All right. I think we're live. Hello, everybody. Good Tuesday morning. I hope you all enjoyed your long Memorial Day weekend that you are recovering. We're glad you're here with us if you are in any state to stream Bullwork content on Tuesday morning. I'm Andrew Rager, White House correspondent for the Bullwork. This is our editor-at-large Bill Crystal. We write the Morning Shots newsletter every Monday through Friday, Tuesday through Friday this particular week in your inbox for free, coming to you live on Tuesday mornings to talk about what's going on in the news. The world did not have an extraordinarily restful Memorial Day weekend. There's a lot to talk about. There's a lot that we could talk about, like the sort of unceremonious resignation of D&I Tulsi Gabbard on Friday that we're not even going to talk about.

We're not going to get to it at all.

We're mostly going to focus today on the latest in the war in Iran, which it's this weirdest situation, Bill, because we have to keep talking about it because there keeps being new stuff to talk about

and because it's unbelievably important to everything that's going on in the world. And yet,

a lot of the stuff that there is to talk about it just seems like we're spinning our wheels

talking about it because the negotiators are spinning their wheels. And this morning, Sam Stein was

editing your latest morning shots piece or he thought he was editing your latest morning shots piece. or he thought he was editing your latest morning

shots piece. He was in fact in a document from early April where a lot of the stuff about

will the ceasefire hold and who can be trusted in all of this and, you know, what's America

actually going to get out of it? All of that analysis could have just as easily applied to where

we are today. That's how sort of little progress there's

been on a lot of this stuff. But we do have some new stuff to talk about. And it's mostly just about

how Trump is going to try to get out of this with the minimum possible amount of political

damage to him himself. We'll see whether that's even possible, even if that's his main goal,

how achievable that actually is, just given the bind that he remains trapped in, having entered this war without a clear off ramp.

But let's just start by setting the stage a little bit with where we're at in terms of public perceptions of the war.

The short answer to that is not great. This is from

Nate Silver, averaging out, updating today, basically his average of where things are in

public approval of the war and disapproval. Again, this is from today. Immediately after the Iran

war began, about 48% of Americans opposed the conflict, according to the silver

bulletin average.

That was already unpopular relative to past wars, but things have only gotten worse.

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