our destiny is very much in the balance. i think this was an important step yesterday taken by the house. we re seeing how different things are in the senate. i think it s interesting to note, though, if you go back to the clinton impeachment, clinton after the impeachment, he saw his approval rating go from about 50% to 63%. he kept his head down, he was contrite. he admitted wrongdoing and the american people saw him working for them. and they supported him. we re not seeing this same support for donald trump who is marked by his inability to unite the country. he doesn t want to unite the country. i don t think he s constitutionally capable of anything other than division and discord. i think that s very much affecting the political climate today. michael steele, to that point, while the house was impeaching the president, the split screen was unbelievable. he s in michigan rallying supporters. he took the opportunity to
nonsense. i do predict that the president will dematerialize from the office by march of 2020. there is no way he will stand for re-election when his approval rating. watch his approval rating go in to the low 30s, high 20s. why would that happen? and by the way why that would happen? go look at the ap number tonight. 62% of the country disapproves from him. he is rock steady in some ways. he is stuck at 42%. that s true. we can debate all of that. here is the bottom line. a couple of patriotic americans are going to come forward. not ex-cabinet members or things like that. some people of standing inside the administration, up on capitol hill are going to say that it is time to pull the guy. this is complete and total nonsense. when that happens i predict the
this is a real issue. go back to watergate. go back to the low approval ratings we have seen when this type of suspicion begins to build within an administration. the problem here, though, and this goes donald trump owns this, he has lost all credibility. you cannot spend a year attacking independent arbiters in the press, the judiciary, frankly members of your own party, the speaker of the house, senators. you cannot attack people, keep your credibility while you continue to lie. he has nowhere to go with this, joy. and this is going to be trouble. just to stay with you for a second, david, then why is he still managing to stay at 42% in the nbc survey poll which is historically low, but that, and you look at the 38% in gallup. what those two polls indicate is there is a hard-core of republicans, a good third of the country that i guess no matter what are with donald trump. when does that approval rating go below 80% among your fellow party members? well, listen, you can t win
the nbc survey poll which is historically low, but that, and you look at the 38% in gallup. what those two polls indicate is there is a hard-core of republicans, a good third of the country that i guess no matter what are with donald trump. when does that approval rating go below 80% among your fellow party members? well, listen, you can t win an election with 37% or 42%. you got to get to 51%, or we got the electoral college. but here is what he has already lost. he has already lost those mainstream republicans who held their nose and voted yes for donald trump. he has lost them. this is a president with 37% approval ratings who just tried to sell a 17% health care bill, and he lost. he is not the ideological leader of the party, nor is he the political lead other telephone party right now. and does it matter if he still has that hard-core base when he is alienating the leadership of the party, including the freedom caucus? well, the one person i m wondering about, he s still go
the idea that the united states is spying on the personal phone and e-mail records of world leaders including allies. i think it was a lot for people to take. it all added up to the worst case of plummeting polls. congress watched the all right terrible approval rating go into the basement. we proved between 2008 and 2012 you can t win by making the other guy look bad. we have to offer alternatives. public faith in president obama sanction to new lows. pretty much on par with the man he replaced and despite late year cooperation, the fighting generally went on. i think in terms of entering an era of good will, we put the car in reverse and slammed on the gas. people are really frustrated with how things are going in d.c. people just kind of shake their heads.