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Republicans a taste of their own medicine? >> i think it's democrats actually fighting for what the majority of the american people want, and it's actually democrats fighting for what president trump even promised, not just these kids, but promised both the bipartisan group of republicans and democrats who wanted a daca fix, and president trump promised if you bring me a bipartisan deal, i will sign it. quote, i will take whatever heat there is for this, unquote. and then two days later, instead of a bipartisan legislation, he gives us shithole countries. so the republicans are actually on the...

Cnn national correspondent john king joins us tonight. is that true? >> if you fact check that 40% isn't all that bad six months in, that the poll was way off in its tracking the 2016 election, you would come to the conclusion wrong and wrong. let's take a look at the numbers. this is the poll the president was refersing when he made the tweet on top here. the new "washington post"/abc poll. 36% of the american people approve of his job handling as he approach the six month mark. a bloomberg poll out at the same time has essentially the same numbers. roughly four in ten americans approve of ho...

Correspondent jeff joins me now. jeff, before the election democrats were the ones saying oh, donald trump isn't going to accept the results of the election. 49 democrats aren't accepting the results of the election. >> jake tarngs one more example of the partisan divide in this town. if the shoe was on the other foot, there would certainly be criticism from many of these democrats. the list of those who say they will boycott on friday as you say is growing up to 49 democratic members now. for most it is a sign of poe test, not that they don't accept the results, but another troubling number t...

So this one is a lot closer than their previous polls certainly than "the washington post"/abc poll, which had her up considerably even in double digits. so i think you're going see these fluctuations as people decide, and as the news changes every day. >> but probably more worrisome, look at this bloomberg poll in florida. florida likely voters, choice for president, trump 45%, hillary clinton 43%. two-point lead, within the margin of error, but that's very encouraging to donald trump. >> that's some of the best news they've had in quite some time. and donald trump was touting it today. that ...

For instance, in the end it doesn't go in his favor he is -- he's paving the way for that, for that excuse to be the reason? >> absolutely. i think donald trump in using the language of it being rigged, it's not just attacking his rival and the democratic party but also the republican party as well. and so when he uses that type of language he's mustering up frustration from his supporters to be lodged at paul ryan and all those other lawmakers who have backed away from trump and hoping that they can somehow move forward with taking the momentum that they've built into an area that leads to so...