don t like at all, but he carried through on that campaign promise. unemployment rate at 3.7%, not seen since 1969. what do you do, democrats, 29 days out, with those facts? well, poppy, look, the fact of the matter is, yeah, gdp might be doing good, but gdp means nothing to somebody in clarksdale, mississippi, or st. louis, missouri, who only know their wages haven t gone up. i understand the president has lots of great things to tout, i ll tell you, the republicans in the states haven t been running on those, and don t know if they re going to start tomorrow. what folks have been running on in their early primaries was the tax bill that they ended up running away from, so i m not concerned, poppy. i know there might be a balloon and maybe a little bit of enthusiasm for republicans, but democratic voters and progressive voters, i believe, are laser focuses and they re focused on the fact if we want change, we have to turn out in november. there s a new washington post poll out t
i don t know what these people are trying to do other than trying to establish relevance for themselves as economic growth makes them increasingly irrelevant. neil: i d flip it around. higher wages are around $15. that s more than the average. it was supposed to be so deleterious to the economy. it hasn t, right? we re full employment plus. record low unemployment levels for kids, for minorities, all sorts. women. so maybe the higher minimum wage thing to his point isn t nearly as damaging. what do you think? these 11 and $12 wages are being driven by economic growth. they re not the states haven t taken minimum wages up to that level. on the way here, i saw a $11 an hour sign. i m in tennessee. the minimum wage is $7.25. the minimum wage increase is
one charged with creating peace in the middle east. that s right, and now we are hearing that the palestinian leader hasn t sat down with the americans in six months. so there s no conversation with half of the process here. which makes experts i ve talked to we re further away from a peace deal we ve ever been. jared kushner and his small team that are there with him, the middle east envoy, say they re going to unveil the peace plans soon. there s no time line. they smartly never released a time line because they would have been definitely behind. i haven t heard that anyone s even particularly waiting with bated breath for this because they think it will essentially be something that s dictated by netanyahu and the israeli government, how can it really be anything but dead on arrival if the palestinians aren t even speaking to the americans right now. all right, we re going to keep an eye on this and when
unilateral steps. nobody else has bought into it. it s not just that the palestinians have not bought into this, the jordanians haven t. theate rab states haven t bought into this. the united states are ambiguous about how they feel about the palestinians. the palestinians don t have a lot of support there right now. but at the same time, no arab state is willing to accept jerusalem as a capital. it s not just the israelis and the palestinians involved. ambassador, talk about the violence in gaza. and do you think it could have a ripple effect elsewhere? i ask because for those americans who say gaza, palestinians, not my problem, i m just trying to get health care, get my kids into good schools and have a good life. for americans who have that perspective, why should the violence in gaza matter to them? to be sure, over the years, there s been a tendency to associate the palestinian cause as something the rest of the arab world was utterly seized
again until we see this happening to do something about it. 2016 was the wake-up call. the other day you told cynthia mcfadden that states haven t done enough to protect themselves and jeanette manfra disagrees. i want your response. that could be a glass is half full and glass is half empty way of looking at things. as i said, there was an excellent report by the senate for american progress that was just authored that a a comprehensive 50 state evaluation that graded each state and shows there is a lot of work to do. i m pleased that a number of states are getting their message, doing things but not enough is being done. let s talk about the pdb. in today s news, the presidential daily briefing. good d did you get if and sit in while you were dhs secretary. every morning when i got to work at 6:30 my intelligence book is sitting there on my desk and the first thing that i went