brand new fox news poll is breaking down
his job performance with ratings
below 50 on every issue except his
handling of the coronavirus
here to react america's newsroom co-host
co-host
and anchor of the five as well an author
of a new book everything will be okay
dana perino good morning dana we had
that poll up on the screen while i was
introducing you
numbers below 50 pretty stark numbers
dana when it comes to handling
the border what jumps out to you here on
joe biden's
approval so far into his presidency well
the border stuff indeed but let me get
to that in just a moment let me
say if you're the biden team and you're
looking at these numbers
you've got to say okay look i ran on
kovid
my first 100 days has all been about
covid and to have a 58
approval on your main issue it's pretty
good right
so that's in your first 100 days but
what about the second 100 days
and that's where i see a lot of speed
bumps one is
certainly going to be immigration that
actually threatens i believe
to overtake everything else you know how
last uh in the last few weeks the white
house has decided to try to
redefine what it means to have
bipartisanship and they suggest that
well it doesn't mean members of congress
it means people out there in the country
are people out there in the country
happy with coronavirus well
okay but if you're going to do that will
then you also then have to accept that
there's a strong
overwhelming bipartisan majority against
what they're doing on the border it's
they i think in our poll that shows
people believe it is three times as
worse at the border than under president
trump
yeah dana and i think one of the lessons
of the trump presidency is that
immigration illegal immigration
is an extremely motivating issue for a
bipartisan group
of the political constituency out there
as you said that's one in the second
hundred days here that could really play
a role in his overall approval
well absolutely and what happens in the
next 100 days will
that's when the weather is the nicest
and that's when you see the biggest
surges typically
so now you couple that with the fact
that they took away the policies from
the trump administration that was
holding
some of the migrants at bay to try to
get them to try to do things
legally and you have the fact that moms
and dads
know that they will be reunited here um
with no consequences
and it that continues to ratchet up as
you start to see the country open up a
little bit more
as people get vaccinated try to travel
get out there
but this will be the one issue that as
covid fades
this one i think will take over in
addition to the economy i think that
people are still obviously very
concerned about the economy
and one of the real uh flashing red
lights
is inflation
well i think we all know that president
george w bush has stayed relatively
quiet behind the scenes since his days
in the oval office but he's had his
hobbies he's had things he's focused on
and you got to focus on a few of those
in a new upcoming
special airing tonight on fox news at 10
p.m it's called 43 portraits
george w bush tell me a little bit about
this well i asked him
my first question was how'd you come up
with the number 43 sir and he thought i
was very clever phil for
asking that question of course he's the
43rd president um he didn't take up pick
up a paintbrush until after he left the
white house
um it turns out he's extremely talented
he's taken a lot of lessons and he did
portraits of courage which was an entire
43 portraits of wounded warriors
but this one is focusing on immigrants
and the stories behind
the people that have come to our country
by choice
and those who have done some really
great things in terms of contributions
and when i talk to him i know what i
realize is that obviously a former
president can have influence on a debate
on an issue what i found with this one
is that he's not getting in the middle
of it except for to talk strongly about
the need for border security
um but also figuring out a way to
perhaps lower the temperature
to talk about people in ways that can
really lift people up
i i think what sets the fox news
interview apart from all the others that
you've seen
is that i actually got to talk to four
of the immigrants that he
interviewed and you will not believe the
great work that megan albano
dan cohen and john case did to go back
and find
footage from those times before those
people fled to america
it's spectacular i love how it all came
together
let's take a quick look you mentioned he
focuses on immigrants but also
veterans and here is uh president george
w
bush painting i believe a medal of honor
recipient florent groberg let's take a
look
you can see it's monochromatic yeah why
i want to point people look at that they
go
the first thing they see is a medal of
honor uh he is uh from france
he gets a medal of honor wearing the
united states uniform there are a lot
a lot of immigrants who have uh
worn the uniform people like flo who
again willing to sacrifice for a country
where he wasn't born is a significant
contribution
and my view is if they're willing to
fight for the united states they should
automatically become
citizens
immigrant veteran medal of honor winner
that's a really cool story one of the
stories you'll see on 43 portraits
george w bush tonight
at 10 pm eastern time on the fox news
channel can't wait to watch dana thanks
for telling us about it this morning
yeah i would have loved to have been
with you down there maybe next time
oh i hate to tell you this but you're
missing out a little bit i know
next time okay dana i have such promo