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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump To Address Nation As New Poll Shows Low Approval On Economy

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Are there cracks forming in the president's wall of Republican support? The rebellion he faced in Congress today, the bruising new polling, and rough jobs report, all landing as he gets ready to address the nation at 9pm ET. Plus, new video of Nick Reiner, shortly before his arrest in connection with his parents' deaths, and new details from the medical examiner about how they died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, are there cracks forming in the President's wall of Republican support, the rebellion he faced in Congress today, the bruising new polling and rough jobs report, all landing as he gets ready to address the nation an hour from now.

0:14.0

Also tonight, new video of Rick Reiner shortly before his arrest in connection with his parents' deaths and new details from the

0:21.6

medical examiner about how they died. New reporting is well on their son's troubling demeanor

0:26.6

in public not long before he allegedly killed them. And later the Brown University manhunt goes on,

0:32.6

now entering day five, what authorities are saying about how they plan to make progress,

0:36.6

and a heartbreaking revelation about one of the two students killed in that auditorium,

0:41.3

that he was only there because he tagged along with a friend.

0:44.3

Good evening, thanks for joining us.

0:45.3

We are just about an hour away from the President's Oval Office address to the country.

0:49.3

Late today, on his way back from dignified transfer ceremonies

0:52.3

for two National Guardsmen

0:54.3

killed in Syria, he talked briefly about what he'll say tonight.

0:59.1

Well, I think the message this evening is we inherited a mess and we've done a great job and

1:05.0

we continue to and our country is going to be stronger than ever before very soon.

1:09.8

Thank you very much, everybody.

1:11.1

Well, whether or not that's all he'll be focused on, it's a tough sell at the moment.

1:16.1

New polling from NPR tonight shows only 36 percent of Americans approve of how he's handling the economy.

1:21.6

And in our CNN poll of polls, his overall approval rating now stands at just 39 percent.

1:27.1

Those numbers do not come from thin air.

1:29.2

Inflation has not fallen since the president took office. It was 3% then, 3% in the latest numbers.

1:35.6

As for unemployment yesterday, we learned it rose to 4.6% last month, a third consecutive increase

1:40.8

in the highest it's been since 2021. Now, any or all of that could explain why the president might find it hard to make his case

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