be wrong at the end of the day. the two sides position are entractable. i think we are awhile from a deal. republicans are for companies actually paying zero and really wealthy people doing everything possible to stir taxes. i want to be sure to understood that. we have not talked about voting rights. manchin says he ll not vote for the big reform because it is too broad and partisan. where does it leave things? we are watching these ridiculous nonsense audits happening in arizona and being threaten in other states. it means the s1 bill for the people is probably dead. even it were to get a
modest for this summit. this is a very difficult problem set, an entractable foreign policy problem that s been going on for 70 years. i would like to see progress on road maps or maybe working groups set up. i d be happy with that as well as jon roberts mentioned, the president s keeping his cards close to his chest on this issue. including relationship building, which the president feels is key to his foreign policy dealing with kim jong-un. neil: obviously it s not by accident that they re meeting in hanoi and vietnam. the closeness of the crucial issue to the north korean leader who can t travel very far, so the president is making the ten-hour trip. vietnam has become an economic juggernaut in that region. there s favorable views that the vietnam citizens have of the united states. does he hope magic strikes twice
growth rate, is probably a much too optimistic. i think the underlying trend right now, that s really important to try to pull it out is about 2.5%. that s a good steady gdp growth rate. i don t think there s anything in the report to lead you to worry about getting overheating that the fed would have to react to. i do think the one problem and you talked about it i disagreed with this part of kevin s wrap was the wage part. i don t think you re going to make the real wage stagnation go away by kind of looking at the workers who are entering the work force and different qualities. yeah. this is fundamentally, all of this economic mem dough jumbo you and i enjoy, what it comes down to and what i m going to get tweets about is i haven t had the raise. i m working two jobs. it s a weird situation to be in where we have 4% unemployment, 4 in front of gdp growth, and yet we ve got the entractable problem of workers who are not
we had good fun. we have good fun. cheers. i always find columbia encouraging. they face problems more extreme and seemingly more entractable than many of us can imagine. and yet every time i come here, it gets better. don t get me wrong. problems, serious problems remain. it is particularly heart breaking in a country so beautiful, so generous, so proud, so eager to love and be loved back. i come back to my own country from columbia and think if they can fix that and make things better, surely there is nothing
as far as i m concerned, racism is the most entractable issue in the country. the numbers of black folk in poverty are off the charts, under employment, unemployment for african-americans, numbers ridiculously high. poverty is threatening our democracy. it is a matter of national security. how to avoid talking about poverty and focus our attention on the the middle class misses the point them new poor are the former middle class and with regard to racism, as i said, we live in the most multiculture, multiethnic country but racism in this country is still real. i thought watching the president today that when he finishes this speech he is going to the white house and he has to make a decision about syria. i ask myself are we egoing to honor dr. king today in washington with our words and then dishonor him tomorrow or the days to come in syria with