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Is it a time to cut dramatically? the markets seem to think we could be sputtering. this market has done okay this month. this is the last trading day of the month of april. lets just take a peek where we ended. the president saw the economy and the overall markets gain about a percentage point from the beginning of this month to the end of the month. i also want you to look at how his 100-day performance goes into tomorrow against his predecessors. this president the 1.3% advance this month and...

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Theyre the lowest by 20 or 30 points of any president at this time in his presidency. so, its not just he hasnt gotten any bills through congress, hes extraordinarily unpopular. we havent had other presidents whove been under 50% at this point. some of them, you know, john f. kennedy, after he admitted error in the bay of pigs, showing some humility that trump could learn from, because he was very popular, he was at 83%, not the 40% of trump. and obama and lbj and all the others, jimmy carter, t...

Immigration. there are good signs as well. cnn political director david joins us now. help us, david. >> thank you. you are right, alisyn. look at the approval number at the 100-day mark. 44% approval. 54% disapprove. that is historically low. look at where trump lines up. he is at the bottom of the list of the predecessors going back as far as there is polling. you mentioned a couple of issues. lets dig inside. health care and immigration dominated everything. health care. 61% disapproval of he...

>> all you see is the russians stories and all of these other pho phony stories. its so bad, and for me to have great approval records in light of the fake press i think the s amazing. >> on one of the low lights of his 100 days, the firing of his security adviser michael flynn, the president is blaming the obama administration for failing to vet the retired general. >> if somebody has failed by a previous administration, does anybody ever ask about them. >> the president maintains those stories...

Of activity, because what theyre could go doing is getti. there is failure after failure on that side. and theyre panicking in the white house. thats why youre seeing this flurry of activity right now to see if they can paper-over their extraordinary broken promises. >> martha: perhaps you have another viewpoint on it? mark, what do you think? >> zach wasnt saying that when barack obama was using his pen and phone. he had a different line back then. as did all the democrats did. look, donald tru...

By this administration in the first 100 days, but all anybody wants to talk about is health care. >> there are a couple of things to this, but the last bit right there gets directly at what youre talking about. mulvaney saying there is a whole lot that theyve gotten done, but the only thing anybody wants to talk about is health care. but the white house only wanted to talk about health care for a while and made a strategic decision to do that. >> and how about making mick mulvaney a spokesperson...