us. we have chuck todd standing by in washington. after all, at the top of the hour, this becomes meet the press daily with chuck todd. chuck, what do you make of what we just witnessed? look, it s number one, for donald trump, as a party leader, he was remarkably discipline ld. he did not throw anybody under the bus inside his own party. he talked about being disappointed in the freedom caucus, but there he praised paul ryan. and paul ryan did the same. so, look, the fact that he s publicly willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with ryan on this and sort of admit defeat, admit that this didn t work, and he went out of his way to attempt a deflection game. i don t know if it s going to work in the long run, but saying, hey, health care is on democrats now, it s on democrats. but there is something else to read between the lines there, brian, that i know this about this white house and him right now, and his way of throwing out an invitation to democrats. he basically admitted, th
bring some of that. you know, he s going to make his decision about whether this is the right time for him. but if he s in the debate, it will be a good debate. if he s not in the debate, it will still be a good debate and important for democrats to get the issues out because i know the republicans have gotten a lot of attention and such an important contrast between the two sides. we are waiting for a show from the left. that s for sure. former michigan governor granholm, thank you. appreciate it. new poll shows 6 in 10 americans say they re opposed to completely eliminating planned parenthood s federal funding and it comes as the organization continues to come under fire as a string of secretly taped videos showing planned parenthood employees talking about the use of fetal tissue and organs. one of the organization s fiercest critics carly fiorina clashed with chuck todd standing by the description of a scene in one of the videos.
and that could happen but he has to be cleared of the allegations, we don t know. i wouldn t be hanging out with joy behar, but depends who is on the scene. is that about joy behar? no. but if he was on the lineup and i was in the middle of a controversy, i d salem come on after her. you don t want to make it look like you re making light of the situation you re dealing with. that s the issue. that s one of those. it s unfortunate. just stay away. that s all. go do your job, have fun. don t have fun about the scandal. chuck, over the last two or three months, chris christie s critics and the press in politics has said this proves it s over. you could never be president. not just no. not you. i mean the critics in the press. this shows if not he knew something about the bridge, but it shows he has no control, his management style is no good. and he could never be president.
february of the last year. right now, 44% disapprove of the job he s doing in office. meanwhile, 57% of garden state voters say governor christie would not make it as president. 35% believe he would. chuck, help us here. chris christie is the home power. i ll give you that. with all the frpress, i woul 49% in a heartbeat. in these days, anybody would take that. absolutely. after all of that press and all of the investigation, you give me basically 50% approval rating, i m doing a dance in trenton. in this environment. 3. we re in a holding pattern. when the investigation comes out, we ll know if chris christie is running for president or whether he can make it or not. there is no other way to do it, right? there is no magical thick elixir. govern, hope that people say
msnbc politics nation. reverend al sharpton, absolutely nothing going on in his life these day. chief white house correspondent host of the the daily rundown chuck todd. chuck, your birthday yesterday. and yours is today. i couldn t figure out it yours is the day before me or after me. all right. reverend, i noticed yesterday, you re like in other newspapers because you re the good guy. and i noticed something about you. right. from 20 years ago, like we changed yeah. you re so well coifed now, everything is all tailored and everything. yeah, a little different. a crazy day for you now. what s crazy is that we ve been saying the last several years that we were kids to cooperate against gun violence, other things. national action, with my group