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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. I'm really, really happy to have you here tonight. |
0:04.0 | We are going to be speaking with the Episcopal Bishop of Washington yesterday, who had that incredible |
0:09.3 | moment at the National Cathedral, speaking directly to Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance |
0:16.5 | about human dignity and decency and mercy in a way that seems to have short-circuited |
0:24.9 | Donald Trump a little bit. |
0:26.7 | Just an incredible moment. |
0:27.7 | We're going to be speaking with her live here tonight, just moments from now. |
0:32.7 | We also tonight look like we might be having a good old-fashioned debacle unfolding in Washington. |
0:41.8 | This is the second full day of the second presidential term for Donald Trump. And you will recall |
0:48.9 | that he received less than 50% of the popular vote to win this term. He got more of the popular |
0:54.0 | vote than Kamala Harris did, |
0:55.3 | but he was still under 50%. He was at about 49.8% of the national popular vote. Today, we've |
1:02.5 | got the first national polling on how the country feels about him as he starts his new term. |
1:07.9 | And this first national polling shows that Trump's support has already fallen even |
1:13.6 | below that level of support that he had in the election. Reuters Sipsos today finds that Trump is |
1:18.6 | starting with a national approval rating of 47 percent. And for context sake, that is historically |
1:26.7 | low for new presidents. |
1:28.6 | Most presidents start over 50%. |
1:31.0 | This is supposed to be the honeymoon period after all, right? |
1:33.7 | You actually expect that the number of people who voted for them will continue to be for them. |
1:38.8 | But then you expect sort of other people who didn't vote for them or who didn't vote at all |
1:42.1 | to also come over to their side with all of the momentum and the positive press that they get for the start. In Donald Trump's |
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