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Announced rules on overtime pay to lift wages for around 5 million people in this country. and. >> this was a transformational presidency. when he leaves office we are a country in a different place fundamentally than we were when he took office. and that is going to be the legacy. and that's got to be an amazing feeling to know that. >> and the overtime rules are interesting in that they are yet another example of using executive power to pursue things that cannot be done through the legislature at this point. the president is going to be left with one enormous legislative accomplishment that...

Church massacre. the president is up the five points from last month. people are also generally feeling better about race relations in america under this president. 20% say they are better. that's up five points since february. getting back to these overtime rules that's another big reason for the upward swing in the poll. as you can see he's up six points on the economy from last month. the president had a big week last week. that is clearly showing up in these approval numbers this morning. >> thank you so much for that from the white house. donald trump out at nbc. the network is cutting ...

Jim acosta is live for us in washington. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, michaela the white house is setting new overtime rules that raises the pay for 5 million americans. president obama announced the move last night. we'll put it on the screen. in this country, a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay. that's what it means to be middle class in america. under the old overtime rules, the extra pay of time and a half stopped at $23,660. now that threshold is bumped up to people making over $50,000 a year. now, this announcement comes as the president is receiving higher mar...

Progress that we can make when i have the privilege -- as long as i have the privilege of holding this office. we announced overtime rules that i'm going to be talking about more this week. that's going to give a raise to 5 million people potentially in this country who really deserve it. i want to see if we can get bipartisan work done with congress around rebuilding our infrastructure. brazil just talked about rebuilding highways and ports and bridges. we have the same work to do and we need to put people back to work there. i am really interested in the possibilities, the prospect of bipart...

Raise right away. he will change overtime rules. doubling the minimum salary. the threshold is $23,000 a year. that will rise to about $50,000. if you earn less than that, once the rule is in effect next year you will get overtime. anybody who worked in retail or restaurants, you know you can get overtime for your work unless you are considered a manager. sometimes you can be making $23,000 a year and be a manager and not get overtime. nbc universal is cutting ties with donald trump citing the statements made during the campaign kickoff announcement in which trump made harsh comments about m...