home. to business now and his confidence in the world s biggest economy waning monica suddenly investment is going down and that s an indicator sumi twenty seventeen wasn t a good year for the u.s. in terms of foreign direct investment the amount of money coming into america from overseas plunged thirty two percent compared to the previous year and that s a second consecutive year of decline in some international firms including foxconn and dima continue to invest but according to the o.e.c.d. many held back on investment decisions as they waited for trump s promised tax overhaul analysts say vestment will likely pick up again once all of those reforms have come into effect foreign direct investment world wide was down eighteen percent last year. the united states is demanding a reckoning over china s membership in the world trade organization the u.s. ambassador to the w t o did his share accuses china of seriously harming members of
about the national landscape in a year s time. these elections are always overinterpreted and more about swaying donald trump himself. you spend a lot of time studying voters and patterns. how much does one district matter, but should the democrat pull out an upset what would it mean psyche lodologically to th democratic party? i remember when i was doing house races and we won special elections and that wasn t a good year for democrats, but when we lost ted kennedy s seat in 2010, that had a real impact. i think it s hard to win in kansas. the white house is probably trying to prevent this from being close. this is about trying to keep forward momentum particularly because this administration hasn t been able to get anything done on the hill.
conditions. there seems to be a consensus among many republicans on the hill, also donald trump and his staff, about the issue of pre-existing conditions. i think that s one of the reasons why there are so many that are saying, look, there needs to be a replacing. but there are some parts of obamacare that we do need to keep in tact. that would be a prime example of where there would be a consensus or common ground here. look, i m one of those that buys on the exchange. this year was a year where i bought on the exchange but it wasn t a good year. there s only one plan available for not only me but my family and my new child. they got rid of every other plan because they were losing so much money last year. there was only one company that was even offering a plan for my child. it is a bronze plan. we ll be out $13,300 before insurance kicks in if any one of us gets kick. it is a high deductible plan and costs a lot of money every month. more than $1,000 for the family. there does need
everyone thinks if you can check this box somehow we ll get them. right? that s not how politics works. it s courting them every day. i think the mere fact that we didn t get all the conservative hispanics we could have gotten that s an outrage. laura: that s a turnout issue. are we communicating to them. since 2006 talked about the fact that republicans lost the house and the senate. laura: we lost 30 house seats in and six senate seats. wasn t a good year. i will agree with that we stopped communicating to spanish speaking media. that s one of the things that both governors bush understood well you have tone gauge these people every day. if the republican national committee doesn t have a surrogate on ever show whenever it is wanted to explain our conservative values. laura: go to the neighborhoods, have you written about. this go to the places where these voters are don t be afraid to enter into territory. don t treat it as enemy territory. treat it as reagan wood. future
president bush did make that point. everyone thinks if you can check this box somehow we ll get them. right? that s not how politics works. it s courting them every day. i think the mere fact that we didn t get all the conservative hispanics we could have gotten that s an outrage. laura: that s a turnout issue. are we communicating to them. since 2006 talked about the fact that republicans lost the house and the senate. laura: we lost 30 house seats in and six senate seats. wasn t a good year. i will agree with that we stopped communicating to spanish speaking media. that s one of the things that both governors bush understood well you have tone gauge these people every day. if the republican national committee doesn t have a surrogate on ever show whenever it is wanted to explain our conservative values. laura: go to the neighborhoods, have you written about. this go to the places where these voters are don t be afraid to enter into territory. don t treat it as enemy territo