Bill, and thats enough to bill it. The white house unable to gets its story straight on donald trump jr. s controversial meeting with the russian lawyer. President trump and his son saying the meeting at trump tower that took place before last years election was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. But White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer insisting it was about adoption despite evidence to the contrary. Oh, at the sixmonth mark, President Trump has the lowest Approval Rating of any president in the history of polling. What is the mood inside the white house tonight and around the country. I want to begin tonight with cnn senior political analyst, white house supporter, the staff writer for the atlantic and chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news. Kaitlyn, there are now four republican senators opposing the notion. So right now this version of Obamacare Repeal and replace is dead. What can you tell us tonight . Thats exactly right. This version is not going to go to the floor for any votes, especially because senator majority Mitch Mcconnell could only luose two votes to it and two more came out saying no. This all comes as donald trump and mike pence were dining senators at the white house tonight in hopes of getting more support for the bill. And right now theres no path forward for this. This isnt Going Forward so what the question is now will the white house choose to move on to tax reform or try to give health care one more go. Mr. Trump, republican senate, Republican House, voted countless times to repeal and replace obamacare when he was in office, what do you attribute this failure to . When the president has the lowest Approval Ratings of any president after six months it is not surprising he took one of the biggest body blows in politics after six months. The strategy of playing to his base only and trying not to go to the country on major legislation that would try to bring some democrats in, that would try to be more bipartisan i think led the republicans to embrace a Health Care Bill in the house and then basically the same thing in the senate which was extraordinarily unpopular. I think we have never seen a president put forward a major legislative piece in his early days and have it be greeted with such division and fear. We are going to be talking about how much this is going to change Donald Trumps agenda. The single most important thing done is what happens to the people of this country on our health care in the next few weeks, the next few months, who is paying attention to them and trying to ensure they dont get thrown off their insurance and dont lose the capacity to protect their families. It is incumbent upon lawmakers to ensure. The standard by which they should be judged now is what are they doing for the folks back home. Remember this, david, remember the victory lap they took and people called it the 2017 version of Mission Accomplished when it passed the house and everyone was wondering why are you taking a victory lap . There is no victory yet. Theyre missing the victory. I agree with that. But weve reached the weve been going this for a while. The trump people are taking us way down on this where the attempt to build big legislative achievements is no longer trying to reach out to the other party. When you do big social legislation, big milestone legislation, it has to be passed with super majority, 65, 67, 68 votes in the senate. Lets talk about this. How does this play . Whats the feeling inside of the white house, but how does this play in pea yowhen you have the rating since the history of polling when your major legislative initiative appears to be dead on arrival, when you have a Republican House and a republican senate, you are the republican president and you still cant get anything accomplished . Well, it doesnt play well. I mean, look, the president clearly has lost a lot of political capital. And to the extent that he you know, and that is a factor in not being able to bring his Health Care Bill to passage. You know, normally president s use their leverage, use their clout, use their standing with the American People to pressure members of congress to vote their way. And the president s rating, Poll Rankings are so low at this point, historically low, that he doesnt have that leverage. And i think then you have to look to explain that into all the other things that have gone on to lower his Poll Rankings and certainly the russia investigation is a big part of that. Jewelbefore we move on, what you make of this situation tonight . Well, i think it is republicans fear from 2009 from the Affordable Care act debate in 2009 coming true. They were afraid then that should this law pass and come into effect and people get benefits that they become used to and like, it is going to be impossible to repeal, which is exactly whats happening. This is coinciding with obamacare really taking root and helping people, and its hard to take away something people have become used to and kind of like. So they warned about this in 2009, and thats whats happening now. It is mind boggling when you think about it. When you think about the number of times they voted on this when barack obama was president of the United States and you think about, you know, everything that he said on the campaign trail, on day one this is going to be so easy, and hes gotten no movement. It is easier to be in the peanut gallery than to be at the head of the class and teach. When you become hostage to your ideology, you can make terrible decisions. Do you think this president is bogged down saying im right. I need to prove everybody else wrong and erase the legacy of president barack obama instead of realizing you are the president for the entire United States not just that small number of people that voted for you . Yes. I started out there. This insistence of going to the base and not trying to appeal to everybody else, to try to divide the country and beating up on Everything Else i think has been very destructive for his presidency. But think that overall he this is a president who spent most of his time thinking about himself, how am i play iing wha about the polls . What about the fake news . As opposed to thinking about the people of the country. I have never seen a president who spent so little time trying to figure out whats best for the country in terms of policies and what steps do we take and here we are, this bill has gone down, we have no damn idea where were going from here. It makes me wonder when you hear about some of the things that he says, you know, how he spends his time. If there is a mirror and if he sees himself because the rest of america, if you look at that polling, the rest of america are saying i see you donald trump. Does he see himself . Well, he watches tv. We know that. And he watches the cable shows that drive him crazy and then he tweets about them. And theres multiple examples. And then he tweets about the cable shows that drive him crazy saying he doesnt watch him, but hes reacting to what hes watching. I mean, its kind of silly on some level and the idea that the president has been so obsessed with what is being said about him on cable tv instead of, for instance, the nuts and bolts of the Health Care Bill is, you know i think at some point thats going to be disturbing to those folks out in peoria and elsewhere that did vote for him. You have to wonder if its like the circus mirror. All this talk about polls takes me back to horrible, horrible nightmares of reliving the campaign of 2016 where we in the media kept talking about his high disApproval Rating, how much people didnt like him, and yet here we are. And something has to happen because of the way our system is constructed and because of the way political power is allotted that we have minority rule in this country. Something else has to happen than just those polling numbers because he has never cared about, like david said, he never cared about the vast majority of the people who arent about lites of his. That 39 has always been that and its not moving. It never moved in 2016. And here we are. Hes in the oval office. He has the Nuclear Codes and hes never been liked so Something Else has to give and it is not going to be because of the Approval Ratings. We are going to talk about russia. Still cant get his story straight. Were going to hear from sean spicer and the rest of our panel after the break. Wash my hair again now, i fuel it new pantene doesnt just wash your hair, it fuels it. With the first prov nutrient blend, making every strand stronger because strong is beautiful. You doyoull see whatet but in youre really made of. After five hours of spinning and one unfortunate ride on the gravitron, your grandkids spot a 6 foot banana that you need to win. 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And here is sean spicer contradicting the explanations given from the president and his son. Im not sure if sean spicer has been reading the news lately. But he issued a statement saying the meeting was about getting opposition information on his opponent and donald trump jr. Like you said released the emails where we saw in the subject line it said confidential russian, for your eyes only so they could only read it and donald trump jr. In the email was corresponding with this person and incriminating information that this person claimed they had on the clinton campaign. And the person said they were a russian government attorney. So sean spicer completely contradicted the president and donald trump jr. Today when he said that this meeting was simply about adoptions and sanctions, which we now know that it certainly wasnt. I think its worth pointing that out, if you can put sean spicer back. When you have this thing. You have a briefing and you can invite cameras in, but then you have this thing where you dont see the people. Do they realize that the white house, that this makes them look guilty not transparent . Do they understand that. You would think, don. For a long time i thought, who is in charge here . Why dont they get this . This is not hard. Other president s succeed at this by just being straightforward about the facts. Its gone on for long and so much double speak that you begin to wonder, this is quite intentional. You create a fog bank of lies and uncertainty and vagueness and so many different details that people say i dont want to watch this. My sense is that a lot of americans are starting to tune out on this because its like, you know, it just keeps going on and on. There is a stench about it. But what can you do. It is a campaign of misinformation, a campaign of lies . Yeah. A campaign of lies that may numb us and may whatever mueller does may be just sort of lost in the politics of it. Michael, our cnn correspondent pamela brown spoke to donald trump jr. s attorney about the eighth person in that meeting. The attorney spoke with this history man recently. He was a representative of the agilara family and now he claims to be a u. S. Citizen. We still dont have his name. Were learning that all of this information piecemeal. It does seem very weird that eight people can walk into trump tower and have a meeting with the Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, a Senior Campaign advisor Jared Kushner and donald trump jr. Himself and there is no record of who these people are . You know, i talked to rinat on friday who said he walked in. Nobody asked him for any ids. He just walked waltzed in with no Security Check at all. It does make you wonder, did somebody send a notice to the security guards at trump tower to let a bunch of people in, and if so, who was that or is security so lax at trump tower that anybody can stroll in and meet with the Campaign Chairman . I mean, there is so many questions here that are, you know, that are extremely puzzling. Any of you guys ever been to trump tower . I went to trump tower before the secret service, and they asked for identification, if you are going up to any of the floors where you have those meetings with the president or his family. It seems mind boggling to me. There was that moment when they tried to blame the secret service, which was amazing, right . And then the secret service said, whoa, we have nothing to do with this. We were not part of the equation at that point. But if theyre willing to throw their own protection under the bus, it is just so amazing. Didnt you find that i guess thats why youre bringing it up that the secret service would actually respond to Something Like this . It is a bit unprecedented. Well, theyre being accused of sleeping, you know, on the job. And not taking their responsibility seriously. You know, letting the security of the what is now the president ial family not taking it serious. Thats a pretty serious accusation. Go ahead, mike. I would just say, going back to sean spicer, so eight people are cleared in or somebody gives, you know, notice to let this group of people, russians, u. S. People working with russians into trump tower, let them up, just going to let them up. Going back to sean spicers statement that this was about adoptions. Does anybody really believe that the okay for this meeting would have given and Paul Manafort would have been there and Jared Kushner could have been there if it was advertised as a meeting about russian adoptions. It is hard to fathom that scenario. What we do know and it is very clear, were not sure whether the people there violated the law, but there was a huge amount of dishonesty in an attempt to hide the meeting from the public. One of the curious things in the last hours has been the fact that donald trump jr. s lawyer, the word is out that he and donald trump jr. Wanted to issue a statement originally that was going to be complete. It says don junior and the counsel were prepared to publish or make a statement that was a statement about the nature of the meeting, what led to the meeting, what the conversation was in the meeting. So it sounds like somebody clamped him up. Somebody clam upp epe eped h and put on a fake story. But during donald trump jr. s only interview last week after all of this came out, he said he didnt even know what that act was until the day of the meeting with this russian lawyer. It is not true he walked into this meeting thinking it was about adoptions. Thats also true. And also can we just stop talking about adoptions . Because none of this, not on the american side and certainly on the russian side is about adoptions. I agree with that. On the russian side, its about money. Its about being able to take money that has been stolen or earned in nonnefarious ways so its not stolen by other people and the magnitsky act shuts that pipeline down. Thats what its about for the russians. Its not about the adoptions. Julia, before we go, i want to ask you. Did you come across or you may have had a brush with this russian translator . Yes. As far as i know, he has translated lots of events, lots of panels, including panels on the situation on lgbt rights in russia. He seems to be a professional translator. You know, its just whats amazing to me about this is that some of these characters in the story i have come across in my dealings with russia and reporting on russia and you meet these people and you think, oh, okay, it is just another russian and you dont think of them as anything special. If anything, sometimes theyre kind of, you know, not the cream of the crop. And then of course you find that these are the people involved with the Trump Campaign just like carter page, just like some of the other talent that has wound up in the trump orbit, not the cream of the crop, not even the cream, but Something Else. Can i just say one last thing . That is a really significant question, when donald trump jr. When the clamp down came not letting him go out with an honest statement who ordered that . What is the architect of the cover up . Was the president involved . I think those are really important questions. If i could speak to that. As i reported last week, the president s lawyers were notified about these emails and the meeting in the third week of june. So three weeks more than three weeks ago now. So if youre looking for who might have ordered the clamp down, if in fact what donald trump jr. s lawyer is saying is correct, i think you have to wonder what role, what actions did the president s lawyers take to try to seal the evidence from the public. Thats right, michael. And the question is who ordered the president s lawyers to do that. Okay. We got to go. Many questions to be answered. Well continue our conversation up next. The president responds to the Health Care Bill being dead in the water. What are all these different topped loaded meals . Its an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. Its like Labor Day Weekend on top of the fourth of july. Hotdogs. Get your favorites on top of your favorites. Only at applebees. Get your favorites on [ barks ]our favorites. 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Part of the president is the president has always been unaware and unwilling to understand the details of how this works. What hes describing is essentially impossible. You would throw 20 Million People off obamacare. It is not clear what they would do. It is not clear what Insurance Companies would do. It is not clear whether medicate is expanded or not. Part of the problem here is that the president has been behaving as the president he thought he was going to be, which is the person who we saw on television. That was the president , the guy who meets with foreign leaders, who has photo ops, who cut it is thanksgiving turkey. But a lot of the presidency is detailed policy meetings where you have to deal with very complicated trade offs. And i dont get the sense that really he understands he understands health care. Yeah. I have been wondering since i have been having so much trouble repealing and replacing that if whatever democrats came up with obamacare and the way they tied it into medicaid and medicare, is that why it is so tough for them to undo it . I dont know that they realized it, but youre right. Everybody criticized it because its kind of addons. It turns out because of that it might actually be very complicated to unravel because you unravel the whole system. But it is important to understand. Obamacare is actually very simple. Basically, the idea is that you dont let Insurance Companies deny people claims because they have preexisting conditions. Thats called sick people. You dont have Insurance Companies throw sick people off the rolls. Insurance companies said, we have to ensure lots and lots of sick people. You have got to give us lots and lots of Healthy People to balance it out. Thats how insurance works. Thats how Car Insurance works. So you have the mandate that Healthy People have to buy insurance so that and the Insurance Companies have to ensure sick people. Thats what obamacare is. You had the third part, the people that cant afford to buy insurance, the federal government provides subsidies for. Insurance companies cant say no to sick people. In order to make the Insurance Companies make that viable, you have to have some Healthy People buying in and the poor people get some help from the government. Thats it. You cant take one of those stools away. What the republicans keep trying to do is say we like the part where you cant get rid of preexisting conditions. But we dont like the other parts. But the Insurance Companies are the first to say we will all go bankrupt. How can we make money . I have you here because youre very smart on this subject. I want to talk about this meeting, the russians now and donald trump jr. There have been every day there is a drip, drip, drip of new information. There was another person in the meeting. The explanation changes about why the meeting took place and what have you. Its absolutely incredible. Well, its incredible, but here actually we now have clarity because this meeting explains to us what the russian ask was. So far weve been unclear as to what was it russia wanted. Maybe they wanted better relations with the u. S. Maybe they thought they could get trump to try. But now we know there was a very specific ask. And its important to understand what this adoption issue is. The adoption is the red herring. What happened is the United States passed sanctions not against russia as a country, as an economy, but against a specific series of russian oligarchs and officials around putin who were accused of human rights abuses and corruption. Those guys who are really the russian power elite, they want to be able to send their money a abro abroad, they want to be able to send their daughters and sons to boarding schools in england and their mistress for shopping excursions in italy. The magnitsky act freezes all that. It doesnt allow those funds to be moved. They dont care about the russian economy. They cared about their economy. And, so, what we now understand is the russian quid pro quo was they went to the Trump Campaign and said well give you dirt on Hillary Clinton if you repeal the magnitsky act. Everybody agrees that that was the bargain being offered. Now we understand what it is the russian wanted and what it is that so annoyed them about the last few years of u. S. Policy. Here we are getting to the bottom of it. How is russian reacting to all of this . Do they still see an opportunity with this president . I think theyre frustrated because they thought they had this opportunity. If you see the scenes of Russian Elites when the election was announced, they were celebrating. There were almost no countries in the world that were celebrating the election of donald trump. You listen to putin afterwards, he was talking about how we alone in the world predicted that donald trump was going to win. And now what they see is a trump, you know, white house that is more than anything else paralyzed on russia and because theyre paralyzed policymaking has gone to people like james mattis, to mcmaster, who is pretty tough on russia. Trump hasnt had room to maneuver. Whenever he has a chance, he always gives russia the benefit of doubt. He always says maybe it wasnt russia did the hacking. I think i can find a way to get on with putin. He has an extraordinary soft spot for russia and it began in about 2007, 2008 when russian money started pouring into the west and when the Trump Organization was looking for investors. I dont know if there is a connection. But the timing is uncanny. It is about that point that donald trump decides there is one country in the world that isnt ripping off the United States that isnt, you know, the source of all problems and it is russia and there is one leader in the world he admires and it is vladimir putin. There you have it. Thank you, Fareed Zakaria. Coming up, the legal ramification of the meeting with the russian attorney. Plus, the white house kicks off made in america week. But the president and his daughter ivanka dont practice what they preach when it comes to products they sell. baby crying fly me to the moon elegant music and let me play bell rings at Southern New Hampshire university we are committed to your success. Thats why we hit the road again to meet some of the 70,000 students who study online with us. To hear their stories. To celebrate their success. And with over 200 programs online and oncampus designed to fit your life. Theres never been a better time to see yourself succeed. 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Citizen not working for the russian government and was there to represent the agilar family. Is any of that comforting to republicans and can he be believe snd. No. Weve learned how the russians do business and how they would, you know, develop a relationship like this. And, so, i think the eighth person who is unnamed raises more questions than it answers and right now i think there is a lot of people that are lawyering up as we have talked about are facing some exposure Going Forward. Yeah. I mean, what do you think . Does that change the investigation in any way or make the meeting any less troublesome for donald junior or Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort or for the president . Well, it adds another potential witness. I think the email that gathered the people together in that room is about as explanatory as you can be why the meeting was being convened and thats going to begin to show the elements of a possible conspiracy if these people went on and carried out any further acts in sort of concert of what they agreed upon at that gathering. Okay. Both don juniors attorney also issued a statement today. I butchered his name earlier. It says don yjunior and his counsel were prepared to make a statement about the nature of the meeting, what led to the meeting and what the conversation was in the meeting. So if you kind of read between the lines here, john, is someone saying did someone clamp down on don junior, what he wanted to say, and who might that have been . It certainly sounds that way that counsel is saying we wanted to tell all and we got shut down and were unable to do so. Now, youre raising the right question, who did that . Was it another lawyer for another client that had a conflict with that or was it the president himself, mr. Trump. And the reason this is important, i saw this happen in water gate where some of the press papers that were agreed upon in meetings turned around later and were used very effectively by prosecutors to show a conspiracy to obstruct justice. So they these things can have later implications. Matt, does it sound like someone was clamping down on him . It does. And if you remember the way those statements came out, i think there were at least three over the course of three days, is there always seemed to be Additional Information available. And, you know, this is maybe an attempt to rewrite history and to, you know, put lipstick on a pig, but it is very concerning that the first mention because as we all know what that meeting was about and what was discussed that was not a fulsome first statement and it was actually almost looked like it was a head fake to try to get everybody to look the other way. Matt, we now know there were at least eight people in that russian meeting for the purpose of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton and with the intention of getting trump elected. Of the eight people in the meeting, only Jared Kushner is now in the current administration. What about legal jeopardy for him . Well, i think as i have thought about this case and as a former u. S. Attorney, i certainly believe his security clearance its temporary. I think he has risk of ever getting a security clearance, but im certain his fatherinlaw can help him maintain a security clearance as i understand the way the process works and the president being the decider in that. But there are some other issues with his relationship to russia and some of the news thats been reported that i think he does based on exposure and i expect special counsel is going to take a deep dive into not only his emails but his cell phone and other data thats going to show what he was doing at the time as it progressed through the end of the election and into the transition. So the question is, matt, why isnt that considered conspireing with a Foreign Government to influence our election . Well, one of the reasons is i dont think we have enough evidence right now to suggest that he conspired. But at the same time, he is certainly not out of the woods and there is a reason that he has a lawyer or team of lawyers that are advising him and ultimately the special counsel and bob mueller, who was a director of the fbi when i was u. S. Attorney is going to do a thorough investigation and we will hear what the facts are. Right now as we sit here on the sidelines trying to figure out whats going on, i dont think there are enough facts to support the case as we know it. Lets take everyone through this, okay, so they can understand what happened. John, i am going to give this to you because Jared Kushner is required to disclose all the meetings hes had with foreign contacts. Heres what we know. Hes admitted clearance form for no foreign contacts listed. January 19th submitted supplement form saysing during the campaign i served as a point of contact for foreign officials trying to reach the president elect. I had numerous contacts with foreign officials in this capacity. Early spring he amended his form listing 100 foreign contacts. June 21, disclosed meeting with the russian lawyer. Then june 23rd he met with the fbi to be interviewed for his security clearance. Does this lack of transparency mean trouble . It could very well mean a lot of trouble. One of the this is done electronically today, these fs86. One of the things im told repeat itself in the form is a warning that the failure to disclose information can result in a violation of the false statement statute, criminal statute. So youre constantly being reminded not to forget. But yet he had these lapses in memory time after time. You wonder what if he did indeed meet with the fbi agent who took him through his form on maybe more than one occasion, if he made false statements to that agent as well. Thats just going to compound it. So this could be a heap of trouble and it certainly is a lot of leverage for the special counsel to get him to talk seriously about whats going on. Go ahead. 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Ana, the Trump Presidency about six months in. 36 this is according to the Washington Post abs abc, 36 of the americans approve the president s jop performance, the lowest job Approval Rating of any president dating back 70 years at the sixmonth mark. How can it still be so high is my reaction. After everything hes done, the last six months, hes continued to act unpresident ial. He had told us that he would change his tone. He hasnt. He has used the presidency as a bully pulpit to do things like tweet out against Department Stores and Broadway Musicals and the press and you know, hes tried to suppress the press. I think its less about his achievements or lack thereof in office. I think people are very disappointed with the tone, with lis lack of gravitas, with the idea that he is tarnishing the presidency. And what hes doing you know foreign policy, this is a guy who tweeted against the mayor of london in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Its embarrassing. Alice, i have to ask you, and i speak with some people who are not Trump Supporters and they say that every time they want to give him a chance, every time they say okay, hes our president , we should, you know, accept him and sort of reach out and reach across the aisle so to speak, he does something and then they say i just cannot do it. So can he come back from numbers like this . What can he do . Should he start reaching ow more . Absolutely. I think what were seeing with these numbers is he may continue to hold on to his base and that is clearly who he is appealing to, but hes losing independents and the people that you mentioned that are trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes its like two steps forward, one step back. And an important cross tapin that poll is 63 of those polled say they disapprove of don juniors meeting with the russians with regard to russian information and the fact that the administration continues to drip information out about that hurts their credibility. And causes. People to question the truthfulness of this administration and thats a big problem. And i think moving forward, what he needs to do is use this as a wakeup call. Use this as a sign. Look, we really need to focus on our agenda why we got elected repealing and replacing obamacare, securing the border. He made Great Strides with his appointment of neil gorsuch on the supreme court. This should be a wakeup call. I think they can take this opportunity to say lets focus on the issues that are important to the American People. But if you look at this, because the president tweeted today, he tweeted about this poll. He said the abc Washington Post poll even though almost 40 is not bad at this time was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time. Okay. But as i mentioned, 36 pefrs an patriotic six months. I just saw john king do a fact check on this basically saying that the president was inaccurate and what he tweeted. So as far as the assertion that the poll was inaccurate around election time, the final estimate from the Washington Post abc tracking poll was 47 for clinton, 43 for trump compared with a final of 48. 5 for clinton and 46. 4 for trump, given a 2. 5 percentage point margin of error, its definitely not inaccurate. Why is he still going there saying that this is not that this poll is inaccurate . Karine . Well, heres the thing. This is a president who lost the popular vote by 3myon and he just became more unpopular as the six months have gone by as weve seen. His policies are unpopular. Hes unpopular. His behavior is unpopular. He refuses to be president ial. He refuses to just not just have a base strategy but you are the president for everyone. He wont do that at all. And what does he get . He hasnt been able to fulfill any of his major policy promises. Tax refor, health care as were seeing from today, the border wall as were seeing, hank goodness that hasnt been able to happen, but he hasnt been able to do anything. Obamas first 100 days, he was able to do the stimulus package. He expanded health care for kids. He was also able to do equal pay. Thats 100 days. And donald trump just cant get it passed himself of losing the popular vote and get it out of his headed you are president for everyone. Salena zito speaks to a lot of folks in trump territory all the time. Lets go through this poll. Trump won in november in the counties 50 of his Job Performance according to a wall street journal they approve of it. Nbc poll, this new poll. However, there is a split with counties he won easily in those that went to obama back in 2012. There his approval is only 44 but still thats higher than the national average. You spent a lot of time talking to supporters. Why do they remain so loyal to this president . Its going to take a lot to dislodge them from him because you know, its not just about him. Its about them. And their lives and their communities. Theyre a little more emotionally invested because of the promise of jobs, promise of making America Great again, which is a very aspirational thing. People like to feel like theyre part of something bigger than themselves. So its going to be hard are for those voters to dislodge from him, but you know, as far as his tweets go, i never expected them to be incredibly president ial. But im always sort of surprised at how he hasnt used them to his advantage to talk about the things that are really important to him, talk about jobs, talk about regulations, talk about energy. Theres a lot of opportunities that he could use this platform for, and he does not. The problem for the problem for the president is, if you look at these numbers, theres a softening of independent voters that can really hurt him in the midterm elections. Especially since the democrats have decided that they are going to now court blue dog democrats to run for the house and the senate. Those are moderate leaning elected or potentially elected officials that could win in swing districts. Ill give you the last word. I know youre dying to get in here. You know what i marvel about donald trump, you know, dude, your poll numbers are at 36 . Leave it alone. Stop tweeting about it. Hes like the kid who cant stop picking the scab until it bleeds whether its russia, whether its poll numbers. There are things that you should not be stirring up. Stop being president baby onion and having a very thin skin and making us cry. I got to go. Thank you all. Straight ahead in our next hour, breaking news coverage. The senate doesnt have the votes to repeal obamacare. 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