Cbs poll shows that donald trump will have record low Approval Ratings when he begins his presidency on friday afternoon. Less than a third of americans have favorable view of the president elect. As brook vile have brag goo explains thats the lowest of any president in decades. Reporter president elect donald trump appeared at the first inauguration week event last night. Addressing a friendly crowd of foreign dignitaries in washington. With you his popularity among americans is at a record low. A new cbs news poll shows mr. Trump will assume the presidency with the lowest Approval Rating of any president since 1981. Mr. Trump is dismissing the lack of support, tweeting the same people who did the phony election polls and were so wrong are now doing Approval Rating polls. They are rigged just like before. Anthony director of the cbs News Survey Unit blames a partisan divide. Do Trump Supporters have reason to believe theyre well, there are plenty of Trump Supporters. There are plenty
Why did you decide to run for congress . Reporter guest i was a social worker in my hometown and ive been in Public Service pretty much all of my adult life. I was actually recruited to run for congress. Took me a while to make the decision to run but its all about serving people. Think we are going through a tough time in our nation and what a great time to be in congress helping to work out some of the Biggest Challenges we are facing. Host what you think is the greatest challenge facing the Law Enforcement community . Guest its a job as i have said that i did for 27 years. I had the opportunity to start out as a Patrol Officer riding on the streets of orlandogovern working my way up to become the chief of police. Ive seen the effects of Good Government ive seen the effects of bad government. When i was appointed chief of police crime is at an alltime high in orlando and i do believe sometimes tough times give us a greater opportunity to serve. We were able to reduce our crime rates
Good evening, and we have several breaking headlines as we come on the air tonight. The fireworks on capitol hill today. But first, the verdict coming in late today in charleston. The jury deciding the Death Penalty for dylann roof who walked into that church and shot and killed nine parishioners who had invited him to pray with them. Tonight, dylann roofs time words to the court. Abcs Steve Osunsami leading us off. Reporter it took jurors only three short hours. The most appropriate sentence is death. The justice delivered to these Church Families tonight is bittersweet. This verdict is a verdict for america. Reporter 22yearold dylann roof will pay for the nine lives he stole from the basement of this Historic Black Church by giving up his, but none of this will bring their loved ones back. The husband and daughter of Myra Thompson tell us tonight they hope roof finds god soon. If there is one thing we want to tell him tonight, its that he needs to find the lord. He needs to because j
Murder in court and facing the death penalty. Today new details about his Mental Health history and how authorities once took his gun and then gave it back. Plus, ready to launch . Kim jong un making a birthday threat to fire a missile at the u. S. , and the pentagon is saying it is ready. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead. Im a jake tapper. Well begin today with politics. In 11 days donald trump will be taken the oath of office right over there on capitol hill. But in many ways his presidency really gets rolling this week with confirmation hearings for some of his top cabinet picks beginning tomorrow morning, including senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, retired general john kelly for Homeland Security and the president elects first News Conference comes smack in the middle of it all on wednesday morning. Se going to be competing with the hearings of his own nominees. All of this as mr. Trump continues to dance around a direct acknowledgement and specific condemnat
Sentenced manning, then known as bradley manning, to a record 35 years for providing hundreds of thousands of government documents to wikileaks. Details on all of that from our justice correspondent pamela brown. Reporter tonight in a shocking move president obama is allowing Chelsea Manning, the army private convicted of stealing and leaking hundreds of thousands of documents and videos, to be a free woman in may. For the president especially the president whos made so much recently about the danger that wikileaks has posed to our national security, to commute private mannings sentence is disappointing. Reporter in 2009, then known as bradley manning, the 22yearold stole hundreds of thousands of classified and sensitive military files as an Army Intelligence analyst. Manning then gave them to the website wikileaks, which published them, causing a mass ive Ripple Effect in the United States and around the world and putting wikileaks on the map for future leakers such as Edward Snowden.