again, it s not you know, these aren t great. it s not a great cushion. it has bipartisan support. but there is some evidence that this is keeping unemployment high. the big layoffsst came last year. what s keeping unemployment high are people that are remaining unemployed. yes, jobs are hard to find. unemployment benefits are a factor and nobody wants to talk about that brel. bret: bill, bunning s point they pass pa-go. pay as you go for elements in congress but largely ignored it and they are not paying for things as they go on capitol hill. but he is now the focus on a lot of democrats saying republicans are obstructionist. he is retiring and they will pass a bigger bill. it will go away as short-term issue. it is interesting case. it s been politically suicidal to oppose extension of unemployment benefits for decades. even though serious economists, nonpartisan economists as nina says it think it does you
again, it s not you know, these aren t great. it s not a great cushion. it has bipartisan support. but there is some evidence that this is keeping unemployment high. the big layoffsst came last year. what s keeping unemployment high are people that are remaining unemployed. yes, jobs are hard to find. unemployment benefits are a factor and nobody wants to talk about that brel. bret: bill, bunning s point they pass pa-go. pay as you go for elements in congress but largely ignored it and they are not paying for things as they go on capitol hill. but he is now the focus on a lot of democrats saying republicans are obstructionist. he is retiring and they will pass a bigger bill. it will go away as short-term issue. it is interesting case. it s been politically suicidal to oppose extension of unemployment benefits for decades. even though serious economists, nonpartisan economists as nina says it think it does you
to in presidential leadership. what about the appearances the president has been making, town hall meetings, he s been answering questions, i ve been covering the fact he s been reaching out. at least he seems to be using the kind of language that people can relate to, saying i understand things aren t great, but we re trying to work on this. do you think that s been largely ineffective? well, i think the president has connected with people in good ways, but at the moment, suzanne, i believe that people are not looking for more talk. they re looking for more results. they want change, and they re not seeing it come. after the failure on the health care bill, where now ear going to have this sort of conference next week to go back to health care, where most people are saying, wait a minute, what about the jobs? isn t this an urgent issue? and i believe the president will descend into a crisis unless his people come together and pull this jobs question together, and get moving on it.
terry, nice to see you this morning, welcome. good morning. well, now what the criticism is out there in ether right now, it s that look, terry is a gold digger, how is this different than you looking to marry for money. what do you say for that. i m not looking for anybody s money and i don t think it s any different than somebody looking for somebody that s a certain height, a certain religious background. i think that, or even activities that they like to do. similar activities, it s just part of the criteria that they look when they re looking for a mate. quickly, what exactly is your condition, why is it you do not have health insurance and can t get it? i m actually on cobra. the expired federal cobra and i work from an organization from home that provides for people with disabilities and that s to keep me away from infection, therefore, job abilities outside the home aren t great for me so i can t change jobs and my employer does not offer health
you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucr y bureaucracy. well, the mayor of san juan has directly responded to president trump s tweets this morning. she says also on twitter, that the goal is, one, saving lives. this is the time to show true colors, we cannot be distracted by anything else. today, president trump is going to be taking a series of calls about the ongoing crisis in puerto rico. he is going to talk to the government of puerto rico and fema administrator and at the same time mike pence is going to be receiving a briefing on the hurricane relief effort at fema s headquarters, but for a lot of the folks on the ground in puerto rico, the optics of president trump spending his third weekend in a row at his golf club in new jersey aren t great, even if he s taking all of these calls and having the briefings and has his trip to puerto rico planned in just a few days, leland. leland: noteworthy, the governor