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Instin instincts? i guess to peter first. >> i'm sure his staff impressed upon him the obligations of the moment. what's expected of him in this moment. remember, none of his experience as a real estate developer, as an entertainment host on television has he ever sort of found this kind of, you know, a situation. there was one moment i think when he was a builder that a helicopter with some of his top executives went down and crashed and there were fatalities. that's a closest thing i can think of where he was a leader and required to be a consoler in chief. this is a grander, bigger, more im...

Matthews who is our political science buff. peter, straight to you. you heard what the president said, saying no president had accomplished more than he has. is he telling the truth? >> absolutely not. he can think or dream that. if you look at other presidents have accomplished some real -- not a single piece of legislation was signed or passed by him in these last six months. he was not able to get in through congress and we need action right now with the economy, education, healthcare and he's failing all those accounts, unfortunately for him but also for the united states, for the american...

Reaching across the aisle to help at this moment. i will say this i don't necessarily know it's a bad thing. he said trying to say if nothing gets done it's not me it's them. i don't know if that's not a bad thing. this will all play out. >> peter, do you think it's a bad thing shutting down the government? how does the mark and global committee react to if it's a shut down? >> they won't react very well at all. i want to make two policy points. one, if you look at donald trump won the electoral vote and lost the popular vote by 3 million. he did it because of the voters who voted for barack o...

Person who can lead our country and move us forward. we have republicans and democrats saying these thing that's scary for our country. >> clapper's statement is very important because think of what he did with kim jong-un in the middle of these crises. when kim jong-un said we're not going to pyre the four missiles in guam, the president should have said we're going to take the step to back down a bit to give a confidence measure a clan to survive and work. that's how you negotiate. that's why i'm concerned, mr. clapper's statement is absolutely correct. this president doesn't now how to nego...

My feeling is if we were to continue to have jobs reports like this, the labor participation rate would go up and we would continue to see wages rise. what concerns me is most economists on both sides of the aisle see growth rate for gdp being in the high twos. better than we've had historically in this recovery but not as good as the last two quarters. the question is, can we keep up this rate of job growth if we only grow at 2.3% per year. probably not. will this turn into more take home pay? will people go out and spend it? i hope so. the dismal scientists may be wrong and next year may be ...