Domenico Montanaro

And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Well, you know, 56% of people said that they oppose the military action in Iran.

36%, only 36% approve of Donald Trump's handling of it.

And 55%, a majority, said that Iran represents only a minor threat or no threat at all.

And we should say that this poll was conducted during the first week of the bombing.

It sure does.

And I think that we've seen a lot of things this way where the numbers are pretty baked in when it comes to Trump and the kinds of actions that he's taking, especially highly controversial actions where you have a pretty sizable percentage of people who are strongly disapproving of things that he's doing.

And then a very locked in portion of his base.

More than 80 percent of Republicans in this survey approve of military action in Iran.

And 79 percent of Republicans approve of the job that he's doing in handling Iran.

That's so interesting.

Yeah.

And the new chosen leader is the son of the former supreme leader who was killed in these attacks in the early days.

So there's no indication here that Iran is going to be

capitulating anytime soon or certainly, you know, giving in to what Trump wants, which is unconditional surrender, as he said.

And I think that the biggest thing that can be a negative for this kind of thing overseas, as we've seen over the last 20 plus years of Americans involved in foreign policy conflicts and wars, is American deaths and American boots on the ground in particular.

So, you know, we have seen seven Americans who were killed in retaliatory attacks by Iran.

And if Trump were to commit Americans on the ground in Iran, that's something I think could change the numbers in many cases here.

Excursion is quite a word to use.

I mean, going to war is not parasailing.