustrating because we never know exactly what the white house position will be. we don't know how it will shift from day to day and we don't know whether if they tell us today it's something they can support if tomorrow they, indeed, will support it. ask mitch mcconnell about that. >> that's a tough one. you have spelled out for everyone how hard it is -- i think chuck schumer said it's like nailing jello to a wall trying to negotiate with an ever-shifting position. now you might have hope in the president has spelled out and laid out his plan as it currently is. i think mitch mcconn...

For that border wall. there is some additional money. you have about 12.7 in supplemental disaster relief. you have money to try to sweeten it for the democrats. but the fundamental barriers between the sides exist. and there's not a lot of conversation. >> you had hogan saying does mitch mcconnell have the blessing of the president? he'll seen this. giddily says that's a big if since we don't know what the final bill will look like. that seems odd. >> it's odd and significant. and that's -- there's been no daylight between mitch mcconnell and president trump up to this point. there's also bee...