going to get to 2% at the end of those ten years. the president does have a point about that, but it is a lot about the way he handles it. it all goes back to his personal relationships with these leaders. he acts much different towards merkel because he knows that her and obama had a very good relationship. he doesn t like that, and it does change the way that he approaches her and the way he speaks to her and the way he just views her as a leader. and the how and the when matter. traditionally again, this president is different. he signaled that in the campaign. we should not be surprised. traditionally, you work this out in the club, in the quiet, private meetings. you try to make your progress. the when, he s going to leave brussels and go see vladimir putin, who likes what more than anything? the western alliance at odds publicly fighting. your colleague put it this way. mr. trump s criticism raised the prospect of the another confrontation involving the president and american
base on this issue. he s got 21 circuit court nominees in, which is a record. he s going to get likely two supreme court justices. there are many legal conservatives in the 2016 election who doubted, kind of like amy barrett did, whether he would make good on this promise. he s gone above and beyond. he has, working off this list. another person on the list is brett kavanaugh. i first came across that name when he worked for ken starr. he then came in and worked for the bush administration. now he s a federal judge. he s highly regarded as a rising star? does this hurt him, donald trump dislikes all things bush? there he is getting sworn in next to george w. bush, laura bush, the big hug from karl rove. is that enough to get the president to say, all things being roughly equal if it s someone with the same profile, two people with the same profile and one is splashed on the cover of the washington
you can connect some of that there. but that s a new leader in terms of the top issue. a lot of republicans having asking the question, what s the data going to show? 27%, a new number out just this hour. is it separating kids at the border, is that a human rights violation? 60% of americans say yes, it is. 36% say no. among democrats, 95% say it is. among independents, 60 say it is. only 21% of the republicans say it is. oh, my gosh. you have the partisan split, which is on every question. but in the rearview mirror, if immigration were the top issue in the election environment, you would say advantage republicans. but in the windshield, is that fair? or did democrats finally, because of the family separation issue, maybe have an advantage? it really depends on two things at this point. the poll you cited also found by a 58% to 39% margin, voters disapprove of president trump s immigration policy. having said that, republican voters are more energized by the
commitments because others see you as a role model. canada and norway also among the nato allies getting similar letters from the president. cnn has learned the defense secretary, james mattis, fired off a similar missive to the uk s defense chief, all of this just before a nato summit next week in brussels. then a trump/putin summit. the russian president, we know, likes nothing more than to see the western alliance divided, fighting publicly. let s bring in cnn s jeff zeleny at the white house. america first seems to have become america fighting with just about everybody. reporter: john, it certainly does. these are allies we re talking about. the reality here is what is going on is a continuation of what the president has done before every summit he has held with world leaders, before every global meeting. it s essentially chapter two of his fight he had just a month or so ago at the g7 meeting in canada. but a week from today, the president will be flying, as we speak, during the
i think. tru i think trump is probably taken with whoever moves him in the moment and looks the part. the president is so taken with optics and appearances and the perception that is so critical in mihis mind to politics and public relations. i think that s going to trump all. i would note she doesn t have an ivy league degree. i don t think the president is big on liberal arts schools. that could be a strike against her, i think. he is very focused on having those elite credentials. despite not having the ivy league degree, you know, she s a woman. obviously she s a conservative. he might pick her because she s shown she really is a fighter when it comes to her beliefs. he s pro life. she s a catholic. she s been clear about how religion plays in her decisions with i think which i think a lot of