pentagon to better enforce it. i do think there is certainly going to be direction to the pentagon. the question is, do we clarify the statute? i think that we need to. i think that as we gather more information from the fbi, from these databases and from the department of defense, it will be clear that we need clarification to the statute. republican senator jeff flake of arizona. thank you so much for your time, sir. good luck with your every or orts there. just into cnn, north korea lobs an insult at president trump. how kim jong-un is reacting after president trump s speech in his own backyard. that s next.
asked, jake, is, do leaders of other countries respect president trump? we asked those that took this survey that question. more than two-thirds of americans say no. only a quarter of americans say yes. when we asked that back in april, jake, that was 36%. this has gone down 12 points since april and that s largely driven by republicans. there is one big silver lining, and that is the economy. take a look. 68% of americans say that economic conditions today are good, and, jake, go back to january. look at that number it has been climbing all throughout trump s presidency. the economy is his silver lining. in fact, when we ask about his approval on the economy, of every issue we tested he does best on the economy. 45% approve, 46% disapprove. you may say those don t look like great numbers, but an even split right now, those are pretty good numbers for president trump. one final question for you, looking ahead to 2020. i know it s a little early jake,
it just emphasizes my current reading of the moment. we have a promise to keep. if anything, this puts more pressure on making sure we follow through. how much of this, amanda, do you think is not so much about this bill but as much about the fact that republicans need to deliver something? they need to be able to go back to their voters and say, okay, obamacare, the repeal and replace didn t work and the wall isn t bill, et cetera, et cetera, but this is a major piece of legislation and we did get this done? yeah, here s the think, a lot of people went along with trump and his victory and gave him the benefit of the doubt because they wanted to get things done. if they don t get things done and able to point to legislative victories they are forced to run on trumpism as cultural conservative issues. will that work for someone mimicking trump in a place like minnesota which it seems that masha bla masha blackburn is doing? but where they compete with moderate dems, it isn t going
endorsed ed gillespie. the idea that he wasn t running a trump-like campaign is ridiculous. he ran on gangs and racial issues. he heavily racialized a race and i think what happened is a lot of people were disgusted by that and came out to vote against it. it turned out democratic votes. it did. it turned out college educated white voters against trump. abc news is reporting that bannon said he offered to gillespie twice to campaign with him and was furious when gillespie turned him down. would that have changed anything, do you think? listen, again, it may have driven voter turnout in northern virginia, but it may have also driven turnout in the more rural parts. in the southwest. that s the problem ed gillespie had, right? he couldn t be too hot, he couldn t be too cold. the porridge had to be just right. let s give amanda the last word. the speech that steve bannon recently gave which i think had a lot of interesting things in it had a great deal of
that s it. so rich. i love it. that s why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you re describing the coffee and not me? (vo) all right is in the water. all right is in the air. all right says i do, all right says i dare. all right is how you feel. because all right flows here. only in jamaica. the home of all right. and we re back with our politics lead. he was elected president one year ago tonight, but was president trump also on the ballot again last night? we wanted to take a moment to step back and take a look at the governor s race in battleground virginia and how the democrat ralph northam beat republican ed gillespie in one of the first indications of how voters might be reacting to mr. trump s presidency so far. gillespie chose a strategy of trying to thread a needle. he distanced himself personally from president trump, but accepted the president s support