Good morning. It is Saturday, March the 7th, and we begin this hour with the growing

body of evidence that Donald Trump's authoritarian experiment is on the decline.

Polling has consistently shown that Americans' top concern is the economy and affordability,

and here's where Donald Trump's economy stands today. Not only did the latest jobs report show

that the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs last month. There were downward revisions again to previous

months, marking the fifth time in the last year that we've seen job losses in a given month

due to revisions. There have been so many downward revisions that it is now raising fears

of a recession. Overall, the U.S. economy has been shedding jobs since the president launched

his supercharged tariffs last April, which also continues to cause prices to rise. The stock market is down all round.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ, and the S&P 500, which closely

tracks to most Americans' retirement accounts, are each so far down that they've erased

all gains made since the beginning of this year.

And the war that Trump just launched against Iran

has already estimated to cost taxpayers more than $7 billion. It's not just an expensive war.

It's a deeply unpopular war of choice, not of necessity, and a war of choice that is being

waged by an historically underqualified defense secretary who talks about it

in public like a kid playing a video game and does not think the deaths of American service members

should be front page news. It's a war that this administration appears unable to coherently explain

to the American people. It's a war that has already killed more than 1,100 civilians and soldiers,

including six American service members. It's a war that a majority of Americans do not want.

56% have said they oppose it, according to a new NPR PBS News, Marist poll that was conducted this week.

Meanwhile, the president's brutal and deadly deportation campaign has turned even those who

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