the voters think it is time to ditch. biden making the case for re-election with qualifications of being an old fart and knowing a lot of stuff. a new poll shows the president s approval rating at just 36%, a new all time low. democrats don t want the guy either, 58% would rather vote for somebody else. and hemorrhaging support from black hispanic women and he s losing to republican rivals donald trump and to a lesser extent, ron desantis. it s a brutal bunch of numbers, right george? this is brutal for president biden. absolutely george. you talked about the record low approval rating is six points down since february and it goes deep into the party. i was told i couldn t send the poll out until after midnight. they are fragmented and should concern them. that is not a good number for president biden. two thirds of people say he s not sharp enough to be president. he knows just who to blame. all they have heard is negative news for three years. everything is nega
biden aides and allies have been talking up key parts of the plan including prescription drugs, taxes and energy. lowering prescription drug costs is one piece. we can bring down costs burdening households like description drugs. pharmaceutical prices which will help health care and lowering the rate. long overdue tax reform. the parks repeal, not the full repeal, but the partial repeal of the trump tax cuts which would take some demand out of the economy. lowering utility costs by providing tax incensetives. the way in which we can assure reasonable energy expenses for households is to move to renewables to address climate change. freeing up fossil fuels in various ways in the short run, and making, with government support, the ultimate pivot to renewables. joining us now from washington, d.c., cnn white house correspondent john harwood. john, happy monday. good to see you here. it looks like a new coat of paint perhaps on some key elements of build back be
uphill battle against ever-rising inflation. we re seeing the playbook is to try to turn around the perception of his performance. here s the problem. as record gas prices, the yellow line here goes up and up, his approval is a mirror image on the way down. here he is just moments ago with an upbeat message as he tries to convince the american people. the job market is the strongest it s been since world war ii. millions of americans are moving up to better jobs and better pay. since i took office, families carry less debt on average in america, they have more savings than they ve had. martha: still 2/3s in this poll say that they expect that inflation will get worse. steve forbes and joe concha are standing by. first, we bring to bring in anita, a st. louis mom. she works for a nonprofit. recently she had a tough day. it was in her car. it was getting on low in the gas department and she ran out. her two kids were in the back. the three of them had to get out and walk to
seaborne russian oil are significant. they underline the european chief said they will cut 90% of europe s russian oil imports by december. the discussion of some interim status for ukraine on the way to being a full member of the european union is important. i wish they would find some speedy transition plan but it is not there. so, they re trying to find ways to keep faith with ukraine and in a period where i think the pressure on ukraine is growing. i think your right to express some concern about europe. they ve got their own economic troubles and political splits. but this last weekend that they held together more strongly than i might have feared. i was going to say, pretty remarkable that they held together even pulled hungary along when they had to know this inflation number was coming out. they have the same problem on the other side with nato. but do you remain optimistic like so many observers that when it comes to nato, turkey, at the end, will back down and a
elementary school, could have, should have been confronted sooner. parents demanding answers. why? why were police reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman? one explanation the texas department of public safety initially gave to cnn is that the officers could have been shot or killed, but we now know the mind-set goes directly against texas protocol for school shooter situations, which uvalde police trained for just two months ago. the manual states as first responders, we must recognize that innocent life must be defended. a first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field. armed officers circled the building and up to 19 of them were inside a school hallway just feet away, kids and teachers in two classrooms were utterly helpless against the gunman. young kids, some covered in the blood of their friends dialed 911 begging for help. nearly 80 minutes after the gunman first entered the building he