CNN's Harry Enten presented fresh polling data measuring public opinion on President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

The 80-year-old president signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and pause fighting for 60 days while negotiating the terms of a final deal on nuclear weapons, and Enten said Americans will likely wonder why he launched the war in the first place.

"Yeah, I think the American people are going, what was the point of all of that?" Enten said. "What was the point of all that? Because the American people hate it, and the way you can know that they hate it, just take a look. Trump's net approval ratings hit lows for Fox News and Fox polls. In May, he had his lowest-ever rating at minus-22 points. You come into the poll that was released last night, the second-lowest ever, one point better at minus-21 points, way underwater, and with independents."

"I know you love when I point out the independents – 55 points underwater," Enten added. "I mean, my goodness gracious. This was a political disaster. No wonder the president wants to move on from it."

Trump admitted that he feared becoming Herbert Hoover and being saddled with a global depression, and Enten said those concerns were justified.

"You mentioned Herbert Hoover, the economy, right?" he said. "That sunk his presidency, inflation is what is sinking Donald Trump's presidency to all-time lows, at least according to Fox, because just take a look here, look at Ipsos polling. Trump's approval rating on inflation pre-war – it was bad, right? It was 33 points underwater. But then look in the past month, the average, according to the Ipsos polling, look at that – 51 points underwater. There was no president ever before that had any poll in which he was 50 points underwater on inflation or worse, and the average of the Ipsos polling over the last month was 51 points underwater on inflation. The Iran war absolutely drove Trump to new lows on the issue that got him re-elected in the first place, inflation."

Enten looked at past presidents to get a sense of where public opinion would stand now that the Iran war appears to be over.

"Just take a look at this, [Joe] Biden, right, the Afghanistan withdrawal days," Enten said. "Biden had a negative net approval rating post-Afghanistan, Afghanistan withdrawal, all of them. His presidency was simply put, sunk by it. Now, I'm not saying that's necessarily what's going to happen with Donald Trump, but it is an ominous potential signal for him when, in fact, you have getting out of a situation the American people don't like."

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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a unanimous loss Thursday, ruling that a 1968 law barring drug users from owning firearms cannot be used to prosecute a Texas marijuana user — a rare rebuke that also resurrects the ghost of Hunter Biden.

The justices sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued the prohibition violated his Second Amendment rights. Hemani had not been charged with any other crime and was not accused of using the weapon while under the influence.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, stressed that the decision was a limited one.

"The Court's decision is narrow," he wrote, adding that it did not address whether Congress could ban addicts or intoxicated people from possessing firearms.

Gorsuch was blunt about the government's case. The administration's argument, he wrote, "fails under every measure it asks us to consider: The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways," according to MS NOW.

The ruling is a striking setback for President Donald Trump's Justice Department, which had defended the decades-old statute even as the administration has fought other gun restrictions in court. The Trump administration, NBC News noted, has cast itself as a fierce Second Amendment defender, frustrating gun-rights advocates who watched it line up behind the prosecution.

The same statute drove the criminal case against Hunter Biden, who was convicted in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, of buying a Colt revolver in 2018 while addicted to crack cocaine. His father, then-President Joe Biden, pardoned him in December 2024.

About half of U.S. states have legalized marijuana broadly, though recreational use remains a federal crime. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order in April reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, adding another layer of tension to the Justice Department's defense of the gun ban.

The ACLU and the National Rifle Association both backed Hemani, joined by cannabis legalization advocates at NORML. Gun safety groups like Everytown, which typically oppose the administration on Second Amendment questions, lined up on the other side.

The opinion is the latest in a wave of firearms decisions triggered by the court's landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which broadly expanded gun rights. Since then, the justices have upheld a law protecting domestic violence victims and restrictions on ghost gun kits, while striking down a federal ban on bump stocks.

While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called “… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW’s Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk.

Discussing the blowback Trump is facing over the war that, for the moment, has ended in a stalemate, Rohde claimed that Hegseth is already a prime target instead since he is already on the outs with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers.

“At some point. President Trump is the person most responsible for this strategic defeat and failure,” Rohde told the "Morning Joe” co-hosts. “But I would argue the person second most responsible, who is in the most dangerous position politically, is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He repeatedly lied to the American public in his press conferences about the progress of the war, and he also refused to give basic information to members of Congress. There's a lot of ill will among senators and House members towards Pete Hegseth.”

Quoting Hegseth asserting “The aftermath of this is going to be in our interest,” Rohde asked, “Did he warn the president about the Strait of Hormuz before this war? Was he honest with the American public? And to the 50,000 Americans who risked their lives in the 13 soldiers who died? You know, his performance is just something that has to be looked at.”

Co-host Willie Geist added, “We haven't seen the defense secretary in public much since those podium-banging news briefings that he would give every week, where he would lecture the media about how to cover the war, what was actually happening, and from all the reporting that he would show the president of the United States an iPad with things blowing up to show that they were doing well. It turns out this is a much, much more complicated problem than can be solved by blowing things up.”

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