paul: welcome to this special edition of the journal editorial report as we look back at the highs and lows of 2023. president biden s poll numbers sink as the year comes to a end. gallup s final poll of 2023 find 39% of americans approve of the job he is doing. the lowest of the last 7 presidents in their first term. the president has become frustrated with his low approval rating and polls that show him trailing donald trump nationality. can he turn those numbers around in the new year? let s ask fox news contributor karl rove. these numbers have been persisting for a while, the president is going down. s it too early to conclude that americans have made a judgment that this has not been a successful presidency? they have made that judgment and they made that judgment about the president himself three quarters, more than three quarters of the american people think he is too world to seek a second term. two thirds of the american people think he lacks the stamina and ment
ground. and down to the wire. with nine days until default, where negotiations stand right now as the white house and capitol hill race to strike a deal. plus, a ground breaking new agreement to manage an incredibly precious but endangered resource. the three states working together to ensure the colorado river doesn t go away. also back in court. any minute, former president trump expected to appear virtually in court for the first time since he pleaded not guilty to felony accounts of falsifying business records last month. we ll have a live report from outside the courtroom. our reporters are following all the latest. i want to start in new york. ron allen is there. ron, what s the plan as we know it for today? reporter: well, this begins around 2:15, very shortly. as you said, mr. trump will appear virtually. he is not required to be here. most of this is going to be about a protective order. an order designed to protect the evidence and integrity of the case. it spec
going through a difficult period in 2018, i started to review journals, i realized i was doing two things. i was simultaneously trying to out-run something, and i was brief, and then looking for something. that was trying to find my identity. that s what the books about. that happens over six continents, deeply internal journey, in many external visible physical places. i hope you check it out. we will, this is my coffee, everybody, enabling anybody wants to to come in my office and borough it. they can t keep it, bring it back. by more. that s exactly they should. luke russert, it s a pleasure to see you, thank you so much. best of luck with the book, that s gonna do it for me, everyone, on this edition of alex witt reports, my father s my dear friends she continues our coverage right now. ues ou and good afternoon, i m lindsey reiser in for yasmin vossoughian, new numbers just in from the border on this crucial first weekend since title 42 ended. amid fears of an
election goes to a runoff after the closest vote, in two decades. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the uk where ukraine s president has made a surprise visit to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. prime minister rishi sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence missiles and long range attack drones but stopped short of sending jets. rishi sunak tweeted this picture welcoming president zelensky when he arrived at chequers the prime minister s country residence the pair in a bear hug, with the caption reading: welcome back . volodymir zelensky had earlier described rishi sunak as his friend . there were then handshakes on the doorstep before the pair held bilateral talks, lasting around two hours. uktraine s president says the pair discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . rishi sunak pledged long term support for ukraine to ensure that it s abl
comes after a meeting between the taiwanese president and the us house speaker kevin mccarthy in california last week. tensions, as international monetary formed fund has warned of severe weakness in the global economy in the next half decade. the says it outlook for global economic growth the next five years is the weakest. i spoke to our correspondent earlier, the chief executive at xm australia and he told me situations like this are where they look to rebalance portfolios.- this are where they look to rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they - rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they look - rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they look at i the escalation they look at rhetoric they look at market interpretation as far as news and they sit there and they say, are there opportunities? are there sectors of the market to be removed from or other markets that need to be looking stronger out. the gold