24 hours to realize, oh, wait a second, all of those women i just named are on one side and the president is on the immoral side of this issue. and the president has also seized upon that moment, because that moment of the squad and nancy pelosi and, you know, alexandria ocasio-cortez saying that the house speaker was singling out women of color. the president is perhaps springing off that, but at the same time the president already has a prior history of his sentiment from the s-hole countries to, you know, mexican rapists, et cetera, salena. so it doesn t make it that much more easy to digest that this would come from the president and on a day when i.c.e. raids are under way, singling out, looking for undocumented
congresswoman ocasio-cortez, pressley, tlaib, omar. whether you disagree with them and want to vote them out or not vote them out, they have all taken the same oath to the constitution the president has and i think we ve lost a little sight of that. co-equal branches of government. sal salena, david, we ll have you back soon. thank you so much. also, still ahead the safety of our building, high tech, was they pulled and gave us glow sticks to go down the stairwell. blackout in manhattan, as residents pour into the streets. officials say it may be months before they really know what happened. (vo) parents have a way of imagining the worst. .especially when your easily distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we re taking on distracted driving [ping]
discrimination before he was president, whether you talk about birtherism, the list goes on, whether you talk about s-hole countries. so the vernacular, the sentiment has been there. but one has to wonder at this point is it more worrisome or damaging when you have supporters of the president who remain silent, or those who say, you know, he s only saying exactly what it is i ve been thinking and feeling and let s act on it? sure, fred, so good afternoon. you used the word disturbing and i think disturbing is definitely the starting point for this. i know you know this and i want our viewers to know this. salena and i are friends, we have love for each other, we agree and disagree respectfully all the time. in this case i have a very, very different analysis from salena. in this case the president s tweets, as you said at the top, were racist. they had no business being tweeted by a president of the united states who is not only the head of government but the
as this, to call the president out or to chastise the president. because there s politics and then there s right and wrong. there s politics and there s right and wrong. the one thing i do agree with salena about, i don t think this is going to move the needle that much. the president s approval rating is around 44%, maybe a little higher. it s exactly the same place it was when he took office on inauguration day. people that like president trump, like president trump. we ve learned in two and a half years that some of his appeal was about being an outsider, some of his appeal was about some of the things he proposed, but a lot of his appeal was about doing exactly what he did this morning. so since there s no consequence as a result of the president s words or actions or this sentiment, but instead a feeling of reward. he gets a feeling of reward to be able to say these things. yes, because the issues that don t work for the president, iran doesn t work for the president. in s
president trump is successfully purging the republican party of his opponents, but when it comes to his approval rating with voters, things are not going his way. a surprising new poll shows him losing support from his base. here to discuss, cnn contributor, salena zito, and ron klain, former chief of staff to vice president joe biden. good evening to both of you. welcome to the program. sal salena, i want to start with you. there s a new fox poll out and shows the president s approval rating is now at 38%. that s down 4 points from last month. and ten points from february. the drop comes mostly among white men without a college degree. now only 56% of that group support trump. down 12 points from last month. this is a group that pushed trump to the white house. why do you think their support is fading right now? well, i think it s based on