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1:00Donald Trump launched Trump TV last night because of the US networks. Refusing to conduct a press pool. It's over the decision to ban CNN, MSNOW, and political, all the other media organizations have fallen through and what they've done effectively is rubbed. Quite literally, as you heard from that clip, Donald Trump of his voice. David Smith is the Washington Bureau chief with the Guardian. David Trump insists that he's going to keep going with this. And you can get information straight from the source. But there has to be a climb down sometime soon. Cause the elections are running around the corner in the US. I would have thought, though, and Donald Trump faces his first hurdle with the courts. The White House has to respond to this on Tuesday. We could have a court hearing on Wednesday, where in fact, Trump himself predicted he may well face defeat. And of course, he will blame the judges. In this case, it's actually a Trump appointed judge who did rule against Trump in a similar case

2:02during his first term over the CNN reporter, Jim Acosta. Perhaps that legal battle will go on. But yes, more broadly, there's an issue here that Donald Trump is a creature of television. He loves the attention. He loves the cameras. Presumably, he's not going to like this collective action by the TV networks who were refusing to give him that oxygen. And a suspect he may look for an escape route soon and rather later. A Trump TV is on YouTube. I had a quick look at it this morning. Ate was showing lovely footage of him at the Easter egg roll earlier this year. It's hardly scintillating content and it didn't have a huge amount of viewers. No, that's right. This seems to be just streaming on YouTube. And perhaps the real Trump devotees will be tuning in. But it's hard to imagine a stampede towards it because it appears to be just a collection

3:08of Donald Trump's past speeches. I'm looking at it right now. It's his address to the military academy at West Point. Certainly kind of niche viewing that's unlikely to cut through. But a sign that he's desperate to keep some sort of attention on him and find a way through the TV cameras. But something doesn't carry the same weight as the big networks. We know that US opinion polls have been not quite on the mark in recent years. However, there is a consistency now. A momentum towards democratic candidates, even in red states that is hard to ignore. And there is a very real possibility. In fact, they're all effectively saying now that it is more likely that the Democrats will see as control of Congress that then perhaps partially sealing control. And the whole Trump agenda is about to be lost.

4:10Yeah. Trump is in big trouble. His approval rating is at historic lows. And the polls show Democrats by about eight or nine points over Republicans. And we're talking about states that are normally unimaginable for democratic victories, such as Texas and Kansas and Nebraska. And it's a bit of a stretch, but maybe even Florida, which had really gone Republican a lot in recent years. And you do wonder just how bad can it get for Trump and his Republican party. And we've seen some signs of dissent from Republicans. I think they realize Trump is bad for them and they've been scrubbing him from their website, telling him to stay away from their campaign rallies. There was even a TV ad by a Florida Republican last week, denouncing Trump's immigration policy as having gone too far. And there was just a column in one of the media outlets today saying,

5:12is this the beginning of the end for Trump as power saps away? He had very setbacks last week in the courts and elsewhere. And if the Republicans do take a hammering in these midterms, then I think you'll hear the phrase lame duck a lot. You'll see Democrats launching lots of investigations into him because they'll be running the committees in the House of Representatives. And very quickly attention will turn to the presidential election of 2028. And it will all be about who comes after Trump. And he will not like that at all. He loves to be the center of attention. Yes, for a man who loves relevance, becoming a relevant is arguably his worst nightmare. David Smith, Washington, Bureau Chief of the Guardian. Thank you.