tank. but normally that would also impact how the public views the first lady. that s before michelle obama made it to the white house. it s focus of a political magazine piece where they dig through the numbers to find out precisely why the first lady is so popular. turns out, people see her as her own person. it s a personal image they like. a gallop poll in march shows michelle obama had an average favorability rating of 66%. today s rating for the president is about 44%. the first lady will need to take advantage of the popularity as she gears up for a fight with republicans. many want to roll back a key part of the healthy hunger free kids act of 2010. it s a policy championed by the first lady and among other things, mandates more fruit, more vegetables, and whole grains in school lunch meals. let s bring in our strategies james peterson, and alice stewart. good to see you. let s start with michelle
to start there. a lot about when she lived in a trailer park, who paid for her education, the ages that she was divorced and married. these are simple things that people know. u.n. what your life story is. that gave people a lot of pause. then some of the statements that she s made recently about some of her positions with regards to abortion. people are wondering if she s changing her stance on that. well, let s take a look at something she said about this. this is from a recent new york times magazine piece. of course i would expect people to are inclined to think negatively about me to pick on something like this. do i think i m held to a different standard than a man who would be in the exact same race and exact same story? yes, but that is reality. i don t spend time worrying about it. aisha, to you for a response to what hector said and her comments there. yeah, so i want to just share
president. and the old guard of an eye for an eye clinton loyalists will have to merge with the tech savvy team from the obama camp, and a culture clash is inevitable. a new york times magazine piece called planet hillary examines the many layers that complete the clinton orbit. the new york times said, quote, over the decades, they have operated like an arkansas tumbleweed, collecting friends and devotees from kindergarten class to the white house to the senate and beyond. james carville has compared the clinton world, perhaps not so originally to an onion. said to exist in the third or fourth layer. smelling a whiff of another national campaign, old faces and new ones are uniting around the former secretary of state. but can they run a smart, tech savvy campaign and refrain from the personal destruction, stepping out of the past into the future that yesterday could prove to be hillary s biggest challenge yet. she needs a team that will help
a & e network suspending duck dynasty star philroberson about remarks he made. it raises the question of the future of one of tv s most watched shoes. and i, glenn. reporter: free speech and religious freedom go only so far. not because of what he said or did on the show but because he called homosexuality a sin in the magazine piece. the network suspended him for saying, i am quoting. everything is plush on right and wrong. homosexual behavior and it is not just morphing out from there. bestiality and sleeping around with those women. and neither the adulterous or male protests or homosexual and greedy and drunken and
and i are going to be talking about. so, ben, you write in this piece that people stop you, that the jury got it wrong. and how people have looked over this, some people would say they got it wrong and some say they got it right, based on what the law allowed them to do. how do you think that your op-ed in coordination with what the martin family wants to do for trayvon martin s legacy can get the attention of people? because it seems now that as more time has gone by, more emotion around it has dissipated. people have lost the attention, the focus that is needed. i haven t seen many people stop talking about it, thomas. in fact, if you look at the ebony magazine piece and if you look at reverend sharpton and martin luther king iii talking about saturday trayvon is a major focus of the march. it s not just a symbolic march. it s a call for action. we think that a lot of young