paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. as 2,024 presidential election year begins president biden s support among key voting ruse is slipping with the new suffolk university usa today poll showing the president drawing only 63% support from black voters down from 87% in 2020. donald trump now leading among hispanic voters and younger people in the same poll, the biden campaign hopes to turn those numbers around by attacking mr. trump as a threat to democracy, the president marking the third anniversary of the january 6th assault on the us capital with a speech in valley forge, pennsylvania, the release of his first television ad of the 2024 campaign. president biden: there is something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? paul: doug shown was an advisor to president clinton and the presidential campaign of m
paul: welcome to this special edition of the journal editorial report as we look back at the highs and lows of 2023. president biden s poll numbers sink as the year comes to a end. gallup s final poll of 2023 find 39% of americans approve of the job he is doing. the lowest of the last 7 presidents in their first term. the president has become frustrated with his low approval rating and polls that show him trailing donald trump nationality. can he turn those numbers around in the new year? let s ask fox news contributor karl rove. these numbers have been persisting for a while, the president is going down. s it too early to conclude that americans have made a judgment that this has not been a successful presidency? they have made that judgment and they made that judgment about the president himself three quarters, more than three quarters of the american people think he is too world to seek a second term. two thirds of the american people think he lacks the stamina and ment
findings. the press and fbi gave a penny somewhat of professionalism and took up the cause of vengeance. the real story here from the fbi s perspective is what an abomination that this was, this so-called investigation. it wasn t a witchhunt, it is a good imitation of one. let s bring in kim stross all who is following this story and then right from the beginning and their skepticism about the russian collusion narrative. what was the most important thing you learned from the durham report? i think the most important thing is what you touched on. it never should have been opened in the first place. the reason it was was in part because the fbi skipped all kinds of preliminary steps. they didn t do any interviews or try to corroborate or look at their own intelligence databases. if they would, they would ve seen there is no evidence held by any government agents that the agency trump engaged in any collusion. this was a decision, this is important, made by the higher ups
prisoners. he didn t relieve forced levels at 2500. he didn t have an arrangement with the taliban and they want to attack our troops. he came in with a certain set of circumstances, he had no ability to change. paul: let s bring in dan heninger, kim strasser and bill hemmer. the argument is president biden was a prisoner of the donald trump agreement. do you agree with that? we are a long way from the buck stops here. it s the buck stops somewhere else. it is always president biden s mo. i disagreed with the trump decisions but the actual chaos, that was biden s fault and i think it was because he wanted his first 9/11 in office, the 20th anniversary, to announce that all troops were home and accelerated and pulled out support. it is compounded because the defense secretary said he had 0 regrets about the withdrawal. not the loss of life. anthony blinken says there are 175 americans still in afghanistan. does anyone talk about them, 44 and control of the taliban? it is the
so bad, he will do what it takes to get it under control even if it means more economic pain. have got to get inflation behind us and wish there were a painless way to do that. there isn t. david: working americans are spending a month out of their annual salary to keep up with soaring prices. is inflation and its causes killing our economy? let s ask our panel, dan heninger, kim strawser land mary anastasia o grady. biden is downplaying inflation, powell saying it is essentially willing to risk recession to cure it. who is right? let s focus on that remark by president biden that inflation last month rose inch. a new turn for the economic lexicon, inflation coming up and inch. the biden white house and the federal reserve are operating in alternative universes when it comes to inflation. the white house has become a wholly politicized subject. the federal reserve, it is about economic reality. the white house is avoiding the underlying economics of inflation, trying to