neil: emily, looking at that, you could make an argument the economy even though the recession, some have been overplayed here. but it is slow from the blistering pace. it is still enviable paste to the rest of the world. i m wondering if that is an issue for the president. i think it depends on how much eventually it slows down. i think it is important and this particular race to zoom into the local level and acknowledge this is happening in the shadow of a lick twirl scandal that frankly hurts republicans. we are trying to figure out a district one by double digits by donald trump four years ago now has the democratic candidate by four points in the latest poll. i think that is important, the question of the economy, so hard to predict what will happen. but when you are looking at three years of blistering pace, i think that hopes republicans because they have seen favorable results. neil: very good. and the economy itself, plus and
we have record employment lows w sense of the states where wages didn t go up but that s a booming economy. so that s the issue. can a booming economy left more votes than having the government s step in and say left the wages? again and again, we say what is the best way to get wages under the rise? i don t know if the top-down approach works. i m just looking at all the data here and we see with the minimum wage, more than half believe that low-wage job within a year and they go up the income ladder. so it s not that they are locked on that minimum wage job, they have mobility up and out. it s usually college-age students who have the minimum wage job and it s terrible that we are in this country where people are trying to easement, academic raise money on the minimum wage. the economy itself, there minimum wage goes up anyway. looking forward to see you tonight, young lady. the evening at it in the final
of this government shutdown so far as it goes on? well, these federal workers all over the country have a good number of them in my own city and in this region. he doesn t caribbeans about them. he doesn t each talk about them very much because he recognizes that that is he calls them democrats. that s a small number of them. that s why i m looking now to the spreading of the economy, to the spreading of the sectors, because the federal workers won t do it and haven t done it and couldn t possibly do it by themselves. but as you see this begin to have its effect on the economy itself, and that s what you re beginning to see, the president is going to be forced. and i agree with my other colleagues to use what is already up there to say look, i won. we re back to normal. we know that the president has how do i say this? not necessarily told the truth when it comes to the border wall and when it comes to immigration. he has put a lot of numbers out there that have been disproven,
fear of trade wars. big question marks. monica, as we look at this, the president in an interview this morning said, look, wall street may have to take a hit. the markets may have to take a hit, but in the end he said he will be stronger. do you agree? i do agree. i find a statement like that to be a bit refreshing. the president of the united states should not be beholding to the markets. the markets and the economy are dislocated and have been for a long time. if you look at the past 20 years and the trajectory of the dow, it really is it just shoots to the sky, whereas you look at gdp growth and with the economy itself, we ve been barely even able to get close to 2% gdp growth over the past 20 years. to see a president that s willing to take a stand and recognize that there are multiple stakeholders in the markets and multiple stakeholders in the economy, corporations would love to see outsourcing be business as usual. but workers, it doesn t work for
waves, so there isn t like a single moment that heralds it as a big event. for a lot of these stores it s been going on since halloween. i agree. there s even a toerm for it, called christmas creep, as in creeping up on the calendar. i think shep said it best when he said he spent ten minutes unsubscribing to things that got a little too annoying. i think you re on to something. if i was the tv or auto industry, i would pick a different day. i would make it national tv day instead of black friday because people don t buy big screen tvs as gifts. so the self-gifting point was interesting. it also could be a positive sign for retailers because it seems that people still have gift buying to do. they bought the tvs for themselves. i don t know if that will work. but i had national processed cheese and meats day. nothing happened. marshal, you go back to the economy itself, and if you re right and maybe it is as robust