Miles Parks

Hey there.

It's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Miles Parks.

I cover voting.

And today on the show, a new NPR-PBS News Marist poll shows that most Americans do not approve of the war with Iran.

Domenico, let's start there.

Tell us more about what this poll found.

It's kind of impossible not to hear those numbers and think that sounds very similar to Trump's overall approval rating, right?

Tam, I mean, Trump ran on this idea of kind of getting America out of these forever wars.

Very a sort of isolationist message on the campaign trail.

Does it surprise you at all that Republicans are so on board with this level of military action?

It does feel hard to make the sell that this is not going to be a prolonged conflict when regime change has been not an explicit goal, but something that Trump is asking for.

And when you kill the leader of a country that has been in power for decades, I don't know, it's hard to imagine that just being kind of a light touch.

You know what I mean?

Right.

I mean, so we're now in the second week of this war.

As you mentioned, Domenico, seven Americans have died.

Trump has alluded to the fact that there probably will be more deaths on the economic side.

We're also starting to see real consequences with gas prices starting to rise this week.

Tam, how is the president talking about these consequences as they are starting to pile up?