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>> so, nicolle, i've spoken to three different sort of departments if you will, to try to solve this puzzle. number one, the folks from the company that controls 40% of the ports here. they tell us that the biggest bottleneck is the drivers. the drivers that aren't reporting to work that aren't getting these supplies off these ports and onto the most devastated areas. i've spoken to the communications person for the ports. he told me it was access to fuel. that was their biggest sort of worry creating this bottleneck. on top of that, i spoke to the director of econo, one of the biggest superma...

Where adults in the room say we're not going to give this child what he wants, especially if it's a 35% tariff which would be like a nuclear weapon going on in the wallets of middle class americans. it would raise the prices of consumer gods a radical way. it would crash out our econo. a trade war is a doomed artifact of the trump promise, the architecture of the trump promises. but it's one that paul ryan and those guys, they recognize what actually happens if you go to engage in a trade war with asia. it's like a land war in asia. it never works out well. >> and felix, tonight donald trump i...

There's concern about the econo stocks vulnerable. >> you say what is bad for wall street is not necessarily bad for all of us. >> well, you know, you talk about oil plummeting, taking a big hit town 30% over the last few months, we're enjoying low gas prices. aaa saying gas prices $1.99 a gallon, national average. >> i paid $1.66 in oxford. >> amazing. >> sugar bowl champions. >> did you have a good time? >> had a great time. >> gas fares and airfares also down. they were down last year, 8%. so that's good. expect to be down again. >> don't get me started on airlines. oh, my god. >> there is ...

Happened. >> great image though. >> that's the only thing that's happened is that the rich have gotten richer. the middle out framework that the president is using today isn't a slogan or a list of policies, what it really is is a 21st century explanation for the origins of prosperity because when you yuunderstand the econo in the 21st way as an ecosystem, it's obvious that it's a feedback loop between customers and businesses and, therefore, the true job creators are consumers. the fund dammal of capital -- >> you can't talk about the middle class today without talking about under employment....

The middle, but no one has been there to meet him. >> even with the bush tack cuts. we should not be looking at raising taxes on anyone whatsoever. when you look at what is happening with a 3.6% decrease in household family incomes, that's not what we have to have noorin order for the econo to turn around. the policies are failing, but yet, he doesn't want to hear that, he wants to march down a certain path and understand that maybe he's not as far left as some of the people on the left want, but i think in this second term agenda he's laid out a very far left agenda when you look at what he s...