does favor republicans according to history. presidential approval is the north star of mid-term elections, and president biden begins the year under water. you see it right there, the latest cnn polling average. 45% of americans approve of the president's job performance. 51% disapprove. the panel is back with us to discuss. arabia, if you're at the biden white house you can look at how this played out and you can see it on the screen over time. the president was above 50% when he took office and 56% and now down 13 points when it comes to approval and up 11 points when it comes to disapproval. in the summer americans realized covid wasn't going away. maybe the president on july 4th overpromised a little bit or oversuggested that covid would disappear. how does the white house, they have ten months to do it, try to change those numbers? >> well, i think a lot of what they tried to do is they tried to make sure that they can -- that they can do something to make sure that -- i'm having some technical difficulties