i think you ve seen that in florida, opposing covid restrictions, opposing government restrictions, big tech, for example. embracing cryptocurrency. you re starting to see what a young republican party can look like. the question is, when trump comes back, if he does, if he runs again, do we stop talking about all these things and does it once again become exclusively the party of one man? chuck, leader mccarthy is very clear, he thinks he needs former president trump in order to win back control of the house. look at all the races the former president is asserting himself into, not just government races but gubernatorial races, as well as you have these moderate republicans governors that are really becoming a dying breed.
spokesperson for michelle obama. d spokesperson for michelle obama. kamala harris. chief correspondent kristen welker and chief correspondent baker and carlos curbelo. i m going to put up the breakdown of the president s approval rating. everyone in the coalition is not happy, from bernie sanders to john kasich, right? everybody in between here. with independents, he fell 25 points, with african-americans, 19, with 18-year-olds, 10. this is basically the first four months to now. what is your take on this? let me put it this way. how is the white house handling this moment? i think the clip that you played, chuck, really illuminates what s happening across the country and how the white house, and i would argue the democratic apparatus is doing it as a whole. there is a disconnect, to state the obvious, between what voters
couple of things really, really well. and in talking about it, over and over and over again, so people know we did it as opposed to we re going to do everything, promising the world, and then not getting all of that done. people leave feeling like look, my government isn t doing anything for me. so i think we re in a crisis when it comes to people believing in government and the best thing we can do is govern effectively. what do you want the president to do in the next six weeks? because you could argue because it is an even numbered year, you know this, many only have until april 1 to truly get some legislation done. what should the focus be? i think for me, the issues that are always going to resonate, the cost of prescription drugs, right? just allow medicare to negotiate for drug prices. it was in different versions of bills, a common sense thing. this unites the democratic coalition. it s not a democratic coalition, by the way. it doesn t make any sense that medicare can
i m saying. what is in the reconciliation bill, and i know that s inside the beltway is enormously popular, it is what 70, 80% of the people, nbc should do the poll, find out whether the american people want us to take on the greed of drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs and expand medicare to cover and hearing and eyeglasses and home health care and deal with climate change, all those pieces of legislation are enormously popular, the bill itself in its entirety and the president deserves real credit for looking at the real problems facing this country but what we had was obstructionism from 50 republicans and two democrats and what we got to do now is take the issues to the american people and if the public wants to vote against lowering the cost of prescription drugs and continue to give tax breaks to the rich, let them vote that way and let the american people see
working people, if it deals with the climate, i m there. but we have to look at the details. congressman bernie sanders, congress man from vermont, appreciate your perspective. thank you. joining me is alyssa slotkin of michigan. welcome back to meet the press. thanks for having me. you re one of house seven house democrats representing a district that trump won in 2020, i want to show you numbers from independents on president biden, that is on the issue of compromise, and has he been too willing, too unwilling, right balance among independents, a large majority, 55% believe the president has been too unwilling to compromise. you re a district that obviously has an independent mind. you won. trump won. is this what you re hearing? i do. i think that people in general are kind of questioning whether government still works for them. and so we should be doing a