you know, there is this idea that oh, the economy is so great and the top-line economic numbers are good. unemployment is low. we are starting to finally see some real wage growth, particularly at the bottom. but it was striking to me, this polling out of michigan, this is the detroit chamber of commerce. so not like this is not some sort of lefty group. only 36% of people say the economy is better in the past few years. a third. almost two-thirds say worse or unchanged. that suggests to me people s lived experience of this economy does not match the top-line numbers. yeah, the national numbers are a little more optimistic than that. the gallup numbers, last time they did it, about 50% of americans say their financial situation has gotten better. 30% say it s gotten worse over the last year. so i think that the short-term economic fluctuations in most places have been positive. maybe they ve been a little worse in the upper midwest which matters. yeah. they have been which ma
trust and have become a party of enablers. they don t want to be part of a party of enablers. there is no excuse for it. and to their constituents, to their faces, the people who are actually seeing it day in and day out, there is no discussion for what donald trump is doing and they know it to be true. i think to double stress what you just said, which i think is such a great point, the guy who has the biggest border district, who is to donald trump s left on immigration and has been pretty navigated it in a fairly humane way is like no, i m out. and that really says something about what the border politics of this president is. jonathan alter, michelle goldberg, danielle moodie-mills, that was great. thanks. up next, support for impeachment is about to reach an important threshold. congresswoman jamilla pry amil in two minutes. system naturally. and it doesn t cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency.
conversation and making it seem like the democrats are the ones with big ideas and are so different from the republican party, republicans are trying to take away your health care. we re up here, as funny as it is, but we re fighting for the best way to provide you with health care. gillibrand was the one that kind of lifted that up and said why are we digging into the minutia. also, the way they were structured, again, with having these more marginal candidates on both stages i think encouraged that, because somebody like tulsi gabbard can take a lot of shots at these candidates, and nobody is going to do research on tulsi gabbard maybe until after the fact. so it gives people this incentive to try to pick to try to take as many shots at the front-runners as they can. and it s not a good look. you might are agree that they should decriminalize, but that law, which dates to the 1920s is not what led to the cages. it was donald trump. yes. made it seem like it was this law jul
care for everyone. all right. congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you very much. thank you. coming up, new evidence of the soft large underbelly of the trump campaign. the democrats so far really failing to take advantage. it s the economy, stupid. econod it s going ok? great. now i m spending more time with the kids. i m introducing them to crab. crab!? they love it. so, you mentioned that that money we set aside. yeah. the kids and i want to build our own crab shack. ahhh, you re finally building that outdoor kitchen. yup - with room for the whole gang. see how investing with a j.p. morgan advisor can help you. visit your local chase branch.
hurd, one of only a few african-american members of the republican party in congress, is retiring. not just him, mike conaway is retiring, martha roby is in a safe seat in alabama. i do wonder, it s not fun to be in the minority, but i also wonder how much of it is like i don t want to carry water for this guy anymore? oh, i think that s a lot of it. it becomes too much. it becomes a burden that eats at your very dignity. you find yourself out here standing in front of a bank of cameras trying to explain the inexplicab inexplicable. you dodge and weave and it becomes too much. particularly for someone like will hurd, the only african-american republican in the united states congress who has the largest border to mexico in his congressional district of any member of congress, lacking the kind of support on this issue that he s gone to the leadership, he s gone to the