Abroad, a political opponent at home or ally at home, you look at these numbers and this is a president who has been undercut by bad decisions, low poll numbers. Its a real crisis in the white house politically. So on this important day, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, april 5th. We have seen your political analyst for nbc news and msnbc Mark Halperin. Senior writer on National Security for the wall street journal shane harris along with joe, willie and me. Weve got three hours, were going to do all these stories right and lay them out in a big world. The leader of the free world is hovering under 40 Approval Ratings just months into his administration. Gallup daily tracking poll has the president at 38 . Ibd with 36 . The latest quinnipiac poll has trump at 35 . The quinnipiac pollsters note by comparison george w. Bushs lowest, 28 in their poll, came nearly eight years into office, two unpopular wars, a housing crisis that drove a deep recession. President trump is under water
Demonstrators are gathered outside the white house as part of the march for, quote, climate jobs and justice protesting the president s policies on Climate Change and other issues. On the international front, north korea poses a very tough challenge for the president right now, only yesterday kim jonguns regime launched another missile in defiance of the United States. For his part, President Trump has called the 100day milestone ridiculous but didnt stop the white house from posting a statement touting the president s record. It reads, quote, in his first 100 days president donald j. Trump has taken bold ac sthon restore prose spearty, keep americans safe and secure and hold government accountable. The president marks his 100 day holding a Campaign Style rally for supporters in hairs ris burg, pennsylvania. For more on President Trumps 100 day benchmark, our White House Correspondent athena jones stand sadding by at the white house standing by at the white house and brian todd among t
Nominee. A Committee Vote comes tomorrow and then the full confirmation vote just five days away. We have a Superstar Team of reporters and analysts ready to cover every angle. Beginning with cnns ryan nobles. We heard from the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee today. Thats right. Adam schiff was here of course on friday to review those materials that devin nunes that led devin nunes, the rankirank ing chair of the how Intel Committee to say he had something to substantiate the claims that president obama had put the Trump Administration under surveillance and schiff remains unmoved by what he saw friday night, but he also seems committed to finding a way for this house Intel Committee to come to some court of conclusion in a bipartisan way. The same on the senate side. We also heard from mark warner, the ranking democrat on the senate side. Both men believe that they can still come to some sort of conclusion and do it with both republicans and democrats in agreement. Ta
Will there be an apology from the Prime Minister for the infamous sneak attack. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin today with the pop culture lead and the loss of yet another icon. Actress Carrie Fisher, the wise cracking truth telling, beloved pop culture fixture died today in los angeles. She was 60 years old. Fisher was best known for her role as Princess Leia in the star wars series. I think you just cant bear to let a gorgeous girl like me out of your sight. I dont know where you get your delusions, laser brain. Laugh it up, fuzz ball. You didnt see us alone in the south passage. She expressed her true feelings for me. What . Why, you stuckup, halfwitted, scruffylooking nerf herder. Who is scruffy looking . She was much more than just an actress. She was an author and a screen writer. A relied upon script doctor. The photo here shows her handwritten notes from the Empire Strikes back screen play trying to improve dialogue. She was also a hero
Been uttering for years, or if he does anything with respect to guam or any place else thats an american territory or an american ally, he will truly regret it. R and he will regret it fast. Mark earlier today the president tweeteda that military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. Hopefully kim jongun will find another path. Trump then retweeted the u. S. Pacific command which said u. S. Air force b1 lancer bombers on guam stand ready to fulfill usfks fight tonight mission if called upon to do so. North korean state media has dismissed the u. S. As, quote, no more than a lump we can beat to a jelly any time. Harry is director of defense studies at the center for nationalal interest. Jim hansen is president of the Security Studies group. They both join us. Harry, most of us accept that north korea would have quite a job beating the United States towns a lump of jelly. Lets consider it the other wayi around. If we want to denuke north ko