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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the fallout over Ukraine and public opinion about Trump

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the fallout from President Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and analysis of the latest PBS News poll. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

And for more on the latest political news, including the fallout from President Trump's meeting

0:05.8

with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and analysis of that PBS News poll, we're joined now by

0:11.2

Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith, NPR's senior White House correspondent,

0:17.1

with a welcome to you both. All right, Tam, so according to this PBS News NPR Marist poll,

0:22.7

Americans are divided about President Trump's job performance, and in this latest poll,

0:27.3

56% of Americans say the president is rushing to make change without considering the impact

0:32.7

of his decisions. That includes two-thirds of independence and 11% of Trump voters. What stands out to you about this? The two-thirds of independence and 11% of Trump voters.

0:37.9

What stands out to you about this?

0:39.6

The two-thirds of independence, because independent voters are sort of the canary and the coal mine

0:43.8

for approval of what the president is doing.

0:46.5

And when you are winning independence as president, you're doing well.

0:50.2

When independents are moving away from you, that's an indication.

0:54.3

Because at this point, partisan views are so set in stone that Republicans will automatically say that Trump is doing great,

1:02.7

and Democrats will automatically say that he is doing terrible.

1:05.7

So you look to the independence.

1:07.2

And in this case, two-thirds of independents say that the president and Doge are rushing too much to make change.

1:14.0

That is certainly, you know, like a yellow flashing light for the White House.

1:20.2

And Amy, on his handling of the economy, our poll found that 42% think President Trump is changing the economy for the better,

1:26.7

46% think for the worse, but perhaps

1:29.0

more telling, 56% of people expect gross-free prices to actually go up over the next six months.

1:35.8

And that's with those extensive tariffs set to take effect tomorrow.

1:38.7

You wrote recently about the warning signs for Republicans on the economy.

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