MARIA: WELCOME BACK. TIME FOR THE MORNING BUZZ. EVEN MORE BAD NEWS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO TELL YOU ABOUT. THE LATEST POLL REVEALS VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS' APPROVAL RATING IS HIGHER THAN JOE BIDEN'S. SHE'S AT 35%, SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN'S. WHICH JUST OF COURSE HIT A NEW LOW OF 34%. THIS IS THE LOWEST IN THE POLL'S TRACKING OF HIS ADMINISTRATION SO FAR. SO THE NUMBERS KEEP GOING LOWER AND TO COMPARE HIM TO KAMALA, SHE'S ACTUALLY HIGHER THAN HE IS, LEE. >> TO BE FAIR, IT'S WITHIN THE MARGIN OF HOUR. THEY COULD BE EQUALLY UNPOPULAR. MAYBE THERE'S A REASON WHY NIKKI HALEY WALKED AWAY FROM HER RHETORIC WHERE SHE WAS SAYING A VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN IS REALLY A VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS BECAUSE THEY KNOW SHE'S MORE POPULAR AT THIS POINT BUT IT'S REALLY -- JUST THINK ABOUT THAT NUMBER. ONE IN THREE AMERICANS, ONLY ONE IN THREE AMERICANS APPROVE OF HIS PRESIDENT AND THIS VICE PRESIDENT. THAT'S TWO IN THREE AMERICANS WHO DISAPPROVE. AND WHAT'S ALSO STAGGERING IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, DISAPPROVAL AMONG HIS OWN PARTY, THAT DOESN'T USUALLY HAPPEN. YOU REMEMBER WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE HE WAS ALWAYS ABOVE 90% APPROVAL RATING AMONG REPUBLICANS, 60% APPROVAL RATING AMONG DEMOCRATS. THIS IS REALLY, REALLY BAD NEWS FOR BOTH OF THEM. MARIA: AND TO SEE THAT IT'S THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM IN THE LEAD, DO YOU SEE AN ALTERNATIVE? ARE THEY GOING TO SWAP HIM OUT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO CONVINCE KAMALA HARRIS TO STEP ASIDE? >> I THINK IT'S REALLY, REALLY JUST -- I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IT AT THIS POINT, WITH ALL A OF THE RULES AND WHEN YOU HAVE TO BE ON THE BALLOT, ET CETERA, I THINK IT WOULD BE A BIG ISSUE. UNLESS THEY WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING AT THE CONVENTION OR IF HE WERE TO STEP ASIDE BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW HE STEPS ASIDE AND NOT HAVE IT BE KAMALA HARRIS WITHOUT THERE BEING SOME KIND OF A MAJOR, MAJOR SORT OF PUSHBACK FROM THE PARTY BECAUSE SHE IS THE FIRST FEMALE, SHE'S THE FIRST -- SHE WOULD BE THE FIRST FEMALE, BE THE FIRST BLACK CORKS THERE'S ALL KINDS OF ISSUES THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO ADDRESS BECAUSE WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO , PUT GAVIN NEWSOM IN THERE, I THINK THAT WOULD CAUSE A WHOLE LOT OF PROBLEMS. UNLESS THEY BROKERED A DEAL SAYING YOU ARE GOING TO WALK AWAY AND GET THIS FOR IT. IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PRIMARY IN 2020, IT WAS JOE BIDEN WAS LOSING, LOSING, LOSING, GETS TO SOUTH CAROLINA, WINS AND YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYBODY RESIGNS AND BACKS BEHIND HIM SO STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED A.