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Comes in via wall street, that it no longer has much of anything to do with its labor base, the unions, the working class, the people who used to count in the democratic party. today, these guys like steve ratner count much more to the democrats into the clintonites than any union president. >> tucker: so what's interesting is, elizabeth warren gets up and says, for example, i'm sympathetic to this point, we need to bust up these monopolies, they have too much influence, she's absolutely right. on the other hand, you see people like these tech barons, the cfo, i misspoke earlier, cfo of spotif...

A position where, sure, you'll get a round of applause from a group of party activists, but i'm afraid those don't decide the election. so this is the age-old parental problem of progressive politics. that it's -- and, you know, obviously, i have followed the democrat debates here, but it's important if you're standing to win an election, in a country, right, you want the country to come behind you, you've got to appeal to more than your base. >> and what do you say to those who say, yeah, but, that is not going to excite the democratic debate, the labor base. in other words, your argument is ...

Tariffs won't stop it. the consumers are going to get hurt and the labor base is going to get hurt. >> the purpose of the report is to explain that a combination of tariffs and the informs meant restrictions are a way to deal with it. the tariffs are designed as a defense to the predatory practices. china used unfair trade practices to go after steel and aluminum industries and appliances and shoes, toys whatever it is. they dominate those things now because they cheat and the tariffs are a defense mechanism to protect our high-tech companies. what are we talking about? artificial intelligence...

What's happening right now, and we discovered this during the obama administration, weighty individuals is and government spending is not enough to get the economy back up to 3%. i think what the president is trying to say to the chew niece is that your consumer market, the market i represent, america, help me figure out a way to get the wages up. one thing to do in that situation is are balance a trade deal. one more quick point. since the second world war, the united states made a decision to uneven the trade deals. why do that? we made a decision that we would create more global interdepend...

Celebrate 200 days in? >> i would say he has consumer confidence. i think if you look at the sort of culture that the president brings to washington, he's brought a culture of business. he's brought a laser focus on jobs. that laser focus, whether it's deregulation, whether the stock market hitting 30 new highs in the first six months, that focus has been jobs. i think that's something the president can hang his hat on and say the voters voted for a president who wanted to focus on jobs, and they certainly have that. >> the pushback, stephen, is the data is there. you can't ar with the numbers...