to emphasize this pragmatic approach which as i mentioned doesn t energize people, doesn t energize bases so to speak, but at the end of the day i think that most americans understand that this is the path forward. and though he s got 40% approval rating, this is really low, i don t think we have future president that s are going to be presidents that are going to be going above 50%. i think we ll see a lot of presidents hovering around 40% because it s so polarized. at the end of the day, the middle of the road is going to triumph. yeah, that s so interesting that you say that, right, that the days of having anything close to a 60% approval rating, those days may be long gone. let s turn to the other side of the equations here. and i don t mean speaker mccarthy, i mean the gop. that includes donald trump, ron desantis. they said not there deal, this is a bad deal, i would have never taken it. what does it tell us about the campaign to come for them? i think the campaign on the
to make that speech from the oval office which is so symbolic? it is symbolic that the oval office is often used by presidents to address the country about war or about a recent natural disaster. and i think he was trying to use the was oval office to show had they not met the diesel the u.s. would have plunged into recession which would have been terrible for the country and of course terrible for biden and the democrats. so he was trying to use this moment to talk about how important bipartisan cooperation is. i think he went out of his way to highlight the cooperation with kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house, and to really speak to his brand as a dealmaker and that he s willing to take a pragmatic approach which often doesn t energize and excite
last hour i spoke with a professor at the university of essex in england and asked why the president chose this occasion to deliver his first address from the oval office. listen. i think he was trying to use the oval office to underscore how closely they really averted an economic disaster in the u.s. had they met that deal. it would have been plunged into a recession, which would have been terrible for the country and terrible for biden and democrats. so he was trying to use this moment to talk about how important bipartisan cooperation is. i think he really went out of his way to highlight the cooperation with. kevin mccarth, speaker of the house, and to really speak to his brand as a deal maker and that he s willing to take a pragmatic approach, which often doesn t energize and excite people, but this case, it was really important because the
as i mentioned, doesn t energize people, doesn t energize bases, so to speak, but at the end of the day, i think that most americans understand that this is the path forward. and he s got 40% approval rating, this is really low, i don t think we have a future president going above 50%. i thus we re going to see a lot of presidents hovering around 40% because it s so polarized. at the end of the day, the miltd of the road is going to triumph. our thanks to natasha this. donald trump was subpoenaed for records related to a classified document on iran. the document was discussed in an audio recording of the former president, though sources also say that trump s taerns have been unable to produce the document itself. the recording first reported by cnn is now in the hands of special counsel jack smith. seen your affairs correspondent paula reid has more.
really focus in the next two years. they have to deal with most likely a house led by republicans and they will have to campaign more effectively. they have a lot of challenges facing them. they did better with men. women. whites, hispanics. so, this is something that the democrats are going to have to address. isn t a dynamic speaker. you look at the footage of obama speaking to crowds in pennsylvania. i mean, he is just electrifying. energizing the crowds. and that s the issue with biden. he isn t that bad. but he really doesn t energize the base in the ways in which the democrats would like.