martha: excited to see the tree show up. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now on the story, this quote from the white house just moments ago, it s not the age, it s the experience. responding just a couple minutes ago to some reports of panic behind the scenes on the president s 81st birthday. a lot of people concerned and getting louder about it as it gathers momentum saying he needs to step aside, that he s too old to be president for another term. so meanwhile, there s numbers to back this up. he s just hit an all-time low in his job approval, this is an nbc poll that just came out. 57% disapproval number for president biden. for the first time in these numbers, he loses to former president trump in a hypothetical matchup. his support slipping while trump s numbers have stayed roughly the same. what is increasing are the number of people that say that they are not sure who they want to vote for. also, since october 7th, a new road block has emerged for this
the story with martha maccallum starts right now. martha: i m martha maccallum. think about this. a 3-year-old american toddler whose parents were killed in this attack has been confirmed to be among the nine americans being held by hamas terrorists. this child s parents were killed in the attack. jake sullivan said he will be speaking to the families of the americans. people are asking, why aren t we hearing more about the americans being held? we have talked to one of the families. it s a strange dynamic of all of this that they re not front and center all the time in these pictures with americans thinking about them and focused on them all the time. there s a lot going on. part of that are the protests that keep stealing the headline as the country s hot spots boil over against the white house pro israel policy. watch this. you have a whole generation of voters coming up that will be able to vote in this next election. if you don t stop this genocide now, you won t g
we just learned of a big development at columbia university here in new york. they have seen many of these anti-israel protests. just now, the university has announced that they are suspending two student groups. one is called students for justice in palestine and the other, jewish voice for piece, a palestinian advocacy group. the school is writing the group s repeatedly violated university policy relating to holding campus events and that culminated in an unauthorized event on thursday that preceded despite warnings and included threatening rhetoric and intimidation. so this is the first real example we ve seen on the part of a major american university, an ivy league school, that is pushing back against these groups. a major development. there could be a lot of reasons why we re seeing this this afternoon. maybe coming from some of the donors, the trustees. we ll talk about it coming up in moments. first, this warning of a growing furry against the united states in arab na
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fredricka would you like to enjoy a baseball game from that seat? yellow everyone. thank you so much for joining me is back on the campaign trail hoping to re-energize his election bid after sure. when he acknowledged was a weak debate performance thursday night, the president just touching down in east hampton, new york. today s making several campaign stops on long island and in new jersey as well today but it comes as cnn has learned, the democratic party leaders are conducting polls to determine if biden is really the best candidates the party is conducting new poles to determine if biden will drag down candidates down ballot especially in critical races in the house and senate. cnn s arlette saenz as jordi us right now with a very latest on this. arlette out. what more are you learning about these efforts behind the scenes? well fread, we re learning that behind the scenes, democrats are quite anxious relating to the president s debate performance on thursday night. and