to deal with russia. we want to talk about all of this with abby phillip and audie cornish, who are here now. abby, what s your take away? i think what you re raising about abortion really speaks to something that i could not ignore, which was that this was a republican audience in the state of iowa about the republican caucuses. but she was speaking to a national audience. she was really trying to present herself, i think very differently from many of her other colleagues in this race. but she was also trying to leave herself a lot of room on some issues like abortion. i thought it was so striking to me, just the tonal difference here. this was almost like a republican candidate circa the george w. bush era, incredibly hawkish on foreign policy, serious and very substantive on a number of other issues, whether it s on entitlements or government spending, even things like guns and the border and china. but i was keeping track. it took her 70 minutes to say the word woke a
the bar is very low when it comes to that. he is just doing side quests at this point. good morning, everyone. sorry for those tunes. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. yeah, better tunes from us later on. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have a lot to get to this morning. we begin with president biden s campaign calling out donald trump for, quote, parroting adolf hitler in comments the former president made in new hampshire saturday. trump quoted russian president vladimir putin calling biden a threat to democracy and doubled down on anti-immigration rhetoric saying immigrants, are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country. and that comes as the senate and biden administration continue to negotiate on border policy changes to pass a supplemental funding package for aid to ukraine and israel. now, on saturday senators wrapped up in-person meetings on capitol hill saying while there isn t an agreement yet, they are making progress. senator
Are you guys going to interject here or do i get to speak now . The town hall is for the president to speak to the voters of New Hampshire, not for this back and forth with the media. Thats number one. Number two, with respect to ukraine, i totally disagree. He did not say he was going to give over ukraine the way you intimate, van. He did not say van, what he said was is that he would actually look for a solution to end it quickly. He put 24 hours on it. What joe biden has done has been a disaster because initially with ukraine, joe biden wanted to give Vladimir Zelenskyy a ride out of dodge. It wasnt until people in moscow and ukraine here in the United States said this invasion is wrong and joe biden reversed course. Im trying to respond to everything coming up on the table. Lastly, we spent 22, 23 minutes talking about january 6th. We could have been talking about a whole lot of other issues. But let me are clear. What was said in this town hall about National Guard troops authoriz
2020. but if you look at polls among republican voters, it is, this man is who they want, as of now. he s far ahead of everybody else. we have not had a debate yet. i mean, not even a single debate. the field is still yet to be defined, whether it s myself or other candidates. you think the debates really matter that much? oh, my god, yes, absolutely. i think those debates, folks are going to see he is not the same. guy this is not 2016. he doesn t bring the same fire. there s no new ideas. he s just going to try to re-litigate what happened in 2020. but we all know exactly what happened there. he s going to be on the defensive. he s not gonna have the energy. so, i think there s a huge opportunity for the new generation, the new voice the republican party, new ideas to come to fruition. there s still a lot of play here before we even get to the first of the nation primary in new hampshire, which is next january. so, i understand the polls. when someone pulls and says
polls for president biden, they are bad, saying that the majority of americans are losing trust in our president. a new poll shows his approval rating at 36%. that s a new low and all time low. and democrats have good reason to worry about the president s age and mental fitness heading into 2024. 63% of americans said they do not believe biden has the mental sharpness to effectively serve as president. even the left wing media couldn t ignore president biden s terrible numbers. this poll is just brutal for president biden. absolutely, george. and you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden. it s actually six points down just since february. and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. i was told i could not send the poll around until after 12:00 midnight. i sent it out at 12:02 because it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. the coalition that elected joe biden with the hist