it also eliminates adoption expenses, deductions for them. strange, why would you take that away? we want to be encouraging adoption, not discouraging it. one peculiar deduction saved, there will be no change to the deduction levels for the 401(k) contribution. in the end, there s a little something for everyone but when it comes to the middle class, little is the key word. big gains for the rich, smaller gains for the middle class. ali velshi, thank you. it s worth noting the house starts marking up the bill tomorrow. president trump says he s meeting with vladimir putin during his trip to asia. does he plan to ask the russian president for help with north korea? that s next. larry david hosted saturday night live and showed us what it would be like if bernie sanders was a contest be on the price is right. thank you. it s good to be here. i just want to say the show is a
cirilli, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg tv and sean sullivan, reporter for the washington post. great to have you both joining us here. good morning. your paper s poll on president trump s job performance that chris was talking about. as he begins the trip, what are your biggest take aways? well, you know, it s remarkable how poorly he compares with his predecessors historically. we haven t seen this kind of negativity in terms of how the american people view presidents early in their first terms. usually what you see from the american public is a period of acceptance, a period of positive activity. this new president is not even a year removed from being elected. usually the public is willing to give the new president some degree of good will, some degree of trust. we don t see any of that right now. we see numbers that look like numbers you would see toward the end of a presidency that is not going very well. historically, this is policy
unprecedented stuff in terms of what we see in the poll. it shows president trump s performance ratings falling short of early expectation when it comes to his handling of the economy, dealing with race relations and improving the health care system and dealing with terrorism. is this coming from an inpatient electorate? how are you reading these numbers? when you look at things like the president s response to charlottesville, when you look at the lack of an ability to reform the health care system with the republican-controlled congress and now all eyes falling on tax reform, there s so many different situations to say the least about just how divided america is right now. that said, i think from the administration s perspective, if you look deep near these numbers and look at battleground states, the states the president was able to win, michigan and wisconsin, there s more signs of political life so to speak. look, we re living in a very, very, i don t have to tell anybody here
to try to get north korea to get rid of its nuclear weapons, to force them to do it have said for a long time we can t use precision guided munitions to eliminate the nuclear threat. it has to be a ground war. what s really interesting is on the eve of the president s going to asia, that this was released. that s the interesting bit. i think it s to make sure that everybody understands clearly what s involved in trying to get the north koreans to give up nuclear weapons by they re not going to do, dara. tell me about the ramifications of a decision like this. well, it s patently obvious to the casual observer that any attempt to get the north koreans to get rid of their nuclear weapons is probably going to fail unless you can get china to sign on. now, china s not going to do that for two reasons. first of all, china does not want lots of korean refugees
don t care about explanations or what not. the base of the democratic party looks at that last primary and agree with donna brazile. that s why it stings is because there s an leapt outside and we can go back and forth with the letter the clinton world circulated. that s old news. people in the base of the democratic party are absolutely baffled and concerned at the state of affairs right now. that s going to sting for quite some time till all of this gets out. there s no real leader of the democratic party. that s what democrats are grappling with. we ll have to see how that turns out. it the manufacture abc/post pole shows 71% of republican who s lean gp feel party leaders shoud criticize trump when they disagree with him. when you look at republicans willing to speak out against the president, we re talking about the bush family, senator jeff flake, senator bob corker for