americans prefer the current health care law, about one-quarter want the republican option being pushed right now. 17% would prefer something else all together. joe? yeah, bob costa, let me bring you in there. so much to unpack. i want to get to health care in a second, that s what republicans waking up in the senate have to be most concerned about but first let s talk about everything that has happened this weekend. the president awakens to 36% approval rating, he s forced to say well, abc is a fake poll and actually around 40% is pretty good. it s historically low actually. what is the state of the white house this weekend after being pounded by another flurry of allegations about that don jr. meeting, and having a lot of conservative commentators come out saying wait a second, there s something there. inside the white house, joe, my sources tell me that they never thought they had a honeymoon in terms of the national poll, in terms of most
difficult situation. can you explain to americans also why saudi arabia, the uae might have such hard feelings against qatar. the fact that they have actually pushed out a lot of propaganda that has been anti-saudi arabia, anti-uae? they ve supported the muslim brotherhood. they actually you heard saudi officials and uae officials when osama bin laden was alive complaining that qatar and al jazeera throughout the middle east seemed to glorify osama bin laden. they saw that as a real threat not only to their own governments, but also thought that it was infecting the minds of their own citizens. joe, the saudis say if you watch was on al jazeera
blame it on the fake news media, but of course action , an overw number of americans believe it was inappropriate. 26% think appropriate, 63% think that meeting was not appropriate. david ignatius you have jay sekulow saying the overwhelming majority of legal scholars say there s nothing illegal about that meeting. that s not what i ve been hearing. it s not what i ve been hearing out of the white house. it s not what i ve been hearing from capitol hill. there are a lot of people inside the white house and a lot of republicans on capitol hill afraid that at least one member in that meeting put themselves in grave legal jeopardy by even being there, and not reporting it. well, and maybe most important of all, it s not jay sekulow s call whether it s legal or not. we have a criminal investigation under way conducted by one of the best prosecutors in america,
opportunistic bridge. taking a role that s been held by the uk to a lesser extent germany, now france, is bidding to play that role. trump needed a good visit. seemed relaxed on the way. chatted sometimes in too familiar ways, but it was just a little drama. i think it told you that out in the world life continues. people have to deal with this administration. i find more foreign diplomats asking me what s the address to talk to this administration? there s so few people in key jobs at the state department still. not giving up on the administration, trying to find the key to open the door. and nick, obviously there are a lot of americans who believe that our leadership if you look at the number, 48% of americans think we are weaker than we were
trump curious supporters. the core trump voter is always core trump voter, he s delivering what they asked for, to break up washington and go to war in washington. but the trump curious voter was curious to see if his style would make a difference, if it changed how washington worked for the best if it would be a new way of doing things fort the better and i think what we re seeing here is some loss of faith and perhaps a kind of throwing in of the towel and saying oh, it s the usual thing in washington, trump is no different from the other guys. yes, and mika, obviously, you have all the lies that are being told, but you look at the policies, and the medicaid cuts will of course ravage the poor. yes. but will also ravage working class americans in rural communities that went for donald trump. i talked to one hospital consultant this past weekend, it was a big trump supporter who actually said that communities