went up 10 points to an astounding 69%. the only modern president with a job approval rating lower than president trump in this term is ronald reagan who went on to win a landslide reelection. the gipper gave us a staple a shout-out to a deserving citizen, known as a lenny skutnik, the brave pilot that dove into the potomac to stave off the air crash. richard nixon was somewhere between the anger and bargaining stages of grief when he told congress this. one year of watergate is enough. needless to say, it wasn t. less than seven months later, richard nixon was out of a job. it fell to his successor, gerald ford, to level with the american people. the state of the union is not good. fast forward to where
and they would say, i will never forget, and he would cross that out and say, no, i will always remember. everything with the gipper had to be positive. and the guy won 49 states. so this president just seems so wedded to fear and smear and golly it worked in 2016. now, he just snuck the goods through customs. it was only by 77,000 votes and he won pennsylvania plus mig, plus wisconsin, but he did win. and i think it s we re going to see tomorrow, it s probably a limited strategy to try to carry that forward. he seems to be shrinking his party. one little other thing to paul s point. and that is, we re not just talking about the election tomorrow and the legacy for the republican party. we re talking about, down the road. two years from now, four years from now. george w. bush was talking about immigration, making the republican party bigger. the big tent. donald trump has turned it into the pup tent, right? this is where are republicans,
lift out of their tax plan that they expected to. we talked about the reasons for that before. voters don t vote out of gratitude. they vote out of anger and frustration and fear. but, certainly healthcare is we re seeing that playing across the spectrum in all these races from the governor s race, astronaut race, individual house races. we saw it the in florida s governor race last night. republicans are trying to thread the needle on that, for pre-existing conditions. keeping that in the mix. it s a different conversation than republicans have been having before. we will see how that plays out in november. neil: all right. tom, always good chatting with you, my friend. ronald reagan and the big agreement with mic call gorbachev, the president wants to tear it up. who would the gipper think. after this. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first.
war, president reagan launched a crusade to confront the soviet union, not with more nuclear weapons but with ideals. if the rest of the century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy. one action was finding the international republican institute the following year. the mission, to spread the light of democracy around the globe. by 1993 the u.s. victory in the war of ideals was sealed and the iri opened an office in moscow. but it s hard to imagine that the gipper would be proud of some of its employees. take sam patton. patton ran the iri s moscow office from 2001 to 2004. he just plead guilty to charges of illegally lobbying in the u.s. for prorussian politicians in ukraine. his business partner, one
the gipper would be proud of some of its employees. take sam paton. he ran the moscow office from 2001 to 2004. he just pled guilty to charges of illegally lobbying in the u.s. for pro-russian politicians in ukraine. his business partner, one constantine kalemnik who worked for the iri. he took over the moscow office when paton left in 2004. rarely caught on camera, colleagues named him the invisible man. documents filed by mueller s office have linked him to russian intelligence. now kalemnik is better known as paul manafort s alleged partner in crime. the two of them are accused just like paton, of promoting russian interests in ukraine. what happened inside that office? how did employees who were hired to promote democratic values end up working for the wrong side?