economy in sort of a tax on american consumers. here is steven mnuchin on fox news sunday with the administration s view of the economy. take a listen we ll see if you agree with any of it. the single biggest thing that everybody is talking about here in france is the u.s. economy. it s the bright spot of the world. we have growth. people are now talking about doing tax cuts and cutting regulations in europe, so people are looking at the trump economic policies and wanting to replicate them because that s the reason we have all of this growth. leland: anything from steven mnuchin you agree with? you know, i hope he s right. i hope he s right, but that s not the view from the u.s. congress. we are looking at all kinds of forecasts that are telling us that we may be facing a recession next year, and you know, the business cycle is hard to control but the trade war is a self-inflicted wound. this is something we ve done to ourselves and i ve got to tell you, the last few days, there a
how do you tell americans specifically new jersey that they aren t better off now than they were when president trump came into office? simply talking at a recession might be coming, not how their pocket books are today. well, the economy has been growing for new jersey and the country since about 2011 there s no question about that. if you ask, my constituents in new jersey they felt they took a huge hit from the 2017 tax law, because we lost the state and local tax deduction. if you own a home in my district you took a very big hit, and look, i hope it doesn t happen. i m not here to say that there s going to be a recession. i m not cheering for it. i m trying to make sure we take it. leland: can you understand though when there is big growth going on, is that democrats always are talking about recession recession recession, people could sort of think that democrats are kind of wishing that it was coming? we re not wishing that it s coming. i m just telling you what the economist
fair point. no! leland: then i want to move on in terms of policy on this where biden is by far and away the leader both nationally and in new hampshire and in iowa, but he s critically lacking in support from millennials. new polling out about democratic primary preferences by age, biden trails warren and sanders with millennials by double-digit s. millennials was a huge part of the obama/biden coalition, then why don t millennials like him? well again we re going to have to give this campaign time. warren has a lot of excitement but in a binary choice against donald trump, joe biden will get excitement within the millennial base. also, it s a group over the ages of 50 really support joe biden, that group of people come out to vote roughly 65% come out to vote not the millennials don t matter but only about 33% come out to vote so quite honestly
this president alone has stood up and protected americans interest whether it s on trade, on immigration, or foreign policy, he s ended decades of debacles to put the interest of u.s. citizens first and we should all celebrate that. reporter: steven miller always good to talk to you. thank you. reporter: gillian? john another great interview. leland? leland: we bring in freshman congressman member of the house foreign affairs committee good to see you, sir. we appreciate it. you just listened to steven miller there with john roberts anything with mr. miller on which you agree? that s hard to find. you know, i did agree with president trump that we needed to take on china, but we need to , if we re going to go to war against china we need to go to war with our allies, not by ourselves and you know mr. miller just said we need to celebrate this. i m not celebrating the fact that the average american has just gotten a $1,000 tax
leland: he pushes everybody to the right. exactly so in this case there is always a never-trump constituency. it s diminished but it hasn t gone away and i think they re looking for someone to go behind whether it s going up to new hampshire, whether it s joe walsh but the justification for his campaign that he had some positive feedback on the internet, i mean, honestly if i wore a squirrel puppet on my nose, i could get some positive feedback on the internet. leland: this time you re on our show we d like you to try that and see how much positive feedback there is. i think your wife might have a thing or two to say, but people are talking about whether the media loves the challenge from either side. the last three times an incumbent republican president was challenged by a primary challenger from their own party this is what happened. reagan challenges ford, ford loses. kennedy challenges carter, carter loses, buchanan challenge s h. w. bush and h. w.