up a lot. i don t know when your salary gets changed, a lot of people it is january. and then maybe they won t be quite so unhappy because the wages will have caught up to prices. people don t have a lot of money left for food at the grocery store. on the claims data, there is a sense in which it is a negative sign because the firms are having such a hard time finding new workers, they have completely stopped letting goes of guys that maybe aren t performing. claims are about the lowest on record. economists talk about when you don t get many hires, you don t get many separations and the whole economy is congealing because firms can cas can t fin workers. moody s says a lot of this concern that the build back better plan is passed, it is
architect of killing osama bin laden. these are the generals of our era and the president sat war with them as you pointed out in the begin there wasn t a group of people that he more warmly embraced two years ago when he came into office. the president has raised some broader concerns shared by many in the american public about the duration of the u.s. in the conflict, 17 years in afghanistan. do leaders on the ground and the military need to be held more accountable for the setbacks there? of course they do. you there s a simp wale way for accountability and that s to bring somebody else in. and president trump in that free wheeling discussion at the white house just a couple of days ago said that mattis hadn t delivered in afghanistan. now, i think, you no, i, you could debate whether that s true or not but the point is that the president is the commander and chief, can he get rid of generals he thinks aren t performing. and there s a long and honorable
wrecking ball to our economy and to our future. bill: that from chattanooga, tennessee over the weekend. warning voters that democrats will destroy the recovery if they win control of the congress. newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. great to have you back with us. two weeks ago you predicted the republicans would maintain control of the majority in the house. two weeks later do you still feel that way? well, i think the range is between a republican majority about 229 and actually a democratic majority of 225. so i think there is a real range there. i do think that the president and the issues have broken for the republicans mostly. and i think as you go from the east across to california, the places the democrats need to perform they aren t performing as well as they need to, i
right, you hear all this talk about the cradle-to-prison pipeline, right? right. if you have the opportunity to break it, why wouldn t you say, we re going to do everything, we re going to experiment, we re going to have charter schools, magnet schools? gay marriage and pot legalization, but not school choice, because it s power. why is it? the teachers union. you offer school choice, you offer charter schools, you point the finger at schools and teachers and administrations that aren t performing and the union doesn t like that they want all of them to make sure they get paid the right level. well they say that most kids of course aren t in charter schools, and you don t want to relegate the rest of the kids to some dump that you say we don t care about. but that s not the issue and believe me, if you can save some children, save them now. ten years from now, that kid is maybe beyond saving. that s what the ad says, he
education says it takes approximately 830 days or two years and three months to get through the process of firing a bad teacher. how can that be possible? well, first of all we have to acknowledge this. putting teachers last does not mean we re putting teachers first. when we look at the process that s in new york it s to protect those that are on the front line educating our children every day. tenure and the process that they have to go through only means a teacher and due process and can t be fired because of political or other reasons. are there not bad teachers who should be fired? i mean, is that what you re saying? there are evaluation processes, there are ways to remove teachers that aren t performing. before any teachers are given tenure there s a three year period where they are evaluated and trained to see how effective they are as teachers. if that three years isn t enough it can be extended even further before they are given the tenure. we have a huge education