For more on the political debate over the war in Iran, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K-Part.

That's the Atlantics, David Brooks and Jonathan Kpart of MS Now.

Great to see you both.

I am not.

So as we sit here and speak now, as we report at the top of the show, there's still a U.S. crew member from that downed fighter jet missing, a search and rescue operation underway.

We know Iranians were also able to shoot down another aircraft over the Gulf shot at Black Hop

helicopter that returned to base safely.

Iranian leaders are looking for that missing crew member on the ground.

David, all of this is just two days after the president said an address to the nation that

the U.S. had crippled the Iranian military and the war was nearly over.

What's your reaction to all of this?

Yeah, there's one of the disadvantages of having a huckster for president that he does

just, he can't tell the American people that when you're going to war, it's horrible.

And that Iran is a serious country that's been preparing for this for nearly half a century.

And they're going to fight back, and they're going to make counter moves like this or like the straits of foremost.

To me, what happened? You know, I've been somewhat moderately hoping there'd be some positive outcome,

and I think there has been some.

We've been had to go to the Middle East for almost every decade

for the last 50 years because of radical Islam, which the Iranian regime typifies.

But this is clearly the week when the costs of the war are so exponentially larger than the

benefits of what we're getting in these marginal weeks. The cost to Russia is now getting all this revenue.

Iran is getting all this revenue. The European economy and the world economies are in crisis.

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