initially asked moving to 9:00 p.m. and what a great idea that was. changed everything how the show turned out. but now are back at five. i call this year the great disconnect. it is the difference between what people are feeling and how things are unfolding. you have people feeling emotional about everyday being so different some people think it s the end of the world, other think it s the greatest thing other for. meanwhile we divorce is feeling from action, it s a pretty good year, stock market is up, unemployment down, deregulation, isis is destroyed. good things happening. a solid year. a solid part of the year versus a chaotic emotional sense people are dealing with. no one has any idea what s going on.
this administration. is there any hope they will give up the resistance in the new year. joining to debate this, gop strategist jen kearns and liberal analyst kathy arrow. thanks for getting up early the day after christmas. the resistance, does it continue into the midterms? stronger than ever. what we saw with the women s march when he was first elected is nothing compared to 2018. this resistance movement is not going anywhere, people are not happy, democrats are not thrilled in the polls with trump. the movement will only be strong, it will be stronger than ever. if it is strongly will be talking in an echo chamber, we have records talk market, massive tax cut in american history, wages up, unemployment
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example, overnight by saying, we re not going to cut taxes for the ultra wealthy. we re not poupg to collapse into three personal income tax brackets and keep the top bracket of 36.9%. which no one pays, by the way. right. this also this idea that we need tax reform right now, i mean, you know, one day the president is tweeting how fantastic the economy is, the unemployment rate, gdp, and the next day it s like, we need the tax reform bill to inject life into this economy that is on life support. it doesn t seem to add up. that s why i think voters don t feel the urgency that the lawmakers and the president do. you have interest rates that are reasonable rates, you have unemployment down, stock market booming. companies sitting on record profits. exactly. and there s no guarantee they will return that to the worker if they get stimulation from this tax deal. so they really need to deliver. and so far, it just seems from
and 2010 and old guard conservative movement republicans. in that sense, that coalition that won the election in november of 2016 is unique and i hope it holds together and i think it can, but republicans are going to have to put they re going to have to put some accomplishments on the table. one thing that the president is continuing to point to is the economy. james carville famously said in bill clinton s time of 1992, it s the economy, stupid. here is what the president is tweeting about the economy, consumers confidence is at a 16-year high. much more regulations to come and working on tax reform. excellent jobs numbers released and i ve only just begun and movement back to usa, stock market at all-time high. unemployment down, i know, nationwide as it is in missouri. are we at a point where for a huge part of voters,a huge