We are now seeing some of the first polling about how the American public views President Trump's second term so far.

For that and the other political headlines of the day, we turn to our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Hello, hello.

Hello.

So President Trump has started his term with net positive marks from Americans overall.

That's according to a new CBS News UGov poll.

He's got a 53% approval rating, and many of his policies have majority support, like immigration,

his handling of the situation in Gaza.

Amy, when you look at these numbers, what do you see?

Well, this is, this one poll definitely starts Donald Trump in a place he didn't spend any time in his first term, which is above 50% approval rating.

Now, if you look at the average of all the polls that have been taken since he has started his tenure as president, he's a little bit lower than that, but still in positive territory.

I think there are a couple of things to note about it. The first is, historically, his overall

approval rating is lower than where most presidents have been. But what's the most telling

and the most unique is how high his disapproval ratings are. Usually, a first-term president comes in, even though, as we know, this isn't your typical firm president,

but with a certain amount of benefit of the doubt from the other side.

And so if you look at somebody, say, like Ronald Reagan, his overall approval ratings, when he first came in,

weren't that high. They were somewhere in the low 50s, but his disapproval ratings were like

eight. This is 47%. So there is a dug-in opposition to Donald Trump. That's why the number that's

going to be the most important i think going

forward is looking at whether that opposition to him grows rather than looking just at his

approval rating number yeah another important number in this poll tam is that 66% of respondents

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