i don t think this has gotten enough attention, he has not paid a governmental price yet for what happened post charlottesville, but he is paying a personal business price. the idea that there s going to be more turnover at the white house. andy hemming in charge of rapid response and he is out. what s that a reflection of? one of the biggest issues you heard about right before the shakeup over the last couple weeks at the most senior levels, there was a swelling communications department with a lot of duplication. nobody knew exactly who did what. you re seeing john kelly trying to streamline things. this is one of those departures where you hear it described as a mutual decision. this is redundancy, not that his rapid response wasn t working. his rapid response was pushing out positive stories about the president. i don t think there s any rapid response anybody can do that s going to change what the
trying to press him, who is the senate foreign relations committee chairman to not go forward with the russia sanctions bill. corker told him, frankly, it has bipartisan support. this bill is going to get passed and trump was very, you know, angry that this power it would crimp his power because he wants to be able to set the agenda with russia. for a guy who penned a book titled the art of the deal the president has been criticized for not doing enough, for not getting out there, for not arm-twisting, for not making phone calls in regards to getting legislation passed in the last six or seven months or so, in the beginning of his presidency. it seems as if, daniel, when it comes to the russia investigation,ing wh inwhen it bob mueller, that s when he is willing to make the phone call and willing to make deals and do some arm-fwtwisting there. it doesn t seem like he is actually bringing in lots of senators into the oval office to
straight in the face, but he said he was acting in self-defense. voters continue to be overwhelmingly opposed to the president s response on charlottesville. 32% approving in the poll conducted over the last weekend. 60% disapproving. the president gets about an equal rating for his handling of race relations. 31% approve. 63% disapprove. his approval rating has dropped four points down to 35%. 59% disapprove. only 31% of voters feel president trump is doing more to unite the country. down five points from after his first 100 days in april. 62% say he is doing more to divide, and the gap is growing wider in how voters perceive the type of change the president is bringing. 45% say trump is bringing the wrong type of change. up two points from april. 30% feel it is the right type of change. down four points.