Trump Approval Crashes Amid Econ & Intel Stumbles

About this episode

Ari Melber discusses Trump's declining approval ratings amid economic and intelligence challenges, featuring insights from Howard Dean.

President Trump formally nominates his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to serve as attorney general. Plus, new lies from Trump about the war in Iran. MS NOW's Ari Melber reports on the latest developments and is joined by Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and former DNC chair.

People in this episode

Host: Ari Melber

Guest: Howard Dean

Topics covered

• Trump approval
• politics
• Iran war
• attorney general nomination
• economic issues
• intelligence failures

Keywords

• Trump
• approval ratings
• Todd Blanche
• Iran
• Howard Dean
• politics
• economy
• intelligence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DNC, MS NOW, Vermont

Places: Iran

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