approval. if it s at 36%, the president is basically a base plus none right now. his base strategy of communicating only to his base makes it harder for him to persuade independents and swing voters and people who are outside that hard base. and i think we re seeing that right now. and that s really bad news for the republicans heading into the midterm elections. they d much rather be talking about an economy that s doing really well than talking about the president s tweets, than talking about the woodward and omarosa books, about the chaos in the white house or talking about a russia investigation that is now bearing a lot of fruit for robert mueller. and julia, the woodward book also that came out this week on tuesday, the continued books, articles, omarosa among them, these kinds of things are the things that republican senatorial candidates, whether
the circle of trust. i guess stating the obvious there are fewer people on the inside that they feel they can trust. that s right, brian. one of the things president trump said in the last few days came in that q & a session he had with reporters on air force i friday of last week, and what sticks out to me is he said, look, when i go into meetings now, i look around the room and see, who do i recognize? the implication there is if he doesn t recognize you, if he doesn t know you, then he doesn t trust you, and he s very careful about what he says in audiences with people he doesn t know, with faces he doesn t know. there has been an effort, and this predates the woodward book, by the way, an effort the last few months in the white house to try to cut down the number of people who are in the room for some of these serious discussions involving the president because they re so sensitive to information leaking out. so the national security adviser
one of the things president trump said in the last few days came in that q & a session he had with reporters on air force i friday of last week, and what sticks out to me is he said, look, when i go into meetings now, i look around the room and see, who do i recognize? the implication there is if he doesn t recognize you, if he doesn t know you, then he doesn t trust you, and he s very careful about what he says in audiences with people he doesn t know, with faces he doesn t know. there has been an effort, and this predates the woodward book, by the way, an effort the last few months in the white house to try to cut down the number of people who are in the room for some of these serious discussions involving the president because they re so sensitive to information leaking out. so the national security adviser john bolton often attends those meetings. sometimes it s the loan of the security without deputies there
seriously enough, and the things some of the things trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. that gets your attention. he sent them out almost at the same time the interview was airing, quote, the woodward book is a joke, just another assault against me and a barrage of assaults using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. many have already come forward saying the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. dems can t stand losing. i ll write the real book. and the white house is a smooth running machine. let s not forget that one. woodward had this to say about the denials of the accounts in his book by some of the president s top advisers. they are not telling the truth. look, what s going on here, and
unnamed incidents. well, i ve never seen an instance when the president is so detached from the reality of what s going on. this has not been treated seriously enough, and the things some of the things trump did and does jeopardized the real national attention. quote, the woodward book is a joke, just another assault against me and a barrage of assaults using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. many have already come forward saying the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. demes can t stand losing. i ll write the real book. and woodward has this to say about the denials of the accounts in his book by some of