The last word with Ali.

She in for Lawrence starts right now.

Hey, Ali.

Hey, you know, you had my old friend Barbara Starr on. Barbara and I spent, I guess we were together at CNN for about 12 years, she's a straight shooter as it gets. And her takeaway from this was, yeah, great reporter. And, you know, what she was talking about, the way Hegsuth talks about this war and the gamification of it,

the video game aspect of it, the don't get in my way with probing questions about soldiers dying

or civilians dying.

She brought out the fact that that seemed very, very, I mean, it's really one of my takeaways

this week, that they're really being awfully cavalier about it.

Incredibly flipping the videos you referenced, and we played a mash of them, or a group, a set of them, are just honestly disgusting. And there are men and women serving around the world every day. You've interviewed so many of them around the world who see that stuff. And it really should be chilling to everybody who sees it.

Thank you for another great show, my friend. Have a great weekend. We'll see you on Monday.

Thanks, All right. We begin tonight with a president in crisis, all of his own making. He's deeply unpopular with the American people. And over the next hour, we are going to discuss a variety of

reasons and consequences for Donald Trump's tanking approval ratings. The economic news is bad, and voters don't think he's doing enough

about that. We saw on Tuesday the enthusiasm at the ballot box is with the Democrats, not with

Donald Trump's Republican Party. And now he started a war that according to lawmakers who've

seen this nation's most sensitive intelligence,

he had no legitimate reason to start.

The administration has also admitted as much by offering multiple and at times conflicting reasons for this war.

So unsurprisingly, this is a war that, like the president himself,

is deeply unpopular.

Peter Baker summed up this way in his analysis for the New York Times, quote, President Trump likes to assert that he has accomplished things no other

president has. With the opening of his military assault against Iran, he has achieved another distinction.

He is the first president in the era of modern polling to take the United

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