Secretary is revealing more of rosensteins reasoning that led President Trump to act. It has to do with the comeys unprecedented News Conference when he announced he would not be charging Hillary Clinton in an investigation of her emails. List now to Sarah Huckabee sanders. Hes questioned director comeys reason for needing to stay at the fbi. Hes had countless conversations with members within the fbi. I think one of the big catalysts we saw was last week on wednesday. Director comey made a pretty startling revelation that he had, essentially, taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the department of justice by going around the chain of command when he decided to take steps without talking to the attorney general or the Deputy Attorney general when holding a press conference and telling them he would not let them know what he was going to say. And that is simply not allowed. And somebody like the Deputy Attorney general, Rob Rosenstein who everybody across the board has unequivoca
Disturbing and graphic, but they drive home the relentless suffering women and children continued to endure now seven years into their civil war. Activists say Syrian Military helicopters dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic gas, suffocating some and sending others in convulsions. You can see the chaos at hospitals overwhelmed with injured people. At least 48 people are dead and hundreds more have symptoms of exposure. Doctors desperately try to wash the skin and the hair of young children. Their cries only quieted by gasps for air. Cnn cannot independently verify these videos which were taken by antigovernment activists and doctors, but we have Live Team Coverage for you tonight stretching from syria to the white house as well as a panel of experts standing birks and i want to bring in cnns Senior International correspondent fred pleitgen, the only western reporter in damascus. Fred, syrian officials are saying the rebels carried out this attack. Is anyone in the rest of the world b
president biden will end his first year in office with his approval rating under water. it hasn t been north of 50% since july and now hovers in the low 40s so what s to blame for the languishing numbers? we ll get some historical context from the cnn presidential historian tim nestle. tim, thanks so much for your time. i find this to be so fascinating because there s major legislative achievements. there s a robust economic recovery, and yet when you look back over history, including the last three presidents, i ll pull them up right now, only former president trump had a lower approval rating at the end of his first year. why? well, first of all, let s keep in mind the challenges that this president faces because they are unprecedented for this moment in a first term. he came into office as as president biden came into office
inflation, and unemployment is going down, so our economy is poised to recover very nicely, and so biden should be the recipient of all of the credit and praise that will come when he sees the bounce, the bounce that kept reagan in the white house and the bounce, by the way, that kept clinton in the white house. yeah. look, you talk to administration officials. the building blocks are there. they just need to get it over the hump. one year does not an administration make. tim nestle, thank you so much for your perspective. thank you, phil. happy new year. i want to bring our panel back on that issue specifically. nick larks i want to start with you. the president s agenda. that has been a driver of a lot of the consternation because of the infighting despite major legislation victories. how do you see build back better playing out in the next four to five weeks? well, the senate will get back soon, and that will really be telling as to where things could go. senator joe manchin