Common ground on how they came into office on sort of a wave of dissent from the people, kind of breaking tlul the political norms. This is just the beginning of what is going to be a very busy day for donald trump. Were also expecting him to head to the pentagon later today where he may sign additional executive orders. Its also an opportunity for him to meet with his secretary of Defense James Mattis and lay out some objectives for how he wants to defeat isis. He will dip his toe back into diplomacy tomorrow. Donald trump is expected to have a phone call with russian president Vladimir Putin. Obviously this is a much rockier relationship than the one the u. S. Enjoys with britain. Take a listen to how donald trump described what he knows about putin and what he wants to see from that relationship. I dont know putin but if he can get along with russia, its great for russia, good for us, we go together and knock the hell out of isis. The whole isis thing is a real sickness. If we get a
Year history but the excitement is coupled with hesitation this is the second longest bull rally in history no one knows how much longer it will last and if theres a correction around the corner. Yes coulter is at the New York Stock Exchange for us here is what exactly has lit that fire under the dow recently. Well an epic rally that sold Morgan Stanley called the dead it is already the fifty thousand point mark that the Dow Jones Industrial average crossed for the First Time Ever since the president ial election one of the reasons why the market is trading upwards is there to right now we are experiencing the fifth consecutive quarter of the u. S. Companies actually see an increase in profits overall the economy is doing rather well and then there are still those promises that there might be a rescue less regulation for Financial Institutions that we might see takes cuts at some points or so there are some fundamental reasons and there is also a little bit of hope what the administrat
People are very mission focused. Theyre accustomed to the fact we do some of the hardest things there are to do for a living. And i like to think that our folks are pretty sturdy. I think of a woman i met just the other day, an agent in the miami office who had a bad accident. 12 stitch in her face and the next day, boom, right back at work. I think about the folks in the San Juan Office i visited recently. You want to talk about people going through a real storm. Right. They do it. Out in the community. I can tell you the Community Value what is they do on the island. Thank you. And oped by a number of former intelligence analysts called the nunes memo and the release, quote, one of the worst cases of politicization of intelligence in modern american history. End quote. You said you had concerns about that memo. I know you cant get into the gritty details of that but can you say in your view whether or not one of those concerns is that it may have selectively cherry picked information
To our viewers here in the u. S. And around the world, welcome to the lead im jim sciutto in for jake tapper. Breaking news in our politics lead. Brandnew cnn polls revealing how americans feel about president Donald Trumps time in office, this in the wake of the 12 punch to his presidency. The bob woodward book fear, and on oped but an unnamed Senior Member of his administration. President trumps Approval Rating has fallen six points in the last month to just 36 approving the way President Trump is handling his job. The president s favorability rating, a measure of whether people like him or not, has also taken a hit. 61 now say they have an unfavorable view of the president. That is the worst level since trump was elected. And when it comes to that bombshell New York Times oped, a majority, that is 58 , say the author should publicly identify themselves. And 55 think it is appropriate or rather inappropriate, for an Administration Official to work against the agenda of the president.
Administration, and as we said, we are covering a Major Development in the Mueller Manafort of lying to the feds repeatedly as they question him for the russia investigation, quote, after signing the plea agreement, manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the federal bureau of investigation and the special counsels office on a variety of subject matters which constitutes breaches of the agreement. That same document includes a response from manaforts defense team which disagreed with the governments conclusion, and we quote. Manafort met with the government on several occasions and answered the governments questions. Manafort has provided information to the government to live up to his obligations. He believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the governments characterization that he has breached the agreement. Both sides have asked the judge to set a sentencing date. Manafort, who is now 69 years old, was convicted in august of financial fraud related