this time last year 38% of americans felt the country was heading for a good place. 56% dissented. why the negative change in 12 months? first of all the isis situation remains very intense and millions of refugees streaming into europe is a disgrace. none of that should have happened. president obama has no solution to the jihadist problem. secondly american workers are not making enough money to prosper. all these jobs numbers are bogus. it s not the jobs that are out there. it s how much they pay. and working people know employers have the upper hand. workers have little bargaining power in this soft economy. cbs also asked about president obama s job approval rating. had 46% approve, 47% disprove. this time last year 46% approve. 46% disapprove. obviously a change. the reason president obama is not doing worse in that category is that many americans like him personally. they feel he is trying and some of his policies, as you know, are pleasing to the left. on the right, many despis
the pacific rim deal is not done. i mean he says he signed it. now he has to get congress to sign off on it. it would be good. it would be generally good if it passed. it wochlt i don t think he has shown a lot of leadership on trade. and on the climate it s the same thing. there is no commitment in the climb another deal. everybody got together and signed and said we have a deal. there is no accountability. is the terror threat gob to be worse or improved. i think it s going to be worse. they re getting stronger in libya, al qaeda and the arabian peninsula. we have a whole jihadist problem that isn t being remotely addressed by what we re doing in syria and iraq. thank you all. still ahead from turmoil around the globe to political turmoil here at home, 2015 saw a growing split in the gop. we ll see how it played out in congress and on the campaign trail next.
problems back home? i would argue that vladimir putin has real vested interest in the outcome. not only in his relationship with assad. but also that he sees the jihadist threat in that part of the world as an ex-is extension threat to his own government. because of the jihadist problem he has in the caucus region. i think the issue is to watch is how forthcoming they are so far they say they have not found explosive residue. which would be more consistent with an explosive device. if they do find that kind of evidence whether they take some kind of retaliatory action against isis if they were in fact behind a device on that airplane. but again investigators are focused on isis and they re also very focused on that airport and who had access to the aircraft in sharm el-sheikh. catherine, i was, i was researching this before we went to air and it seems like there was a lot of reports talking about conventional explosives.
that it gives putin access to the mediterranean sea. this is out to the atlantic and then down south to the middle east. and that s absolutely critical. the world bank have already said that putin s economy is going to contract by 3.8% in 2015. so this is absolutely vital to putin protecting his sea lines of communication. now going to tartus with the demise of the soviet union, now we have russia. putin has very few assets outside of the motherland, but one of them is a naval facility based on the western side of syria called tartus naval base. now it can t take an aircraft carrier but it can take a military cruiser. if we project further, i think what also is important is that assad is a long-time allie of putin. putin has also had a major jihadist problem up here. so putin wants to prevent or
there is any, to today s action, the russian strikes occurred in a place where there s not much coalition activity. that doesn t seem to be a risk today. that could change. okay, mikey, let me go back to you. obama and putin, we all remember the picture from just two days ago, shaking hands. kind of icy, but they met behind closed doors. we re just two days later, and it would seem this is a major affront by putin. this is a sort of in your face move. i think we have to, in getting in putin s mind-set, we have to understand what his natural interests are. we have to understand there s been a jihadist insurgency on his doorstep for a long time. in 2004, 1100 people taken hostage, 700 of them being children, 380 of them being killed. he s had a serious problem. assad looks at the future of syria and says, is that jihadist