specific request the department has made for bennie thompson, the chair. our reporters and d.o.j. experts will tell us what, if anything, we should read into that. we also know today that former trump strategist steve bannon will go on trial next week for his contempt of congress case for refusing to answer the committee s question. his legal team lost a second team to delay his trial over publicity of the trial s hearings and as the man who tried to get trump in office prepares to go before a judge, there is also news today about what that man, the one he helped get into the office, is doing in 2024. donald trump telling new york magazine he s already made the decision about whether he will run again for president and that, quote, i feel very confident that if i decide to run, i ll win. it doesn t quite match up to the new york times reporting on how the republican party feels about him but i digress. joining us now is ryan reilly, a justice reporter for us here at nbc new
cnbc poll found that 12% believe that president biden s policies have made thing better, 30% that he made things worse and 50% not much different at all. 88% believe it s only fair or poor and the poor being a majority of all respondents, katy. those are not great numbers. mark murray, thank you very much. and coming up, tops grocery in buffalo is reopening. tremaine lee is there. and what is it like to raise a child in a neighborhood plagued by gun violence? one chicago mom shows us the lab rat routine she goes through every single time she and her kids leave the house. we live in chicago but we re in a war zone. t we re t we re in a war zone.w can you see me ?
confirmations? everything is always changing with this committee. we also do know that he was not asked directly about those specific comments from cassidy hutchinson. can you tell me why he wasn t asked specifically about that? that seems weird to me. sure. our understanding from the reporting is that he indicated or his lawyers indicated to the committee before he went in that he didn t recall that conversation and would not confirm it. so they sort of knew that that wouldn t happen. so they didn t ask him about it. got it. luke broadwater. thank you very much. ryan reilly, thank you guys as well. and still ahead, we are going to go live to jerusalem. what president biden just said about his trip to saudi arabia and what he will not say to mbs. and back at home the economy isn t helping the president or at least perceptions of the economy are not helping. what people told cnbc about record high inflation and how they think president biden is
think president biden s efforts to fix the economy are either not making a difference or making the situation worse. joining me now to break all of this down is nbc news political editor mark murray. they would say a lot of these changes are out of his control and are because of the pandemic, yet americans are still blaming the president for it. walk us through these numbers. yeah. so, katy, first of all, that first job 36% overall rating and 30% economic handling, not only the lowest in cnbc s polling but also the lowest when you actual factor in the presidencies of donald trump and barack obama looking back at the past cnbc and nbc polls conducted by the same polling firms. as you were discussing, inflation is a really big driver of this.