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Obviously there is some truth to it but the skills gap has nothing to do with unemployment, not really. the skill gap proves that opportunity alone is not enough to get people unemployed. really, neither is training. you can have all the opportunity and training in the world but if you do not have underlying appreciation for work, if you're not talking about jobs that people affirmatively aspire to, you will be pushing the boulder up the hill. tilting the windmill or whatever self-defeating metaphor makes the most sense to you. you have to be talking about jobs that are uniformly cared about i...

Came in i got up and stood on my feet. when he or she left, i got on my feet again. that's because we respect that position. i hope that doesn't become the norm. i have some fear that we may be seeing more of this down the road as we get midnight tweets and that type of thing. hopefully, we'll see some cooperation and respect between the branches. >> michael moore, from the middle district of georgia. thank you, sir. president trump's next executive action on immigration could involve worker visas and corporate america bracing. the h-1b, in met to fill a skill gap. allowed qualified workers ...

There are negatives here. wage growth well below the annual target and number of manufacturing jobs still below the levels we saw before the recession and before the 17 million jobs back in 2000. 17 million manufacturing jobs in 2000. those are the jobs that donald trump promised to bring back. the problem is the skill gap. high tech training or vocational training. many jobs disappeared were low skill positions. there is a technology and skills component here as well as outsourcing. donald trump attacked the outsourcing. >> even if high end manufacturing jobs came back, they would be done by ...

Piketty. you cannot say like many of the republicans are saying we can keep cutting tax on these groups that have already benefitted a lot from growth and globalization over the past 30 years. you cannot say we're going to keep cutting tax for this group and at the same time you can close the skill gap and education gap. there is a skill gap and education gap. they are really serious, but the skill gap and the education gap, they cannot at the same time cut taxes. >> pickettketty has a great understanding of our system and wealth. what if you need money now?

Apollo group owner and operator of the university of phoenix, the nation's largest accredited for profit college and a sponsor of education nation. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you for having me here. >> one of reasons we're having you on the show is you wrote a report focusing on these problems on the skill gap. >> yes. >> what did you find out? >> well, what we did was go off the business leaders to talk to them about why do we have this issue with 3.5, some estimates as high as 7.5 million jobs in this country not being filled when you've got over 8% unemployment. and ...