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stuart: andy puzder is with us, former ceo of hardy's and carl's jr. did you hear in the background when the president said look what we've done and we couldn't have done it unless we reversed the failed policies of the past, the democrats were actually booing and stirring as if to say no, obama created this. take that to pieces, will you, please. >> look, you really have to be fooling yourself if you are going to try and credit obama for this. obama raised taxes, trump cuts them. obama increased regulations, trump reduces them. obama didn't want to focus on domestic energy production, trump did. so he reverses everything that obama does. the economy just soars to new heights. it wasn't just the things he said last night. just look at this morning, you've got the adp report that you talked about. the "wall street journal" just reported that for the first time in six years, the trade deficit went down last year. we had a gallop poll that said 59% of americans said they were better off this year than last year. that's a record. the last time, that last h