and subway choking victim jordan neely s family calling the indictment of daniel penny, quote, the right result for the wrong he committed. what nbc news has learned about the charge he ll be facing coming up. but we ll start with new reporting that former president donald trump had multiple opportunities to resolve the standoff over classified documents amicably but opted out every time. according to the washington post trump time and time again rejected the advice of lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and repeatedly refused to give documents back, even when some of his longest-serving advisers warned of peril and some flew to mar-a-lago to beg him to return them. other advisers told the post that the fact that the fbi and national archives wanted the documents so badly made trump even less inclined to give them back. now the former president s lifelong penchant for digging in and doubling down isn t just putting hmm at legal risk, it s drawing republicans
to make central. so i want to show people two polls, eugene. one tracks president biden s approval rating. the other tracks people s opinions of whether the country is on the right track. and if you take a look, these polls have barely moved over the course of the year. what does the white house think that is? and are they considering obviously they think that talking to people s pocketbooks is a good idea. but is there a different strategy they re considering? at this point on the right track/wrong track question what you see in those polls is that people think those for different reasons. if the country s on the quote unquote wrong track, democrats may think that because of issues they care about aren t being pushed through. republicans think that because it s a democratic administration. so they don t feel that they can do a ton there. but on his overall approval rating they say that that is there are sometimes historic lows, all they can do is go around and say what joe bid