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You can connect some of that there. but that's a new leader in terms of the top issue. a lot of republicans having asking the question, what's the data going to show? 27%, a new number out just this hour. is it -- separating kids at the border, is that a human rights violation? 60% of americans say yes, it is. 36% say no. among democrats, 95% say it is. among independents, 60 say it is. only 21% of the republicans say it is. >> oh, my gosh. >> you have the partisan split, which is on every question. but in the rearview mirror, if immigration were the top issue in the election environment, you ...

Commitments because others see you as a role model. canada and norway also among the nato allies getting similar letters from the president. cnn has learned the defense secretary, james mattis, fired off a similar missive to the uk's defense chief, all of this just before a nato summit next week in brussels. then a trump/putin summit. the russian president, we know, likes nothing more than to see the western alliance divided, fighting publicly. let's bring in cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. america first seems to have become america fighting with just about everybody. >> reporter: john, ...

I think. tru -- i think trump is probably taken with whoever moves him in the moment and looks the part. the president is so taken with optics and appearances and the perception that is so critical in mihis mind to politics and public relations. i think that's going to trump all. i would note she doesn't have an ivy league degree. i don't think the president is big on liberal arts schools. that could be a strike against her, i think. he is very focused on having those elite credentials. >> despite not having the ivy league degree, you know, she's a woman. obviously she's a conservative. he mig...

Portfolio. jeff zeleny live at the white house. thank you. with me is rachel bate of politico, jonathan martin of "the new york times", retired rear admiral john kerr by, and cnn's katelyn collins. admiral, i want to start with you because you have experience. to jeff's point, angela merkel is in trouble. barack obama, george w. bush, george h.w. bush, bill clinton would try to throw a friend a lifeline at that moment or certainly not pour salt in the wounds. this president seems to relish these fights with people who, on paper historically, are friends. >> yeah, it's really difficult to under...

When he keeps perpetuating this notion in office. he doesn't want to hear about, well, mitigating facts like the fact that they had a ten-year window to do this. this is trump. i kind of feel like we keep waiting for him to sort of change or to sort of show some kind of growth because it's not going to happen. >> in part, the ten-year window, think about how he processes a lot of things. he doesn't want the text to say essentially nato allies are making progress toward a commitment made during barack obama's presidency. he wants this to be about trump pushed nato to do what he wants. >> and he...