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Your witness, sir. >> i've scratched my head. i'm a registered independent and always have been since 18. i've scratched my head how anybody can always give away their vote. i don't think black people we as black people hold democrats accountable enough. new york city is a prime example. things that progressives say they care about. the income for black women against white men declined, has been declining in new york city, has been crashing. you had a housing project controversy where hundreds of thousands of black people, people's grandparents living on the 20th floor and they have to walk up...

Way of like i'm not going to give putin the credit that we care? >> that's how i read it. >> is that a -- you know? >> show has a way of getting under his skin, but he reacted very differently to north korea and called kim jong-un a maniac and so on. i think you're height he's treated some people on his own staff very differently in many ways than putin. i think that's because the president tends to respect power, he doesn't respect weakness and the people mistreated on his staff are people who are weak, they're not military -- they're the people who aren't members of the military and who aren...

Increase the minimum wage, it's a good thing because people are in the -- those in the work force or look for a job, they'll have more money in their pocket and you feel that's going to have a positive trickle down effect on the overall economy? >> it sure does. when you give people more purchasing power, they turn that back and they spend it. unlike people who are at the very, very top of the pyramid where when they get more money, they don't necessarily invest in a way that's good for the broader economy. when people in the lower or middle classes get more money, they do. they spend it on go...

Aren't wealthy. the interesting thing is when chavez came to power, oil was $10 a barrel. in 2008 it came up to $140 a barrel. i mean, where is the parallel economy outside of oil. well, there really isn't one. venezuela even imports oil sometimes, too. >> and also has -- >> production has dropped off significantly. et cetera, et cetera. >> i want to pivot to economic management because there's a whole bunch of economic ills, which plague every country. there's inflation and high budget deficit which is particularly high, and an economy that isn't reliant on oil. i want to talk about economic ...

Raising the retirement age. social security wasn't designed for all these old people who live a long time. and to some degree, who cares? the country's economy has grown 15 fold and one of the things we can buy with that money is a decent retirement for people who don't have jobs they love and who don't want to work forever. that's a gift of a rich society. moreover, this idea we have gained over years, it's not true or not nearly as true for poor folks who rely on social security. as you can see on this graph since 1977 the life expecty of male workers retiring at 65 has risen a full six year...