career and he has people who are close to him for a while and then get discarded but often those people come back or they talk to him through back channels. i m thinking of corey lewandowski, for instance, the former campaign manager. this is a guy who has relied on his own counsel for many year, decades, isn t a product of his people around him. i think as much as personnel moves are important, it s really trump who s driving everything there and who is calling all the shots. and both of you very quickly, pardoning of joe arpaio, that certainly keeps the base happy. do you think the president s going to face congressional pushback as he tries to get anything implemented in congress, erin, you first. any pushback from congress on his agenda? on his agenda. yes, look, earlier this week, the white house put out a statement saying that the president and mitch mcconnell are still going to keep their scheduled meetings and they are broadly on the same page.
getting any of that in the polls. we are seeing housing markets, wall street, of course, some downturn, the unemployment numbers are coming down a bit. nobody thinks the white house is to thank for any of this. what does he have to do to close that perception gap? i think he has to hope it accumulates, the only way that happens is taking health care away from the problem. this is not about geeze, remember that housing program i launched that kept you in your house? remember that auto bailout in that s not what he needs to do. it s clear that it may help health care work. i think that that has to, when you look at the poll, it s driving everything. that focus group that we were involved with last week, it s everything. that s all, they re viewing the president entirely through the prism of health care, and a little bit of the leadership of washington and dysfunction of washington. really, it s all about clearing the decks on health care, there
disapprovals, 54% you say that s the highest ever and the trust worthy number is still unfortunately for the president pretty darn low. one of the things, look at the entire year it s not even close, 58% of voters say they re shaping their opinion about the president through health care and everything else was in 20s or teens whether it was the government shut down health care is driving everything. where you see it, joe, is the right track wrong direction number, the perception of the economy have rebounded a bit. they re being into preshutdown levels where there is green shoots of opt mechl. chuck, we re putting your numbers up, health care, what
across much of texas and oklahoma and kansas and the hottest we ve seen in such a long time and look where we have severe weather to the north of it. storm track is off to the north and the high pressure is sitting over areas of texas and it s driving everything off to the north and we re seeing the showers and thunderstorms today. anywhere you see the yellow, we ll have the threat for severe weather today. and mostly strong winds and some hail at times. but we we could see an isolated tornado not looking for an outbreak or a large tornado. move forward once again and take a look at the temperatures across the south. high 101 in dallas, 102 in shreveport, oklahoma city, 104 and not just hot, but a lot of the areas especially to the eastern side of that map going to be humid and make things much more uncomfortable and look at the rest of the country today. shaping up like this. and the heat extends to the far northern plains and 94 in minneapolis and humid and 91 in chicago, tomorrow, t