toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
re-election, whether or not they want to be seen with him. often, they don t want to be seen with an incumbent with low approval ratings. and whether or not they have the ability to prognosticate and see the president s wins of the past month, and perhaps do some math, and see those approval ratings may change, and get on the right side of it, instead of being shallow. they re changing. they are changing. 45% now. i know. by the way, you can check this on your google machine. this is not a pro-biden statement. it s just a statement of fact. you go back 50 years, only two presidents have had higher approval ratings at this point in the gallup poll than joe biden. those were the two bushes following two wars. let s bring in u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. and pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have you both with us
days. but just ridiculous stuff that is, again, meant to stoke this feeling of grievance, that we are being persecuted by everybody else. trump is being persecuted by everybody else, and we have to fight back. just a spark is all it takes to donald trump does things out in the open, and, you know, at this point, he is not denying it. he hasn t denied that this has happened, that he took those documents. and this is as serious as it gets. as we close the block, i ll just say, there are reports he might have some information or might have some papers with information on the french president. just knowing and studying donald trump and having known him in the past, that is exactly who he would be obsessed with. just on a personal level, you can just tell that that s something he would be very interested in because that s the kind of person he would be
mississippi, where residents face a boiled water notice for the fourth straight week, amid concerns of a lack of clean drinking water. nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk has more. reporter: in jackson, mississippi, drop-off is for the kids and the water. the city is facing a boil water notice again. don t wash your hair with the water. don t brush your teeth. reporter: she worries about her 8-year-old. she going to go to the water fountain and drink from it? reporter: signs are up at the middle school. they have been there a listening time. reporter: you can t remember when the kids could use the water fountains in the school? i can t remember. honestly can t remember. reporter: george stewart taught here six years. a predominantly black, low-income school. on top of the other challenges, water quality and water pressure are a constant battle. one point, we had it shut down two weeks. reporter: when? maybe a year or two ago.
hearings. talked about the presidential race. those things were going to give the democrats a way to make the race about trump and make him the poster boy for what they want the race really to be about, republican extremism. across the board, right? guns, abortion, democracy, everything, right? the only thing he could have done that would have made it worse was to do what s happened now around mar-a-lago, which is to give every national security republican and mainstream republican in the country a reason to think that trump may have committed a violation of the esionage act and is likely staring down the barrel of an indictment. yeah. i think it may be too late in this cycle for republicans to cut the umbilical cord to trump. they re too tied up with him at this point. they can t just pivot out of that in the next couple months. the time is too short. it s a long-term question for the party, though. if they re going to wake up, they should wake up at this point and go, we already