losing. trump has not managed to heal or even paper over those divisions and, you know, he s got consolidated republican control in both houses of congress and he can t get anything even through the house where you don t need a super majority. i thought that statistic that you played at the top of the show of people 50% people s belief that he can get the obamacare repeal going from 50% to 20 ps w%. that s not a small change. that s a lack that s a real erosion in people s faith in his ability to get things done at all. and that seems like a big deal. the danger is he becomes the status quo. the outsider candidate who disrupted the republican party. he becomes the status quo because he s the president. if he can t affect change, that s one of the risks. everyone sit tight. shift to the global stage next. secretary of state opens the door to direct negotiations to north korea as the president bluntly says the possibility of war is absolutely real.
major conflict with north korea. absolutely. some new economic numbers out today and there is no trump bump. wall street, yes, is doing well, but the overall u.s. economy barely grew in the first three months of 2017. what s your verdict? for starters, not just the president getting mediocre grades. he has a 33% approval rating. look at house speaker paul ryan, 38% of americans have a favorable view of the house speaker. that s down from 46% in january. i m guessing the obamacare appeal has something to do with that. mitch mcconnell is at 27% but he s up from 20%. republicans are driving that increase if you want to call it that. republicans happy. mitch mcconnell got the president supreme court nominee confirmed. what else is happening? another stunning number if toyo want to take a look. the american people back in january 50% thought president trump would get the repeal and
border wall and a deal to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. he won t get the obamacare bill. republicans still feuding over a plan. he won t get the wall money. the president blames democrats for that but a good number of republicans are also opposed. the government apparently will not be shut down at midnight. cnn manu raju live on capitol hill. as always, up to the deadline maneuvering. no question about it. this is how capitol hill works. they wait for the last second and punt. they punt until next week to see if they can get a deal to keep the government open up until october 1st. right now there are indications that both sides believe they can come to an agreement, but certainly no it s nothing certain until the final day. i just had a chance to sit down with senator chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate.
the sides are getting closer together. i will remain optimistic that we ll get obamacare appeal. even as republicans source close to healthcare negotiations told cnn, there are still nothing potential happening behind the scenes. the trump has begun donating the salary and telling reporters o f the first quarter will be sent to the national parks of the upkeep of his battle. that was the promise that president trump made at the white house. jim acosta. thank you, breaking, intelligence committee is gathering behind closed doors at this hour. our senior political reporter is up on capitol hill. what are you learning, man manu raju, what are you learn ein
they thought they would get a trillion dollars just in the bank to work with which means they can t cut the rate as low as you would think which is a maybe 28% rate. look, i get that, you know, debt and deficit matters a lot, but some are questioning are we in a place, jean, where deficits don t matter because i will quote the president to the new york times magazine. here s what he said recently. we re going to prime the pump in order to get the economy going and going big league, in other words, spend money to make a lot more money in the future. that s right, and that s a very democratic kind of position when you look back to the recent history. that s correct. and you know, you have the house caucus which are very much deficit hawks, but after the failure of obamacare appeal and who knows what they ll do next, they re reassessing where they ll put up a big fight and my guess is it will come in the spending fights and there are two budgets to pass between now and the end of