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Got beto o'rourke at 5%. after that, you drop to 2%, there are people under 2% and 1%. to your point that these people think they're special, by the way, by many measures, they are. they're accomplished, they're interesting people with really good policy prescriptives. what they don't seem to be asking themselves is am i more special than someone else who i can get out of the race and support? >> well, you know, is it your time? certain candidates catch fire because it's their time. i had the fortune of working for -- for a young senator from illinois who most people said shouldn't run and he ...

In this particular poll, it's got beto o'rourke at 5%. after that, you drop to 2%, there are people under 2% and 1%. to your point that these people think they're special, by the way, by many measures, they are. they're accomplished, they're interesting people with really good policy prescriptives. what they don't seem to be asking themselves is am i more special than someone else who i can get out of the race and support? >> well, you know, is it your time? certain candidates catch fire because it's their time. i had the fortune of working for -- for a young senator from illinois who most peo...

African-american audience and african-american voters. what have you heard that stands out in terms of policy prescriptives that will really move the needle on the issues you're most concerned about. >> let's talk about where we can actually be pragmatic and gain traction. one of the things we know is that many black americans are underemployed. while we've got historic unemployment rates, that is, historically low unemployment rates, black americans are still unemployed at twice the rate of white americans and at the highest rate of any other ethnic group. >> that gap hardly ever seems to bud...

Bran stat said today, we're not that close to tway deal is concern for the markets and the administration. >> let's talk about a subset of wages i know matters a lot to me. the gender pay gap. it is still an issue. i remember a year ago when larry kudlow was still your colleague at cnbc. he said the gender pay gap didn't exist. he was wrong then. and if he repeats himself today, he'd be wrong now because women in the united states were earning 82% of what men did in 2017. that means it would take a woman 47 extra days of work to do the same thing as her male counterpart. >> and if we close the...