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And also got 1700 more votes than hillary clinton did in her race. people are not just supportive of trump here, they show it. one reason, fear. what do people really fear? >> economic collapse. >> i think that's the biggest fear. >> you look at the numbers though, the economy has gotten better. for much of the country. >> mm-hmm. >> but why don't people feel it here? >> without the oil boom, the fracking industry, people would have been hurting. that's brought money into the area. it would have been a lot more depressed economy without that happening. >> carroll county is eastern ohio's most ...

Pleasure, from cnbc global headquarters, thanks. >> thank you. and olivia sterns with us here in new york as well. olivia, let's drill down on oil, pun intended. this happened just as we saw kind of a reformation in the oil market in the western u.s., the oil shale movement, the fracking industry, going back to the wells in west texas. a lot of those jobs are idle. as sue mentioned, great prices for consumers, it's a big hit for a huge industry. >> right. so there's a good side and a down side to the cheap price of gas. we all like to see $2 gasoline at the pump, but when gas gets too cheap,...

That's what they have been doing. it looks like they are winning because of what the federal government is doing to us. >> i think the federal government under obama once told romney he would be in favor of a diverse strategy that included oil and natural gas. >> that's what he said, but not what he did. >> yeah. but a diverse strategy is what people would back including wind and solar. i don't think the environmentalists want him to do more with fracking and he hasn't. >> wind, solar and renewables are a fraction of what will lead to energy independence. most of that would be carbon productio...

The fracking industry here where we've seen job cuts. you can't compete with the price saudi arabia and iran can produce fuel. >> how about looking for workers. the unemployment rate is above 5 but still employers who can't find people to work? >> yeah. absolutely. there is 5.8 million job openings, a record number, the highest since the government started tracking this data. but only 5 million hires, so the story to your point is the gap. why can't we fill these positions? as some folks are saying well, the standards are too high. there's a technology gap, there is a skills gap. hard skills w...

Call the anecdotal science of water coming out of the faucet that then is semiflammable. something you've reported on. let me play for you as well new york health commissioner dr. howard zucker since you mentioned what do we know and how do we know it. take a listen to what he said today. >> until the public health red flags are answered through long-term studies, public surveys with large population pools showing that the risks for public health are avoidable or sufficiently low, i cannot support high volume hydraulic fracturing in the great state of new york. >> he didn't go as far as you di...