let s put that aside. she did well, but didn t do well enough and i think the fact. matter is, her message didn t get through because it was talking about, you know, e-mails and who donald was grabbing in elevators or whatever. and so, i think that the democrats do need to focus on issues and i think they need to focus and get the campaign on the issues. david: e-mack, one of the biggest issues during the obama administration, people were losing money. the median income rose at just 0.6%. that s less than inflation, which means they were losing money. yeah, and sticking also at 1997 levels and by the way, i think the 3 million popular votes were all in california. david: good point. and the rest of the country was saying, hey, wait a second, the democrats should have seen what was happening out in the country long before hillary clinton. state legislatures starting moving to the republican because they had the vision, the growth plan, the jobs planment voters were saying essentiall
and thought he might launch a trade war and now i see and when i look at his administration and how the goldman sachs wing is as important or maybe more important than the bannon wing. he s scoring points with the base and using this once again as negotiating leverage. the key to understanding trump is that he says stuff for negotiating leverage. david: well, there are points to be made here, e-mack. one is hiring americans. the h1b visas that go to highly trained foreign workers. 80% of the immigrants who have an h1b visa earned less than the median wage, are they hired because they re cheap labor, which is what trump doesn t want or they can t find american workers. studies suggest it s cheap labor. congressional hearings revealed that time and again. silicon valley is such a powerful lobbying block that they ve been allowed to get away with it.
if we re speaking honestly, we need to start with the chief culprit, iran and the partner mission, hezbollah. e-mack, nuclear terrorism is the biggest threat of all. nikki haley is impressive and spot on. recently iran has been writing on the missiles, death to israel, according to recent reports, destabilizing lebanon, yemen, syria and iraq. hezbollah is very active in putting basically weapons in mosques and hospitals, in order to do terrorist activity. let s be clear, so you don t want to have iran to have nuclear tipped missiles, period. they re destabilizing the region and when you see that, iran is likely behind it.
and even though they re biased and alternatives are out there, the fact of the matter is they re more shrill and having an influence because precisely they know long-term they re going out. david: john, are they having an influence, the media bias? there s always going to be the media bias, but let s be clear when you look back to when ronald reagan was president, three networks, pbs ap the new york times. now we have the internet, fox news, rush limbaugh and the way to get the right out. david: they don t call it the mainstream media for nothing, e-mack. they re as light as they re going on these town hall things, sort of supporting, in many cases, the people shouting out at the town halls against donald trump. it was the opposite with the tea party, there were all kinds of headline about the tea party was racist, how the tea party equals death of a nation, all kinds of stuff. yeah, i mean, it s what is going on in this country where the media is not doing their job.
and here is iran s response, in the most obnoxious kind of way, this is the foreign minister, saying that the iran deal obliges the united states to support successful implementation, including in public statements for eight years we had an administration who did that. they re not spending more money yet and, but what they re doing is exploring their leverage and acting the way the number one super power in the world should act and they re putting their leverage on this, so, you know, so far, they are to be applauded and putting north korea on notice, iran on notice and like e-mack, thank god for nikki haley. i don t know what they re doing right there, clemson and nikki