think that the white house ought to not be saying, well, he wasn t our guy. maybe a better message point would be well, michael cohen wasn t the buy the i thought he was, maybe that s a better approach tom say a guy that was your personal adviser and attorney for that long that he wasn t your eye, i think philippe is right there. i don t think that flies with the american people. every second pollster got the 2016 presidential election race wrong and to a major degree they called eight quote/unquote landslide coming. three pollsters got it right. abc was fought one of them. let s not relitigate. what are you alluding to is not accurate when we look at the numbers. i don t think we need to go after that again. let s not do that, let s move on to something else that might be reflective of the numbers we are talking about the 63% supporting the mueller investigation. what that might mean in terms of
allegation 14 and allegation 4 against scott pruitt at this point? he survived this long, what is it that s inching him towards the exits? there s also the irony, which is this is actually helpful to democrats. look, we don t like scott pruitt s policies, but the truth of the matter is, he is such a great message point in the mid-term elections about the culture of corruption. every one of his policy ideas becomes colored through all of these scandals. you and steve are in agreement on that. well, and it is exactly right. the irony is that there is a number two at epa who is a former coal lobbyist who would likely continue all of scott pruitt s policies without all of the scandals. so ironically, the president s trying to stay strong by sticking by pruitt is actually detrimental to his policy agenda. steve, i want to play for you i spoke with a mother who confronted scott pruitt at a restaurant. spoke with her last night. here s how she responded to what
he s talking about the problems that the public knows are in congress. many folks call them the career politicians who never held a job in the private sector and never signed the front of a paycheck. he s speaking as the change agent. of course, there s a process that we d have to go through. the republicans i believe, i d support it. i think it s a good message for him to be on because right now congressional approval ratings are in the single digits. 8%, 9%, 10%. i think it s a good message point for donald trump and he can leave the details for later. see, it s interesting how congressman collins explains it, good for trump to play on this. people are angry at congress and changing it sounds good. but is it a realistic proposal for him to say i ll get a constitutional amendment passed to make term limits? unrealistic proposal and
at the vatican. it s interesting to see pope francis in these situations when he s with politicians. he gives one type of speech. when he s with the people, he gives another type of speech. same message, different language. he s the people s pope. he knows how to have the credibility to talk to them in simple terms about something so important like corruption. in this country like in many african countries, they suffer from the fact that a large amount of their wealth and they are very wealthy in natural resources is held in the hands of a few people. society suffers from it. that s been a big message point for pope francis. it was interesting, he spoke of that sugar analogy given that it s a commodity that is often stolen and smuggled in the region. the other thing he also spoke about anti-homosexual law. obviously that s a major issue there. will the pope be preaching more tolerance? reporter: on that topic, i think he probably won t touch on
highest level for president bush, what are these radio ads doing for donald trump? what dimension do they add? two things strike me, one is from a message point of view, they re right on target. and for anybody who hasn t heard the message, which is hard to imagine at this point, but there are these voters, and the caucus voters, wants to pinpoint, call for that message. so for a message point, it s very right on point. i was struck by how conventional the ads are. i don t know if you remember roos pennsylvania row, but his ads were very different. traditional. this is traditional. they re very traditional. in a sense it kind of goeses to your point of evolving, and in this case evolving towards a more traditional approach. and we ll see. just from an ad guy s point of view. they re traditional, except they re in donald trump s voids, it s not like some monoin a tone politician. if you re driving in your car in iowa and donald trump s voice come on the radio, you listen.