or cars or to have children. the most common living arrangement of young people is with their parents. student loans and other debt are strangling the country s middle-class. with that in mind, does either party have an economic message to remedy the concerns of the average american family? austan goolsbee, economic professor of the university of chicago, thanks for coming on. i noticed last night in the return, something interesting, everyone we know is completely committed to free trade as aet matter of religious faith, as you know. i saw a number of races, and i notice this for the past couple of years, voters are very distrustful of our trade policies, saw that last night with sherrod brown winning in ohio. i would say that is fair. tucker: it is both parties, it is actually both the consensus on economics is bipartisan, pretty much, p increasingly. so should we not reassess atno all? if the majority is not served,
on the merits, look at her as a worthy competitor, okay? however, what also does this do? this makes all of these new democrats that she was willing to let them say that they wouldd never vote for her, they promised in their districts, i will never vote for nancy pelosi for speaker. guess what is about to happen? the very first vote that these new members of congress are going to be asked to take is whether nancy pelosi should be speaker of the house. and they might end up breaking a promise their very first promise on their very first vote in order to make her speaker. tucker: why would they doir that? i m not attacking i m actually agree with you, nancy pelosi has hung around. why wouldn t it be nancy pelosi? but why do people go against their claims? if nancy pelosi had been able to get 65 this wouldn t havei been a question, she would say, i don t care, 24, 30 of you who don t want to vote for me, i have a margin large enough that
but they will probably end up having to cast their first vote for her. tucker: i honestly can t wait for that. there is always an upside, and you are always the person who points it out. the good news is.er tucker: exactly, great to see you. the president fired his attorney general today, jeff sessions. we will bring you details on what exactly happened and why and what it means after the break. i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release its own insulin, like it s supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen.
barrage that you should not have recused yourself from oversight in the russia investigation. do you agree with that? i understand his feelings about it.e because this has been a big distraction for him. but tucker, i thought the experts in the department of justice, the people who trained in that, i m confident i made the right decision. you said the criticism was hurtful and the president has made it really clear that he doesn t seem to want you to run the department of justice. will you continue to run it? he can make that clear at any time, i serve at the pleasure of the president. if he wants to make a change, he can certainly do so, and i would be glad to yield in that circumstance, no doubt about it. tucker: sessions wasn t perfect, obviously, he sometimes got rolled by his staff. the russian investigations have showed that the fbi and doj are deeply politicized. sessions never seemed to fully get a handle on the permanent
doesn t that mean the policy is problematic? i m an economic professor, so nobody is going to out free trade me, i think tucker: shouldn t we rethink that, maybe? we should, we should alwaysdn re-examine. in this case, i think that in many of the circumstances where people are the most upset, it wasn t actually trade that led to the problem, but i might be wrong, we should re-examine. tucker: i m hardly an economist, so it is probably in my favor most of the time, but i can t prove that, either. here s what i know for certain, the measurements that we use, and certainly economic professors use to judge the health of an economy, don t begin to describe the experience of tens of millions of americans. so, like, if young people can t afford to get married or have kids, why does gdp why is that a meaningful measure of anything? look, you are preaching to the choir on that one. m