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Terrorism. it's a fever. and we go through these periodic fevers. if you go back to the presidency of harry truman with dean atchison as secretary of state widespread view of the country that harry truman and atchison were sympathetic. when nixon first ran for office against douglas, he argued she was pink down to her underwear. that sort of conversation has been in american discourse for a long time, and the fevers come and go. we've got another one now. >> david is right. this is part of the paranoid style of american politics, there is a kind of fever. however what is different with this, c...

I don't think it should be taken literally. it should be taken as an element of the politicization of all our debates. >> david, do you buy that? is this nature of politics or is there something about president obama and what at least republicans of the country see? >> i think it has to do with president obama, it has more to do with 9/11 and the fear of terrorism. it's a fever. and we go through these periodic fevers. if you go back to the presidency of harry truman with dean atchison of secretary of state a widespread view of the country that harry truman and atchison were sympathetic. when ...

Push's unpopularity and said do you think he's un-american, the overwhelming majority of the democratic party would have said yes. this is our political strife these days from the sides of both parties. it makes sense, the independents don't buy into it. both parties have their vociferous wins. i don't think it should be taken literally. it should be taken as an element of the politicization of all our debates. >> david, do you buy that? is this nature of politics or is there something about president obama and what at least republicans of the country see? >> i think it has to do with presiden...

It's also a drop, 47% back income february strongly approved. that number has dropped to 35%. you're seeing it across the board. >> douglas, look at this. this is the poll comparing trump's six-month approval rating to other presidents going back to the 1960s. he's by far the lowest by far. what do you think of these awful poll numbers? >> they're really awful. you know, john f. kennedy, for example, who you're putting up, he won a close election over nixon but he had a 70% approval rating after his 200th day. he was able to create the piece corps and the alliance of progress and get america g...