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Fury, like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> reporter: the president saying dire consequence lie ahe ahead if north korea's nuclear threats continue. he injects a dash of policy to his new jersey retreat. >> it is horrible what's going on with opioid and other drugs. >> reporter: vowing to combat the opioid crisis as trump faces a credibility crisis of his own. six months into his presidency, just 38% of americans approve of the...

Quarter, and barely 50% of republicans. so that isn't a credibility gap. that's a credibility chasm, one of their own making and speaks to the ways he's diminished the office at this point. people don't believe what's coming out of the white house. that's a national tragedy and he's responsible for it. >> errol in terms of looking at trust, the quantification of what john is saying, 24% say they believe what's coming out of the white house. on though he has support you have over eight in ten republicans still say they back the president, which you should get the home team, 80%, 90% not uncommo...

Obamacare, which are all but dead in the senate. constituents are mad it hasn't been done. take corey gardner, who went to colorado, giving a town hall on environmental policy and of course it turns into a big obamacare sort of, i guess airing of the grievances and it's not necessarily what he wanted to talk about. you can see how it certainly went in that direction. on the other hand, he will have constituents that he wasn't able to be part of a repeal, even though he voted for it. many constituents wanted republicans to make good on that promise. >> you wonder what line they walk when they d...

What do you make of that question? >> i thought it was it is most eye-popping number in the poll, quite frankly. this gets to the reality that we have not yet seen, an external crisis hitting this white house, and if you have that kind of credibility gap -- i mean, that is the trump trust deficit with the american people, that becoming a much stiffer, tougher challenge for the president when indeed he needs to communicate hugely important things to the american people. >> david, it's interesting to dive in and look at the issues, issue by issue. what he gets the highest marks on are the nation...

Supporters won't leave him over things like that. >> that's interesting to juxtapose with the republicans who are willing to do that. jeff blake with his column. we will have mark sanford on later who has been critical of the president. how far do republican lawmakers go in john's words, is this a bullworth moment ahead. >> there's a part of the republican base that's still very much behind donald trump. that doesn't translate when you are a republican member of congress, maybe a republican senator like jeff flake. you see increasingly two things. one is that there's a lot of falloff in the re...