factory closing down, manufacturing jobs going overseas, those jobs aren t coming back. i don t care what anybody says, donald trump. we re endering a new economy. it s a green economy, a tech economy and we have to make sure that the workers who may not have masters degrees or even b.a.s can actually work in the new economy. so we have to be able to provide a way forward for them, and show very specific, concrete ways in which they can participate in the new economy. you think the democratic party did let these folks down? that s been a fair knock? i mean, i had just a republican senator on earlier going, hey, i m here trying to tlaept forgotten man. you think archie bunker was forgotten? i think he and democrats, the working class is not just republican white people. the working class is a very broad swath of our population, and they have been let down.
excoal miners begin to realize that despite the rhetoric, despite donald trump s position as someone supporting the voiceless and the powerless, that those jobs aren t coming back, can you look at a number of different communities of people who have been made promises and those promises are not going to be kept. i think we are certainly at an interesting moment in that debate. certainly, casey, can you go back to 2004 and there have been some people in new york and washington asking what s the matter with kansas? because people in kansas seem to vote against their economic interests, but, perhaps it s good they feel the leaders in certain parties condescend. i think we saw an evolution as kind of this allture divide, it has been on the program all morning, jeffrey, i want to ask you as well. your magazine raises the sort of existential question about whether or not donald trump is damaging the presidency to a degree that it will never
the trump administration is touting what they are calling trump s latest win over the weekend. the last jobs report, employers add 1d million jobs in the first six months of office, but how does it compare to president obama s performance? remember, jobs aren t created out of thin air. not like there were no jobs going to be created. they were all expected. and trump s first six months in office essentially match the jobs number of obama s last six months in ufoffice, both with jt over 1 million jobs&ed. in fact, trump has added fewer jobs than obama had compared to the same time period last year when obama touted 1.2 million jobs added. i want to unpack all of this with my dear friend, brendan greeley. i want to unpack all of this but i want to start on the twitter front. over the weekend, ivanka trump tweeting since donald trump inauguration, over 1 million new jobs have been created in the
t part is because of automation. the jobs aren t coming back ablgd the administration hasn t addressed this and that s not going away. it s going to continue. see it continues. live and die by the sword. go to vegas on them every month. look at wage growth. same time last year waging had d gone down during the obama, and six months of trump. weekly earnings in the united states gone up $5. a good sign for any president. if people feel it in their pocketbook not worries about the number of coal jobs. personal situation is better, you get happy. that should help a president. sure. we can have a pretty long debate how much credit does the president actually deserve for the numbers we saw this morning? do an industry analysis. bottom line that 4.3 number is a number most people can wrap their heads around and we talk so much about the president not able to stay on message. he s easily distracted.
numbers which seem so positive for president trump, he s still under 40%. so if jobs aren t making him more popular, what is this president going to be able to do? because he s still under water. can t argue business sentiment is up, big business, small business. it is a positive. do you know what sentiment is? it s a feeling. feelings change. we ll take a break. 15 minutes away from the opening bell. will the market live up to the president s hype this morning? itis good one if you own stocks. but up next, much more on what a grand jury actually means legally. does it make an indictment more likely? well, it definitely makes things more uncomfortable. before we go, the white house still reeling. are they from leaked transcripts of president trump s conversations with foreign leaders in conversation with the president of mexico, trump called new hampshire a drug-infested den. stephen colbert decided to give trump some fatherly advice. donald, you te re the presid of the united stat