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Equipment, pvc pipe, lumber, steel, and so on, essentially a much everything. good luck fixing your house. or for that matter, filling your fridge. many common goods, the ones you bought at a grocery store last year without thinking about, are now effectively luxury items. >> the statistics are staggering. showing food prices rose 4.6% this year compared to last year. and when it is broken down to specific food items, the numbers are even higher. with dramatic increases in meat, poultry, fish, and eggs, ringingin at a most 10% more. >> tucker: so what is going on here? a lot of things are goin...

Made it clear that he wants america to be treated fairly. that's what's going on here. there's a high stakes negotiation. but go look at a lot of these countries. you can start with canada. they're a great friend of ours. if you're a lot of industries in america and you try to do business in canada, there's huge barriers to getting your products in the canadian markets. they don't have the same impediments when they bring their products here. all we're asking for is for countries to treat us fairly. i don't think that is something that should be controversial. we don't want a trade war. so let...

Happen. that being said, what gets missed in this debate is the reason those people showed up and voted for trump in places like michigan and indiana and pennsylvania is because they got left behind. and everybody talked about on the coast, oh, this is -- everything's great and everything's wonderful. we're making a lot of money. what they decided to do in the&the republicans in the senate and in the house is say, we're going to invest in growth. you can't keep lumping along the bottom and expect anybody whose wages were flat and their costs went up to go anywhere. so they took a gamble. i'm n...

Pennsylvania is because they got left behind. and everybody talked about on the coast, oh, this is -- everything's great and everything's wonderful. we're making a lot of money. what they decided to do in the republicans in the senate and house is say we're going to invest in growth. you can't keep lumping along the bottom and expect anybody whose wages were flat and their costs went up to go anywhere. so they took a gamble. i'm not saying this is not a gamble. i think it is a bit of a gamble, but they took ideas that about 75% of this bill, republicans and democrats have agreed on over the pa...

Got low enough companies decided to hire people. what you've been seeing for the last seven years is companies hiring people at those lower wages so now we've stocked up all those extra workers and you're starting to see wages go up. since about mid 2015. that is economics, folks. that's not actually presidents. that's economics. >> the president did tweet soon after the jobs number came out. excellent jobs number released. i have only just begun. movement back to the usa. now, we're going to bring this up again that the president really is claiming a lot of credit. he can claim some credit fo...