what do they care about? the president s legacy and politics and care about a lot more than house or senate. i think that look. you talk to folks individually in the white house, mark, you know they all realize, boy, you think it s bad now with a democratic senate and republican house, wait until you get 2015 and end up with a republican house and senate. thn h then how are you going to do anything? they get it individually but i don t think they figured out how to use their how to use the white house politically. bill, also a couple of numbers. first of all, the president. the only area the president is doing well on is fighting terrorism. he is 50% approved, 42% disapprove. the only issue. on iran he is upside down ten points. only 39% of americans support his iran policy. that is a big drop. syria, 33%. foreign policy may be an issue by the end of all this. what is driving the president s
wages going down and massive influx of cheap wage immigrants is not the way to talk about middle americans. we will talk about this more with chuck todd coming up. get one more story in on the sunday shows. senator rand paul and snowstorm ted cruz were both asked about governor chris krchristie. i think there is room for more moderate republicans in the party and i am a believer we should have an expansive and diverse party in many ways but the primaries are a conservative process and the my understanding is that it will be more difficult for a moderate to make it through because we truly are fiscal conservatives in our party. we don t want to spend money we don t have. if we are going to spend something on such as sandy, which is, i think, something the country was going to take a responsibility in, we think we should pay for it, but that s why i think there was a debate over him sort of lecturing congress and saying, gimme all of this money and all i was
then it just sunk. then you look and nothing on immigration, basically didn t publish anything. some of that because of republican objectionism or his lack of ability to on get in there and fight. he is coming out clearly the worst year of his presidency. and it shows. it s like the chris christie scandal, it s easy to understand it doesn t work and what people got for i thought that was devastating. they wanted to get there and sign up for their families and they go there and rush there. still a chance it will work in the long run but what a lost opportunity. bill, let s avoid talking about the president and talk about our party, the republican party. i saw this number in the middle of the night sort of just gagged. 80% of americans, 4 out of 5, i don t think i ve seen a number this high for any major party, 80% of americans don t trust republicans. that s like 1973 numbers in the
the president didn t follow chuck schumer s advice politically and economically and say, you know what, we will keep $250 to $1 million keep your tax cuts, for millionaires and billionaires taking it back. they could have done that before the election. some democrats wanted to. i know. the democrats were up for re-election, didn t want to talk about tax increases because republicans have been very effective saying now is not the time to raise taxes on the american people. they do an effective job of fuzzing up the politics. politically, now, he has it in time for the next election, i guess. i don t see how he doesn t get this. i never understood how come you couldn t make a distinction between tax cuts increases between ordinary americans and super wealthy americans. we cut task force the super wealthy bush tax cuts didn t help the economy when bush was president and raised them when clinton was and the economy did
grand gesture and then whack him. i probably would have done it differently. i know you would. on the other side, governor, let me ask you this, maybe you don t want to wade into this territory. i m free to pass right away. if you want your ratings to stay. 66%, that is gaudy. that is gaudy. jobs for jobs. anyway, governor, republicans woke up this morning stunned unlike joe biden? pt. unlike joe biden, stunned to find out that $38 billion, $38 billion of john boehner and republican leaders promised them. points of interest. ends up the cbo says, well, actually, in the end, they only actually got $350 million from this year s budget. do you think that will make things harder for these young freshman republicans, hard core conservative toss trust leadership in the future?hink t