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In polling, i wouldnt run for president. >> how does mr. obama compare to his two-term predecessors in the white house? george w. bushs numbers were also under water. but bill clinton and ronald reagans numbers were sitting pretty. why do we spend so much time talking about these numbers? because the approval rating remains one of the best indicators of a president standing with the public and clout right here in washington. christi, victor. >> all right, paul steinhozer, thank you very much. cn...

All-time lows in many surveys. he said last year that he doesnt obsess over polls. >> i mean if i was interested in polling i wouldnt have run for president. >> reporter: so how does mr. obama compare to his most immediate two-term predecessors in the white house as they started the sixth year of their presidencies? george w. bushs numbers were also underwater. but bill clinton and ronald reagans numbers were sitting pretty. why we spend so much time talking about these numbers? because the appr...

Has attempted. that is the bases of it? >> that is the bases of it. and the tactics administration has played out. these bully tactics were announced but other likes like not letting the photographers have access to the president like the predecessors but sed waiting on the social media to slurp out white house things. i believe it is propaganda. >> you point to social media which is a great point. it has changed the landscape of how this white house deals with the press because you have the

Just the thickness of it. he seems remarkedly worried about a news channel. that doesnt make them racist as much as realists. realists who look at the totality of the president and his performance, not based on the color of his skin, but maybe the content of his policy. lets be clear. much is better than it was five years ago in this country. housing is back. banks are back, and the markets are clearly back. the president shouldnt take all the credit for that, but he is the guy in charge. and he...

Who is commander in chief whose goal in this case afghanistan may be different than his predecessors and the general and the military have to adjust to new goals rather than the white house adjusting to the military and the generals? >> well, the military doesnt have goals. we follow the policy of the nation and we had followed the policy of the previous administration. when president obama came in, we understood his position from what he had said before he was elected and then speeches and comm...

Process as everybody else and that process couldnt start until the city had enough people to pay planners and engineers to study the issue. this created some tension. the rockefeller talked in the press how it was putting on the finishes for this plan and how the predecessors had been moving the process along. she wrote to the author of the story, quote, there have been no negotiations with the rockefeller group regard thag project by my administration. there will be no negotiations until a stud...

>> being bad at bad at something is not an excuse for doing in controvention of what the constitution said. that is the argument from the bench today. the president, we heard from shannon broem. the presidents legal team said the republicans are more awful than the republicans before and the president has no choice but do whatever he wants. the bench said just because he cant reach a deal with the senate while his predecessors were able to do so, doesnt mean he can change the rules to meet his n...

Above expectations. i try not to move too much the other direction when they are below. >> by the way, is that part of the job description? your predecessors love that line, too, jason. >> but its true. look at these numbers, for example, they say that we lost 25,000 accountant jobs in the month of december. do i think there was a huge blow to the accountant profession in december of this year? i dont think so. things like that are often seasonal quirks, a lot of things in these numbers. now tha...

Access. >> this president has answered more questions as his immediate predecessors. >> reporter: now some of the criticism in gate book in relation to his handling and dealings appears to deal with the early obama administration. and that former pay reus was thinking of running in 2012. the president meets with people on the surveillance activities over at the nsa today. >> many excited to hear from bob gates himself. thank you so much, jim. lets get back over to indra. its feeling a little w...

>> he doesnt. >> we let photographers in because he knows he doesnt need to. we let photographers in because weve had an ongoing discussion about access for photographer. >> we have an ongoing discussion -- youre leaving out weve had an. >> word for word, minute for minute, this president has answered more questions from the free and independent press or at least as many as his immediate predecessors. >> why not today? >> i dont know of any president in history who is taking questions every day....