to americans going to the midterms. the mueller probe, the manafort deal, does it play any role as we get closer to election day? not generally from what i m hearing on the ground. a lot of issues we tend to talk about nationally are not necessarily the issues that are the biggest at the ground level. we tend to be incredibly cyclical with these elections. 92 percent of the time the party out of power will win pick up seats in midterm election cycles. so the democrats do have a favorable landscape right now. for that reason, i think that some of the cyclical factors trumps some of the issues that are in the news whether it is paul manafort, where the mueller probe what have you. i think it would be more of a historical trendline that we become accustomed to in the country. molly: you bring up that historical aspect. the president has been weighing in on the mueller probe in general. he calls it illegal now. he preaches he talked about saying is unfair for the
the steve king quote in this piece, steve king says the president doesn t focus on culture enough. quote, steve king, i don t hear this president speaking about race but for me there are cultural distinctions that matter. whenever you import a great number of peoples you import the culture, too. for some in trump space, michael steele, this is the presidency. ts the trump presidency. that s the fight. the fight right there. it goes to something i and a few others have been saying for weeks and month now is browing of this country is changing how white people are looking at the country and changing to how they are responding to what they are seeing. it s born out of fear, it s born out of economics. it s born out of a whole lot of thing. but it is a trendline that is inevitable, number one. the question for us as we the people is how did we now gird ourselves to remain america,
disproportionate share of the total cost of the defenses. that was something that was agreed in 2014 at a summit in wales. every country with spend two percent of gdp as you say very few are actually doing that. the good news is that the trendline is going the right direction. more countries are increasing dispense spending now that was the president when junco it was the case when the president was elected. is a mike pompeo cosmo very specifically, the wealthiest of the european allies and nato and they are not doing the job. he says flat out it is unacceptable for unsatisfactory rather so far. do you think that will have an impact to germany stepping up and leaving the way? yesterday there was a meeting yesterday with the president. aunt she was upset germany and other european allies need to be doing more. i think the president agreed.
arthel: kitty logan, thank you very much, kitty. eric: the next presidential election is 1191 days away. the president is looking toward it, he held his first fund-raiser for re-election last month in washington. if the results of recent polls continue, he could have a battle on his hands. recent gallup poll s showing the president s job approval rating is troubling in 31 states, disapproval rating is higher than approval rating. the president s support seems to be shrinking in the states he needs to count on, and that put him over the top last time. what could the trendline mean if it does hold up? larry sabato, the director of center of politics at the university of virginia, and has crystal ball, maybe not three years out or so. as of now, past the six month mark, what are you seeing? well, clearly president trump s ratings are low compared to other presidents who had just begun their first
close and pretty quick. right now the polls haven t an absolute toss-up. this will be a nail-biter, it will be a long night, but if you are looking at the trendline the way things were moving, they need stomach seem to be shifted in her direction toward the end of the campaign. martha: austin, what you think the trump factor is here? look, there s no way this district will ever be competitive for democrats if at this point in his presence he donald trump didn t have the lowest approval rating in the history of presidential polling. this is a district that the democrats really had no business winning, maybe someday in the future, but they ve lost this district by 25-40 points except for the one year they couldn t even get a kennedy and they lost by 99 points. i think republicans in the senate especially and all around the house have absolutely one eye on this race because if a democrat could actually won in a district like this, i think