basic quality of life issues, whether that s being able to send your kid to a school that s open, being able to walk down the street and feel safe, in both cases, the efforts attract a lot of big money, you see a lot of real estate and tech folks, for example, pouring money in, and that in particular with the district attorney recall has created some skepticism on the left about, okay, who s really behind this. but i do think there are some voters even liberal voters who generally vote democratic who are evincing some frustration here. well, it s a pretty expensive city to live in, so if you re going to pay that much to live the, i imagine you want to feel safe and like you said a good school to send your kid to. jeremy white from political playbook, thanks a lot. appreciate your perspective. thanks for having me on. still to come, america s civic virus. what over a dozen focus groups reveal about the fragile state
there is not a lot of savvy sort of tech folks in the senate or in the house. but the other is that tech companies can screen out content. i think google took down terrorist instruction manuals. i believe multiple platforms have taken down they have a screen for child pornography. they know exactly how do remove offensive content. i don t think this is a tech problem. i think this is a problem of will. i think because it was one of the two political parties in this country associated with domestic violence extremism that they stood back. i wonder if you think that s changed now that you have christopher wright testifying almost a year straight that right wing domestic violence extremism is the singest greatest threat to this country. do you think that calculation shifts. i do know, as bad as all this sounds, to reference something that claire said earlier, it could be a whole lot worse if someone else were to come in behind facebook.
openings. what about the sectors? business information kinds of jobs, office jobs, lawyers, accountants, tech folks. 573,000 net new jobs there. for years health care has been growing so strongly. manufacturing down a little bit and that bears watching because this has been a decent year so far for manufacturing jobs. and that s been a big focus of the president. what i find interesting, fascinating, and con pounding though is why the president s approval rating overall and even his approval rating on the economy is not better. on the economy it s not tracking in line with where bill clinton, despite scandals was on the economy p when the economy was doing so well. even as the president talks about it all the time and we talk about how well the economy is doing. it could be because wages are not going gang gusters. we see 2.9% annual wage
culture comes down on you. those stock options you might have earned goes out the door. ed: have all these folks on the left attack the president. root out leakers this is totalitarian. a lot of these tech folks out in california and elsewhere have been a lot more ruthless. facebook and apple as i understand. they have been ruthless about leaks. you know, they are incredibly ruthless because the fact of the matter is inside of the culture they share an extraordinary amount of information with each other. for whatever reach it doesn t get out there. that s because you really get in a lot of trouble and that whole saying that they have in hollywood is even worse in silicon valley, which is you will never work in this town again. boy, you take out a secret or you leak anything of technology at a silicon valley and can you kit your job there goodbye. ed: what s the prime example? you know what? 16,000 employees tune in to him every friday.
is there any benefit in having maybe other people work with us from other countries so we can control did we lose what we thought we lost with the internet? it is christmastime. people give gifts in christmastime. you said we gave the world the internet. sometimes you get more by giving than receiving. i think that is absolutely true. i don t mean to make a christmas parallel but it is true. we added so much to our own economy and enterprises as a result of that gift we gave the world of the internet i think there is much more that brings these tech folks together with trump than divides them. sandra: can i i interject this number, you probably saw this as well, meghan, national foundation for american policy put out statistics on immigrants involvement in startup process. immigrants founded more than half of the current crop of u.s.-based startups valued at over a billion dollars. so this is really important conversations they re having. i would remind you, remember on the campaig