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martha: excited to see the tree show up. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now on the story, this quote from the white house just moments ago, it s not the age, it s the experience. responding just a couple minutes ago to some reports of panic behind the scenes on the president s 81st birthday. a lot of people concerned and getting louder about it as it gathers momentum saying he needs to step aside, that he s too old to be president for another term. so meanwhile, there s numbers to back this up. he s just hit an all-time low in his job approval, this is an nbc poll that just came out. 57% disapproval number for president biden. for the first time in these numbers, he loses to former president trump in a hypothetical matchup. his support slipping while trump s numbers have stayed roughly the same. what is increasing are the number of people that say that they are not sure who they want to vote for. also, since october 7th, a new road block has emerged for ....
Moral issue. you can t agree on some form of a way saying this is immoral. neil: now i heard it was immoral is a 30 cement wall. could it come down to semitics? that s all it is. the democrats talk about a sea-to-shining sea wall. the comments that the candidate made about immigrants. democrats have always been for some form of border security. it s in the dnc platforms. they tried to go the bipartisan route with fencing, this is purely semantics. to your point, this is about which whose base gets disappointed. neil: i m wondering, they each get something, they each lose something. that s called deal making. deal making sells. when the the base of the party controls most of the stuff. ....
234 miles, not 2,000 miles and he s doing it consistent with a plan that the customs and border protection people that have put forward that has been involved in the last appropriations bills, last year s bill and this bill on a bipartisan basis. neil: you re right. the plan makes sense. neil: he calls ate barrier. you called it a barrier. others have called it security at the border. if he avoids the terms wall which sticks to the democrats, same democrats that voted for this earlier and other barack obama twice, but having said that, do you think that would get the monkey off of everyone s back? it s something has simple as semitics? it would help. right now we re talking past each other. you hear what the democrats are saying, they re characterizing the proposal, it s not accurate. let s be honest. the way the president is characterizing it makes it sounds like it s a wall across the boarder. it s not. neil: it s easy to play monday morning quarterback. i understand that ....