what he says, specifically in capitals and specifically in moscow. both of these men, they have a lot in common. obviously share security interests on the global front when it comes to terrorism. the situation in syria, economic interests. at the same time, you have two new presidents, two alpha males for sure as we saw play out with the world famous white knuckle handshake and both unconventional. what do you think is a win from both of them? well, let me tell you what they don t have in common, poppy. they don t have favoribility ratings. president macron is respected in france and throughout the world. donald trump is struggling here at home, hovering between 30% and 40% favoribility. we saw at the g-20 where many people look at america as being in a place of isolation. this is where donald trump
a lot of polling to talk about including the president s numbers. then a bit of a connection. cnn s nia henderson. let s start with the president. his approval rating 49% in the cnn/orc poll disapproval 47%. you say the country evenly divided. he s in a holding pattern here. 49 now, 50 in june 45 48 46 if you go back to april and march. the final year and a half of the presidency he s in good shape, not great shape. what does that mean? it means something good for hillary clinton. you want a president you are trying to succeed to be in a good place in terms of favoribility ratings. the president, himself, seems to be enjoying the job. he s radiating a confers. he s got an extra kick in his step. good news for hillary clinton. we ll see if it lasts for him. iran discussions coming up.
unfavorable. how do you see that? john do you think they would have gone down that same amount just as a factor of time. not even with the scandal? they ve been headed that way since you left the office of the secretary of state. no, not necessarily. think hillary clinton has had a bad couple of weeks, by not having a campaign@apparatus by an accusation it s not really about the emails so much but about the connections being created. and as the campaign gets on the halo from the secretary of state is going to diminish. think there was an acceleration because of the bad weekend. i think the big headline here if you look at the arc of her popularity and her favoribility ratings, here now as low as the sumpl of 2008 when she and barack obama were fighting for the democratic nomination 53% was 2008 july and august. there s still net positive her favoribility ratings, a lot