that attack, including our ambassador. new evidence today that americans are increasingly fed up with the federal government, and a series of polls show a big shift in the number of people who believe that this country is headed in the right direction. over the last 30 days, we ve seen a big dive in the number of americans who believe america is on the right track. and from 40% last month to just 32% today. and now, 61% believe the united states is headed in the wrong direction, compare that with 54% in february. in the real clear politics average of all polls, the percentage who believes the country is on the wrong track, the number up top, has been trending up since december. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor, host of power play on foxnews.com live. and chris, it s a dramatic lift if you look at the numbers and how they play out.
megyn: fox news alert. the president s advocacy group, organizing for action, goes on the defense after calls for it to be shut down calls by liberal groups, for this to be shut down accusations that he s selling access to our president. welcome to america live everyone, i m megyn kelly. moments ago a new statement from the group that s led by president obama s former campaign manager jim messina. organizing for action is denying it s granting presidential meetings to the highest bidder. and the new york times had an article, you can get four meetings a year, quarterly meetings with the president for low low price of $500,000 to the group that s charged with pushing forward his agenda. organizing for action. a spokeswoman for the group reportedly saying, quote, supporters have shown interest in taking a in taking part because they believe in the president s agenda. no one has been promised access to the president. chris stirewalt is our fox
to recruit them for helping to get new gun laws passed. we re counting on all of you, the legitimate news media, to cover these discussions because the truth is that times have changed. alisyn: chris stirewalt is a fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. hi, chris. let s talk about the possibly awkward juxtaposition tonight there in the audience with gun rights advocates and gun control advocates all listening to the president. you know, when you get down to it, these state of the union speeches in the modern era are dog and pony shows and they re tout there and somebody s going to bring their dogs and other people going to bring their ponies and they re going to put them out there and they re going to do this. that s always been the case whether it s ted nugent or whom ever it is. though i don t think we ll get to hear cat scratch fever, but
of state. and wouldn t that be interesting? where would president obama line up? who would you back if you were president obama? well, white house press secretary jay carney yesterday side-stepped a question over who has the better legacy, mr. biden or mrs. clinton. those kind of assessments, i think, i m sure made repeatedly in the future, those two individuals. i think for the sake and sanity of all involved, it s worth taking a little bit of a break from presidential ewilkes year politics. megyn: oh, it s like he doesn t know us as all. (laughter) joining us now our fox news digital politics editor, host of power play on foxnews.com, chris stirewalt. the reason we ask as the press, we hear that the potential candidates are starting to stir the pot a
president and where you get a step that had the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence. then i want to go ahead and take it. megyn: chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com, chris, that executive action may becoming more and more important because it seems to be, and when you read the article coming out of capitol hill today, that they don t believe the votes are there for some comprehensive gun control legislation. they don t think they ve got it so we may be left with only executive action on this. right, at the beginning, megyn, we thought that this was going to be a moment where the gaps started to bridge on this subject and people were talking about a comprehensive bill and again, if joe biden had been meeting today with let s say joe manchin n.r.a. backed senator from west virginia or john dingell n.r.a. backed from michigan and groups pro gun, maybe they re going to try to do a big deal, maybe try to do