Debate: How is Trump's Iran war already as unpopular as Vietnam?

[0:00] this is a murderous regime and if you want to sit here and get mad at donald trump because you hate [0:04] him that's fine but the iranians are not our friends when you have republicans democrats [0:08] and independents all saying virtually the same thing that we have concerns about the objectives [0:14] we don't think it's benefiting us we think it's hurting us that's a signal that the american [0:19] people aren't behind you and whatever you want to use can you let me talk for crying out loud [0:25] tell me a popular war in the united states besides world war ii besides world war ii can you tell me [0:30] a popular world tell me a war that is that is polled wealth gulf gulf war one [0:37] no war in well first of all we can laugh at the table i mean war is not popular the only reason [0:41] they have that enriched uranium is because trump bailed on the above but then also sunset and was [0:46] going to allow them to continue in 2030 in 2030 it was going to sunset okay at some point it wasn't [0:52] this panacea wow that was fun good evening i'm abby phillip in new york an inflection point tonight [1:01] in donald trump's presidency and his war thousands across america on this mayday protesting the [1:07] president's policies and calling for better working conditions as costs skyrocket due to his tariffs and [1:13] this war with iran fewer than half of republicans republicans say that the country and its cost of [1:21] living is heading in the right direction this is a letter from the trump administration to congress [1:27] it says on april 7th 2026 i ordered a two-week ceasefire the ceasefire has been extended there's [1:33] been no exchange of fire between the united states forces and iran since april 7th 2026 the hostilities [1:39] that began in february have terminated essentially they're saying the war is over the war is over but gas [1:48] prices are still going up so americans are asking themselves um excuse me so when is this going to [1:54] be over for us well to terry's point i think what the trump administration needs to be very careful [2:01] about is not falling into the same trap that the biden administration fell into and would ultimately [2:07] propel donald trump back to the white house and that is ignoring the feelings of the american people as [2:14] it relates to rising fuel costs rising electricity costs there are a lot of good economic metrics [2:21] you look at the market the market has done well they're not spooked by all this in fact the s p 500 [2:28] i think had its best month in april since 2020 when donald trump was last president you also have [2:35] manufacturing coming back to this country real wage growth is about 80 percent less than what it was when [2:41] joe biden was in office that's a fact and we know that private sector spending to build new [2:45] manufactured facilities in this country is down 20 percent from what it was from when joe biden was [2:49] in office we're seeing that all around with the 60th day of this conflict 60 days in and what exactly [2:55] have the american people gotten the irani regime is still very much in charge they still have their [2:59] nuclear capabilities they're paying more than four dollars and thirty cents per gas inflation went from [3:04] 2.7 percent the night of the presidential election all the way up to about 3.3 percent they're paying [3:08] more for everything in this country and what's happening so the reality is trump thinks that [3:13] he's found some type of perma war glitch where he can effectively just go and subvert congress but at [3:18] the end of the day we're spending more than 500 million dollars per day on this blockade and for the [3:23] people at home you might smirk but the people at home 500 million dollars a day about two weeks [3:31] two weeks you can pay for the cost of universal child care for everybody in this country in a month [3:37] that's the reality your priorities are messed up you would rather spend more money on bombs and war [3:42] okay than on the people so that was a great campaign stump speech i loved it it was really [3:46] well delivered and and rehearsed before this show but it's funny to me when democrats suddenly [3:52] get religion on spending when our national security is at stake 25 percent of the national [3:57] you have never cared about the debt and our deficits until it's an opportunity to knock [4:04] donald trump and joe biden spent like a drunken sailor barack obama spent like a drunken sailor [4:12] of the amount of non-covid related spending than what so but if part of your issue with the war the [4:18] conflict the excursion whatever you want to use can you let me talk for crying out loud if if you part of [4:26] your issue is spending i find that to be completely and totally disingenuous because you will spend [4:32] to high heaven ukraine you couldn't spend enough on ukraine ukraine i believe that we need to be a [4:38] part of that but that's not our fight pete iran having a nuclear weapon is our fight because they [4:45] still have to attack americans they have killed americans they still have their nuclear material [4:50] the regime is still in place they do so what have you done pounds of 60 percent enriched uranium that [4:55] we need to secure so what have you done right that's why it's not over the obama deal the only [5:00] reason the only reason they have that enriched uranium is because trump bailed on the obama but [5:04] that also and didn't say and was going to allow them to continue in 2030 in 2030 it was going to [5:09] sunset okay well it wasn't this panacea to them let me let tim have a word we need to stop talking [5:15] about it that way go ahead tim wow that was fun uh look i i do find it funny and that when during [5:23] the by administration when gas and in places like california got to six dollars a gallon the [5:28] biden administration response was well the president is not responsible for gas prices the president [5:33] does it doesn't have a culpability in gas well sure it's a talking point i agree but it's a talking [5:37] point that was used in the biden administration okay great i think hold on hold on hold on can i finish [5:44] my board yeah they they now have reversed that when the when now the president of the united states [5:49] is donald trump now all of a sudden gas prices are the responsibility of the president i want to go [5:53] to something that you said because because i think it's this is an insane argument and i i told pete [5:59] before the show i was going to let folks come on and show for the iranians so you've done a really [6:02] great job you see that is exactly what republicans always do it's not because you think that because [6:07] hold on hold on let me let him finish and then i'll let you respond the iranian regime [6:12] for 50 years long before you and i were even born and hopefully not long after we're around [6:17] have said death to america they want everybody at this table to be dead and if they get their hands [6:23] on a nuclear bomb that's exactly what will happen our allies in europe our friends in the region and [6:28] us here at home are directly under the threat of the iranians and i don't know if you know any [6:31] americans that have been killed by the iranians i certainly do this this is a murderous regime and if [6:36] you want to sit here and get mad at donald trump because you hate him that's fine but the iranians are [6:41] not our friends and them having a nuclear bomb hold on so before you so before you respond let [6:46] me just ask you a question because it's it speaks to what president trump was saying are you like [6:52] trump suggesting that if you disagree with this war as a majority of americans do that you're doing so [6:59] because you want the iranians to win abby i would the way that this question has been framed this [7:04] entire thing just tell me a popular war in the united states besides world war two besides world war [7:10] two can you tell me a popular war tell me a war that is that is polled the gulf gulf gulf war one [7:16] i mean that one was popular the gulf the one that lasted 100 hours i mean it didn't last 100 hours [7:23] it didn't it didn't last 100 hours but it was popular i mean you asked you asked what popular [7:27] we have no war in well first of all we can laugh at the table i mean war is not popular well let me put [7:34] the idea that was in world war two let me let me put this another way that like we're going to base [7:39] polls the president hold on a second let me put this another way on polling most of these [7:44] bases it on the safety and security of the most of these other conflicts most of these other conflicts [7:49] became unpopular over time over a period of years it has been 60 days and this war has never been popular [7:56] it's not just that it is unpopular now it has never been from the very beginning popular so i it's not [8:03] that this is a popularity contest but it's just that when you have republicans democrats and [8:08] independents all saying virtually the same thing that we have concerns about the objectives we don't [8:14] think it's benefiting us we think it's hurting us that's a signal that the american people aren't [8:18] behind you and at the very least if you're an elected leader in a democracy that should matter [8:23] right i believe it does i'm just going to just continue to make the point the iranians with a [8:28] nuclear bomb is not good for anyone which is exactly i promised isaiah he would respond to [8:34] what you said here's the reality here if that was really your objective you never would have pulled [8:38] out of the jcpoa that's first things first but i want people to understand this is what the republican [8:43] party feels about the 61 of americans republicans independents and democrats that disagree with this [8:50] war that you somehow are shilling for the iranian regime if you go and question your government [8:54] spending two billion dollars a day on a war and a conflict that the regime is still very much in [8:59] place they still have their enriched uranium it is not unpatriotic to question why this president [9:04] has never justified this to the american people that's what you did those words actually never [9:09] left my mouth you said that he was showing for the iranians showing that that's pretty unpatriotic [9:14] i would say i don't you can disagree with the president all day you can also agree with the fact that [9:20] that he can he can he's an american citizen he has a first amendment right to disagree with the [9:24] president but you also said that he's supporting the iranians which is just not accurate the fact [9:27] of the matter is is are you okay with the iranians having a nuclear bomb that can be used against [9:32] our which is exactly why i support the jcpoa the jcpoa they were still developing a nuclear bomb [9:40] there's not one example of them violating the terms of that deal tell me one example of them [9:44] violating the terms that you tell me one example of where they're not they give them you can't show [9:49] me they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're not they're [9:53] so wait a second you're telling me let me let me just let let's just that's the reason for 45 [9:58] years let me just hold on a second let me just reset for a second because we're all talking at the same [10:06] time um just a quick point because of course we are almost at time for break but on the jcpoa [10:14] look a lot of republicans didn't like it but at the same time you have to acknowledge that the moment [10:20] that trump pulled out of that deal is when the iranians went from not having anything nuclear [10:27] material that was close to uh to bomb grade to having a lot of material that was close to bomb [10:33] grade it was at that moment and so now in that time since we have been out of that deal iran has gone [10:39] from not having materials that's been verified by the by the international organizations and [10:46] and other countries to having 60 percent enriched uranium tons and tons of it so that's a fact