Welcome to the Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. Here's where we are heading into the holidays. Donald Trump in the midst of what is clearly, measurably, the worst month of his second term, and usually presidents face this kind of hell month later in the term. So it's bad news coming earlier than usual, which is also bad news as there are cries

of a lame duck presidency. Consider within the last day Trump's revenge cases completely blowing up.

And remember, this is not like they made it to trial and James Comey found sympathetic jurors.

This is not like they made it to jury selection and

something changed. This by any legal timeline was a fast failure. And if you're counting,

I've mentioned this in our coverage. There have now been three losses for Trump,

three cases against foes, his perceived foes that have completely fallen apart, and zero wins.

New polls show anger over prices. Americans more upset than the end of Biden's term.

Trump's job approval crashing to record lows. As you see, it stacks up on the screen.

But we're not done.

We are in the middle of this month.

Trump also faced that humiliating defeat with both parties telling him to stop hiding the sex traffickers files.

Some people in politics alleged maybe Trump was involved in early emails have him at least mentioned.

Others say maybe he's not involved.

But in this rare polarized, in this polarized moment, we had this rare unity where they all came

together in Congress and said, enough.

Release the sex traffickers files.

Some people say they don't even want to know why Trump seems so intent on hiding

them. And that means a deadline is now looming stretching through this month and next for

Donald Trump's terrible November to comply. More Republicans defecting, some threatening to

leave Congress. And if you go back, three weeks, Trump lost when the Democrats

had that election sweep. And that's how this hell month began for the president. You stack it all up,

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