point is deeply upside down. it s 40-55, 40 approve, 55 opposite job approval. you do wonder how bad it has to get until they start jumping ship, and at what point i think this is the key thing at one point, i think this is the key thing, their point whether legislation will happen. not only are the numbers eroding a little bit. do you strongly approve or just approve? worst deterioration of strongly approving saying i approve but not strongly approve. the flip side, even if his numbers deteriorate a lot, 20% of americans that like donald trump. that s tens of millions of people. when richard nixon left office he had a 24% approval rating. imagine if richard nixon had been run out of office and not resigned and run around office in 1974 talking about how republicans betrayed them and did that again in 76 and 80, it s very easy to imagine donald
i am disappointed that comey is not coming forward. he shouldn t have to be subpoenaed. a commitment to the truth, and i can understand why he didn t quit. i think that would have been giving trump an unearned victory. but now that he was fired, i do think the american people have a right to know that. the other point i would make is this. trump is obviously a disaster. he is a mix of impulses and arrogance, and he s just clearly personally unsuited for serious responsibility. but i hope we won t forget that there s a policy side to it too. this presidency has been a disaster not just in his cover-ups and his blustering but in his total inability to carry out the policies he s trying to carry out. and so i hope that as i said, the judgment and i think it is entirely appropriate to say this is the worst presidency in anybody s memory, but it s not simply because of trying to quash an investigation. it is because of the miserable way he governs across the board. that is a point that
power and let s be clear about this. clinton had sex that he shouldn t have had and lied about it. but with regard to every misuse of presidential authority, specifically the fbi files in the travel office, kenneth starr said that the clintons were not guilty of any of them. i asked kenneth starr so this is all i m saying is yeah. go ahead. to your point, the exoneration on the i mean the development of kenneth starr was basically he started on a and he ended up all the way at z. he started on a land dale in arkansas, and he ended up with a white house intern which, to me, illustrates the way these things can kind of mushroom. they can. the point i want to make this is. this is not comparable ithis sense. if donald trump is found to have done the things that credible people said he did, these are far more serious than anything
i asked kenneth starr so this is all i m saying is yeah. go ahead. to your point, the exoneration on the i mean the development of kenneth starr was basically he started on a and he ended up all the way at z. he started on a land dale in arkansas, and he ended up with a white house intern which, to me, illustrates the way these things can kind of mushroom. they can. but the point i want to make this is. this is not comparable in this sense. if donald trump is found to have done the things that credible people said he did, these are far more serious than anything bill clinton did. bill clinton was impeached in the house, ultimately not convicted in the senate for a private sexual activity that he shouldn t have engaged in. members of the house, democrats, were ready to censure him for it. there s no comparability in that
they were also concerned that he was not really a conservative, but they acted like it was a matter beyond their control. it s not like paul ryan and kevin mccarthy walked out there and were like, nominate donald trump. they didn t want this to happen if you go back a year and a half, but they behaved as though it was a matter completely beyond their control when there are things they could have done to stop it. it just things that would have been politically costly, and they chose not to do it. they continue to act on capitol hill as if they are not in control. yes, and it remains to be seen if they continue to do that as trump base of support kind of erodes. or if he does. there was a poll that came out recently on monday that showed his base of support was eroding a little bit. if that keeps going we ll see what they do. until then it s unclear. the polling average at this point is deeply upside down, right? 40-55, 40 approve, 55, opposite