despite president trump being as weak as any president has been in polling this early into his term, he s basically in a tie race when you pose the question against donald trump versus hillary clinton in a rematch. and so i do think that inside the democratic party, eric barseti, the mayor of los angeles, mitch landrieu, appearing together. it may be we ll see an ideological fight inside the democratic party, but i think we ll see outside candidates running for the nomination against washington, d.c. they may well come out of the mayoral ranks, big city democratic leaders who have to deal with issues involving pragmatism and solutions, not just ideology. i d love to have that discussion, especially discuss those two names. we ve run out of time for this opportunity. i m saying we re going to have our two guests back to have that conversation. our great thanks to heather mcgee and steve schmidt.
jong-un. about 30 miles from the dmz border to the north. easily the most tense stop of his 12-day asian trip. and back home, the crush of russia related events, and record low numbers in terms of polling responses on what this president has done or not done in office thus far. a new cnn poll says 36% of americans approve of the job trump is doing as president. a new low for him in this poll. 58% disapprove. it s one of several polls out just these past few days showing record low numbers. nbc news has him at 38%. pew research, 34%. fox news, 38%. on the russia front, the issue that will not go away, paul manafort and his associate rick gates back in court today. the judge decided they need to stay on house arrest. he did make one exception for gates. he s allowed to leave home
where it was almost a buddy movie with prime minister abe this. they ate meals together, they golfed together. they even had custom made hats together. he has no such close ties with this president. they ve only met once. and they have very different views in some ways, you know, president moon perhaps not as hawkish as to what to do with north korea as president trump. a second issue, of course, is the rhetoric as you mentioned. fire and fury, little rocket man. does president trump say those things here just 40 miles or so from the dmz? what does the south korean response to those things? does he use that rhetoric. and thirdly, perhaps most importantly, what is the north koreans response to that rhetoric? it is certainly their custom and in major events here in asia that they often time their missile tests to a landmark, whether in china or somewhere else, something involve the u.s. will president trump s presence here in south korea prompt them to next their muscles?
golfed together, even had custom-made hats together. he has no such close ties with this president, they only met once. they have very different views in some ways, you know, president moon not as hawkish of what to do with north korea as president trump. a second issue, of course, is the rhetoric as you mentioned. fire and fury. little rocket man. does president trump say those things here, just 40 miles or so from the dmz. what is the south korean response to those things. does he use that rhetoric. third thirdly, perhaps more importantly, what is the north koreans response to that rhetoric. it is certainly their custom that at major events here in asia, that they often time their missile tests to a landmark, whether in china or somewhere else, something involving the u.s. will president trump s presence here in south korea prompt them to flex their muscles. that was a good reminder. and thank you for that preview, jonathan la mere who happens to be for the purposes of tonight s
there s no reason for us to suggest somehow that we re not doing anything. we re doing a lot. and if you provoke it and make it worse, you could certainly get the north koreans to do something we wish they wobt do which is to launch a preempt to her attack against the south which would be a disaster for them and us. you get the last word. what is the best case scenario where you re concerned? well, that trump leaves south korea with reaffirming alliance and washington needs to get on same problem. north korea problem is already difficult enough. we cannot have a divided capital. seoul and washington need to get on the same page. and president trump needs to get president moon on board whatever the next steps that he s going to purview. consider this a viewer s guide as the president is only in his first hour on the ground in south korea. our thanks to steve submit, sue mi terry, to senator bob kerry.