PBS News Hour | Season 2024 | September 27, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode | PBS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : STEPHANIE SY: Ahead of their closed-door meeting, Trump said he had a great relationship with Zelenskyy, crediting him for helping him during the first of his impeachment trials.
65% : But in the same breath today, Trump also lauded Russia's president, leading Zelenskyy to interject.
56% : We hear this again and again, especially from Trump and Republicans.
56% : If you look on that same measure that Trump likes based on last year, same thing.
49% : She did say at that time, in her opinion, it was right to question the size of police budgets.
46% : And earlier this week, Trump said this about Ukraine's president: DONALD TRUMP:
46% : Now, that measure, however, Geoff, I want to point out, when Trump says there is an increase in crime by that measure, there's some fun with math there.
36% : GOV.RON DESANTIS (R-FL): And the early reports we have received is that the damage in those counties that were really in the eye of the storm has exceeded the damage of Idalia and Debby combined.
36% : The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted Trump.
32% : Trump has given a few other details about this.
31% : STEPHANIE SY: Trump also suggested this week that Ukraine should have made concessions to Russia to avert the war.
31% : Now, Trump and his allies are saying they don't like those FBI statistics, which are based on law enforcement around the country.
25% : Trump also talks about migrant crime, but we know all research so far in that area says that undocumented immigrants are either less or just as likely as anyone else to commit crime, not more.
22% : In it, Zelenskyy called Vance's stance on Ukraine too radical, and said: "Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war, even if he might think he knows how.
18% : STEPHANIE SY: With Russian assaults continuing, all week, Zelenskyy found himself caught in the crossfire of the battle for the U.S. presidency, with Trump refusing to say whether Ukraine should win the war.
8% : STEPHANIE SY: Trump was impeached in late 2019 after he demanded Ukraine provide information on then-candidate Joe Biden in return for releasing military aid to Ukraine.

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