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Is a steady historic low. take a look where it falls in context. donald trump all the way at the bottom at this point in his presidency compared to predecessors going back in modern day polling. you mention twod ied two issues. health care and immigration. not good news for president trump. 61% disapprove of the handling of that issue. this is minus 1us 25 gap. and immigration. minus 16-point gap. 41% approval. that is sliding from negative 11-point gap he had last month. we want to take a look,...

Over here at the state department, and well be engaged with appropriators on the hill to talk about how we will manage through that. clearly, bret, aid programs are an important part of our diplomatic efforts around the world. we want to protect those. importantly, we want to deliver them effectively, we want to ensure the american taxpayer is getting good value for the dollars they have trusted us with. >> bret: so it is not a done deal yet? as far as what that number is? >> will go through a b...

>> bret: so it is not a done deal yet? as far as what that number is? >> will go through a budgeting process with the appropriators on the hill, and what i hope is that they will listen carefully to our approach and allow us significant flexibility so that we can direct these monies to areas we believe have the greatest need. >> bret: while behind predecessors and nominating key positions when the department lacks these political appointees, career appointees, then fill these roles. are you conc...

Attention to candidate trumps scorn. they now brag his record includes more executive actions than any of his recent predecessors. one of the lessons i guess that running for president is different than president. when you are president, you use the powers at your disposal especially if you cant get your own party to pass something. >> his own party isnt calling him on this. theyre saying it would be nice if he went through congress. im old enough to remember the imperial obama presidency becaus...

>> jon: a fox news alert. president trump is at the department of the interior and washington, d.c. you can see him surrounded by a number of dignitaries they are. this is a signing ceremony on some new executive orders. he is signing the antiquities executive order to tell the department of the interior to essentially review a number of national monument designations that have been made by his predecessors, barack obama, george w. bush, and bill clinton. each of them, designated national monume...

They take away loopholes. when they tell you that that means the mortgage deduction, the thing that you use or whether its deducting your state and local taxes. when those things go away the individual realizes the deduction that you are losing that you used to have. thats the argument against simplification are the little goodies that we all use. so i hope it happens because its the right thing but there is a painful side to it. thats my only warning. >> bill: and? >> and please go buy my book....

Predecessors. this is whats interesting. president trump, much better than his predecessors. you can see what happened with barack obama. i think that needs no explanation. that was the end of the world almost for the economy there. so we were hemorrhaging jobs there. 2001 that was a slow recovery. and then bill clin son created 194,000 jobs. he went on to create more. donald trump has promised 25 million over a period of ten years. so he has work to do. hes got to have 208,000 jobs per month to...

I know overreach is something that you are always concerned about. >> right. >> zach made the argument that this president is overreaching. >> i dont think he is. i think a lot of the executive orders are actually beneficial to the american public. an executive order is an instruction from the president, somebody who works for him in the executive branch, could be steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary, jeff sessions, the attorney general, as to how the president wants a certain law interpreted, ...

Is the president going to sign a resolution that is not in reducing. this would increase the deficit. >> i have not seen a score on anything thats come out. well have to wait and see what the final -- not at this it point. >> its not criticizing the predecessors for missteps from both parties and has made a point of convention. so why not take this moment to label the billion and a half armenians with genocide? >> as i noted, the statement that the president put out is consistent with the last s...

Other thing we are seeing is why is he at 42%, he hasnt added at all. he was at historic lows and had no honeymoon there, couldnt get anything done big legislatively. big travel ban promise is hud illed up in courts. his 100 day mark is at historic lows, compared to predecessors. >> u.s. taxpayers, at least starting to fund the border wall with mexico, he would risk a government shut down by the end of the week? >> i show signs they dont want to risk that shut down. over the weekend on sunday sh...