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Trying to to say that some time people arent listening. >> jonathan i wanted to read you some more numbers. there are more numbers youve seen them as well. this is the "washington post" absent news poll. 70% says the president has acted unpresidential. 68% dont view him as a positive role model. 67% disapprove of his twitter use. and 57% can be sunled up as the more they hear the less they like him. sooner or later these are going to start to be dangerous numbers for a presidency. >> i was just ...

Not what gets passed for making policy in washington. its not as simple as saying, go all the way to the right. its much more of a complicated calculus. i think trumps been trying to say that, and people just arent listening. >> there are more numbers, youve seen them. this is "the washington post"/abc news poll. sencht% say the president has acted unpresidential. 68% dont view him as a positive role model. 67% disapprove of his twitter use. and 57% can be summed up as the more they hear, the le...

Nulls i dont think he is quoting these poll numbers any time soon. these are troubling. as mentioned before the white house settled on base play. there has been next to no outreach across the aisle its attack tweets or interviews against democrats. there is no attempts to work together. well see if that can hold their base for now. there are some questioning whether thats working. but in the meantime forgetting look ahead to the next election just as nef any political capitol for moment you will...

You are thinking the president misjudged the ramifications of his decision this week. >> yeah, i really do on a policy matter. lets start with the politics. the politics of this is very much about a base play. the president and steve bannon have made the determination that fulfilling a campaign promise is going to appeal to a very small sector of the american electorate, but a vocal sector in favor of the president. i think thats what this is about. the policy ramifications on a global scale and...

Air. of course that. but he also is concerned about the national security implications, things like famine and the contacts impacts of climate change and what this does to local economies in the united states. >> president trump said were pulling out of the accord but going back and try to renegotiate something. it made it sound like that might be a very easy thing. this -- in negotiation took a long time for in accord. >> well, look, many of the european leaders issued a statement very quickly ...

Importance of this issue because he was worried about the future he was leaving for his grandchildren. that wasnt just because he fundamentally believes he wants to have clean drinking water and air, of course that, but he was concerned about the national security implications, things like famine and impacts of climate change and what this would do to local economies in the united states. >> president trump said, were pulling out of this accord but were going to go back and try to renegotiate so...

And the pope talks to him on climate change who is he catering to? why is steve bannon winning this debate against so much counter vailing evidence as wells much popular opinion. >> to put some meat on the bones of what john is saying put up the graphic who within the administration thats close to the president. you have his daughter. take that for what its worth. he listen to his kids. rex tillerson, secretary of state. remember he was the head of exxon. there are two different points of emphas...

>> it certainly is a base play, but its a play for independents and swing voters, too. many of whom are folks that are living on the bubble of this economy, and are exposed to either obamacare not working, because theres only one insurer in the state, or very expensive premiums, premiums that are much higher than they were two or three years ago. >> it guess to the whole -- this is where i always thought it was a disaster for -- premiums always go up. now its always the government -- now the gov...

This. and it shows up in the polling, its been showing up in the polling long before these premium hikes were announced. >> well, i dont -- i dont know if people are -- i dont know if i would use the word "livid." >> theyre livid when their hikes go up. >> everyone wants to be a pollster now because its glamorous and were sexy. >> you want to win a sexiest pollster contest? you, fred yank, bill mcinturff. >> thats hot! >> we dont want that contest. no offense. >> but, look, i think its smart for...

And going back to message and the debate and which way this will go. this is the final opportunity for these two to face off against each other, conceivably for hillary clinton, she could go and talk to the base, her core supporters and try to bring in some moderate republicans. it seems donald trump will simply be now facing rallies of his supporters. his opening to bring in new people to the party, new people to what he calls is movement. that has come and gone. >> maybe he changes his approac...