Good morning. It is Sunday, May the 3rd. A new poll released overnight has a lot of troubling

results for Donald Trump and Republicans. The poll from Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos shows

that support for Donald Trump is cratering, driven largely by deep disapproval over

his handling of his top issues. Now, I'll get to the polls more in more detail in just a moment,

but first, let's talk about the reasons behind this fall in support, and let's start with the

Strait of Hormuz. Its effective closure has caused a huge oil shock and supply chain

issues globally that are affecting Americans' pocketbooks. Today, the average cost of a gallon of

regular gasoline in the United States is $4.45 up again by a couple of cents from yesterday.

Now, gas prices are not at record highs, but the rate at which they have been rising is unprecedented.

The Wall Street Journal estimates estimates that Americans actually spent 125 million dollars more on gasoline this past Friday, May 1st,

than they did the previous Friday, April 24th, where the average price of gas was $4.6 a gallon.

The World Bank is also forecasting that commodity prices will increase by 16% this year,

driven by the rising cost of transportation and the shortage in fertilizer.

At a congressional hearing last week, the Congressman Roe Kana of California said that he'd done

the math on what the war would cost Americans. He said it was an extra $5,000 a year spent on food and

gas per household. And then there's the actual military cost of the war itself. A Pentagon official

told Congress last week that the government has already spent $25 billion in taxpayer money in just the first two months of the war.

Bottom line, is prices are going to continue to go up or at least remain elevated for the near future.

Even if the war with Iran ended at this very moment, it would still take months for things to return to normal.

And it doesn't appear likely that we're close to ending this war,

regardless of the Trump administration's claim that the war has been, quote, terminated. And by the way,

according to them, this war isn't even a war. Trump now says that he calls it a, quote,

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