cnn national correspondent john king joins us tonight. is that true? if you fact check that 40% isn t all that bad six months in, that the poll was way off in its tracking the 2016 election, you would come to the conclusion wrong and wrong. let s take a look at the numbers. this is the poll the president was refersing when he made the tweet on top here. the new washington post /abc poll. 36% of the american people approve of his job handling as he approach the six month mark. a bloomberg poll out at the same time has essentially the same numbers. roughly four in ten americans approve of how the president is doing right now. nearly six months in. 55, 56, nearly six in ten americans disapprove of how he is doing. now the president might think that s okay or not bad to use his words. but let s take a look at history. history suggests that is the historically low, historically unpopular president. donald trump at 36% approval, these are the
he is booing judge e being judgc will go up. he cannot go on like this if he wants to win the whole thing. i think he does. recent poll in iowa, voters asked, who would do the best job handling terrorism, overwhelmly, donald trump. whether or not he knows the difference between hezbollah and hamas, quds/kurds. he does seem to be a candidate gop voters in iowa trust to handle such thing. right now it is not about his policy statements. because there aren t many. more of a feeling as david was saying. this is somebody who is impatient. a lot of americans are. who is angry. a lot of americans are. and they believe who has had some success. they rate him higher on the economy than handling terrorism. they like how he sounds. after we have had a president, has been low key, and then you have donald trump who is anything but low key. and he speaks to, to people s
for himself he can fix america s finances. the poll shows republican voters believe that. 56% say he would do a good job handling the economy. 44% though said that he would do a good job handling immigration. which shows, where the republican electorate is on the issue. pretty much split. now, on the issue of international affairs, trump isn t doing as well. only 27%, that s 1 in 4 republicans think he would do a good job on mexico. 3/4 aren t buying trump s argument he can negotiate deals and handle mexican leaders better than anybody with regard to illegal immigration. broadly, 23%, say he would do a good job on foreign affairs. dana bash thanks. let s get perspective from republican panelist rich gallen once spoke for newt gingrich jeffrey lord american spectator and paul
korea. china really has to think pretty hard. does it want him acting in a way that, a, builds the american military presence in the area, something the chinese don t want to see, and b, runs the risk of provoking a conflict which could threaten the existence of north korea, produce millions of refugees into china, due to the last thing that china wants. at some point, china has to decide do they use their leverage on this new leader king jong unor not. it seems to me that it s profoundly in their interest if they don t do it, they re increasingly going to see their own interests put at risk. ambassador ross, thank you for your time. americans are fed up with flying. according to a new study, the number of complaints about airline service jumped about 20%. united airlines led the most compliance. airlines did a better job handling baggage and almost 82% of flights took off and arrived on time. hawaii air, alaska air tran, delta and us airways have the
with chris christie for being so bipartisan, for for daring to compliment the president for his responsiveness in hurricane sandy, so there s still some upset there over that. you know, i think the other thing this points out, you were mentioning, chris christie underscoring how important bipartisanship and cooperation is to voters. the other thing i think it underscores is how effective government is important to voters. peel saw him doing a great job handling hurricane sandy and republicans for so long have been the party of obstructionism, of doing everything they can to keep government from working. that s the other message. people to want see a government that actually works. and a government that deals together in crisis, when something is above what is normal. steve, i m no fan of chris christie, but i give him respect for what he did there. so why don t republicans understand that there s some