discredit the mueller investigation, we should not forget, just this week, the attorneys for manafort revealed he shared private sensitive polling data with a suspected russian intelligence agent. even as the mueller investigation moves forward as the president tries to discredit it, he s still faced with details that continue to come out that raise questions about collusion. in the middle of all this the president is fighting another pr battle over the government shutdown. he tweeted about that as well. we re now facing the longest continuous government shutdown in american history, fred. boris sanchez, thank you. so one of the reporters would broke the new york times story talked to cnn about why this is so significant. the way these things are supposed to work is we re not supposed to find out about it, okay, that the fbi investigates somebody. maybe they suspect an individual might be working for russia. they investigate. they do it quietly. obviously the firing of comey an
and this driver, logging out to watch his kid hit one out of the. (bat hits ball) opportunity is everywhere. all you have to do to find it is get out.here. tonight, the president is now waging a pr battle over the extremely tight florida midterm rations, a source close to the president telling cnn the president is, quote, on a warpath. that was made clear in a series of tweets that he sent while aboard air force one on his way to france. in one tweet, he writes this. rick scott was up by 50,000 plus votes on election day. now they found many votes and he
talking about these stories, talking about abuses of the administration, we re spending less time talking about whether we re in anyway prepared for 2018. congress has focused on its investigations. the administration is batting down stories daily about potential abuses of power. i haven t heard anything about what dhs is doing to protect election infrastructure. working with digital platforms to identify disinformation and misinformation. we ve seen other countries start to do this and we re really falling short. in the whole political arena in terms of the whole pr battle over, you know, how important it is to continue to probe russia, is it the case that many democrats feel like that he are losing that battle? i think that they do. i think there s a very salient point that is getting lost or two points i should say because
the first supper. and so he s clearly changed his attitude towards this. maybe because he believes he s got nothing to lose. who does want to lose? so perhaps this is the beginning. i d love to know what s on the menu, but something perhaps something we can report tomorrow. the beer summit worked for him. go ahead. i think what s going to be on the menu here is this notion of if we can get past these so-called forced spending cuts that we re now in, what can we do over the summer to come up with a grand bargain. the president really sees, brooke, that public opinion by a 2-1 margin today in the washington post /abc news poll, public opinion for spending cuts. he may be losing the pr battle over this was going to be armageddon or not. i think the president s own popularity has gone down by an average of four points over the last couple of weeks.
that s the context we ought to put it in. shannon: leslie, how could this play out with voters in the pr battle over the numbers? you look at places like san jose out in california last week voting down some of the union perks and pensions. do you think the average person out there is now starting to question just how tough things are for public sector employees? well, as you know, whenever you take percentages, quite frankly whether it s a union employee, whether it s just a federal government employee, do we include congress in that? they are federal government employees. i d love to see congress left and right reduce their salaries. are you up for that, lars? sure, you bet. it will be what americans feel, not what the number actually is, as i ve actually said in november, on that big day, on the dave the election, what americans feel about the economy, how they feel in their own personal situation. do they feel that things have improved? and who do they trust, president obama