i'm joined now by nbc's steve kornacki. break down these numbers for us. >> kristen, you weren't kidding. just in the last couple of days, five new polls out measuring the reaction from the public. you see them right here. the headline, polarizing a month into the second trump presidencycy. u see his approval rating in four of these five polls is under 50%, in four of these five polls his disapproval number is higher than his approval number. so by just about any historical standard this is a low political position for a president to be in a month into his presidency. though, it is worth noting that the one exception to that would be trump himself in his first term. in a way,nothing new for trump. you're looking at the average of the nbc polls the first trump presidency, 2017 to 2021. if you averaged, trump was under water approval rating 44/53. his absolute best marks still never got that approval number over the disapproval number. you see as low as it got. average everything that's out there right now, you can see how hi

kyra, we're going to be talking to the great steve kornacki.e into all of these numbers that we are getting that really tell the tale of where we are in this first month, kyra. oh, and he always has such a great breakdown. i also know you have exclusive interviews with senators from oklahoma and new jersey. so good to have all the perspectives this morning. christian. as always, thank you for that preview and we hope you join christian for this morning's meet the press. as mentioned, she will have those exclusive interviews with senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma and senator cory booker of new jersey, as well as steve kornacki, with the breakdown behind president trump's numbers during his first month in office. if you just stick right here with us for today in the bay, meet the press is on at 8 a.m. right after our newscast. and coming up in about 30 minutes from now, we will take a look at president trump's recent claims that ukraine started the war with russia, which, by the way, tomorrow marks three years since the invasion. nbc bay area

and here's nbc national correspondent steve kornacki on meet the press today. >> look at the personalities. now, the public faces of this administration, not just the president, the vice president. and, of course, you were just talking about elon musk. what you're measuring here is just basic popularity. do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of these people? again, that number looks just like his approval rating does. you can see it's about evenly split with musk. it is now 50% unfavorable. and then when you ask folks just about that job that musk has taken inside the government here trying to find trying to make cuts here, and again, you can see 49% disapproval. only a third approving. >> meantime, another pentagon firing two u.s. officials say air force lieutenant general jennifer short, who is defense secretary pete hegseth. senior military aide has been removed from the job. and it comes after president trump fired joint chiefs of staff chairman cq brown jr. the country's highest ranking military officer. >> this is a reflection of the president wanting the right people around hi

steve kornacki will join us to break down the latest polling. plus, as the president upends decades of u.s. foreign policy on russia, will republicans continue to back his vision? i'll speak exclusively with senator markwayne mullin of oklahoma, a member of the armed services committee. it's all ahead. this sunday on meet the press. and you can watch meet the press on sunday right here on nbc bay area, beginning at 8 a.m. the man accused in the deadly shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo was in court today. luigi mangione mangione arrived at his hands and ankle sckled and wearing a bulletproof vest. investigators say he was captured on video shooting and killing brian thompson outside a manhattan hotel back in december. today's hearing was related to the progress prosecutors are making in handing over evidence to mangione legal team. the 26 year-old has pleaded not guilty to state charges, but has yet to enter a plea on federal murder charges. the judge set another hearing date for june. another sign of a weakening housing market in the united state

we are going to delve into all of the numbers with the great steve kornacki today coming up on the show, willie. >> sounds like a great show. we'll be watching, kristen. thanks so much. this morning on "meet the press" you have kornacki, that should be enough, but kristen is joined exclusively by democratic senator cory book esh is a lot of moisture traveling up to the pacific northwest. they are dealing with an atmospheric river, but there's also some showers that are making it into the bay. so let's look at it with storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar. most of that activity still staying to the north bay. so from inverness down into parts of novato, terra linda, and over on into solano county, you're getting some light showers right now. the day >>> straight ahead, the highs and lows of e week including scenes from the carpet at the big "snl 50" celebration as larry david has the perfect larry david reaction to that glam bot. >>> a moment that will give you chills as a college baseball player blasts a home run hours after losing his mother. >>> but, up next, our "sunday focus" on uk

and here's nbc national political correspondent steve kornacki on meet the press today. >> look at the personalities now, the public faces of this administration, not just the president, the vice president. and, of course, you were just talking about elon musk. what you're measuring here is just basic popularity. do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of these people? again, that trump number looks just like his approval rating does. you can see vance. it's about evenly split with musk. it is now 50% unfavorable. and then when you ask folks just about that job that musk has taken inside the government here trying to find trying to make cuts here again, you can see 49% disapproval. only a third approving. >> and breaking news. germany's elections wrapped up just hours ago. conservatives are leading in the vote count, with the far right alternative for germany party in second place. we're going to have more on this in just a moment for you. we have a number of reporters and analysts in place ready to go over all these new developing storylines. we're going to go to nbc's vaughn hill

one of them in any of the exit polling data i saw or any of the brilliant analysis provided by steve kornackiwith ending the full democratic experiment and installing a king again. talk about what is exposed on trump's flanks here. >> yeah, i mean, the big issue is that a lot of people voted for him for the vibes, not his core supporters. they voted for something that they wanted. they voted for this type of destruction and revenge. that is that is the core. that is the base upon which he sort of, you know, projected out this political power. but the way that he sort of got one right is he built political power on what used to be considered the fringes. so he brought in a bunch of these fringe figures, and now they're going to have to do a series of actions to be responsive to the people that they brought in. the scary part is, you noted in your intro, is that they started out with with a really clear message and guidance, which is that we got your back. as long as you're doing things in line in support of donald trump and in some way, shape or form, you will not be held accountable for it. t