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Polls, 43% say the right direction. a year ago during the protests, during covid, all that, it was just 22%. june of 2017, 34%. you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the obama administration when 43% of americans said that we were on the right direction. this is the highest number in a decade, over a decade, in fact. >> it's interesting to me because in june of 2017, the economy was ostensibly doing well still adding jobs, et cetera, et cetera, only 34%. now it's 43%. that's a big gap. is there a partisan divide? >> there is. is the country going in the right direction, wrong tra...

Direction, they think america is heading in the right direction but don't approve of trump at the time. if the economy and right direction numbers catch up with the president that's when the american people will have the verdict not on the 100 days but on the trump presidency. >> real quick to that point his supporters are very patient right now. >> extremely. >> will they be patient if tax reform doesn't come through? >> well, you know, it depends. i mean, the way that people usually vote is do they personally feel like they are in a good place, especially with job security and the economy. a...

Districts, those numbers are flipped. so let's bring in our gaggle. politico's deputy manager editor rachel smolten. "time" magazine's newly minted washington bureau chief, michael sheer. and political editor, terry bacon jr. i want to start with you. we have beat this into the ground. hey, there is two americas out there, you know, with apologies to john edwards, but there's this jerry mgerrymandered way, world view of people who live in republican districts view the count country's politics. which is why we're at this crossroads. >> if you go back to the late bush years, republicans tended t...

We were in one of the worst ditches this economy has been in in 75 years. >> and obama was going to get us out. >> he has this country moving in the right direction again. it is not going as fast as some would like but it moving up. >> the right direction in. >> we are not losing jobs, we are not bleeding 650,000 jobs a month like we were when the president took office thanks to the policies that mitt romney wants to go back to. mitt romney has to go negative. he can't run on his record as governor. he wants to list teen his rhetoric that he's done on this campaign trail. he doesn't believe th...

>> okay. ali, in a picturesque turkey, thank you. nbc news and the "wall street journal" unveiled polling on everything from the economy to the president's job performance. bill, good morning. >> hi, good morning. >> let's start with how the public feels right now. 35% of us think the nation is heading in the right direction while 56% of had i us think we're heading down the wrong track. in your experience, bill, how often does it seem like people think we're on the right track? >> it's been 88 months now that americans think we're headed on the wrong track. on 9/11, we had the highest right...