major conflict with north korea. absolutely. some new economic numbers out today and there is no trump bump. wall street, yes, is doing well, but the overall u.s. economy barely grew in the first three months of 2017. what s your verdict? for starters, not just the president getting mediocre grades. he has a 33% approval rating. look at house speaker paul ryan, 38% of americans have a favorable view of the house speaker. that s down from 46% in january. i m guessing the obamacare appeal has something to do with that. mitch mcconnell is at 27% but he s up from 20%. republicans are driving that increase if you want to call it that. republicans happy. mitch mcconnell got the president supreme court nominee confirmed. what else is happening? another stunning number if toyo want to take a look. the american people back in january 50% thought president trump would get the repeal and
picked up by fox news, nbc, everyone really and everybody was talking about it, got the president s secretary of agriculture to fire one of his employees. that s a lot of power. but the power comes from the fact that other media take breitbart so seriously. reporter: an online entrepreneur wielding influence in the offline world. you know, so the growing reach of the online media, there are tons of new questions today about the role it has and the way that policy and politics all play out. we want too bring in now nbc political analyst pat buchanan. also with us is peter fine. i want to start with you. doesn t he underwrite the legitimacy of the critics by putting out a doctored tape like that? he claims he didn t doctor it. he was sent that segment of tape to begin with and passed it, moved it on. but i tell you, thomas, the real