pick. somebody like anthony kennedy. joining me now, misha, a law clerk for justice kennedy. currently the wisconsin solicitor general. respond to my commentary. i m, of course, taking issue with the timing of the justice s departure. thank you so much for having me on. i think i would disagree with your characterization, obviously, justice kennedy served for quite a long time. one of the longest serving justices in this country and he well earned his retirement. with regard to the kind of replacement that president trump is likely to name for justice kennedy, we really only have one data point. and that s justice gorsuch who is a former justice kennedy clerk. in his first full term of the clerk which just passed, justice gorsuch voted aligned with justice kennedy 86% of the time which is among the highest agreement rate on the court. so i think these kind of moderate versus not moderate
respond with me. give me a taste of what s coming in. how is losing your job going to be good for the american worker because that is the result of trump s trade policy. look at harley and soon gm. you want to respond to that gentleman? it s counterfactual. you just look at the data. the lowest unemployment rates we ve had for a very long time. there s been seven quarters, michael, where the unemployment rate has been below 4% since the 1970s. guess what? the last two quarters were below 4%. lowest unemployment rates for blacks and hispanics in history. and part of that is because of the trade policy. what we ve had is just a flood of foreign goods, effectively dumping of cheap slave labor onto global markets. the president says that s not the way free trade is supposed to be. this president is getting the job done. the trade policy is resulting in more investment in this country.
going to answer to anybody except god and the presiding judge. if you don t like it, you know what to do. if you kill somebody and you know even if you had to do it, to have that callousness and to put that out and just that you can kind of antagonize people like that after you have taken a child s life, it s a situation you find yourself in. rather than antagonize, i decided to be an author. i laughed and it was thought-provoking at the same time. it s rare do that. congrats. thank you, man. appreciate it. last chance to vote before we give away the results of today s poll question. even when posed, is president trump s trade policy in the best interest of american voters. go vote right now. show me the carfax?
smerconish.com. vote this hour. even when opposed by american multinational corporations, is president trump s trade policy in the best interest of american workers? joining me is peter navarro, an assist a assistant to the president. director of trade and policy. the director of the white house national trade council. he just wrote this piece in the philadelphia inquirer. buying american can help keep the philly shipyard afloat. we ll begin with the good news. talk about this container ship that you ll christen in philadelphia today. it s going to be a great day in philly. one of my favorite cities. go eagles. 850-foot ship. largest container ship ever built in this country. this is good news for our ship building industry. we lost about half the amount of people that work in that industry in this industry which pays wages at $70,000 a year. this ship is being built under
production offshore rather than build here. and i think president trump felt betrayed legitimately about that because we ve been so much for that company, including the tax bill. the tax bill is a tremendous boon for corporations, in a good way for american workers because what it does is it stimulates investment here and production here and it s unfortunate that companies like gm and harley are playing into the hands of the foreigners who basically exploit us. and the bigger picture here is that we re as president trump has said, we re the world s piggy bank. we ship off about a half a trillion dollars every year, michael, in the form of a trade deficit. and that s what we do is we transfer our wealth, jobs and factories abroad. and at the same time, and this is no coincidence, we have some of the lowest tariffs and lowest nontariff barriers in the world. and all the president really wants is free, fair reciprocal and balanced trade. so here i guess