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Last thing before we go tonight now that a new week is officially underway, the evidence, not the numbers, are on the move with new polling out showing the various russia-related investigations exacting a grim toll on the president who was as poll obsessed as any candidate in the history of the presidency. the headline here is this. six in ten americans say president trump has been untruthful about the russia investigation. only 10% believe he has gotten the message for the change coming out of the mid terms. in fact, more americans, 48%, want congressional democrats to be in charge of setting...

54% disapprove. and in the months after the results of the midterm elections, when asked who they want to take the lead role in setting policy for the country, 48% want democrats setting policy, 21% want republicans, and 19% with president trump in particular. michelle, let me start with you. and we have these dual tracks. there's the legal side of things, the investigation continues. there are the politics and the president is doing everything he can to shape perception of what's happening. your sense from those numbers of how well that's working. >> i've heard people say a lot of times, they...

Really unprecedented sanctions, in fact. so, you know, whether the administration is prepared to deal with this, it appears as if that there are -- continue to be russia hawks in the administration who are setting policy even as trump has this sort of less aggressive rhetorical stance. and, you know, even apologetic rhetorical stance toward russia. on the letter from the 44 former senators, it's notable there that they are talking about this fraught geopolitical moment and the president's ability as frank figliuzzi sort of raised the skepticism of the president's ability to navigate this geopo...

Lethal arms, you know, issuing additional sanctions against russian oligarchs including some who are very close to vladimir putin, like oleg daraposka, really unprecedented sanctions, in fact. so, you know, whether the administration is prepared to deal with this, it appears as if that there are -- continue to be russia hawks in the administration who are setting policy even as trump has this sort of less aggressive rhetorical stance. and, you know, even apologetic rhetorical stance toward russia. on the letter from the 44 former senators, it's notable there that they are talking about this fr...

Administration isn't. it's sort of this anachronistic scenario we have where we talk about the president separate from the administration, but it is true that for the duration of the trump presidency and even during the campaign, we did have questions about whether trump was willing to stand up to russia even before we knew a lot of these allegations that were laid bare by mueller and the congressional investigators over the last several months. but the administration has in fact been tough on russia and has been in ukraine's corner steadfastly providing it with lethal arms, know, issuing addi...