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Steve: what have they done during this entire congress? ainsley: nothing. brian: doesn't make it right. three things they could get done. usmca leading them. help manufacturing and farmers and so far nothing. ainsley: like you said, many of them are the same folks there today that were there decades ago. brian: they don't modify. they just change their hair and lose some weight. steve: okay. moving on. coming up. ainsley: 42 minutes after the top of the hour. brian? brian: two years since las vegas shooting and victims are just now getting compensated for their suffering. next guest a survivor...

Unfolds over the next couple of months. >> that's still good. consumer confidence is healthy right now. >> right this second, there's one number that came out yesterday, too soon to put on the screen, that shows it's starting to weaken. consumer spending has been the strong point but what's been the weak point and what is significant in the economy is business investment. business is not only saying they're lacking confidence, they're voting with their dollars, and so if you take a look at what's been happening in business investment, you can see, if we can take a look at what's happening in b...

The dollar is up. exports are declining and manufacturers rely heavily on selling what they produce to the rest of the world. here is the dark irony in this. the trade war, the tariffs were supposed to help manufacturing. but the -- in fact what's happening is it's pushing it into recession. now the damage is spreading out. you point to the employment statistics, the revision down in the employment gains. knows rechvisions were surprisingly big and broad based. not only manufacturing revised done pop construction, leisure hospitality, retail, health care, education, the economy is weakening. a...

Standpoint of where i come from the steel town in west virginia and policies that help manufacturing, and help get this economy going and every aspect, not just on those things that appeal to more moderate voters. we will appeal to the reagan conservatives, the folks that helped win states like ohio and pennsylvania and michigan. that is how we will win the election, appealing to strong reagan conservatives with an economic message that talks about getting them back to work and that will be the difference for us. >>neil: you talk about the other states and you do not mention south carolina so ...

Week put in the last year. at the same time the small business owners are struggling to find the new consumer. are struggling to find the new employee and the regulations are costing small businesses $10,000 person employee, $161,000 per business and for manufacturing, we are trying to help manufacturing, but it costs an estimated $680,000 in regulatory expense alone. so, yes, we have uncertainty about obamacare and what dodd-frank will do but the reality is we have too much regulation. >>neil: you are smarter at this than i am but i look at it simply: if you are a c.e.o. and we just had steve...