Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We begin with Trump's war in Iran. The fighting has

intensified here, reaching 21 days. U.S. Central Command has released this video of the ongoing

strikes. These are of Iranian military targets. The U.S. also grapples with diminishing

Iranian forces in the Strait of Hermuz. Iran's assault has paralyzed the flow of oil

through what is one of the world's key arteries for

energy. At home, we've seen confusion because Donald Trump and his aides have not clarified

even three weeks in what the war is for and therefore when we would have achieved it. And you

have the cost. The Pentagon wants $200 billion, the kind of bill that goes up, not down.

Some Republicans are balking at that price tag. There are new doubts about how that all of this

will play out in the midterms, many concerned about the impact of an unpopular war, even Trump allies

drawing a line. I will not vote for a war supplemental. No, I am a no. I've already told

leadership. I may know on any war supplementals. I am so tired of spending money elsewhere. I am tired of

the industrial war complex getting all of our hard-earned tax dollars. I have folks in Colorado who can't

afford to live. We need

America First policies right now. And that I'm not doing that. You hear that term America First,

which has broadly been understood to mean not starting new wars that are not of a national necessity

and not jacking up prices and costs on

people in America that they come first. That's how Bober puts it, which is a contrast to her much

beloved Maga President, who by her standard there isn't doing the America first thing.

Polling shows the war remains unpopular. Seven percent of Americans would want an escalation

of boots on the ground. Iran has also hit a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea. There's fires burning

in Kuwait, where two oil refineries have gone up in flames. The economic fallout is already

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