recession. look at what we ve gone done. we passed so much legislation that makes a point about you know, for example, the american rescue plan. the legislation to deal with inflation. the inflation act. we ve moved along there s so much that s been accomplished, that the idea that there is something there s an automatic recession is just not there. reporter: the president, who turns 80 next month saying he will decide after the midterms whether to run for a second term. name me a president in recent history that s gotten as much done in the first two years, not a joke. i believe i can do the job, i ve been able to do the job. and making this pledge. we finally have action on guns and i m going to get assault weapons banned. i m going to get that again, not a joke, and watch. reporter: the president commenting on his son s possible legal troubles. cnn has reported that hunter
assessment of vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who miscalculated significantly. i think he thought he was going to be welcome with open arms. this has been the home of mother russia in kyiv and he was going to be welcomed. i think he just totally miscalculated. reporter: russia s military strategy has fallen short in recent months and ukraine has regained territory in the eastern region. as a result putin has waged one of russia s hardest bombing campaign in weeks. hitting multiple targets. at a fund-raiser last week, biden saying the world was as close as it had been to nuclear armageddon since the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago. i was making the point it
that is the state of the economy. how does biden s handling of the economy rate? not great here. he s at 36% approval. much below his overall 44% approval we were talking about on issue number one of the economy. coronavirus is his best issue. foreign affairs, helping the middle class. economy and inflation, this is issue number one for americans and bottom of the list for joe biden. in terms of whether or not biden s policies are improving conditions on the economy. 50% say that biden s policies have worsened conditions. only 26% say improved. 24% no effect. we see a slight improvement from the president here from the low point earlier this year in april, may, 55% said his policies made the conditions worse economically. now that s at 50%, still a huge warning sign of a number. in terms of a dim view or
headed to the kenyan capital of nairobi crashed shoortly after take-off yesterday claiming the lives of all 157 passengers. among the passengers were eight americans. the same make and model jet crashed in indonesia last summer. reporter: a devastating scene, the aircraft ripped apart, pieces of the plane on a crash site the size of the football field, the point of impact, a huge crater. bodies and belongings strewn across the ethiopian skriside. long them, a lone shoe and napkins. grief stricken loved ones. radar shows the flight lost contact eight minutes after
the difficult thing is once it impacts, when they use the word obliterated, that s probably the best description you could come up with. but it also goes backwards away from the impact point. so you re having to figure out what went forward and what went backward from that accident point to gather information. the fact they have the flight data recorder is extremely useful, but the limits of the flight data recorder is it will tell you what happened. it won t tell you why necessarily. that s why we have to find that cockpit voice recorder to get the answers to do why it happened what was going on in the cockpit at the time of the accident. looking at these pictures this is the best most horrific view we have had yet of this the pieces of this obliterated plane. david, how do you go about determining the point of impact when you re looking at this video? well without being too graphic, you know, it s an impact point, but it s also where we call a splash zone. when this aircraft hi