i have the office of interest the world health organization just released a damning report looking at how the e.u. it handled the pandemic fighting with its allies over vaccine exports isn't the way to well fix those problems that were highlighted. many thanks spring is there live from berlin peter oliver. another news russia's ambassador to the united states is on his way to moscow for crisis talks after ties with washington hit a new low came in response to a t.v. interview in which president joe biden agreed when asked if putin was a killer russian foreign minister had this to say for us the main thing is to determine ways of improving russian u.s. dose which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to a dead end in recent years we are interested in preventing the irreversible did radiation if the americans realize the risks associated with that this will be discussed you're in consultations between the russian foreign ministry and other relevant departments and with the russian ambassador to washington on wednesday washington also expanded arms export restrictions

the world health organization's declaration of a global pandemic. joining us now, steve kornacki at the big board. what is biden's approval rating looking like 50 days into office? >> yeah. interesting he gets his covid relief package. this is what the president makes of the public right now. you're looking at the average approval rating. you take all the different polls out there. average them together. the real clear average has biden as 53.7% approval rating. basically you can call that a 54% approval rating. honestly, this has been about where he's been for this first part of his presidency. the high water mark if you're tracking these things, day by day. you can see it a week in. he was at 55.8. basically in this same range. mid55.8. mid 50s is where biden has been even through the big legislative fight. how does that stack up with his recent predecessors, how does that compare to modern predecessors? >> at this same point, you can see here's the list. at the top, reagan was at 61%. biden is actually down a bit. i think it's interesting. he's a tick below where clinton and george w. bush, and george h.w. bush, but split close, mid to high 50s is the norm. trump is the outlier h