of a midterm election, and he really he has always believed he s his own best communicator. whatever the message is, even if it s crazy, even if it s just meant to be entertainment, whether it s trying to incite or push a message of fear at the rally, this is the president. he s constantly talking and we re all held captive to it. we have heard the president at a number of rallies speaking on behalf of marsha blackburn. a vote for marsha is a vote for me. he said that at a number of rallies. if you ve got an economy that s humming along the way this one is humming along for many americans, unemployment as low as it is for most people in most places, if you have two conservative supreme court picks under your belt already, and you re not even two years in, why not run on those things. why run on trump when we know that his unfavorability numbers go ahead. you re right about the unfavorability numbers, and it would be good for him to think about it. if you re asking me to read hi
has a chance to attack her about the e-mail situation and declined to do that. me may want a do-over tomorrow night here in des moines. secretary clinton is obviously leading in the vast majority all the polls but some suggest it could be more of a struggle in a general election. right? reporter: if you look at the latest washington post abc news poll it confirms something, between the e-mail controversy other, struggles for hillary clinton, is that her unfavor ability raising is 50%, favorability, 46%. gives you an that idea among democrats her favorability rating is off the charts, 83%. she is locking up the nomination but in a general election it s a whole new ball game, but we have to see who she actually is facing and whatter their unfavorability numbers. that will make a number. carl you re not carl. you neat to get back home sometimes. the supreme court is set to hear major indication on abortion.
doesn t really care what other people think of him and so that s refreshing in politics, when everything is so scripted at this level and there s alsos an idea that there hasn t been a big leader in the republican party taking on health care worker or barack obama for the last six, seven years. and so donald trump said, hey, i m going to figure that void and you re going to hate me. if you don t hate me, you re absolutely going to love me. that s the reason you see his poll numbers stay consistent. you see his unfavorability numbers, which is outstanding, how many people cannot stand him. this is on both sides of the aisle. look where bernie sanders has gone to now. he s leading in the primary states, which no one would have guessed a month or two ago. you look at it and say, maybe there s an opportunity for the candidates on both sides. let me stay with you because i think one person not really interested in learning more
this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we ve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn t want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took the time to come and visit. i ll bet that helped folks trying to recoup rate in the hospital. thanks, jim. the rest of the day s top stories, let s get right to christine romans. good morning. good morning, soledad, syrian forces stepping up attacks to regain control of aleppo, targeting rebel strong holds in syria s
mitt romney is getting a pretty sweet deal on his taxes but might have to pay a hefty price politically. for more than a week, newt s been gaining on willard nationally, little by little. and today, newt took the lead. he is ahead by four points in today s gallup national poll. this stunning chart tells the story. the dog line is willard s unfavorability numbers. the gray line is favorability. just look at the reversal. willard s ungafavorability soar, ballooned 15 points in two weeks. the tax return controversy and all the bain attacks have done some real damage to a candidate who still can t convince gop voters he is a real conservative. what have you done to further the cause of conservatism as a republican leader? well, number one, i have raised a family. number two, i have worked in the