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Transition. nobody cared. they said yeah, yeah we know that. these are conclusions in search of evidence. i know people talk about fake news and bias media, et cetera. it's not just unfair covering. i think americans are smart enough to see if the president is being treated fairly or unfairly in the coverage. it's everything that didn't get covered. this president will be judged by metrics we saw just yesterday. the national association of manufacturers came out with their new study. a 20-year high. those are the job create towards. the confidence number is 93.3%. that's not an accounting erro...

The trump campaign and transition. nobody cared. they said yeah, yeah we know that. these are conclusions in search of evidence. i know people talk about fake news and bias media, et cetera. it's not just unfair covering. i think americans are smart enough to see if the president is being treated fairly or unfairly in the coverage. it's everything that didn't get covered. this president will be judged by metrics we saw just yesterday. the national association of manufacturers came out with their new study. a 20-year high. those are the job create towards. the confidence number is 93.3%. that's...

Think i would treat a poll like this with a very long stick and gloves, whatever the image would be. our friend michael has a good rule, it's really impossible to judge a president historically until 20 to 25 years later. i know nicole's old boss, president bush, george w. bush, it's going to take a while for historians to figure it out. truman left with a poor rating. now every politician wants to be harry truman. the confidence number is interesting. i think trying to rate president obama historically is probably a end at the moment.

Small business owner today. you have craziness going on, rising costs and rising taxes. it's very tough to be a small business owner. get your house in order to get a loan, it's a difficult thing. big companies seem to have an easier time at it because they can float notes and bonds to finance their inventory. >> heather: to end on a positive note. there is some good news, confidence numbers, optimism for small business owners, they rose to 94.4% in may, but the same reason as before the confidence hasn't stuck. do you think it will this time? >> i have a hard time with the confidence number. ...

Will, then it is six of one half a dozen of the other but if you think people spend their own money more whitesly this is -- wisely, this is a headwind. health you take it to the privately held businesses and the communities, and people trying to get ahead, what do they need to do? what needs to change? >> what needs to change is the tax code but that is probably not what is going to happen. what is happen this year you can see it in the retail numbers, the last two out of three months with have had less retail sales than we would have expected. they were down. this is really bad for the overa...