campaigned on, one of the things his supporters liked about him the most and something the white house has taken credit for. so if we dig into the polls a little bit more, the bad news for president trump is that his approval rating overall is at a record low. but what you re looking at right there. yeah, his approval rating at a record low, just 42%, that s actually the lowest approval rating at the 100 day mark since the days of president eisenhowerer. however, this is the good news for president trump, his approval rating among supporters is huge. 94%. only 2% say that they regret voting for him. president trump is still enjoying strong support among his bay, not a lot of love from everyone else. as president trump pointing out on twitter, the polls are the same polls that did not predict his victory last november. harris? interesting point. it talks about democrats, 28%
kristin fisher has more from the white house. what are officials saying more about the likelihood of the government shutting down at this point? reporter: harris, they say they hope it won t come to that and confident that it won t. president trump will insist that funding for the border wall be included in the bill. here is mick mulvaney on fox news sunday. shut down is not a desired end. not a tool, not something we want to have. we want our priorities funded in one of the biggest priorities during the campaign was border security. keeping americans safe, and part of that was a border wall. reporter: democrats say that any funding for a border wall is a deal breaker and republicans argue it s not worth a government shutdown to fulfill a campaign promise. it s a fight worth having and a debate worth having for 2018. if we can do some of that now, it would be great. we cannot shut down the government right now.
a huge drop among self-identifying dems. so they say only 28% think that democrats are in touch with what they re going through. there s a little bit for everybody to feast off of, but as you saw, it s all ahead of the 100 day mark which the president said is not hugely important, it s his focus, that is. kristin, good to see you. watters world, jesse will sit down with twitter guru, here s a preview. when you re with the president, how does he tweet? with his own fingers or dictate it? how does that work? it s top secret information, and it s funny, everybody does ask the question, and president trump does tweet on his own. his own phone? his own fingers and sends it. he ll dictate to me when we re on the road or traveling. verbatim, they re his words. everything you see on his twitter account is all him.
militarily that it s making a difference. tonight bring up something that the president has talked about, military authorizing a. can we go to that right now? i m going to ask the team to pop up that for us. greatest military in the world and we have given them total authorization, that s what they re doing. frankly, that s why they ve been so successful lately. harris: with the seconds we have left, i want to ask you about your thoughts on that. the president giving more power to the military. well, president obama took power away from the military that was used to having. micromanaged airstrikes out of the white house, other tactical operations out of the white house, three secretaries of defense were totally frustrated by it. what president trump has d if you re an operational commander in iraq, in afghanistan, running forces in syria, conducting operations out of djibouti. i ve given that you authority, so go out and do it, you don t ask for permission from us.
talk to me what it contain kim jong il for our current president. i think there are three major pieces, one is to reassure our allies. they have gone out of the way to do that. have mattis within days of taking office, tillerson a couple of weeks later. president trump meeting with the allies in the white house, vice president pence, obviously, you ve been reporting on it, making a trip as well. this is not to be ta south korea is politically unstable, having a new election and we don t want the south koreans to be intimidated by north korea so it weakens the defense in south korea. this is very important what we re doing. they re believing in us with. we say we got their backs, they believe it. they have not believed it for years. the second piece of it is president trump put the military option back on the table. they also believe that s on the table, and that was rhetoric that was used early on in the obama administration and