It is Friday. It feels like this week has been about 100 days long, admit it.

But we have made it to Friday, and I'm very glad that you are here with us tonight.

There's so much to cover.

But you know, because it's Friday, would you mind just indulging me for a second if I just started with something that has been stuck in my craw?

I know it's Friday.

Tonight's going to be a little weird.

Forgive me.

Here it comes.

You might remember a couple of days ago, we reported on the results of a new national poll from Quinepiac.

You might remember some of the details.

Trump underwater and his overall approval rating by 12 points.

Trump underwater on his handling of the economy by 15 points. Americans saying that Trump's tariff gamble will cause immediate harm to the U.S.

economy by a 50-point margin saying what he's doing will hurt the U.S. economy. You might remember we covered that

Quinnipiac poll a couple of days ago. But Quinnipiac also had a couple of questions at the end of

that poll that we didn't cover when we did it the other night. But they've been gnawing at me a

little bit ever since. And the first one was this. Quote, as you may know, the editor of the Atlantic

magazine was accidentally added to a group

text chat on the messaging service signal where plans to launch air strikes against a rebel group in Yemen

were discussed. The chat included President Trump's national security advisor, the defense secretary,

the vice president. The question is this. This is the polling question. How serious a problem

do you think it is that the messaging service signal was used to discuss these plans?

Well, the proportion of Americans who said it was not a serious problem was 22%.

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