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Speech this week. listen, we know good people are trying to get into the country too. they see the prosperity, the economic growth. they're coming because they see it as a beacon of hope. we need to find a legal way to get people here, find a way to fix our immigration system. democrats won't work with us. when he brought that deal to chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, he said let's end a visa lottery system here that brings people here willy-nilly. by the way, he's saying let's have merit based immigration. we have more jobs right now than people to fill them. let's bring people in based on the ...

Of based on merit. by the way, canada doesn't have a visa lottery system. he's saying, let's have merit-based immigration. we have more jobs right now than people to fill them. let's bring people in based on the job needs that we have in this country. very reasonable proposals that democrats have supported in the past. and now they're saying, "no," we won't support it. and he also had a deal on the dhad daca. >> you don't have any issues at all about -- >> i think the president is talking about a multitude of issues. and to say he's only focusing on one thing is false. >> but on that video -- ...

Wage growth is better than it has been since 2009. that means it's better than it's been for seven out of eight of the years that obama was president, and all four years that you were secretary of labor. >> jake, the issue now is not just nominal wage growth. the issue is also inflation. if your salary goes up by a dollar but the cost of buying insulin, the cost of buying gasoline, the cost of housing, the cost of health care goes up by $3, you're not better off. that's the challenge here. the challenge for the american people is the fact that so many people with pre-existing conditions though...

>> i'm talking about real wage growth. if you're -- if you get a dollar more on your paycheck and the cost of gasoline, the cost of health care, the cost of housing goes up by $3, it's not better off. and by the way, we created more jobs in the last 21 months of the obama administration than in the first 21 months of the trump administration. but what it's all about, jake, is that people need to feel that if they work a full-time job, they're actually able to feed their family and not tread water. and that's what's happening across this country. too many people are working two and three jobs t...

That. and that's why i think you see the enthusiasm is high. you have the fundamentals that are strong for the president. he's doing things that are popular. the tax cut, cutting the regulati regulations, growing this economy, fighting on trade. blue-collar workers having their wages go up. look at high school educated men. a 40-point gap that are -- why? because they're feeling it personally. a lot of this is right there, the pocketbook. people are going to vote on their wallet and pocketbook and that's why you might see some surprises on tuesday. >> a couple things. bernie was trying to tell...