illegals in this country whose there no fault of their own are stuck in a twilight zone in this country. demands here that it would call for 500 judges to be put to the border to adjudicate some of these cases. democrats are saying that isn t the problem, just recognizing some of the other immigration issues is. to the former acting ice direct or the, tom holman trying to make sense of this. you know, i m looking at this, to make the president s deadline of a couple weeks to delay deportations, that could prove problematic. what do you think brings them together? i don t think that democrats are going to bring a solution to the table that is acceptable. i heard the democratic congress spoke about the deplorable conditions in the facility but he should have finished that saying the democrats are responsible for this surge of unaccompanied children coming to the country because we have refused to close the loop holes we ve been asking for 1 1/2
every white american, republican or democrat who feels guilty should need to pony up also. bill: react to that. going back to what i said before i think the democratic party here isn t the problem. the democratic party believes diversity is our greatest strength and we must have these important conversations about race in our party. but you have a republican party who is not doing that and i think that is extremely troubling and donald trump is up for reelection. voters should be asking him these questions. bill: owens was offended by it because he thought it was another form of welfare. i think we should be having these conversations within our party. we have a debate next week where a lot of these questions will be asked of our candidates right now and i think that there are some serious issues that are being raised not only in this hearing but around the country and those should happen on the debate stage. bill: bill: as a party would you
happening in terms of the hallowing out of middle schoolworkers. this debate is primarily on the democratic side. i was in iowa this weekend. you have a lot of democratic presidential candidates talking about this. republicans tend to argue that inequality itself isn t the problem, it s stagnation. so they say let s have more growth, and if we have more growth, that will solve the problem. it isn t really about how much one group makes versus another. but the question is, if people get so discouraged by those gaps in wages and wealth, they may drop out of the labor force and hurt the overall economy. and are republicans, i.e., is the president solving it with growth? the income inequality divide led to the rise of president trump. he s the one who said, the system is broken, i m going to fix it. right. and we haven t seen any evidence of a long-term shift. there has been some increase in wages over the last couple of years. that has tempered a little bit lately in the last couple o
creates for hard work and risk-taking helps make america s economy dynamic. but it also imposes costs. you need some inequality. the problem is when that dynamism at a point in time gives rise to dine nasticism such that the next generation doesn t get equal footing. cnbc s editor at large john harwood joins us now. great story you re telling there. and it sort of underscores why so many people here in america or the people who voted for brexit are kind of mad, right? they see all of these remarkable benefits to this global trade that s going on all over the world. they see gdp growth, higher corporate profitability and share prices higher. but middle income workers and low-income workers don t see the gains to them. they don t feel they re sharing in this. exactly. and that s why this nationalist populism is on the rise around the world, because a lot of this is associated with cross border trade and immigration, as well. and so you get the national element alongside with what
who are time a but tell me why this isn t a disas trer political approach for the pro-life music. a lot of these this what a lot of pro-lifers like me have understood is that the incremental approach has no pro to the supreme court where but isn t the problem, david, that incremental approach has worked extraordinarily well for