About earlier. And gallup historical trend, theres a fascinating chart gallup does called president ial Approval Ratings over time. One of the things that we see is that in the early part of modern polling basically the kennedy administration, the johnson administration, those president s came to office with sky high Approval Ratings, 75, 80 of americans approved. Then nixon and carter came and it was 65, and reagan came to office and it was 60 . Bottom line we have seen a long term decline of americans willing to give any new president the doubt ben 2 benefit of the doubt when they came in. Obama was 50, and thats better than president bush and clinton. But President Trump came in, never had a favorable approval rating, been in a very narrow range. And that is because we are so incredibly polarized that were simply not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. The democrat whose are running for president right now, the vast majority of them their favorable ratings are about what their
And Lieutenant General jt thompson, commander of nato allied land command. Our panel will be led and moderated by patrick tucker, defense one technology editor. Thank you all. [applause] all right, thank you all for joining us today. Thisso pleased to have Exceptional Panel here to discuss the future of the United States army and the incredibly important theater, the european theater, and, you know, ive been covering different aspects of u. S. Army activity in europe for some time. Theres one question that is usually sort of a perfunctory. Uestion this year, that is not exact with the case. I will go to you, jt, as well as you, chris. I wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the military to military with turkey. How is that right now . How quickly is that changing . Jt i maintain strong relations with my counterparts in turkey within the parameters of u. S. Policy at any given time. We spend time going back and forth and visiting each
Bill that is jg jefferson on the left and john painter on the right. They were best friends known as the dynamic duo on campus and we are told that j. J. Married this year and john was his best man in that wedding. Dana in New York City, an offduty nypd officer was shot in an attempted carjacking. Police say it was happening when he was on his way to work. Two men tapped on his car window and when he got out of his vehicle, one shot him several times. Bill police have arrested a suspect a few blocks away. A gun recovered on the scene. Thankfully, that officer is expected to recover. Dana all of this is unfolding as New York City mourns another fallen hero. He is one of two officers shot and killed last month responding to a domestic disturbance in harlem. Not only did he die protecting new yorkers, but he donated five organs saving five lives in the process. Bill an inside look of st. A funeral will begin an hour for an outfit for the second time in five days, there will be a c of neve
News chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. Nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, Politico White House bureau chief as well as host of Way Too Early here on msnbc. And he lane cooper, the New York Times pentagon correspondent. Both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. Peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u. S. Moves troops already on standby to europe . Reporter thats exactly right. We have now learned that its a total of 3,000 u. S. Troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. Another 2,000 presently here in the u. S. Will be going to germany and to poland, as well. This comes, according to a Senior Administration official at the president s direction, and following the recommendation of the defense secretary, Secretary Austin. I think youre going to hear this officially from john kirby, the Press Secretary at the pentag
Robust offense of our nato allies. All of these are in addition to the 8500 personnel on heightened alert poster i announced last week. Those 8500 are not currently being deployed but remain ready if called for the Nato Response force. And President Trump taking it to the fellow republicans coming to the defense of mike pence. Lindsey graham after days of admitting he believed pence could have overturned the 2020 election. Of course, that is false. On the coronavirus, pfizers request for Emergency Use Authorization for children under five years of age is getting a mixed reaction from both vaccinated and unvaccinated parents. Ill speak to dr. Zeke emanual about their concerns this hour. And millions americans are in the path of a massive winter storm. By far the biggest of the season so far. The threeday Weather Event will slam states with sleet, Freezing Rain and potentially recordsetting snow totals along the rust belt. We begin this hour with the crisis in ukraine. Joining me is the