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This because people will work for less. my question -- this is all supply and demand, econ 101. why is the democratic party making excuses for this and defending those people who that? why they defending jeff bezos and thedi big employers who are hurting the poorest in our society? >> that's not what they're doing. they are responding to a conservative republican party that demonizes illegal immigrants as if we are not all here because of illegal immigrants or immigrants depending on how you view history. >> tucker: is not an economic question -- there's always moralizing. i'm a good person. i...

>> and this business about illegal immigration didn't depress wages is nonsense on a stick! that's just -- that's just like economics 101. i don't mean any disrespect to the congressman. he must have been throwing the frisbee in the quad, during econ-101. >> martha: you want a spirit of cooperation. i am not sure you are contributing to that at the moment. i hear what you are saying. >> you listen to these platitudes. this is about politics. >> martha: i think you are right. people are so exhausted with everybody in washington debating this. both sides saying they want the same thing. one thou...

Board. >> i get halfway through econ 101 and then drop the course. tom, i'm hearing it. the word is getting around. it's disturbing a lot of democrats. a report that over half of the hispanic voters in america say they have not been contacted by anybody about getting out and voting. one, that true? two, if it is true what are you guys doing about it over the next 18 days? >> it's all about outreach. it's all about the, blocking and tackling. our operation, our investments and the hour is not just the dnc it's the whole democratic infrastructure, eco system. our investments are more than any ot...

Are in place so far. solar, dishwashers, steel, aluminum. in all of industries, we've seen investment off shore and coming in and creating new jobs. here is the problem. those who learned econ 101, they're told tariffs are bad. if you're competing against china and china had auto tariffs at 25% and you have 2.5% or competing against germany and their tariffs are 10% on autos and ours are 2.5. what happens? what happens with germany is a huge-- >> so this-- >> deficit with germany and sell a lot more cars here. leland: this goes back to the president's argument zero tariffs and we're happy. >> ...

Nothing comes to mind right now. if i would do something like that -- i would deal with it. >> let me ask you in terms of what's going to happen next obviously with ryan leaving, are you interested in becoming speaker? >> look, i said this last week, paul ryan is the speaker and he's going to continue to be the speaker for the remainder of this congress. if and when there is a speaker race, i have colleagues encouraged me to look at it. the big focus is much more important on who the speaker is next year and what the republicans do this year. we won't be in the majority. let's get focused on w...