It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

Hey, the chattering classes are chattering about Donald Trump's polls.

One recent survey has him at 36% approval.

There was even a poll that says, or one or two, that says says Joe Biden was a better president that has to rankle and I was just imagining

Biden you know sitting on his porch in Delaware and saying hey maybe I wasn't so bad

after all and then there's this you gov economist poll finding that among younger voters, 18 to 29, Trump is now 42 percentage

points below water and it's a 51 point swing from the start of his presidency.

A 51 point swing.

I mean, that's crazy.

It's unheard of. You know, sometimes in polls

over, I don't know, a week, 10 days will move, fluctuate a lot. 51 points. But let's dive in

on this Friday. Hope you have a good weekend coming up. And I did want to mention, I guess I teased it yesterday,

the video podcast interview with Barbara Boxer, the former California Senator, is up. And

whether you like her, whether you like Democrats, it's irrelevant. She is in her 80s, and she's a lot

to say. And some criticism of her own Democratic Party, takes on ice anyway i've posted the links a couple of times on places like x and facebook and uh it shouldn't be too hard to find okay story number one from the wall street journal this is like the length of a book chapter and it's about Christy

Nome, who is the Secretary of Homeland Security. She is also the former governor of South

Dakota, didn't have any particular expertise in immigration. And you could tell that the

journal's reporters, including one who jumped ship

from the Washington Post, as, you know, I bring this up only because the Post has lost so much of its top

talent. So she runs the agency charged with carrying out Trump's central campaign promise on mass deportation.

She's tried to burnish her personal stardom, says the paper, with Corey Lewandowski, now her

top aide, Trump's former campaign manager helping her run things.

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