Political correctness. Its available now wherever you get your podcasts. I hope you will join me as we aim to maybe rewrite, find a path in this world of modern rules. I hand you off to my friend and colleague back in action, katy tur. Teddy says hi and misses you. Tell him i said hey. Thanks, stef. Good afternoon. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In washington where were live on capitol hill. Just a few minutes away President Trump faces a number of difficult headlines that all told paints a complicated picture for his 2020 prospects including a slew of new National Polls that show the president s approval below 40 . Economic anxiety appears to be the main factor for those low numbers, but the president doesnt want you to believe those numbers and frankly why should he . National polls did not predict the eventual outcome of 2016. So let us instead consider whats happening in two key
states. First North Carolina, where the republican Won Yesterdays special election in the ninth
me food and letting me nap. then he was back at work and it was all me. and, yes, i figured it out. and nothing about this story is exceptional, except for the fact that i got a lot more paid time off to figure it out than the majority of new moms in this country. and tony took more time than at least 70% of fathers out there and that is insane. it is insane that 25% of women go back to work after two weeks. two weeks. and i thisnk it s insane that seven out of ten men go back after ten days or less. not because they want to go back. almost nobody wants to go back to work that soon but because they are forced to go back either because they are can t afford to stay home for they feel societal or professional pressure to prove they are serious about their job. parents need time with their parents p parents. babies need time with their parents.
with 3-month-olds. babies this young don t have the motor skills to grab for anything. so how do they show a prirchs? it turns out by staring. babies this young are known stare longer at things they like, and they avert their eyes from things they don t like. noah, who do you like? noah looking at the bad orange bunny then switches his gaze to the good, green bunny and he keeps staring. they re not old enough to reach, but in their looking they will orient visually to the positive characters. much, much more so. they look more at the positive character? lots longer at the positive character. is that surprising? it did surprise me nap did surprise me, and what it s caused me to believe is that it s just a kind of a fundamental value. you know, we re fwoilt say, this is good. this is positive. this is bad. incredible. uh-huh. incredible. yes! reporter: it s also incredible, that about 90% of the 3-month-olds tested seemed