Welcome to you at home to The Beat. I'm Eman Mohideen in for Ari Melburgh this hour. And we begin

tonight with the impact of the massive No King's protests that took place all across the country this

weekend. You can see here just some of the events that organizers reported thousands of protesters

took to the streets across all 50 states. Americans turned

out in huge numbers yet again to protest against Donald Trump and his policies. And the discontent

is now showing up in the data. New polling from the University of Massachusetts shows that Trump

has his lowest approval ratings yet.

Only 33% approve, 62% disapproved.

Conservative podcaster Megan Kelly calling the poll numbers a quote,

five alarm fire for Republicans' chances in the upcoming November midterms.

Now, this, as Trump doubles down on one of his most unpopular policies, his war of choice in Iran,

sending more ground troops to the region seems to be in the cards.

The New York Times reporting, quote,

the newly deployed commandos joined 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors

who recently arrived in the region. Altogether, there are now more than 50,000 American troops

stationed in the Middle East, roughly 10,000 more than usual. The Wall Street Journal reports

that Trump is considering sending boots on the ground to extract uranium from Iran.

Even many prominent conservative voices, including some who actually supported the war in Iraq, are now sounding off.

I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place.

As this thing goes south, we need to know

exactly who talked him into it and what representations were made to convince the president that this

was a good idea. I don't share the optimism of the administration that there's going to be a peaceful

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