These are not the best of times for President Trump or the party he leads.

Iran is in the driver's seat in the Gulf.

The President's economic approval ratings are dropping faster than gas prices.

The Democratic Party seems poised to come out on top in the redistricting fight

that Trump and the Republicans themselves started.

And some of his MAGA allies are abandoning him. Tonight, why President

Trump's boundary pushing, foreign adventurism, and bluster may make November a very difficult

month for his party. Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic. Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

The New York Times polling average shows that 58% of Americans disapprove of President

Trump's job performance, a new high that can be largely attributed to voters' economic

concerns.

Can the president manage the straight of Hormuz and his sagging approval ratings at the same time?

Joining us tonight to discuss this and more.

Annie Linsky is a White House reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Sungman Kim is a White House reporter for the Associated Press.

Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent at the New York Times.

And Ovan Winget Sanchez is a staff writer at The Atlantic. I bet you're jealous that you're not a White House correspondent. We can make your White House correspondent for the purposes of this. You can make me anything you want. Yvonne actually is visiting us from Phoenix. She lives in America and is going to talk to us about what she sees actually in America. So that's very exciting.

Let me, Tyler, let me start with you, the approval ratings, especially on the economy.

They're slipping fairly quickly into fairly red zone territory. So you're, well, all of you are in the White House every day talking to them. What's the level of worry?

I mean, there's obviously concern.

Publicly they are trying to downplay that concern and say there's months till the midterms,

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