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The overwhelming consensus is it will pop up a bit and go down. the jury is still out, but the likelihood that there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> covid, inflation and afghanistan. astead, how badly was he hurt by those predictions? >> i think he was. this was a white house that had trained its energy on getting the pandemic done first, would then move on to the other things. you can think of afghanistan on the foreign policy front as something they would think they would wrap up first, kind of notch an accomplishment, a th...

In the maga movement or as a trump isolationist or america first type who embraced it because they feel it's the only way. we'll find out in a couple months whether that's the case. >> astead, how do you see it? >> i think that's a great point. these republican elected officials, the folks on the political class are not doing this trump song and dance because they want to or because they enjoy it. in a lot of cases -- i've had conversations, i'm sure you all have, most of that political class will say it's a challenge for them. you hurt republicans in places like the georgia senate races and t...

Reporting and their insight, amy walter, astead wesley and phil mattingly. phil, according to a new poll, 42% of registered voters give the president a positive rating, but he has a dismal 29% approval among independents. this is a president who campaigned on getting ahold of the virus, but, phil, americans don't see him achieving that goal with the virus still dominating their lives. >> when you talk to white house officials, they're candid about the reality that everything they're seeing in their polling now is tied to the fact that the pandemic is still a real thing in everybody's lives. th...

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A miracle. we know what trump will do, so what will the rest of us do? that's the story for the american media for the next three years. now, let me bring in three guests to talk more about this and to drill down on the murdoch of it all. julie roginsky, former fox news contributor and democratic strategist, astead wesley, "the new york times" and cnn analyst and bill carter, also with me, cnn media analyst. let's bring everybody in for a conversation, hopefully a little more optimistic than i was at the beginning. let's game out and talk through what happened this week. i think the drip, dr...