and so on that note, how is legislating in washington these days? some issues that you and i are aligned with, minimum wage, student loans, it s hard to get anything through. is it still in your soul to be a legislator in the current climate in washington? well, you have to keep you have to be optimistic, and you have to keep on working. how do you do that? the american people expect us and deserve for us to do that. but it s just a stunning thing that no matter what it is, if the president is for it, the republicans are against it, and that wasn t the way it was when we had the majority and president bush was president. we worked with we opposed him on the war in iraq and privatizing social security, but beyond that, we got many things accomplished working together. have you found any common ground on any issues in i mean, are we overstating the fact that nothing is happening in washington? no. you are not overstating it, but we did do one bill that the president is
in washington, i see an embrace of the idea that this is a humanitarian crisis by people who are not politicizing the issue. what we need to do is have the supplemental that gives us the resources to meet the humanitarian needs, to do the border control, but also to have the judicial piece so that these children have representation and judges to hear their cases. those who have a right to stay, whether it s refugee status or asylum, whatever, should stay, and those should go back, and that s the message that the governments of the three countries. now, the president this week is it today, the meeting i ve lost track of his schedule but is it this week? friday, i think it is. he s meeting with the three, the president of honduras, guatemala and el salvador to make it really clear that while you may have violence and these kids are endangered in their country, let us help you because that supplemental also has funds to
resisting israel s aggressions on the gaza strip. ayman, thank you very much. we ve got politics and some other news to cover as well. a new political poll could indicate a problem for hillary clinton if she runs for president in 2016. a majority of americans say she did not do a good job as secretary of state. 32% say her performance was poor. and another 21% say she only did a fair job. 14% believes clinton did an excellent job while 28% rate her service as good. perhaps more troubling for the first lady, 60% of independent voters say her four years leading the state department were poor or fair. one-third of independents say she did a good or excellent job. it s a major change from a year and a half ago when the then-secretary of state had a 70% approval rating. meanwhile, a new study by bloomberg shows clinton earned at least $12 million since she stepped down in february of last year. that figure includes the advance from her new memoir along with
about the ukrainians and who started what are absolutely lies. and so he did have a moment. the question is, is he more concerned about his internal popularity, or does he understand that he has really completely missed the boat in terms of taking this moment to do exactly what zbigniew suggested. i think the president and the leaders have to keep calling him on this. he is responsible for this. he is the one that has to get some kind of control over the rebels and, in fact, admit that what he s done in the area is the cause of it and not the west or the cia or poroshenko. so dr. brzezinski, off of what secretary albright just said, is it time in our toolbox, in our national security toolbox, is it time to take out the united nations tool with samantha power circa back to 1962, adlai stevenson, the cuban missile crisis, and point out to the world the intelligence
way that she tried to explain it to people that started to draw a lot of the criticism. also, this is politics. this is how politicians are covered. at this point on the democratic side, she is the clear front-runner. on the republican side, it s a wider field. as that field starts to narrow, i think you re going to see similar intense coverage of those candidates. well handled, julie. still ahead on morning joe, a full lineup of foreign policy experts. former secretary of state madeline albright will weigh in on the crises abroad for the first time here. and dad will join us. and senator chris murphy will explain why it s time to turn up the pressure on vladimir putin. and later, the new film boyhood is getting rave reviews from critics and fan as like. we ll talk to two of the film s stars in our 8:00 hour. plus our exclusive interview with nancy pelosi including what motivated her to live a life of public service. when you were growing up on these streets, you know, with