Jonathan Karl: “With the shakeup of the president’s legal team, he is now all-in on a new strategy to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller: fight, delay, vilify.”

“The legal strategy dovetails with the Trump team’s political strategy: rallying the base with fear and loathing of the special counsel as a Democratic plot to nullify the 2016 presidential election.”

Said one Trump loyalist: “The only date that matters is November 6.”

“The Trump team had been pushing for a quick resolution of the special counsel’s investigation. Now they want to draw it out, attacking the investigating as a stalking horse for Democratic efforts to impeach the president.”

“In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump’s company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties — including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks — during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump’s own history as the self-described ‘King of Debt,'” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump’s vast outlay of cash, tracked through public records and totaled publicly here for the first time, provides a new window into the president’s private company, which discloses few details about its finances. It shows that Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession’s hammering of the real estate industry.”

“Why did the ‘King of Debt,’ as he has called himself in interviews, turn away from that strategy, defying the real estate wisdom that it’s unwise to risk so much of one’s own money in a few projects?  And how did Trump — who had money tied up in real estate and buildings — raise enough liquid assets to go on this cash buying spree?”

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds President Trump’s support among America’s union workers has dropped 15 points in just a year.

Trump’s support among union workers now sits at 47%, down from its all-time high of 62%.

A new Pew Research poll finds 57% of Americans find little or no common ground with Donald Trump on issues, but 41% say they agree with him on “all or nearly all” the issues.

The public’s assessment of Trump’s conduct as president is little changed over the past nine months, with 54% saying they don’t like the way he conducts himself as president.