it will be interesting to see if over the course of this holiday, whether some of the conservative fire that he took, when it seems remember, # 2 hours ago 72 hours ago he was backing away. first he said i m going to own the shutdown. then he said looks like i m not going to get my own way, so you all have a deal. then he get incredible blowback, including some heavy hitters on this network and he changed his mind. will those numbers change in a way that gives him at least some concession to change his mind one more time? mike: then there s this gallup poll, in terms of honest ethical standards, rating high or very high, nurses 84%. doctors 67%. car salespeople 8%. and there you go, congress, single digits, friends and close family, your thoughts? you know, those numbers haven t budged much in recent years. they have declined. i shouldn t be laughing.
that s what s been odd here, maria, is watching the question has always been, these numbers haven t moved, haven t moved, haven t moved. then you start to see this in an election, we re in inside of 60 days, it s hard to bring that back without some outsized event. right. i think that s what you re saying is absolutely right, is he going to be presidential? three not going to be throwing paper towels at crowds when he can t actually clean up after them when it comes to fema? i also think the woodward book is taking a lot of life of its own because it was reaffirmed by the op-ed and people are trying to break rank. i think the challenge is whether or not people are going to tolerate the president if he continues to be erratic, because he can t help himself, and i think that is a challenge. he s going to get another thing coming. the clips of the book and whatever else in the new york times, brett kavanaugh s going to go in the supreme court. supreme court politics was real
i think it s important to keep in mind woodward s methods. he had hundreds of hours of interviews with all sorts of officials. you read that book, and you can draw your own conclusions about who some of the key sources might have been. woodward doesn t explain who the sources are in the book, but his interviews are meticulous. he has notes, diary entries. he s built this narrative on a foundation of reporting. so it s very difficult for people to challenge aspects of the book. i do want to talk about our big question, which is will all the lying hurt him at the polls? i realize he s not on the ballot in november, but the gop is. if we look back to the last time donald trump was on the ballot in 2016 and we re talking about whether or not voters thought he was honest or trustworthy, 33% said yes in 2016. that pretty much matches up with the latest cnn polling that we cited at the top of the show, which says, i believe, 32% believe he s honest. those numbers haven t changed. yeah, i
from this is president trump, particularly on some of these more unifying messages is doing it not just where you expect him to but where you wouldn t expect him to. part of the reason why president trump won, the reason why he is so popular is because he s not a boring politician or a blow dried stiff who just gets talking points wheeled out to him and sounds like every other politician on capitol hill. there is a reason why he won and so convincingly in places where a lot of republicans don t always do that well. if that formula is working, why is his approval rating in the mid-30s? well, he s always had a mix of styles. there is another survey that said in a lot of the key states his numbers haven t moved that much compared to where they were before going into the election. fundamentally people voted for donald trump because they wanted change. they wanted to see things done differently. if they wanted to see a
ohio. some of these towns completely submerged under water. we ll get it again today. some of these same areas including d.c., philly, baltimore, even getting a break but more rain as we go through the afternoon. here where we have all the warnings in effect, already broken rainfall records across three of the airports around here. this is for friday. philadelphia has already broken the record for today, this morning, but it s still raining so those numbers haven t come through already. here s the flood threat. eight rivers in minor flood stage and so we re going to continue to see that threat for today. here s the radar in motion. the showers just kind of linger throughout the day. we ll slowly start to get them out of the way but we are going to continue to get rain today so be on the lookout for more flooding in these areas as these rivers continue to rise.