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Looking back if your looking at the numbers, and drill them down a bit you have republicans split about 50/50 right now whether or not they believe what's being said out of the white house, that number increased to over 710. you get your base out, but whether you look at numbers right now, if you really want to get a taste of how someone's doing in office, you look at where the independence are going and right now they're not going with trump. even worse, you see republicans are starting to abandon him. >> i want to ask you douglas about this trust issue. what does that say for people who spea...

Abandon him. >> douglas, about this trust issue, they can't trust what's coming out of this white house. what does that say for the people who speak for the president? if you look at the person who speaks every day, at the briefing, if you look at the people who come on television? it seems that the public doesn't believe them. they think they're spinning or lying, as well. >> absolutely. they've become comedy fodder. nobody thinks sean spicer was any good. everybody laughed about scaramucci. he was awful. he's never been able to handle the press aspect of being president. i think he decided h...

Good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'll miguel marquez in for brings brings. how are you? >> -- dave briggs. how are you? >> nice to see you. top of the hour. i am christine romans, tuesday, august 8th. president trump has a problem -- the american people do not trust him. that is one key finding of a brand-new cnn poll showing the president with his approval rating at just 38%. that's its lowest point in cnn polling. only one other newly elected president has held an approval rating below 50% at the six-month mark since modern polling began. that was bill clinton. still ahead of pres...

>> 58% of americans say that changing all the turnover among top advisers hurts the administration's effectiveness. only 37% see it as necessary to be effective. so that chaos doesn't seem to be working for him. one other note i wanted to show you on the trust issue you were talking about, look how it's slid by party. republicans slid evenly on this. even among republicans, only 48% of republicans are not believing what they are hearing out of the white house. >> so much of what the president has done has been to try to keep the base loyal. with these numbers, does he need to try to expand tha...

President trump has a problem, the american people don't trust him. that's a key finding in one new cnn poll showing the president with his approval rating at just 38%. its lowest point in cnn polling. only one other newly elected president has held an approval rating below 50% at the six-month mark since the modern polling era began. that was bill clinton. still well ahead of president trump at 44%. >> this trust issue is telling. fewer than one american in four says they trust most of what they hear from the white house. and 60%, 60% say they don't trust the commander in chief. even presiden...