east in korea raised the possibility of preemptive war against the ballistic missile program with north korea, that means that there is not a trivial possible they some time in the life of this term, this presidential term the president would have to come and say because of the intelligence services tells me x, y and z. these are the people that you don t trust and we don t trust and we re not sure about you particularly so it s hard to hermetically seal the loss of credibility. robert, do they understand this or are they not thinking about this? my sources inside of the white house tell me that the president reviews news organizations information sometimes even more than intelligence information. so we re more important than the presidential daily brief? he gets the presidential daily brief and if you look at
only 40% approve of the way he handled the transition. i suspect no matter who won wouldn t get great marks. so contentious and country so divided. having said that been so many things just surrounded by chaos of news around trump, whether the people he s trying to get confirmed, russian hack, putin, tweets, you know. that adds to that chaos. having said that, i went out and talked to people about it today and they said trump supporters are still in the honeymoon stage, ready and willing to give this guy a chance. and they say look, we don t trust polls. they had it wrong during the election so we think he s doing fine. i think, you know, time will tell how he s doing. a month, six weeks, two months
our poll showed donald trump entering the office with one of the worst approval ratings of any recent president. only 40% approve of the way he has handled the transition. what s your reaction, selena? i suspect, no matter who won they were probably not going to get great marks. it was so contentious, the country is so divided. having said that, it s been surrounded by chaos of news around trump, whether it was one of the people he s trying to get confirmed, the russian hacking, the, with putin, the tweets, you know, that sort of adds to that chaos. having said that, i went out and talked to people about that today, and they said, you know, i mean trump supporters right now, they re still in the honey hoon stage. they re still ready and willing to give this guy a chance, and they say, look, we don t trust polls. they had it wrong during the
that a lot. the current president was talking about it. you lay blame at a lot of republicans because and i know that people call in your show with fake news and people don t want to hear it. your ratings were hurt as a result of this you said. where do we go with that? i don t know. i think this is one of those where people need to step back and into intro spection. they have to ask what did the media do to contribute to the loss of credibility. fake news is a problem. the larger problem is the number of people who were gullible enough to believe the fake news and that destroyed our immunity because of the silos and we don t trust media outlets. we will go to a manhattan project for the media or the agreement. what is true and is truth important. this is not a media problem? this is a problem for democracy
so he hasn t been out there at all. we should add into this discussion that, look, there s lots of conspiracy theories out there. we can t spend all of our time on this program debunking these things. it does become a question of that they can fall on the kind of ears, vulnerable ears that can lead people to do horrible things. that s not something that just came about in this election cycle we know but it s just something we have to be vigilant about. look, we just had van jones on, he has his special tonight, the messy truth. he went to talk to real voters in ohio and pennsylvania. this is not on the top of their list. right. they want jobs, they care about their pocketbooks. we re fighting this fight because we know how important journalism is to democracy but i don t know if anybody is engaging. but journalism has got to be engaged in going somewhere to get some of its credibility back because we face our own problems in terms of people saying, you know what, we don t tru