first midterm after he s elected, and his approval ratings are not good. this is bad news for congressional democrats hoping to be re-elected to their seats. there s a lot of time. we re in april. and there are a lot of muth mon between now and november. this will be the singular concern of members whose names are on the ballot in november and of the white house because as you said, the issue set that he s dealing with, high inflation, rising gas prices, widespread sort of economic discontent and uncertainty, as we come out of the pandemic. and still a lot of shakiness about whether pandemic restrictions and pandemic precautions are going to stay in place. i think it s a real challenge for these candidates. and i think the white house knows that. that s why you see him go to north carolina and talk at a historically black university, about what the agenda has been and what they ve been able to accomplish, even if the bulk of the agenda is now stalled. iowa, new hampshire, north car
being here. today the u.n. general assembly voted to suspend russia from the u.n. human rights council. does that mean anything? what is the significance? well, it sends a message but it also robs russia of a pretty crucial platform from which it was perpetuating a lot of the propaganda for years actually around this idea that actually it s u.s. overreach, it s united states imperialism, it s nato and the european union that are incurring into russia s backyard. so the message is pretty significant. unfortunately the message to be backed up by reality, i don t really see how you move forward when russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council. and you also have the ongoing issues surrounding perhaps a little shakiness in the moral ground behind the united states feet. because of the iraq war? because of the iraq war. because of perhaps some of the m misrepresentations around libya. or china at the time felt that
focus on. what rather than address this assault on our constitution. also in the filings, eric trump claimed that losses were due to brexit. which trump supported. the pandemic aid came from the british government. so david, do you think the monument argument is a valid there? what that is a more complicated question. i do think that we should never be surprised that trump says one thing and then says the exact opposite later. as did brexit. whatever would be at the moment is whatever he is going to tell you. let s move to the shakiness and trump s new media venture. that s almost redundant. he s partnered ring with the chinese firm was. is that normal? the investigation is perfectly normal. but having the former and would be president of the future
washington. and before anybody who really knew what had happened, epstein had received this very lenient plea deal. he was already in jail by the time the victims even realized that this deal had been executed. it was sealed. nobody could understand what had happened until years later. of course, you re reporting on the weirdness. the strangeness. perhaps a legal shakiness of that deal. because of stipulations. they had to inform survivors and victims of it. partly led to the reassessment. public scandal, and then the indictment of epstein. himself of course, that is the shadow that hangs over all of this. joyce that ghislaine maxwell was quite clearly his facilitator. and a very very sick interested fashion. it was epstein was the center of this. he managed to kill himself in federal custody before he could face justice.
again, being here at the scene, what is going through your mind right now? i m being overwhelmed by reporters. i understand. apart from that, it is cold and i m so grateful we have so many first responders that know what to do in this emergency and are doing it. can you describe what you were hearing earlier this morning. couple of blocks down the road, south braddock avenue, it was a loud sound. so you leave a couple blocks down the road. you say you traveled this bridge before. has there ever been any signs of feeling unsafe or shakiness before? it is funny you should ask that. over the years there has been a cathump, cathump. i was with the homewood gardens, so i went back and forth several times a day and there is like a crater at the edge of the bridge. it gets fixed every year so it is not there every time. but it seems like every winter the pothole and the rift was the same thing.