do things concern. good morning, everyone, it is thursday, august 3rd. with us, we have a veteran columnist editor of commentary magazine john podoritz. director of domestic policy studies at stanford, fellow at the hoover institution, lee chen. also steve ratner with us, jeremy peters, and kacie hunt is with us. let s take a look at the new poll taken from july 27th to august 1st. it has president trump s approval rating at 33%, down seven points since the end of june. 61% disapprove among voters that
an fbi and several congressional investigations into his campaign s relationship with the russians. three reporters from politico who interviewed nearly two dozen aides, allies, and confidants of president trump paint a picture of a white house on a collision course between trump s fixed habits and his growing realization that this job is harder than he imagined when he won that election on november 8th. they also write that trump s unexpected win gave him and his closest advisers the false sense that governing would be as easy to master as running a successful campaign turned out to be. it was a rookie mistake. the president told politico, making business decisions and buying buildings don t involve heart. this involves heart. these are heavy decisions. well, for more on the president s on the job training, let s bring in our roundtable tonight, francesca chambers, jonathan capehart, and ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies at the american enterprise institute. let s
criticize donald trump and he says we already have now a president who has no class. come on. i don t get these people. there are so many things about that are astonishing. one is marco rubio makes a big deal about how he s a hip hop fan and he s never going to go on a comedy show, for instance to talk about anything is just the things he criticizes obama for are things he will do within the next two months. exactly. sort of seems immature. bill kristol, would you agree? yes, you would. joining us now the editor of the weekly standard, bill kristol. also in washington director of domestic policy studies and research fellow at the hoover institution, lan hi chen. so bill tweeted yesterday joe, about donald trump. this is going to be our must read for today.
what sewer did you wake up in? i went down. willie and i share an office downstairs downstairs. we have like muppet approximately coats in there. i went down and took a coat off the rack. i have no idea. it s not willie s. it s not mine. wears it so well. put out an alert, whoever owns this coat call us. it s mine now. we ll return it to its rightful owner. i know it s not a stain on it so it can t be barnicles. also we ve got former communication director for president george w. bush and host of the view nicolle wallace. and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. research fellow at hoover and the director of domestic policy studies there at stanford university lonnie chen. in washington we ve got senior political editor and white house correspondent for the washington post, sam stein. with a very nice tidy jacket. which obviously belongs to him. he doesn t have class on
beginnings. a new grandchild another new hairstyle hairstyle, a new e-mail account. why not a new relationship with the press? so here it goes. no more secrecy. no more zone of privacy. after all, what good did that do me? okay. joining us now for the must read opinion panls fellow at the hoover institute and director of domestic policy studies at stanford university lonnie chen. first, hillary, any thoughts on what she just said? that was really awkward. i just thought it was awkward. i think all the discussions around the e-mail she s had have been very awkward to me. and they don t event sincerity and that s the biggest problem. i didn t know what to say