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Trump won, he tapped into that. you lived this. you know it. you don't feel it. the question, here's the vice president. if they keep saying this and those numbers don't improve, they run the same risk. >> there's a reason why the month of may we just found out a quarter of a million new jobs have been created. this economy -- >> over a million now. >> as i travel around the country, the confidence, the enthusiasm, i tell people from the shop room floor to the board rooms in this country know that they've got someone in the oval office who gets up every day and is fighting for them. >> i -- wh...

With apologies to shakespeare for low wage earners in this country this has been their summer of discontent. fast food workers have walked off the job to protest among other things working conditions, low pay and for the right to join a union. there are about 4 million food service workers currently in the united states and they are among the lowest paying jobs in the country. i want to bring in our labor expert, his name is mike elk. he's on the labor beat for "in these times" magazine. mike always good to see you. >> always good to see you, too, buddy. >> fast food workers, $8.72 an hour, th...

Would say when they printed a story that was the end of the conversation. when we print a story at "the huffington post," it's the beginning of the conversation and that's where bezos, who's service oriented and knows how to reach out to people as customers, is going to take "the washington post." >> tina? >> i think you're right, obviously, about that howard. of course "the huffington post" was built on free content by journalists who weren't being paid which, of course, is one of the issue -- >> now they are. >> but they weren't for the first few years. one of the issues that everybody alway...