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commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowe ....
mcgahn. he says that sessions made a huge error, he s very frustrated. a couple people have said one of the few times they ve seen him get genuinely angry as opposed to the blufter that we know the president is prone to was about jeff sessions. he s upset about the russia recusal situation and feels angry and hamstrung about the fact that the executive order that the president himself signed related to a ban on travel a temporary ban, quote/unquote, from muslim majority nations was struck down by the court. this was within the first week of the administration and set the tone going forward and in the president s mind, jeff sessions is tied to everything. lastly, your colleagues just broke some news which is fascinating about jim comey asking jeff sessions not to be left alone again with the president or that he didn t want to be left alone with the president. it s quite striking. essentially you have the fbi director concerned about the position apparently that the presi ....
there was more bad news on that front. a new poll found that 38% of americans approve of the way donald trump is handling his job as president. 56% disapprove. it also found that just 24% trust almost all or most of what they hear from the white house. 73% say they trust some or nothing at all of what they hear from the white house. hours before that poll was released the president wrote on twitter the trump basis is stronger and bigger than ever before. he saved his toughest criticism from a sitting u.s. senator. it started this morning when he wrote interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal then never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like blumenthal. he told about his conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. he cries like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion. more than eight and a half hours later he finished with this. i think senator blumenthal shauld should take a long vacation in vietnam so he could at ....
that is how they used to do it when he was in charge. now that the white house has hand-picked someone to take over that job, apparently we get the kushner forms 7:00 on a friday night. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again on monday. now it s time for the last word. ari melber sitting in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. good evening, rachel. sometimes the news breaks late and people ask why, and there s no reason. and then sometimes it feels like maybe there s a reason. that s right. and, you know, some of these things, i just feel like it s because we re all cursed, and we don t get real weekends. so fridays just end up being a busy day. but there are some things in the news tonight that feel like legit, deliberate friday night news dumps that are supposed to be burying these things. right. and your reporting on what outgoing former director shaub said adds context to that. i am ari melber in for lawrence o donnell this evening. it seems attorney gen ....
yes, that is basically it. i don t know if he wanted to be there while trump was making his speech about the change of staff. phil rucker, as condensed as they are, all of our print colleagues at the white house are writing the lookback piece about the reince priebus era, all six months of it. and i know you contend he was something less than a chief of staff in full always? you know, yeah, i think that is exactly right. look, this is an establishment republican who became close to donald trump over the course of the campaign. tried to help integrate the party in the trump world. tried to do it in washington to help trump govern and pass his agenda on capitol hill. but he was beset time and time again by the kind of chaos and disorder that has really defined all of trump s enterprises, including this white house. it was so remarkable, that reince priebus was so belittled and demeaned at work, the backbiting was so intense and vicious. i talked to one staffer, the preside ....