what it means for the next phase of the war, plus the message from the pope about the war in the holy land. then, lost and found, putin s number one critic, alexei navalny located in an arctic prison, putting an end to the mystery of his whereabouts. and christmas in camp david, how president biden is spending the holiday, plus the first lady on how the white house decked the halls for the season. and finally, you may be dreaming of a white christmas, but you probably won t get it this year. just 1% of the nation is expected to see snowfall, so who will get that christmas wish? hello, it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m jessica layton in new york city. we begin overseas in gaza where israel is intensifying its operations on the ground until victory over hamas is reached. benjamin netanyahu saying it has no choice but to continue to fight. pope francis commenting on the war saying the message of jesus birth, what is the latest inside gaza. reporter: let s start with the pr
the national polls of how people feel about this bill, you have to look at how republicans in particular feel. if you look at the intensity scores among these republicans, the people who are most intense about this are against this. now these republican members, a lot of them only have to wory about their primaries so they re only concerned about what republicans think about this legislation and a lot of them are going to make the calculation that this will hurt them in their primaries. i think it s got a very difficult path. eleanor, if this immigration reform passes, what effect will that have on president obama s long-term legacy? oh, i think it will be considered one of the most significant pieces of legislation to emerge thefrom capitol hill in recent years. it would be ranked up there. if you go back to the clinton and george bush era, the memorable pieces of legislation they passed as well, so it would be a significant accomplishment, but it s also needed for the country and
the green line is the president s approval and the red is disapproval. you can see that he s under water here for the first time in a very long time. 46.4% approval numbers. if purchase working in the west wing. how are you feeling about those numbers and back to that. what do you do to try to turn the tide? do you try to re rev up the bas? and try to draw attention to somewhere else? he s trying that. there hasn t been any good news for the president. not only does bad news push his ratings down. he doesn t have the good news to get supporters excited to push it up. he failed to achieve gun control. he failed to stop sequestration. these are things that disappointed and demoralized those who supported him. that s why he s pushing so hard to hope that immigration reform passes. so far he has had bad news
conspiracy. take a listen to what he told jeff zelany. the path the white house is going down i bleen is designed for this bill to fail. it s designed for intentionally for politics. yes, because it s designed for it to sail through the senate and then crash in the house to let the president go and campaign in 2014 on this issue. now, cruz says in that interview that the president will be blamed if the bill fails. but which polls is cruz reading that say hispanics will blame the president if immigration reform passes? because cruz is look, rubio who is pushing this is running for president. right. rand paul who wants claims he wants to broker is running for president. cruz is opposing this is running for president. this is so lovely, you can t imagine how lovely it is. and by the way, if you re a republican running for president, you blame barack obama for everything because the
where the number was two months ago. there was a language change. when we asked the basic question about whether folks would be upset or if immigration reform passes, the public was split right down the middle 47-47. majority of republicans said they would not be upset if it did not pass and more americans would be upset if they failed to pass background checks on gun sales rather than immigration. intensity matters. there s more intensity on the issue of guns than on immigrati immigration. 21% said they would be upset if congress doesn t pass the law. one more thing while washington haggles over the details, immigration policy is being made in states. colorado became the eighth state to grant driver s licenses to illegal immigrants.