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Could trust commercials to tell it like it is? >> doctors in all parts of the country were asked "what cigarette do you smoke, dr. "? once again, the brand named most was camel. according to this repeated nationwide survey, more doctors smoked camel than any other cigarette. [laughter] >> tom: thats real. despite their troubled history with telling the truth, more people now trust commercials than the news media. a survey asked internet users if they trust the advertising they see, read, or hear...

The majority of americans think the president is doing a bad job. "the huffington post" job approval average has the president hovering just above 40% while the latest survey from gallup, which has been tracking the daily percentage of american whos approve or disapprove of the presidents job since the 1930s found that only 35% of americans approve of the job donald trump is dog. to put that number in perspective, its lower than nixon during the watergate hearings, lower than reagan during iran-...

57% disapprove of the job hes doing. thats below the all-time lows of barack obama, which he mocked, bill clinton and gerald ford. he mocked barack obama for having a low approval rating and his is just as low. and it didnt take three years to get there. >> no, its not. its lower. >> it took just a few days. >> in 2011, trump tweeted barack obama has a record low 39% gallup approval rating to which twitter user brian clause wrote donald trump has a record low 36% gallup approval rating. why so h...

The president, according to these gallup polls, approval le level lowest in memory, last week with the defeat of the health care bill and the seeming decision to go to trump 2.0, you thought maybe people are saying we arent getting this right, we have to rethink how we do this. theres some evidence of that in a number of areas, some evidence of foreign policy, certainly some evidence in the legislative strategy, but not on this issue of the investigation. >> as you saw, the presidents approval r...

White house transition with sergei gorokhov, the head of a bank on a sanctions list. the meeting came at the suggestion of sergey kislyak. an official said kushner didnt know the bank was under sanction and wasnt there to discuss business. white house press secretary sean spicer said kushner volunteered to be interviewed. richard burr and mark warner released a joint statement saying in part, from the beginning of this investigation we have committed to follow the facts wherever they lead us. mr...

Intelligence committee -- how would it work when you were at the white house for that person to come on to the white house grounds, whether it be the white house or in this case the old executive office building? would it be unusual for that to happen without someone in the west wing knowing? >> it would be impossible. someone in the white house would have to know, because someone in the white house would have had to, what we would call wave in a visitor, someone who does not have a hard pass to...

We can score political points for the next 18 months and we can win back the congress in 2018? is that where the thinking is in the party right now? >> i think that thats where the thinking should be. look, these are not usual times. we have a president who is -- whose under investigation by the fbi, the trump -- his trump associates are under investigation. this should not be business as usual here with this administration. and also, just to step back for a second on the 36%, if you look at tho...

They said they couldnt work it out for scheduling reasons. so clearly this investigation, at least for now, seems to be at a standstill on the house side. >> to be clear, no word on when theyre going to reschedule this hearing? >> we have no word on that yet. >> and no reschedule. >> we are understanding that they do plan to reschedule all of the above but at this point we have no word on when that might be. >> all right. kasie hunt for us there on the hill, thank you. rick tyler, msnbc politica...

Fighting for their respective clients and industries as lawmakers are trying to put this together. shep? >> democrats delayed a vote on president trumps supreme court pick. sounds like theyre trying to slow roll this to see if the negative picks up against the president. while you were speaking, i got word from gallup that the presidents popularity has gone down to 36%. his approval rating only 36%. this makes things more difficult for this white house. >> no question about that, shep. the senat...

A different presidency. but he will have to tell the freedom caucus and hard right special wealthy interests who are dominating his pretty, but he didnt campaign for them, he campaigned on the opposite, he has to tell them, he cant work with them and well certainly look at his proposals. >> some bad news for president trump, a knew gallup poll sh showing his approval ratings sinking to a new low of flicks%. that is worst than president obama at his all time low mark of 38%. this weekend, preside...