nbc/ wall street journal poll showing the president s approval rating at just 38%. all is the compiling of numbers were taken last week after the intense scrutiny over his response to the niger attack amid rising tensions between the president and senators corker and flake. how concerned are you that the president s response to these twos issues in particular are taking a toll on his presidency? well, given the beating he s taken from many quarters, i think actually his approval rating is kind of high. but i think the real test for the administration and for congress is to get things done. that s why getting the tax bill done right is a critical ingredient to the success of our country. and i think you know, the politics will be what they are and the different sides will say what they want to say. the average person really wants washington to get things done. they re concerned that we have too slow an economic growth. they re concerned about wage
the company that did this dossier. he s sitting there knowing they hired him while his client was asked about it. i am not saying there was anything it s not a good look. i think it s also important to know where the information came from because the campaign should have had guardrails to make sure the information was not coming from places, in other words, foreign entities it should not have been coming from, if that was the case. i have to leave it there because we have a lot to get to this morning. so nice to have you all here. thank you. new details on the niger attack that killed the four american shoulders. we are hearing from a nigerien soldier that was there. he said he was surprised they were going out on this very important mission to get intel on a suspect the terror leader dressed frankly the way they were, wearing t-shirts and
on capitol hill. let s get to niger and more on our breaking news. this is a major development in this deadly niger attack. two military officials are saying that the army team was in niger specifically collecting intelligence on a terror leader when they were ambushed. so let s go to the pentagon and our reporter there, ryan brown, tell me more about the reasoning and this leader. brooke, we re learning a bit about what this team was doing. they are part of an advise and assist commission. they were accompanying about 30 nigerian troops. they were helping advise these troops and one of the reports was that they were given an additional mission to try and gather some additional intelligence about a potential high-value target working with extremist groups in niger. that s one thing we re learning. we re also learning that this team was relatively new to niger. they had actually only been in
clear. that general kelly is clearly not there to modulate or criticize this president. because that press conference would not have happened the way it did. and we just heard from a grieving widow who makes sit very clear that congresswoman wilson, as a.b. points out, the way she talked about the president, the things that she said, fair criticism. this is a political feud. but she was there for the right reasons. and that call went the way that she says it went. a.b., perry, thank you. thank you, guys. so a senate committee is taking a closer look at the niger attack that killed these four u.s. soldiers. should congress authorize military force in the wake of this ambush? should they reauthorize it? we re going to talk to a republican congressman about where they are with this, next. that can fix itself?
tweeting wacky congresswoman is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party. a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote r. the congresswoman meanwhile firing right back. this is going to be this administration s benghazi. this is going to be trump s benghazi, trump s niger. so as the president and congresswoman continue to exchange words, barbs, one thing we still don t have answers to, the answers we want, is why these four americans were killed and why the body of one of them, sergeant la david johnson, wasn t recovered for 48 hours. of course he was found a mile away as we have reported. i want to get straight to cnn s boris sanchez live right outside the white house. boris, republicans have a lot on their plates this week. there are still unanswered questions about this niger attack. what reason does the president have to keep this feud going? reporter: this is really just