president s pollster. he asked a question released on twitter yesterday asking essentially if the republican primary for president today am mochk these republicans, who would you support? i think among definite gop voters 54% picked trump. under 60%, that s not a great number for him. i think there s a recognition among trump s political team he does have a problem here. you look at those quinnipiac numbers. most of the country says he s not doing a good job, he s dividing the country. i think right now practically, the bigger problem for trump is not losing his base and losing more people who are with him through thick and thin. it s losing people in washington, losing republicans in congress and sort of the people who have kind of shrugged their shoulders and said we re going to try to get through our agenda even though we have an r erratic president. now i don t ear seeing that slow burn and republicans are saying
by all accounts and intelligence sources he had more nefarious aims. i think the reason the report is significant isn t only because it s another trump aide who has ooh senior role in the white house, not just to the legislature but the social security community, is being recruited himself. that s not insignificant. it seems the russians had more contact with the trump campaign than the trump campaign had with people from oregon or hawaii. we ll see what the investigation holds. it s got to move forward. people trying to deny it and say let s move on, they re being motivated the president didn t help on this. he keeps conflating any attachments by his staff and/or campaign to russian efforts and the russian efforts. karoun, the russian efforts are of primary importance. mueller has his own jurisdiction
that gets lost in all this political infighting between trump and the gop. the unifying theme is, if the president thinks it s bad for him, he attacks it. the russia investigation, no matter how fundamental it is to our democratic process and integrity, it s bad. he doesn t want it if it s bad for him. we ll be talking to some of these senators later in the program. the pentagon is about to receive orders to implement the president s ban on transgender service members. we have all the details next.
going forward. episodes like this raise questions. i m not particularly surprised that kislyak responded the way he did. he s kind of i ve met him a few times. that s kind of his personality as well, to be very dismissive of things especially when we re in the middle of an investigation like this. the investigation is about trump, but it s also about what russia was trying to development when you have things like this e-mail come up, first the question is, is it credible? if it is, it shows you there is a coordinated campaign going on by russia to try to have influence over the election. we knew that. you can t expect a country that s as sophisticated as russia when it comes to various sorts of spy games, and they have done this sort of election influencing stuff in europe frequently, that it would be an accident or a one-off. even if there isn t this e-mail that s sort of a smoking gun, it reminds us this is a broader campaign than just the allegations surrounding trump which is som
slope. where do we go taking down monuments, pictures of our history and past because we need to teach our children in the next generation from the history that we have survived and made better because of. what do you think about the president going against people in his own party, going against other republicans? i can go through the list, susan collins, lisa murkowski. there s democrats that don t get along with all democrats either. of course. but do you think it s effective, effective for president trump to go against, say, jeff sessions? do you think that helps get things done or do you think that adds tension. if y all would quit talking about his son, that s how he did it. president trump went after jeff sessions so he stop talking about don junior s e-mail. that s what he did. that s what you think. he s still there. if trump wanted him gone, he d be gone. we have a great deal of republicans, the never-trump