that s when senator corker talked about president trump s competency. this week, he announced he was not going to seek re-election. then on wednesday, talked about the president s administration, cabinet officials around him. i will play you both of those sound bytes. take a listen. i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. the president has not yet, has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. and we ve known, since donald trump ran for president, even before that, when he was a businessman, that if someone attacks him, he attacks right back. so he went on twitter this morning and basically said that bob corker begged him for his
disorder. that word chaos, bob corker used that earlier. let s take a step back for a second, david, look at the events that have transpired in the last week. president trump visits puerto rico. lamb basted for the paper towel incident. president trump visits las vegas, calling for unity, secretary of state tillerson didn t deny calling trump a moron. senator bob corker says the grownup itself, are keeping the world from chaos. says you ll see, what he was referring to. and then he also suggests that an intel committee investigate news networks. president trump goes after late night tv hosts, calls for equal time. he tweets when it comes to north korea, there is only one thing that will work, today, of course, he goes after the sitting senator and renews the national debate about kneeling at nfl games. whew, david, what do you think that s a long litany. what do i think about on my monday? i ve forgotten about my friday
returns. david is right the last a.p. polls show him at a 32% approval rating and his support among republicans down to 67%. now that may sound like a lot. but that is a dreadful number for an incumbent president on his own party s level of support. you also see other polls showing a high level of pessimism about the republican party. trump is running now against the republican party. his ilie steve ban none non is up, we is hork across purposes, ainsults and attacks his senate majority leader. this is not someone crafting a governing strategy. those people that say this is some genius 14-level chess game. this is all very sfoift indicated. i don t think so, this is totally out of control. it really gets down to his personality and temperamental
commander-in-chiefch. maybe it s the calm before the storm. what s the storm? the calm before the storm. the calm before the storm. we ll see. three days later, we re none the wiser about what he was actually talking about t. comments have sparked a storm of alarmed speculation. joining me now to try to make some sense of all this is retired admiral john kirby, a cnn military an lift and served as press secretary and state department spokesman under president obama. admiral, thanks for spending your time the president followed up those comments with tweets this weekend on north korea. listen to the reaction from congress woman on air last night. i have to ask about your reaction to president trump tweeting just an hour or so ago, only one thing will work in north korea, what do you think he means? well, ana, i think it s
anxiety among members of the senate and among, some republicans in the house. it s not shared by the base yet. but you begin to say things crack. when that happens, unless the president can pull out a victory or two or show us that he s in charge in an effective way with north korea or iran, is this is a slide that could be very dangerous for him, some would argue not very good for the country. the event today that happened with the vice president leaving the nfl game after some of the players kneeled during the national anthem, we learned shortly after that trump told pence to leave if that had happened. so, jennifer, was this all just a political stunt and was it effective? of course, it was a political stunt. and this is what trump does. he simply feeds red meat to his base. really i think it has reached the point of deminnishing