Thanks to everyone at home for joining us on the beat. I'm Ari Melburgh. I'm back as a cool mention after a couple days off. Glad to be with you tonight.

We're covering Trump's struggle to contain the fallout from the war he started in Iran. And later, Andrew Weissman joins us. And I want to tell you, by the end of this hour, we have something very special with author, a New York art legend, Fab Five, Freddie. You can see him there back in the glory days.

That's by the end of the hour. So I invite you to stick with us for all of that. We begin,

though, with this investigative reporting, which undercuts Trump's war claims. Iran's nuclear

timeline is about the same as before the war. I'm going to walk through that reporting, but just think about this context and how it's bad for Trump.

He broke his vow to avoid those so-called forever wars, which had saddled other Republican presidents.

And Trump launched this war in the same region, the Middle East, picking a fight that immediately proved more complex than the initial hawkish claims.

In that sense, history has that echo.

It's not exactly the same.

This is not a ground war as of today.

And there weren't exactly false claims about WMDs inside the country, but there are still lies.

That's the context, as I mentioned for this reporting tonight,

because the lies include lies about an adversary's weapons, what they are, what they have,

their ability to do harm. That is as serious as it comes when you're dealing with leadership

and statecraft. And, of course, brave men and women in our armed forces their lives on the line.

So Trump does find himself, as we begin tonight, far closer to George W. Bush's Mide's

problems than two months ago.

And whatever the many criticisms that are of Donald Trump, and I'll show you some of the polling

later in the hour, this is a new, bad problem he

created that is worse for him and, of course, the country than two months ago. It includes a credibility

crisis because Reuters is reporting the time that Iran needs to build a nuclear weapon has not

changed since last summer. I'm leaving that up on the screen for a second because you may have heard

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