Contributor leslie marshall, and in the virtual seat, dan hoffman, Fox News Contributor and former Cia Station Chief and director of the cias Middle East region. A new mpr Pbs Poll shows that the president s Approval Rating has dropped six points missing a month, to 43 , the lowest provided and since he took office. His disApproval Rating . Not surprisingly shut up seven points to 51 . It also shows a majority of independents disapprove of the drop the president is doing, with a tenpoint drop. That is bad news for biden and the democrats. Independents are a key Swing Group that biden won in 2020. A separate Abc News Washington Post Poll also showing how the president s job Approval Rating has taken a substantial hit, plummeting to 44 . Thats the second poll. The new one should scare democrats. How the public thinks about President Biden will be the single biggest indicator of how the 2022 midterm elections will turn out. Emily, coming to you, this is not one national poll, two national
Former white House Adviser Andy slavitt joins me later in the hour. And Senator Ted Cruz compares critical Race Theory to the kkk. The worst part. He knows exactly what hes doing. Ill speak with a pioneer of the subject Kimberly Crenshaw. R of the subject Kimberly Crenshaw. Good evening. Im Mehdi Hasan. We are now nearly six months removed from January The 6th, and there is still no sign from the administration or from democrats in congress of a bipartisan or even partisan investigation of the capitol insurrection. Why is that important . Well, for one Reason Meet Darren beatty. He was a Speech Writer for the trump White House until he was fired in 2018 after it emerged he spoke at a conference for white supremacists, as you do, and then he was appointed by a trump White House to a commission that preserves holocaust memorials. No, im not making this up. Today b. T. Runs a far right website called Revolver News. Well, you might wonder why should i care about an exspeech write their was
Election officials of both Political Parties and replacing them with political cronies. They are masquerading as election measures but will have the opposite effect. Instead of the integrity maintained by the secretaries of state and local Election Officials who proved incorruptible in 2020 despite Donald Trumps threats and pleas to find enough votes to overturn the 2020 election results, the Gop Power Grab got the power of those very officials and replaced them with political types who might have heeded the calls had they been in place. From Brandnew Reporting in The New York Times the Maneuvers Risk eroding some of the core checks that stood against former President Trump as he sought to subvert the 2020 election results. Had these bills been in place during the aftermath of the election, Democrats Say, they would have significantly added to the Turmoil Trump and his allies wrought by trying to overturn the outcome. They worry proponents of Trumps Conspiracy theories will soon have m
Engagements this week will be all about the domestic diplomacy and the range of challenges he faces at home. He will confront complications on much of his priorities from Election Reform to his economic proposals. A pivotal week ahead with a major Test Set for tuesday on voting rights. Though republicans have said theyll sink the Measure Holdout Joe Manchin now open to a compromise, uniting his party behind a bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday, ban gerrymandering, and require voter i. D. And in a significant endorsement from a leading voice in this Battle Stacy abrams said she would support the proposal. It is only through federal legislation we can mitigate the harms. Reporter theres no clear path forward, a problem the president is hoping to avoid on another key priority, infrastructure. A bipartisan group will unveil a new framework with a 1 Trillion price tag. Democrats are preparing to use Budget Reconciliation and others on their own. President biden optimistic a
Mob would descend on Capitol Hill. A new Court Filing seems to contradict that. Nbcs ken dilanian reports, it was acknowledged in february, a february investigative report, that Angry Trump supporters were talking openly in the days before the siege about bringing guns to the capitol to start a revolution. The Fbi Document doesnt say where the Fbis Review of Social Media posts were conducted before or after January 6th. But if the fbi didnt know about the Social Media post, what exactly were they doing . If they did know, why didnt they take any action to warn anyone . The fbi has charged 40 individuals with using deadly or dangerous weapons or causing serious Bodily Injury to officers. The fbi has arrested around 465 people so far in question, the insurrection and were continuing to learn more and more from their court hearings. This morning, Hunter Palm pled not guilty to charges including violent entry and Disorderly Conduct on capitol grounds. The fbi provided screen shots from a v