-well, audrey s expecting. -twins! grandparents! we want to put money aside for them, so.change in plans. alright, let s see what we can adjust. we d be closer to the twins. change in plans. okay. mom, are you painting again? you could sell these. lemme guess, change in plans? at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. i watched all the candidates and i just thought to myself, donald trump would eat them up. you think all of the candidates who are running today, he would eat them up? let me rephrase it. i think that i would do the best job of competing with him and beating him. welcome back to hardball. that was former new york mayor
michael bloomberg this morning not mintsing his words about the other 2020 democratic candidates. let me ask you about the economy. we have a 3.5% when i studied economics in grad school you couldn t get that. we have 260,000 new jobs and this is president is below water in approval. the economy is better than anybody thought it would be. nobody can completely explain it. we are at full employment at any measure. inflation is low, interest rates are low. i don t see an economy as good as this in decades. so putting that together with blo bloomberg, everybody else running will lose to trump. that s what he said. that s an amazing statement, but is that based on the economy being strong? the economy is strong, but those aren t the only things
in miami. what a district to represent. thank you jill colvin so much and chuck, one of my favs. coming up what s rudy giuliani doing in ukraine? good question. the president s lawyer says he s continuing to dig up dirt on joe biden. but there s new reporting today senior white house officials are startled and concerned giuliani s out there in his latest escapade. joe biden says mostic voters are not onboard with the push for medicare for all. he says congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez does not represent the future at least she s not the future of the entire democratic party. is he right? and here s what bloomberg said today when he jumped into the democratic primaries. i watched all the candidates and i just thought to myself donald trump would eat them up. i m not sure about that.
sort of sensibility you re saying midwest nice. maybe it ll play better in new hampshire, i don t know. there was an editor on a newspaper in iowa who said iowa voters especially the older ones thinks castro has fangs in attacks. so it s really interesting who gets called angry and who doesn t. and i think if biden want to prove he has self-control and actually can provide policy answers and a response to this question about his son i ve got a great line for you. winston churchill said i like a man who grins when he fights. that s a great one. grin. up next, mike bloomberg has already spent millions to try to shoe horn his way into this already crowded field of democratic canndidates. you re watching hardball. crdi.
have college education or a high school education. your dad was a postman. that s right. but i think a lot of people today don t think they can rise to the top. how can we change that? one thing i d like to mention is literacy. right now we have a situation where 14% of the american people can t read, and you re at the bottom of the social ladder and you can t read, you re never going to get to the top. these are native born americans. 14% cannot read and can t read past a fourth grade level. and we have 1.7 million people dropping out of high school every year. you ve got to deal with that problem. you can tax all the rich people in the world you want, people at the bottom can t read they re never going to get to the top. imagine the democrats do nominate mike bloomberg, he goes against trump. we ve got two oligarchs going against each other. is that good for this country,