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The Beat with Ari Melber

Americans Revolt Over High Prices Under Trump

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Government, Ms Now, Versant, Versant Media, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber reports on the affordability crisis in the US, with recent polling showing that 66% of Americans say Trump has fallen short on his campaign promise to tackle inflation and cost of living. Vanity Fair's Molly Jong-Fast and Democratic Strategist & Pollster Cornell Belcher join.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melba. I wish you a happy Veterans Day as we honor service in America.

0:06.7

Top news story tonight begins with a very telling moment. You're going to see it right now as a Republican Congresswoman's Iowa Town Hall boiled over with voter anger regarding health care costs that even led to heckling.

0:21.3

When the Affordable Care Act was asked,

0:24.3

the reason why,

0:26.0

lower clause, the greater transparency.

0:31.0

So on the Affordable Care Act, or the Unaffordable care act, there was...

0:42.3

What's your plan?

0:44.1

It's minimal number of equal.

0:46.7

How long your face can go off?

0:48.3

That is the sound in one place, anecdotal, but it's backed by a lot of data I can show you tonight.

0:55.7

It's the sound of talking points from the right wing running into Iowa voters, a place where Trump,

1:02.1

of course, has done very well repeatedly, not just some super liberal place stocked with democratic

1:07.5

talking points. But if you deny people healthcare funding, if you deny people

1:13.5

the programs that support their ability to get care, and then you run around saying things like

1:18.7

the unaffordable health care bill, because you think that's a neat play on words, right now you're

1:24.1

going to run into angry voters. We saw that a week ago Tuesday in the voting.

1:27.7

We're seeing it now. And Americans are clear on this issue. Sixty-six percent say Trump has fallen short or broken his vows on the key campaign promise to bring down costs.

1:39.2

Over 70 percent say they know their grocery costs have gone up, just like utilities, most blame Trump. I'm

1:45.2

going to leave this up for a second. When you see the 59% blame Trump, by definition, that includes

1:50.2

people who voted for Trump. They were hoping for better. They might have liked what he said last year,

1:56.7

but they blame him here on planet Earth in reality land because he's done very little to bring down

2:03.0

the prices he doesn't even hold events or talk about it let alone do anything about it we know this is

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