Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
Rank it as number one for issues facing them, and that by a considerable margin. at the moment americans are not impressed with it. overwhelming 80% rank it as fair or poor. so that s pretty dominant for our panel now. mark penn, former clinton pollster and doug high cabalist director. mark penn, first. somewhere out there james carville is whispering it s the economy stupid in 2023. how do you see it, mark? i ve been surprised at how little the republican candidates have been talking about the economy. biden is on the right track. he has to talk his economy up. he needs a better economy but the summer. we did it in 1996. none of the republican candidates have a balanced budget, a program to bring down fuel, food, housing prices, interest rates. the kind of everyday expenses that voters are really concerned about. bill: here is what we found
Reshuffling the chairs on a boat that hasn t left dock yet. bill: i smelled a rat in that story. coming from somewhere. your take, mark. look, i think that the voters will see these candidates for the first time. do you want to see them attacking or do you want to see positivity, policy? it seems to me the smarter debate strategy is that we already know that about half the republican electorate doesn t want to vote for trump but they don t know who to vote for. you want to stand out as the choice of those voters. you don t want to just be attacking everybody else. vivek so far is the only candidate who has really moved up and he seems to be the most policy oriented one. bill: by thursday morning someone will stick out. it always happens that way. we don t know who. thank you, mark, nice to see you. doug, you as well. thank you. a reminder to viewers, wednesday
Online what ron desantis s strategy is. the net sum for next wednesday defend donald trump and hammer vivek ramaswamy. you both saw it. doug, you start. what did you think about what you saw in that memo if they believe the memo to be true? yeah. that is the real point. my first thought was this must be or should be a head fake or pump fake. if this is the plan moving forward i think it symbolizes why desantis has been stuck so far. i m a fan of star wars. luke skywalker had to confront darth vader. i think it is smart for trump not to be there. he is the frontrunner. the desantis campaign said he was the frontrunner a few weeks ago. you have to catch him. no time to worry about moving into third or fourth place. this isn t reshuffling the chairs on the titanic.
For you, doug. how do you feel things are going in the u.s. today? 70% say they are dissatisfied. what do you think? that s republicans and democrats. independents as well. two reasons for it. one reason ultimately, that s inflation. the job market is good and it is something that biden is and should be talking about especially with african-americans. but if you go to the grocery store you see the price increase on something every time you go. if you go out to a restaurant, whether it s a sandwich at lunch or somewhere nice on a weekend you get sticker shock. then you look at the big ticket items. that s looking at brand-new cars, used cars, houses. these big ticket items, durable goods voters have a sticker shock when they see them. part of that is the interest rates. if you want to buy a house right now, those interest rates scare the heck out of you. bill: mark, the number stuns me among democrats only, among democrats only dissatisfied back