bureaucratic reboot. of course the workers haven t been paid. again, they could see checks maybe later this week and the clock ticking down toward a new deadline now just 18 days away. even the president less than optimistic telling the wall street journal he doubts lawmakers will reach a deal over new border wall funding that he will accept. he told the journal another shutdown is, quote, search certn option and he will build the wall anyway using emergency powers if necessary. earlier sunday mick mulvaney said the same. is the president really prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks? yeah, i think he actually is. keep in mind he is willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. but at the end the day, the president s commitment is to defend the nation and he will do it either with or without congress. president trump also dismissing the suggestion he offered democrats protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers in exchange for border wall funding. after a politi
support in this environment, right? wait, wait, wait, neil. strongest recovery for whom? workers haven t seen that recovery yet. do you look at the same data i look. last year i do i do, neil. would you give me a chance to explain. neil: i m not an apologist for any side. do you look at the records i do, across every major demographic group? i do. i do. you had one month of wage increase, one, one quarter. neil: you had two years of improving numbers, two years, not one month, two years of improving numbers. health care and always think you can save time by talking all over each other. that s richard trumka, i give him credit because he comes on fox and brings his point. and the issue is, whatever the union chiefs are saying about who they favor, you know, in an
seen, you find precious few republicans to support in this environment? wait, neil, strongest recovery for whom? workers haven t seen that recovery yet. neil: richard, you look at the same data i look at. do you look at record low unemployment rate. give me a chance to explain. neil: do you look at the same data i do? record low unemployment? i do. neil: you say no. i do. you had one month of wage increase, one. one quarter. neil: you had two years of improving numbers, richard. two years, not one, two years of improving numbers. healthcare out of pocket costs went up 5.9% last year. scheduled to go up for individual $1500 next year, neil. that is a lot of money for individuals. you can t pull out one statistic and neil: richard, i m not pulling out one statistic or
for the 1.1 million people who work there, could it be a model for the united states? let me ask you this, let s say they do that. the bottom line is, we are in a sub 5% employment world, right? for a lot of the good companies, it is hard to get workers. this now becomes a reason to do something for your workers. if they are getting less expensive health care, co-pays are lower, premiums are lower, costs for having them are lower, in theory, rather than pushing wages up, which we d like to do, you can say, work for jpmorgan chase, amazon, berkshire hath awah hathaway and you have a better life, better health care. more employers could provide better health care for better people. there is a reason a lot of people work on walmart and are on medicaid. a lot of part-time workers haven t had good health care. if you can expand the availability at low rates, it d be powerful. could this work for the president s messaging? we say the president wants to
gdp growth is growing up. that s not the time you give fat cats in wall street more money. rob: if millions of jobs come back to the united states, that s a bernie sanders-style idea in in and of itself? absolutely, if you re going to they want to give it back to rob: you want to see the guaranty on the paper. i would like to see workers get a raise, workers haven t had had a raise in 20 years. the reason why it isn t going to well is because of optimism has brought to the country in anticipation of this tax plan. rob: there s definitely economic optimism despite everything else. thank you for coming on this morning. jillian. jillian: u.s. and south korea kicking off largest exercise ever as nuclear threat with nuclear war with north korea emerges. starting today more than 230 fighter jets are taking part in