From the fallout over a controversial boat strike to growing fractures inside the House GOP, lots to discuss tonight with Brooks and Capehart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS Now.

Good evening, gentlemen. It's great to see you both.

Good, Jeff. See you.

So Washington has been consumed this past week with a debate over a series of strikes that killed two survivors of an initial attack

on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat back in September. And Jonathan, the administration

says that that strike and others like it are necessary to protect U.S. interests. When you look

at all that exists in the public realm right now. Does that rationale withstand scrutiny?

No, it doesn't. It would help if the president and the defense secretary, this administration,

would show us the evidence. You keep saying that these people are drug runners. So, and you know who

they are. So tell us. You keep saying that they are

shipping these drugs, that's what's in those boats. Well, show us, show us the evidence, but we don't,

we don't have the evidence. And the other thing is those two people who were killed in that second

strike, since then there have been others, and there have been survivors.

If this is such a war on drugs to protect the American people,

why aren't those survivors in U.S. federal custody and not repatriated to their countries?

There are so many questions here that go well beyond what we've been talking

about this week, and that's not to diminish the importance of why we're talking about this.

And, David, to that point, I mean, is the U.S., in your view, carrying out a counter-narcotics

mission in the Caribbean, or is this a show-of-force mission? And does the

administration itself seem clear on the difference? Well, it's more the latter than the former,

but, you know, frankly, to be a little crude, if you remember 2016, Donald Trump and Marco

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