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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump is desperately trying and failing to divert attention

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away from the economic blowback sparked by his war of

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choice with Iran. Right now, Trump is moments away from

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holding a roundtable event in Las Vegas. He wants you

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to forget about sky high gas prices and an uptick

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in inflation. Instead, he's touting his limited note tax on

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tips policy, which sunsets, goes away, disappears, stops ends before

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he leaves office. When Trump departed the White House today,

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he told reporters gas prices are quote not very high.

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Reality check. The national average for a regular gallon of

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gas stands at four dollars and nine cents a gallon.

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That's more than a dollar higher than before the war,

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and voters are yeah feeling it. A new Ipsos poll

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shows that twenty four percent of American say the cost

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and benefits of Trump's war are worth it. For nearly

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seven weeks now, Trump has failed to effectively explain why

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America is at war, and yet he seems more focused

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on a petty, one sided feud with Pope. A public

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is spat if you will. That's dividing just parts of

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Maga and the country. But after days of taunting the

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Pope for daring to criticize the war, Trump now claims

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there's no feud at all.

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Speaker 3: I'm not fighting with him. I have a right to

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disagree with The Pope can say what he wants, and

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I want him to say what he wants. But I

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can disagree. If the Pope would allow ran to have

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a nuclear weapon, you can't do that. I have nothing

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against the Pope. His brother's Maga all the way, like

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his brother Lewis.

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Speaker 2: It's like the Holy Spirit found him. Michael. I don't

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know what spirit that was, but that wasn't holy because

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half of that was a lot of gobble. I mean,

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you know, ending it with you know, the president's brothers Maga,

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I mean, what does that mean? First off, you know,

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the Pope has never said he wants a ron to

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have a weapon of mass destruction like nuclear weapons. What

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he said is he wants peace. And Donald Trump claiming

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that the Pope can say whatever, were clearly not because

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it seemed to really get under your skin when he

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said something that you didn't agree with. So which is it?

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And like everything that we've seen Jackie. This president is

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all over the map. There is no effective way for

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him to have the kind of conversation about anything because

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from one moment to the next, we don't know where

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he stands.

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Speaker 1: That's right, I mean, you had this White House, you

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had the President take the rare step of deciding to

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delete a tweet after there was so much blowback that

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figures on the religious right even came out and criticized him,

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and then in the very next breath, doubling down on

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why he decided to compare himself to Jesus. Pete Hegseth

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taking to the podium today to again compare the president

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to Jesus and compare reporters to the Pharisees jd Vance,

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challenging the Pope as well, telling him to be better

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versed in what he was talking about, to stay out

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of politics. So obviously a ton of mixed messaging coming

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from the White House. But at the end of the day,

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all of these people speaking to the audience of One

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Speaker 2: Cat's Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven pm Eastern on MS NOW