from the president himself and the president, you know, should be very forceful in calling the shots at this point in time because if we let a war party take over at this juncture, we re going to have a real serious issue not only with iran, but potentially with our allies, as well. a number of spots in foreign policy where the administration has been struggling or things have not turned out as they had hoped or trying to orchestrate. you have venezuela, north korea, the chinese are retaliating against the tariffs, a trade war going on. when you look at this and iran, how would you grade the president s foreign policy? i think if you gave him a letter grade right now. the grade would be around a c minus at this point. now, there are potentials for as in this. for example, his issue with china and the fact that he s called out huawei the fact that he has done that is very positive from a national
something very likeable and thanostalgic coming together to fight the challenges of the day. he did take it a step too far. you will see that the dials jumped. brian: key is republicans and independents rejected c minus. a lot better than some of the others. look at the way republicans and independents are responding the way to most. it has flat lined any one credit beto and biden. steve: see how the population feels about senator elizabeth warren who says in this sound bite do not call her a socialist. bernie has to speak to what democratic socialism is. you are not one? i am not. all i can tell you is what i believe. and that is there is an enormous amount to be gained from markets. that markets create opportunities.
and you never know when this is going to be the last time you see him in the super bowl, so you should really appreciate these moments. what about the side dish here? what about the halftime show? reporter: so this is what i had to say about the halftime show, and this is from speaking to a lot of people that were watching it. if you were a fan of maroon 5, you thought it was pretty good. if you re not a big fan of maroon 5, the halftime show was not great. it did not get good veviews all around, and it lacked like something spectacular, something special. you know, lady gaga was jumping all over the place, you know, flying around. katey perry a few years ago rode a giant lion in and shot off on a shooting star. this one just didn t have anything really special, and that s the way most fans just thought of it. if i had to grade it i would probably give it a c minus. it just didn t jump off the charts in terms of halftime
robert costa, you gave the president a what and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. the shutdown continues. i m not here to grade. the impasse continues. you, too. i think i give them both a c minus. trump an f. nancy and chuck a b ing. > all right then. up next, paul manafort s lawyers accidentally, how about this, paul manafort s lawyers accidentally reveal that their client provided polling data to a man with very close ties to guess what, russian intelligence. before we go, we just finished talking about president trump s primetime address. steven colbert revealed last night what he wanted why he wanted to do the speech in primetime and even his backup plan for wall funding. i think trump gave that speech because he misses being on primetime television. next is going to be hello shark tank. i m asking for $5.7 billion for
invested $75 million to upgrade voting machines, increase cyber security and train election officials but a scorecard released by the center for american progress earlier this year found the average grade for state cyber security and elections was ac-minus and with nine states with senate races rated at toss-ups by the cook political report, only 2 of the states rate better than a d. of particular concern, direct recording electronic voting or dre voting machines that typically do not record on paper backup ballots making it difficult to independently audit contested election results. these machines not just vulnerable to cyber attack but data corruption, as well. states use only dre machines statewide. the rest here have a mix depending on the precincts, some states like pennsylvania are changing course. they re making an effort to