after andy puzder was deemed too controversial to get it. before long the trump administration would also have to see off the staff secretary in the white house who worked every day in the oval office in the immediate company of the president, seeing every piece of paper that crossed the president's desk no matter its classification level. all of this despite the fact that his own application for a permanent security clearance just couldn't seem to get through. turns out rob porter wasn't getting his security clearance because the fbi was getting stuck on the serious allegations of physical abuse that had been made against him by not one but both of his ex-wives. two days after rob porter had to leave the white house over those serious domestic abuse claims, a trump white house speech writer was also forced out after his ex-wife also explained to "the washington post" that she too had spoken to the fbi about her contention that she was subject to violent abuse by her husband during their recent marriage including her fearing for her life at

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and talk about radically transforming the american economy and she has a plan for that andy puzder comingxt. >> they are ready for change and i have a plan for that how about a wealth tax on the top one tenth of 1%? [cheers] >> make them pay two cents. they can afford it. without talking to your doctor. help heal your skin from within. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. and i don't add help heatrup the years.s.within. but what i do count on... is boost® delicious boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. boost® high protein. be up for life. ♪ applebee's new loaded chicken fajitas. now only $10.99. ♪ >> martha: okay, this breaking just moments ago here is the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler on his plans to have robert mueller come back and testify this summer before congress. watch. >> well, we are counting on conversations with him and he will come in and if we have to subpoena him we. >> will that be say by the end of the summer if he doesn't come in. >> oh, i would think it would be way before th

, not just not bad news for the trump administration, my next guest says well, what does he say andy puzderw do you read last week's report? >> the economy created 75,000 jobs people were expecting more but you have to keep in mind the unemployment rates already at 50-year low 3.6% how many people are there out there who we actually can bring into employment? there were under six million people unemployed last two months, last time there were that few people unemployed was 1999. 50 million fewer in the population a o you are running out of the ability to employ massive numbers of people there around the that many people the interesting number is how many job openings there are like how many jobs are businesses actually creating that they just are not able to fill because they can't find employees in march that number was 7.5 million, the number for april comes out in about an hour comes out 10:00 today, it will be very interesting to see that, see whether or not in fact businesses are continuing to create jobs, but unable to find employees happens to be what is driving up wages, by the way,

andy puzder joins us. good to see you. >> i might contribute money to elizabeth warren's campaign.ee her be the nominee. neil: as long as i have known you, way back, what's going on here is real. you could argue whether it's fair and whether the gap between the rich and poor, which has always been around, is something that, you know, is still a travesty we got to address, fine, but you were actually saying in the last couple of years when it comes to wage growth, that gap is in fact narrowing, right? >> absolutely. if you listen, warren and these democrats are responding to a question that said 71% of americans think the economy's good. then she comes back, warren comes back and says it's a thinner and thinner slice. it's 71%. it's almost three-quarters. but wages are up, everybody has talked about it. for nine months they have been up 3% or more but if you look -- neil: you know they were saying it was all in the rich's hands. >> which is absolutely false. if you just look at workers for last month it was up 3.4%. if you just look at retail workers, take managers out of it, it's b

dagen: i will point out editorial that andy puzder wrote in the journal we've talked over and other againsupervisors that gives broad consumer base a lot of -- as my father would say walking around money. >> exactly. >> the consumers that are more apt to spend money so you will see it come through in retail sales numbers i could pose a question to both of you who are the winners because we are -- kind of talked about you are seeing high end lululemon doing really well also the discount retailers doing pretty well, also, so is it just those on high end getting into the online space are being successful? and then everyone else is going to the low end retailers or who is the winner night is an interesting you bifurcation, extreme value the other bifurcation the retailers that have best socially retail programs, solar specifically amazon all walmart, target, costco ikea taking the money making and saving from solar rolling into lower prices so tariffs are de minimis, and the retailers winning with solar best price best value, to socially click survey seeing over 20% of consumers switching to