i think it s a joke. it would still be difficult to prepare for and stand out in a massive crowd. there s only so much substance you can get into when you only have a few minutes to speak. it s true. thank you so much. i do want to start with something very interesting. you might remember a few weeks ago the new york times reported there were these internal trump campaign polls showing the president losing to joe biden in states he needs to win like pennsylvania or wisconsin. president trump took to twitter and went on interviews and talked about no polls. it s phony, fake and made up. abc got their hands on it and now the trump campaign is acknowledging these internal polls from march showing trump losing resoundingly to biden in states such as pennsylvania and wisconsin. once again, the president says it s not true and it s true. yeah. that s right fp for a while the president and his campaign couldn t decide whether they want to say the polls were misinterpreted or old or fake
we were so they figured out how to win. they like to downplay that. one of their favorite arguments is the trump campaign couldn t even collude with the rnc in pennsylvania or i ve heard that a million times. i don t know how credible any of that all really is. i think this wouldn t come at a worse time right now for donald trump. presumably, well, i shouldn t presume anything with this congress or with this white house. you re looking at a tax bill that is making progress on capitol hill. this could be something of a victory for president trump, if it gets to the right place. now the russia stuff has been on the back burner for the last few weeks and months. the manafort indictments but that was really the first time we heard of the story in a long time. so the president right now is intent on demonstrating some type of forward momentum. as soon as the story line becomes about russia again, is when i think the president starts to have a meltdown. and that s when the tweets g
unfavorable rating. of course donald trump was too, but it raises the question here, how many voters were always going to break against hillary clinton in the end? because they couldn t ultimately bring themselves to vote for her. yes, trump extremely unpopular, but clinton was too. look at this. this is the line graph. this is the head to head, donald trump versus hillary clinton map. basically for the entire year. look at this, 50% right here, hillary clinton, essentially for the entire campaign couldn t crack 50%. one day, basically late march, early april, cracked over 50%, right up to 50% by about a fraction of a point. the reese of the year, couldn t hit 50%. also, look what you see here, you see the yawning gaps that tighten, it keeps happening throughout the campaign, that was a trend we were seeing. donald trump would get hit with a scandal or bad news or a gaffe, whatever it was, and he d fall far behind, but the poll ls always ended up coming back together in converging. may
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi
selling books and making a joke of the political system and making a joke of american voters, seriously? for his own benefit? howard, go ahead. i don t think that was that awful. look, i don t think come on. stop that. he doesn t know at the end of the day he got the issue, which was who was in the opposition in libya? that s reasonable. what are you doing, howard dean? come on. look, what rick perry did was a lot scarier than what herman cain just did. i ll take perry. any day of the week. i ll take perry. rick perry s campaign couldn t afford a two cent index card to write the three things he wanted to remember? gene, we re blown away. howard dean obviously loves herman cain. i m not defending him. i m just saying i didn t think it was that response? i kind of love herman cain too because he is enormously