Next conversation was the chief of staff with four president s. They talk about 9 11, the 2008 financial crisis, benghazi attack, angle and the covid19 pandemic. From georgetown university, this is an hour and 15 minutes. I wanted to thank everyone for tuning in tonight, both here in the zoom chat, members of the georgetown community, but also the broader public who is following us on social media or other channels. This is a really timely conversation, i think, as we look at the world and the state of our politics right now, and the number of crises that were all dealing with, much of it falls at the doorstep of the oval office to be dealt with. And so to help us sort of sort through how president s think about this, we thought who better to convene than a group of former chiefs of staff who have been there on the front line, working arm in arm with the president of the United States, with the last four president s of the United States in tackling various crises. These crises have com
40% said it would be a good thing. 34% said it would be a bad thing. four years ago democrats led on the good thing number. it tells you a lot. people are seeing an advantage for changing control of congress. next, the president s approval rate, 45%. 50% disapprove. nancy pelosi, only 24% positive view. 60% have a negative view of nancy pelosi. she s been the punching bag in these campaigns for coast to coast. more so than the president. you re going to have a lot of talk about president obama, whether this is a referendum on him or his national agenda. this is a referendum on congress, congressional democrats and speaker nancy pelosi is the leader of the team. this is expected to be the third straight change election in 2006. democrats won control of congress. two years later democrats won the house. this year they re poised to take back control of the house. in order to do that they need to win 39 seats. in the senate they face a tougher task to winning ten seats. i m going