A new American Research Group poll finds just 34% of adults in New Hampshire say they approve of the way President Trump is handling his job, while 58% disapprove, and 8% are undecided.

Time: “More than politics is at stake in how Barr handles the close of the Mueller probe. The reputation of the Department of Justice, attacked on the one hand for two years by the President who leads it and on the other by Democrats with oversight authority on Capitol Hill, hangs on the Attorney General. So too does the balance of power between the White House and Congress…. What’s clear is that Barr is making history. He alone will decide, on the basis of his experience, beliefs and personality, how this consequential chapter of the Trump presidency plays out.”

“In normal circumstances, Attorney General is one of the most difficult jobs in government… And these are not normal circumstances. Barr inherited an agency battered by the President, beset by scandals and facing challenges ranging from the Mueller report to criminal-justice reform and immigration enforcement… The Attorney General, who had to be talked into taking the job, will have a big role in shaping the presidency of the man who hired him.”

Geoffrey Skelley: “If there’s one thing that’s been consistent about President Trump’s time in office, it’s his approval rating. Sure, it has moved around a bit — his average approval has hovered between 36 percent and 45 percent, a fluctuation of 9 points, over practically the entire course of his presidency.”

“But that’s a really narrow band, especially compared to previous presidents, and it has meant that his median approval rating is low — only President Harry Truman had a lower median rating. Trump’s approval rating has the least variation of any post-World War II president. Granted, Trump hasn’t yet served a full term, but changes in his approval rating have been remarkably small.”

Daily Beast: “Just months after President Trump took office, the federal government signed a contract to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jet fuel from a university run by one of the president’s top political supporters.”

“The Pentagon’s energy-procurement arm inked the contract, valued at nearly $900,000, with a company called Freedom Aviation on May 9, 2017, and has purchased more than $400,000 in turbine fuel from the company since then. Freedom Aviation is wholly owned by Liberty University, a conservative school in Lynchburg, Virginia, led by high-profile Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr.”

“I don’t want to talk about pardons now but I can say it’s so sad on so many levels… Many many people were hurt, incredibly hurt, by this whole scam.”

— President Trump, in an interview on Hannity.

Playbook: “Over the last week, the Trump administration has taken several tactical and political steps that would be seen, in any other administration, as such massively stupid political blunders that one would wonder if someone is asleep at the switch.”

“Usually, if one disagrees with the White House on the substance, you might be able to discern what the administration is trying to achieve ideologically. These all seem, to some degree, to be self-defeating. And they are all grabbing headlines in a week where President Trump should be riding high after the letter from Attorney General Bill Barr.”

Among the blunders: Re-litigating health care, gutting the Special Olympics, nominating Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board and stepping up Trump’s war on Puerto Rico.