00:04:48.760And so even if you look at the top, like immigration, one of his former strong suits, he still only sits at 39 percent approval.
00:04:54.500So there's not an issue where he is, he can sort of tout as a major success.
00:04:59.060But really troubling for him and his party is that we know the economy is issue number one, and he is just very, very low in those numbers on that issue.
00:05:07.280The president, however, finding one relative bright spot on voting rights and election integrity, his strongest issue in the CNN survey at 41 percent approval.
00:05:16.500That coming as separate polling shows overwhelming public support for requiring voters to present photo identification.
00:05:23.300CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten breaking it down.
00:05:26.120Yeah, overwhelming support for it. We've spoken about it before and the polling really hasn't shifted all that much. And you can just see it right here. OK, so we're talking about voter voters favoring photo ID to vote. Among all voters, we're talking 77 percent. And this is uniform, basically, or universal, I should say. Universal. Democrats, 62 percent. Independents, 77 percent. Republicans, 95 percent.
00:05:48.900this is something that is popular across the political spectrum. It is a rare thing that is
00:05:54.360popular across the political spectrum. When it comes to voter ID, the voters are with President
00:05:59.460Trump on this, whether they're Democrats, independents, or Republicans. Overall, very
00:06:03.580clear, we're talking about three and four overall who support the idea of photo ID in order to vote.
00:06:09.460We asked RealClearPolitics co-founder and President Tom Bevin what the growing divide
00:06:13.820inside the Republican coalition could mean in November.
00:06:16.820It's huge, obviously. I mean, because the midterms are lower turnout elections and you need to motivate your base first and foremost. To have the Republican Party split like that and also to have an enthusiasm gap where Democrats are much, much more eager to turn out in November or telling pollsters they are than Republicans.
00:06:38.720I mean, those two things bode very ill for Republicans.
00:06:44.620You have to turn out your base first and foremost.
00:06:46.960Yes, you want to win over independents, but first and foremost, you have to turn out your side.
00:06:52.760And Republicans are struggling to do that right now.
00:06:56.080Bevan tells us why independents remain a critical piece of the midterm equation.
00:07:00.640A lot of people will tell pollsters they're independent, but they're really,
00:07:04.360they lean Democrat or they lean Republican.
00:07:06.380And the people who are truly independent that will vote independently are about 10 percent, sometimes a little bit lower, sometimes a little bit higher.
00:07:14.300That is a small slice of the electorate. But when you're talking about races that can be decided by a point or two, they become hugely important.
00:07:23.520And so to have independence so sour on. And this is the other thing that is really a problem for Republicans is that they control all the levers of government.
00:07:32.620So whatever your problem is, if you are dissatisfied with anything about the current state of our politics, whether it's the economy or inflation or Iran or anything else, there's really only one party that you can hold responsible for that.
00:07:49.900And that's why they are they're struggling in what is shaping up to be a very good Democratic year.
00:07:55.920Bevin breaks down how both parties are attempting to frame the choice before voters.
00:08:00.000it's very easy to nationalize these races around donald trump and so you have senate candidates
00:08:07.360that in particular are running against donald trump even though their term is six years long
00:08:13.080donald trump will will not be president for at least two-thirds of their term and yet it is all
00:08:18.300about fighting him in this moment and that is what is motivating democrats and so yes they're they're
00:08:24.200nationalizing these elections all across the country around donald trump and that's why you
00:08:29.600Republicans are doing their best to make this, A, as localized as possible, and then B, the Republicans' second strategy is to say, look, you may not like Donald Trump, you may not like the Republican Party.
00:08:41.520However, the alternative in a binary choice, which is the Democrats, they are worse.
00:08:46.480And because they are radical, because they are socialists, because they are communists, and that is having some effect, but certainly it's not as persuasive.
00:08:56.180As for voter ID, an issue where the president enjoys broad public support, Bevin offers a more complicated assessment of whether Republicans can translate that advantage into political momentum.
00:09:07.000them. So that is another 80-20 issue that Republicans are on the 80 side of. However,
00:09:13.820this is, and Chuck Schumer has said this, Democrats will never, ever give in on the issue of
00:09:21.900voter ID, on the issue of Save America Act. Even if it was 100 to nothing, 100 to zero in favor of
00:09:28.640that, Democrats will be going to the wall against it. And so, and ironically, it has been an issue
00:09:35.720that has split Republicans. The Republican base, MAGA voters in particular, cannot understand why
00:09:41.660Republicans in Washington, D.C. will not find the votes and pass this. And President Trump has been
00:09:47.720very outspoken in terms of bashing John Thune and other Republicans for not getting this done.
00:09:55.860And so ironically, it's an issue that is depressing the Republican base because Republicans are in
00:10:01.000control and can't seem to get this passed. Meanwhile, Democrats are unified against it,
00:10:05.240even though it's an issue that the public is against them on overwhelmingly.
00:10:10.200The financially struggling Democrat National Committee falling victim to an email scam,
00:10:16.020losing thousands of dollars to a fraudster impersonating its newly elected chairman.
00:10:20.780Notice reporting an unknown person emailed a DNC staffer in February of last year,
00:10:26.400pretending to be Chairman Ken Martin just days after he took office.
00:10:29.760The staffer reportedly sending the imposter nearly $29,000.
00:10:35.040A DNC official telling Notice the committee caught the mistake within minutes and contacted Wells Fargo, but recovered only $7,000.
00:10:42.780The former staffer no longer working for the committee.
00:10:46.080The DNC later disclosing what it called a, quote,
00:10:48.620misdisbursement caused by an outside fraudster to the Federal Election Commission, promising to implement additional safeguards.
00:10:55.520A committee spokesperson describing the incident to notice as a, quote, one-off mistake that was quickly addressed, while insisting nothing similar has happened since.
00:11:04.540The embarrassing loss coming as the DNC struggles with a much larger financial crisis ahead of November's midterm elections.
00:11:11.100Federal records showing the committee with approximately $16.3 million in cash and $18.5 million in debt through the end of June,
00:11:19.860while the Republican National Committee holds more than $128 million and carries no debt.
00:11:25.520The DNC also reportedly putting its Washington headquarters up as collateral to secure a $15
00:11:31.460million line of credit. The Bulwark reporter Lauren Egan explaining Monday on MSNOW why the
00:11:37.880committee's financial condition threatens its ability to perform its central role during a
00:11:42.460midterm election. The Democratic National Committee is going into August with $2 million in debt.
00:11:48.140That is pretty bad. I think there was some hope at the beginning of the year that Ken Martin was
00:11:52.580going to be able to turn this around, that once we got into 2026, some of these big donors would
00:11:57.440come back to the table. And that clearly just hasn't happened in a very meaningful way.
00:12:02.300And the big concern now is that Ken Martin is essentially driving the DNC to irrelevance.
00:12:07.060The whole point of the DNC in a midterm year is to basically act as a bank and to give out money
00:12:11.920to the big party committees, the DS, the DTRIP. And Martin can't do that right now. So there's
00:12:17.780essentially no coordinated campaign going on amongst these party committees and that is again
00:12:23.540the dnc's entire purpose is to do that in a midterm election year so his relevance is just
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00:14:16.500989898 today. A massive earthquake rocking southwestern Japan, killing at least 18 people
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00:15:11.980the complex more than an hour later. Part of the mall's second floor collapsing, trapping workers
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00:15:28.260collapsed homes and a heavily damaged paper mill, where a falling chimney reportedly killed five
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00:15:56.140as we can. The full scale of the disaster is still emerging, as extreme summer heat complicates the
00:16:02.200search and leaves thousands of displaced residents sheltering without reliable electricity or running
00:16:07.280water. Sky News Asia correspondent Helen Ann Smith reporting on the scale of the rescue effort
00:16:12.700and the growing challenges facing communities across the disaster zone. And look, I think the
00:16:17.640authorities are really throwing everything now at this rescue operation. In excess of three and a
00:16:22.460half thousand soldiers, 20 aircraft, some 300,000 people have been told to evacuate and sort of stay
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00:16:35.700aftershocks this was a pretty shallow earthquake only about 10 kilometers and that means that the
00:16:40.940potential for afterquakes aftershocks is higher they've already been around 60 apparently albeit
00:16:46.700not particularly strong ones but the concern is real there and then there are around 50,000 homes
00:16:52.260without power 140,000 without water and that's been a real problem for the hospitals as well
00:16:57.700Lots of reports of hospitals saying that they're finding it difficult to get energy supplies, some of their equipment's damaged.
00:17:05.320They're trying to sort of relocate their patients to other places, but there's not a whole lot of hospitals who are able to take them.
00:17:12.560Body camera footage from former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS broadcaster Tony Romo's alleged drunk driving arrest now public.
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