on average, if you look back to jimmy carter, the president declined the biggest jump was for bill clinton in 1998, his approval went up 10% points after that point. george w. bush, he had a six-point bump, on average, presidents don t change very much in terms of their approval. as far as winners and losers, the american public wasn t certainly a winner in this. the american voters were looking for a reason to cheer for this president, even if they don t support him, even if they didn t vote for him, they wanted something to latch onto. i think they saw at least a glimmer of hope, even if they were critics of his last night. it that s probably helpful. jon: another winner is anybody who has money in the stock market right now. absolutely. at the stock market is responding favorably to the speech, even though there may be other reasons for that.
u.s. coalition troops without coordinating that with our local partners? i would. i won t comment on the likelihood. i don t foresee a spring in large numbers of coalition troops, mainly because what we are doing is in fact, working. he met with general steve townsend in baghdad just a week before he presented the military s recommendations to defeat isis to the white house. we have just learned from general townsend that he anticipates that kurdish fryers will be part of the effort to retake the city. one president trump plans to introduce a temporary ban on friday, he will put a rack in a separate category. i asked general townsend just moments ago, if including a rack and a travel ban caused problems for him and the 6,000 u.s. troops on the ground in iraq. they were relieved when the
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specifics. jon: that s typical for this kind of speech. absolutely. we can throw in with other losers, fiscal conservatives. it may be even tea party conservatives who heard a lot about spending, but very little about cuts and how it might affect the deficit. i think there were certainly people who were listening to this speech on both sides of the aisle who are skeptical, but nevertheless, generally optimistic about the tone of the president s address. jon: i was surprised, he gave sort of a dark speech at the republican national convention, talking about the america that he sees out there today. even his inaugural speech had some dark elements to it. last night, everything in the future looked rosy and let s not stop on the way to america great again. absolutely. it was a very positive tone. it was a unifying tone, especially compared to his other speeches. people who are accustomed to the
lot of financial sense. as far as the ball is concerned, i am not a big fan of it. who is to say that putting a lowball. anyone coming in. if we limit illegal immigration, wages in the united states will rise. no, that is the corporations. it is not like the people picking lettuce where i do not see any trump supporters signing up for those jobs. so the razor wire you see there is there for a reason because illegal immigrants would stand up there or sit up there rather and throw rocks and bottles down on the agents so the razor wire has helped. after all, they are spending eight grant to get smuggled into the country. while some people think that the wall is extreme or unnecessary, the people who spend their career down here don t necessarily think so. back to you. jon: fascinating report, william la jeunesse, thank you. we are back in a moment.