classroom and critics are warning that this could affect ability to develop critical thinking by one brand being so dominant in their world to prevent them from objectively considering an alternative. back to you, heather. heather: thank you, dock dominic, from california. rick? rick: as president obama winds down from the visit to the middle east, there are new concerns today over his approval rating at the white house. check out the results from the latest research poll that shows only less than half of all americans agree with the president s job performance, a decline from almost two years ago when the rating was at an all-time high. what is going on? we have our policemen insiders, john leboutillier on the far left, former republican congressman from new york, pat caddell is a fox news contributor and form pollster with president jarred and doug schoen a fox news contributor and former pollster for former
things to spend it on now. heather: so, do you think more states will consider having the lottery? they don t have any money. they are either going to raise taxes which is not popular at all or cut spending and they are doing all of those things. this has proven to be such a huge money maker for states. it s $20 billion more in just a few years they is earned. it is a lot of money. heather: you mention the payout of $4 2 billion in prize money and that was included because we were all offer it, and the payout included $587 million powerball jackpot in 2012 and now we have $338 million and already this year in 2013. but the winners do not get all that money. uncle sam takes his and it depends whether you take a lump sum. 80 percent choose the lunch sum because they think they can invest it and make more money.
for inspections but only a few have been checked. i think the intent here by going public is to increase the pressure on al-maliki but the whole incident how minimal influence is on the regime in iraq and how minimal our ability to affect the conflict in syria has become. reporter: u.s. officials say the flights are taking place just about every day. kerry says the u.s. congress is watching what kind of partner iraq will be in the future. heather: steve centanni, thank you. rick: breaking developments out of syria. the leader of the main opposition group resigning saying he is disappointed over the lack of help from the international community. leland vittert has more from the middle east bureau. the iraqis are giving the wink, wink, nudge, nudge here so
if you don t if you take the lump sum you get hatch of what the payout is and taxes take about of what of that, so, say, it is $10 million you get about $2.5 million. heather: if you give advice, to whoever won the lottery yesterday, what advice do you give them, lunch sum or individual pay outs? i think the lump sum is the way to go but people go crazy. they go crazy. heather: speaking of that, we only have 90 seconds, if you were to win the $338 million lottery and you can actually tweet us at home, what would you do with the money? i have never played the lottery in my life. i would take a trip a trip to antartica. i would buy a plane and a pilot and have a house on a beach somewhere and i would
republicans the sequester and you saw the numbers reflect that go people weren t buying it. he is reverting and saying going on a charm offensive and outlying a different tact because at the end of the day, i truly think they gave him a mandate. he has not been able to fulfill it. at the same time people don t care anymore, they want it done. heather: ron, you get the final word. we only have 20 seconds left. do you think people don t like him? i the president has not been able to lead on the economy, he warned the sky was falling in the sequester, that didn t happen and he went on a permanent campaign against republicans trying to destroy them. that will make sure your poll numbers will go down and food and gas prices are going up, that won t confidence and increase likeability at all. heather: ron and julie, thanks so much.