other questions from director eakin? >> just a couple, really quick. >> do you read or continued the house use in housing, supporting tod to include the sort of sb50 conversation around increasing density around transit as contempcontemplated? >> for sure. and we have last year looked at that in the context of that bill in particular and i would say that in general, we work really following the lead of city planning and we lack forwar looo any opportunity we can to bring our voice to that conversation. >> great. best of luck to you on the task force. we look forward to big news in january. >> awesome. >> and just two small things. one was, there's a better market street item in here referring to engineering items in 2018 and i wondewonder if this is dated anf there is any work around better market street that your team will engage in if this needs updating in the legislative program. and the other pieces around the congestion charge item. this is a very small detail, but there's language in here about how we're going to

ed: douglas holtz-eakin optimistic view where we are. as we head into 2020 have a happy new year. >> happy new year. ed: meantime, 2020 democratic hopefuls are out on the campaign trail. several holding campaign events in iowa. joe biden finds himself in a bit of a dust-up after backtracking on earlier position that he would not comply with a congressional subpoena in potential senate impeachment trial. ellison barber is in new hampshire where biden will be campaigning in a few hours. good afternoon, ellison. reporter: controversial statement a walk-back, complete reversal. former vice president joe biden says he would comply with a subpoena if the senate were to issue one but he continues to say there is no legal basis for calling him as a witness. listen hear. >> i would obey any subpoena that was, was sent to me but the point i was making relates to me is the only rational reason, and you know this with the papers you have written i could be possibly called at impeachment trial, can i shed any light whether or not he committed the cri

douglas holtz eakin coming on the sew later in the week, we're not sure if we won the trade war, we'llind outthat later. ever separation from china is good idea, that is step step backward, it would divide the world in two spheres. was that the goal of administration do less trade with china or buy more of our goods and have a more trade system. administration, create jobs, increase standard of living for americans. if all the jobs were sucked in the communist people's republic of china, hollowing out our industrial base, hollowing out middle america that is not making america great. if china wants two systems, a totalitarian surveillance state, if they want to repress their people, we don't want any part of that. charles: otherwise we do want to access that 1.3 billion population? >> of course. but they have been conditioning that on us giving them our technology, giving them our factories. that's not good. charles: unfortunately too many american businesses have been willing to do that. faustian deal. i'm still not sure why. curtis, thank you very much. always appreciate it. >>> trad

here is douglas holtz-eakin, american action forum president and former cbo director.s by the hour, the minute, whatever, the last we heard looking better from mexico's point of view. i guess they're coming around but you never know. what is your impression how this has been handled, whether this is improvement, this so-called new nafta? >> well, i think it is imperative we get a deal. certainly, the president has expressed his displeasure with nafta. this is way better than nothing. it is par for the course in international negotiations to get down to the end and you know, there is one more sticking point. this on the ability of u.s. inspectors to go into the labor conditions in mexico. they have the opportunity if they want to pass legislation of mexico, that would have reciprocal ability to come into the u.s. we'll see how they negotiate that out. connell: maybe that is how they work it out. edward lawrence was talking about it earlier in the hour. they're not calling them inspectors. just attaches. who knows. the idea to your point, maybe this is true about china t

he is-holtz-eakin he is not confident a fix comes in the next decade. how are you? >> i'm doing okay. how are you? blake: here is the thing. markets economy doing well across the board but if you talk about that thing called debt that you might as well close your eyes. >> i'm worried about the thing called debt. that is the big risk to the long-term outlook of united states. we have 23 trillion-dollar debt, rising every year. trillion dollar deficits. rising as share of gdp this is fundamentally unstablable. we have projection in the federal budget, revenue and spending diverges as far as eye can see. it has to be dealt with. the only question when. we see no appetite to deal with it. blake: no appetite from democrats when there was a democrat in the white house for the last decade for seven of the last 10 years. certainly no appetite from republicans over the last three years. essentially when they controlled the house, senate and white house as well. the blame goes all around, does it not? >> the blame does go all around and my biggest concern is that americans i

douglasholmes eakin, and oksan aranof of course our guest host is jason trennert doug, can you hear met's talk a little bit about what you're anticipating, what the most important numbers are people say the fed is not watching as closely. obviously it does matter for the economy. >> sure. i think we'll see about 150,000 jobs but that's largely the bounce back from gm. about 1/3 of that. increasingly i think that's the number we should pay the least attention to the numbers i'm looking forward to are the wage growth numbers we have 5, 6 cents an hour the labor force participation. those are the indicators of is there going to be continued in flows that permits slack in the labor market or is it going to really tighten >> oksana, this time around we're thinking that the economy has dodged this recession. however, the jobs picture is so important because it affects the consumer directly. that's been what's holding up the economy at this point. what's a good number what's a bad number? >> 180 something, which is what the consensus is expected right now, that's going to be a really hard thr