Saturday, March 7th, and we begin this hour with the growing body of evidence that Donald

Trump's authoritarian experiment is on the decline.

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

And here's where

Donald Trump's economy stands today. The economy lost 92,000 jobs last month, and there were

downward revisions again to previous months, marking the fifth time in the last year that we've

seen job losses due to revisions. There have been so many downward revisions this year that

it's 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 around. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ,

and the S&P 500, which closely tracks to most American's

retirement accounts, are each so far down that they've erased all gains made since the beginning

of the year. And the war that Trump just launched against Iran has already estimated to cost

taxpayers more than $7 billion. That's just the cost of the actual war, not the ancillary costs

of a war. But it's not just an expensive war. It's a deeply unpopular war of choice, 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 that 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's already killed about 1,700 civilians and soldiers,

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

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

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

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