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Patronage and the fund-raising continues operating the way it always has. >> tucker: is that why -- bernie sanders ran as an economic populist in 2016 and didn't say a lot about identity politics. in fact, he criticized open borders. elizabeth warren, by contrast, is running as a kind of woke identity politics crusader and an economic populist. can you be both? >> you know better than most that illegal immigration is a labor issue. it's a wage issue. i read your book. a lot of illegal labor on the market drives down wages for everyone, especially at the bottom rung of the ladder. so to simply ...

>> tucker: is that why -- bernie sanders ran as an economic populace in 2016 and didn't say a lot about identity politics. in fact, he criticized open borders. elizabeth warren, by contrast, is running as a kind of woke identity politics crusader and an economic populace. can you be both? >> you know better than most that illegal immigration is a labor issue. it's a way issue. a lot of illegal labor on the market drives down wages for everyone. especially at the bottom rung of the latter. so to simply say that we have to be compassionate, which i think we should be, completely skirts the issue...

Cost in four years. i'm sitting here in california where they cross the sierra, eastern part of the trans con nental railroad in six years. we haven't laid one track of the high speed rail project after 10 years and $10 billion. there is something wrong with us. we're walking among the ruins of people we don't know but gave us all this stuff but we aren't going to pass it onto to our children in the same generous fashion. >> bill: we like to say in new york the empire state building was built and finished in 13 month. a lobby of a hotel across the street it takes them two years. a labor issue ...

The scenes? are players able to block it out or is there discussion? >> i'm sure there are some discussions. guys are open minded about everything. and understand that these issues unfortunately will arise in the nfl just as they will in any workplace around the country. but as far as, you know, delving into it too much to let it affect the game, that is the thing that the coach preaches that he doesn't allow to happen. and again, he bans players of talking about anything that doesn't have to do about football on the field. he literally bans them from speaking about it. so that is why they are...

Are going to be communities that are much more reflective of where america is going. so, we have to see how those states respond to candidates like elizabeth warren, kamala harris, like cory booker, like beto and pete buttigieg. we have a long way to go before the first round of voting so we'll have more breakout moments. the next detat is at texas university. i think that will bring a lot of attention to education issues, which we haven't talked a lot about. can i quickly weigh in on the labor issue as well. other pane point but i think labor workers have a lot of work to do. when you look at...