years, the average american worker really hasn t even had a wage increase in real terms. you look at today, only half of 30-year-olds are doing better than their parents were at age 30. back when i was being raised, it was 90%. 44% of americans don t have 400 bucks in case an emergency happens. so the guy that cleans this very building paid more in taxes last year than amazon did with $10 billion in profit. so, yeah, the economy is booming for a whole lot of folks. but for a whole lot of folks, they re not getti ting a lot ber because of what the trump tax cuts and what president trump has done. i want to get your take on one of the biggest stories of the last week. alabama passed the most restrictive abortion law in a generation with a goal of reversing roe v. wade. i know you don t support the law, but it has reignited this debate over abortion and abortion rights in this country. i wanted to ask you, just more philosophically, some lawmakers believe life begins at conception, othe
a deal for protections for dreamers. you talk to republicans and democrats on the hill, they kind of shake their heads when you can about even a simple compromise like that. do you see any room realistically for a compromise in the next week and a half or so before the next deadline? i think it would be in donald trump s best tropical storm fin to be the negotiator he always said he is. one of the things we look at in this polling, it isn t just donald trump s popularity, washington is unpopular. voters are unhappy that washington is. getti isn t getting things done. we learned that the president now spends 60% of his time in executive time, unstructured time making phone calls, apparently watching tv, sending
when i was in the fbi, this was still an active investigation. the fbi worked very hard on getti getting al badawi to court. they had an indictment on him. unfortunately when it s an overseas suspect, there s a lot of politics that come into play and things that are too high a hurdle to overcome. what does this say about the way our intelligence works now versus the way it did before 9/11? this is as we foe onknow once y sniff around what he s doing, you could have clues to 9/11 coming? this is a great example of how well the intelligence community are working together. the fbi has sources all over the world, cia, ncis, everybody has sources all over the world and they re working together, they re pulling that information and they re sharing that information. and they re able to give actionable intelligence to somebody like the military who s able to do something with that. what s your sense of where we stand with groups like this,
anything. we re so focussed an caught up on the spins and reading of the tea leaves. the way the criminal justice system is supposed to work, federal practice, you can tella prosecutor to put up or shut up. you meet behind closed doors. this is not how we behave because we re not acting in our client s best interest. we may be acting in our own of getti getting face time and everybody knowing our name. clients want this done quietly, calmly, coolly. if the government calls my bluff, it s not bad for me. it s bad for my client. to that point, one of mr. rudy giuliani s constant complaints is mueller has not shown us evidence of collusion. would that be how it normally works? would you publicly reveal evidence that you have against a
started going up before trump became president when he was elected. they were building in what they thought he would do. the effect of that dropped off. things change. whenever the president starts getti getting trying to get the fed do what he wants, you will see problems. that happened with nixon in the 1970s. buy gold while you can. most economies believe there are cycles to the economy. we are due for a recession. the president is making things far worse by threatening to do something no president has done to fire the fed chief because he doesn t like the decision he made. he want the chairman of the federal reserve to be independent of the president. the temptation is too great for