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>> steve, give me that number again. so at 40% what is -- whats the average we could expect, which is where the president is in gallup right now? >> 40% tells you its about a 42-seat loss, with the caveat that there are many outliers, but there is the 70% correlation -- 70% prediction rate of the presidents approval rating against seats loss. so it points to 42, that doesnt mean it cant be 35 or 48 or some other number, but it does point to a very substantial loss without very many exceptions at...

You know what this was? this was the controversy over trumps handling of john mccains passing, john mccains funeral. how about if we went back to the summer of 2017? this drop right here corresponds with charlottesville. we have seen his numbers take a turn when it happened before. the questions become his handling of the past week, of these crises of the past week, what will that do. take a look, gallup does a weekly approval rating. last week it was sitting right where the average was, 44% app...

With charlottesville. we have seen his numbers take a turn when it happened before. the questions become his handling of the past week, of these crises of the past week, what will that do. take a look, gallup does a weekly approval rating. last week it was sitting right where the average was, 44% approval rating. today they came out with their latest weekly update, 44% has fallen to 40%, a drop of four points. if that is replicated in other polls -- and thats the key question now in the home str...

Handling of the past week, of these crises of the past week, what will that do. take a look, gallup does a weekly approval rating. last week it was sitting right where the average was, 44% approval rating. today they came out with their latest weekly update, 44% has fallen to 40%, a drop of four points. if that is replicated in other polls -- and thats the key question now in the home stretch of this race. if this is a trend, if it is not an outlier, if trump loses the three or four points, what...

That and put the political buzz to the side are the ones that tend to do the best. >> lets take a look at a gallup poll that showed back in 1998. the question is which political party do you think and do a better job of handling the problem that you think is most important, the republican party or democratic party. when you compare them, you can see from 20 years ago and today they are basically pretty much evenly provide, divided, 41-40 and 42-40. when you put that in the mix and look at whats ...

And republicans had felt the way the house map looked to get him into the mid-40s that might give them a fighting chance to keep the house. now, i have to tell you, just in the last hour, gallup which does a weekly poll on the presidents job approval rating, they have given us the latest weekly number and he is coming in at 40%. that is a 4-point drop in gallup just from last week and it raises the question, given the head lines for the president involved in for the last couple of days, the cont...

>> yeah, thats great. thats like seeing a commercial that talks everything about mcdonalds but doesnt mention burgers. like we know its about the burgers. you cant advertise the republican party in 2018 and pretend that president trump is not the party. hes the president of the united states, the leader of the party. i dont think those messages work. even this underlying economic message, ari, doesnt really fit, because the economy has been going well for two or three years now. it was good at t...

Dont like and calling it fake news. thats why weve talked about this before. i hate the term fake news because it now has been twisted to mean something other than its original idea. the original idea is misinformation. but reporting facts that are negative towards politicians and power does not make them false. and i think the thing here is that truth should not be a partisan football. and we have a real problem in our society when truth-telling becomes a partisan activity or something that pol...

Everyone is attacking people in rest raupts, most people are living their lives. they have more money in their pocke pockets. theyre able to go on vacation and they feel more optimistic about the future. thats not a fox news poll, these are pu, gallup. people are more confident about the future, women and men. it has something to do with trump. he is the guy thats been in charge. if it were going badly, democrats would be saying its horrible and trump is the reason. >> that might be true for som...

Clashing with police as they marched toward our border. jillian: former speaker of the house newt gringrich says this isnt human rights mission, this is an attack on the united states. >> i dont think there are human rights issue when 4 or 5,000 people decide to attack the united states. thats what they are doing. if a mob came down the street and occupied your home, you have a nicer home that they do, you wouldnt say oh gosh, i feel sorry for you, you would be pretty angry that they were occupy...