Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbaugh, and the midterms we keep hearing about, they officially begin

today, as you may have heard. Primaries in three states, that's the start of these midterms. And it comes

at a very clear crisis point in the Trump presidency. We are here in the first week of a new war,

a war that just about everyone says they didn't ask for or see coming inside the United States. And I'm going to show you many

of the voices on the right in the MAGA movement who say no thank you at a minimum.

Meanwhile, Americans are skeptical of this economy. If that sounds familiar, it's a problem that the Biden

Harris team faced in the last election, only now Trump is the steward of these high prices

in this economy. And the Epstein scandal haunts Donald Trump because of his secrecy, his lies,

his cabinet members lies. He is standing by an Epstein Island visitor up and through tonight and maybe all the way through the midterms while other countries actually arrest some of these people.

That's where we begin. Trump is down in the polls. America is sizing up a war that he never bothered to explain or persuade on, and that, along with

perhaps the fundamentals of going to war with Iran, are why we are seeing a whopping 59% disapproval.

And this is at the beginning. Many of our Middle Eastern adventures and wars have gotten

less popular over time.

Trump said today, wars can be fought, quote, forever, while other outlets are noting that his

rationales, whatever they may be, keep shifting, which means some of them are not true.

There's this quote, wars can be fought forever and very successfully. That's what he posted

online, a rather remarkable way to draw everyone's attention to the term, the word, the very thing he

pledged in the last election not to do, launch forever wars. Trump's policies are clearly

underwater. They're hurting. A lot of voters say, if this is the

solution, they don't want it. Certainly not helping sentiment today. Dow's down a thousand.

A.D. Line. There is high anxiety all around the world. Energy prices have gone straight up. We have a little high oil prices for a little while. The cost of ensuring oil tankers is going straight up. Voters, they're getting skittish. 59% disapprove. People felt it's something that had to be done. Maybe anti-American sentiment. If you look at the Dow 30, well, it's a sea of red, isn't it?

America's not as popular as once in West.

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