all of this, cnn political commentator errol lewis. host of political anchor for spectrum news. good morning to you. good morning, jessica. so we have this new poll out this morning. it shows the president with a 51% approval rating when it comes to his handling of the economy. that s where he s got his best numbers. yet you also saw that still a slight majority of americans disapprove of his overall performance. is his handling of the economy enough for him to get re-elected? i ll put it this way, if there was one category you wanted to be rated favorably in that would be the one. better than foreign policy or national security or almost any other category. it s part of the trump brand. it s something that we know voters care about. we know that it s something that will not just energize his base but also keep some of his borderline opponents, those who are really kind of indifferent to the trump presidency, maybe they ll give him a chance or
it s the roll back of the tail pipe standard with cars which makes no sense. the car manufacturer is already there, the big manufacturers are coming to the administration to say don t do this. it seems to be this attitude if obama did it it s gone, good, bad or indifferent. that really worries me. the biggest thing long term is this erosion of trust in science. they are trying to create confusion in science, by not allowing pure science, they are replacing people on the science advisory board with people from industry. while industry has a right to be heard when there is a regulation that affects them they should not be the dominant voice. that s what we re seeing this administration again and again talking about just the economics of an issue. epa is about protecting public health and the environment. the economics play a role, i mean, you are allowed to consider it in some cases on clean air standards, you might consider it in others on their third set of clean air yar i can t say wh
sandra: president trump talking to maria bartiromo about his treatment in the special counsel s investigation as we await robert mueller s report in russian interference in the 2016 election. that investigation almost two years old now. let s bring in our headliner, hakeem jeffries, a member of the judiciary committee. good morning. nice to have you on set. good to have you here. so you just heard the president on the robert mueller investigation. we re in an hour by hour wait and see to see when this is going to be released. what do you think is going the happen here? this is an important national security investigation that we just have to allow to run its course. the house just voted 420-0 to make sure that when bob mueller completes his work and finishes his report that that report can be seen by the american people. which is a bipartisan consensus coming out of the house. good, bad or indifferent. sandra: the president wants that, too. that s the right thing to do.
explanations for the decisions he made. who he decided to prosecute, who he decided not to prosecute and why? rod rosenstein as the supervisor of the case was necessarily involved in some of those decisions. indeed he may have said no to the special prosecutor at different times a fact that will be reported to congress. so it s possible that he s decided to stay to sort of deal with that, you know, more easily as part of the department of justice. as a person with the knowledge as a person who can take the heat as it all comes out good, bad or indifferent. nicole, thank you very much for that. we know president trump loves to watch and tweet about fox news, but might we be missing a new turn in that relationship. we ll explain. chilling new reports of that lion air crash pilot scrambling for manuals as the plane went down and another pilot saving the same jet from crashing just one day earlier. we ll be right back.
happened and saying to his girlfriend and really in his mind. the prosecutor s response surprised me. your response as a prosecutor should be of course we ll preserve that. we have a duty as a prosecutor to preserve any evidence whether it is helpful for the prosecution or helpful for the defendant. the term we use is brady evidence. you have an obligation to do that. and the fact that the prosecutor was a little bit mealy mouth and said, well, judge, they are just phishing around. like an undue burden to ask them to keep stuff like that. that gives me a little bit of pause about what is in those texts as the prosecutor, is he a little bit nervous. but when you are a prosecutor, your job is not to win but to do justice and if you have texts, good, bad or indifferent, they need to be preserved and go over to the defense. one of the things we watched this, brian, kevin spacey facing a felony charge that could bring serious prison time but on nantucket island. it is a sleepy place