after protesters storm gop headquarters in new york city. conservatives calling on all democrats to denounce left wing vandals after antifa thugs de deface new york city republican headquarters. i m also glad to know that there is a new york city republican headquarters. trish? trish: thanks, pete. in a sit-down interview with first lady melania trump abc news asking her about her influence within the white house house. watch. sources have told us, sources in the white house that you are the gatekeeper, that you tell him who he can trust and who you can t trust. is that true? yes i give him my honest advice. i believe that my husband is doing an incredible job for this nation. so whatever he will decide, i will support him. trish: this is a new poll revealed more than half of americans view the first lady favorably, a 10% jump from september of 2017. so we re asking, can the first
credentials that she didn t have before. she s done two u.n. general assemblies. managed america s position during the general assembly meetings in september of 2017 and september of 2018. and there s not much more to do with that job. if you re running for president in 2024 and you ve got made a lot of money in your life, maybe giving yourself three or four years to go work in the private sector, beth, isn t a bad idea. that s a long time out of the spotlight if she s coming back. i m just thinking, i m just saying. in her statement today, offering resignation, she said, i about will not be a candidate for any office in 2020. i believe her. yeah, not senate, not president. she really sounds like she wants to go. i think the biggest mystery he s so skeptical. your eye roll, you didn t even roll them and i could see them rolling. these sorts of statements i hear you. she has said she s going to serve until the end of the year, then someone else will come in, gi
september of 2017 republicans have 36% approval rating. 2017 that is with democrats 44. i was shocked to see this. republicans now have a one point advantage. it is the highest level of favorability for republicans in seven years. this is a poll by gallup and gallup does a summary on their website and they say for the republican party less than two months away from an election they could see them lose control of both the houses and the senate gains in public favorability is a welcome sign. they have been wallowing in below 40% in the last five years after rarely sinking that low in the past two decades. talk as lot about the fact the last time the poll was taken back in 2017 the republicans were trying to undo obamacare. and that became a public spectacle but then they passed the tax cuts which are hugely popular with republicans. anna: you have to take a look when it was taken september 4th through the 12th is when everyone was
peop people. then they hired george washington. this wasn t done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many other people killed. 50 times last original number. no way twries president. he blamed democrats for the death toll. let me just specific a little bit and let you answer directly the president s tweet. but the term excess deaths. 2975 excess deaths. what does that term mean exactly what that really means is that compared to a normal year when there was no hurricane we would have expected that 2975 people would lost their lives between september of 2017 and february of 2018 would not have died. and so that we can, therefore, attribute those deaths to hurricane maria either directly or indirectly. what do you say to the president questioning that methodology and calling it magic? there s no real magic to it at all. we re able to look at the
dramatic rise in the death toll. why? it is a central question in a host of questions, jon. the government was trying to get answers to all of these questions when they commissioned george washington university to do this study, and what they found is startling. let s break it down. the government now recognizes that 2,975 people died in this storm. 46 times higher than the initial death toll of 64. and this report analyzed deaths in puerto rico from when hurricane maria hit, in september of 2017, through february 2018. that s five months after the storm. researchers cite two major reasons for the discrepancy. one is incomplete death certificates, a lack of training and guidelines led to many death certificates not identifying the official cause of death as hurricane related. secondly, poor communication. researchers found the government s emergency plan was designed for a category 1, woefully inadequate for a cat 4 maria. this week, the governor