TRUMP APPROVAL AT RECORD LOW | LAST WORD 12/27| MSNBC | 16:23
<Ari Melber
<Polls say Pres. Trump is to blame for the shutdown as his approval matches an all-time low. Jason Johnson, Mara Gay and Jennifer Rubin join Ari Melber to discuss the prospects for Trump as he digs in on his unpopular shutdown.
>This is NOT normal entering the 6th day POTUS said was his fault.
>Stock market swinging wildly because of chaos caused by POTUS
>Polls show WIDE opposition to Trump as Dems ready to take House
<Clip of POTUS/Schumer & Pelosi meeting of Trump saying he will take the mantle of shutting it down and not blaming Dems
<Graphic of Ipsos/Reuters poll of who is to blame for shutdown: POTUS 47%, Dems 33%, GOP 7% - +/-2%
<Graphic of Morning Consult poll of who is to blame for shutdown: POTUS 43%, Dems 31%, GOP 7% - +/-2%
<Graphic of Morning Consult POTUS job approval: Approve 39%, Disapprove 56% - +/- 2%
>This is BAAD. Dems won Mid-terms by 8%! POTUS approval underwater by 17% WAY worse than mid-term stomping
>POTUS doing nothing. Twatting lies claiming shutdown would help him and who was to blame
>POTUS claimed 2 days ago that federal workers support him and the shutdown because they understand the need
>A that's a lie and B, how are they communicating directly with POTUS?
>Reuters polled some people and showed that of the 35% of those asked supported money for the wall and 25% supported the shutdown.
>Congress doing nothing; Senate in session for 4 minutes and House for just under 3.
>Pelosi not backing down about wall and will not support any bills that provide funding.
>A NORMAL President would be concerned about the pushback from their own party
>Government cannot stay closed forever!
>Nothing NORMAL about this
<Talking heads introduced: Jason Johnson, Mara Gay, and Jennifer Rubin
>No good solutions for POTUS
>Pelosi will push for clean continuing resolutions and deny any attemps for the wall, perhaps push for wall funding contingent upon legalizing ALL DREAMERS
>POTUS backed in a corner, only thinking moment to moment TV style or waiting for some deus-ex-machina to come save him
>No good end and eventually GOP will cave
<Some saying POTUS' shutdown is theatrics to get Mexico to pay for the wall but really he's breaking promises while trying to appease his base, thoughts?.
<Clip of Michael Burgess R-TX saying the shutdown is not the final act in the drama and getting Mexico to pay for it is in the final step.
<Talking heads laughing
>Loves the "12-step process" getting the taxpayers to pay for the wall and will some how be reimbursed by Mexico some time later
>End of the day, POTUS has no leverage and will EVENTUALLY break on the issue.
>Wall is merely symbolic and POTUS' base will support him no matter what and will just blame the evil democrats
>POTUS will not get wall
>POTUS should just accept win to appease base in "good-faith", whatever that means, he's a con artist and should just take win
>McConnell has a job ahead trying to appease the people
>POTUS is a huge failure not getting other people's money to pay for the wall
>POTUS not on a roll, making himself look like a fool.
>Support for Israel under scrutiny by religious right by suddenly pulling out of Syria and putting Israel in harms way
>Shutdown and chaotic market and the wall, many other things that push the patience of his base
>It's tough in the day and age to spin the narrative with a chaotic POTUS
>Definitely, POTUS is in meltdown with the Russia investigation closing in. Caged animals can be very dangerous
>Concerning to see what will happen with POTUS' temper tantrums, never faced consequences, crossed every imaginable moral and ethical line, completely chaotic and irratic when he wins, what will he be like when he loses?
>POTUS at 39%, can't be bully anymore.
>Base will abandon POTUS by election time
<No one likes POTUS or FLOTUS right now
>We went through the giant loses of GHWB, Barbara Bush, and Jon McCain this year
>What we have now is jarring and disillusioning