The fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears to be holding after threats from President Trump to wipe out Iran earlier this week.

Meantime, two prominent Democrats said today they're considering running for president in 2008.

To discuss that and more, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

That's the Atlantic's David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS now.

It's a good evening to you both.

Good to see you as always.

So David, the president this week threatened to wipe out an entire civilization and then he took a ceasefire deal.

88 minutes before his own deadline.

Is this maximum pressure or maximum chaos?

Maximum malevolence.

We shouldn't let that comment about the wiping out of civilization go by without saying what an antithesis it is of American history.

That we started, the first war America ever fought was to keep sea lanes open.

We've always prided ourselves, whatever stupid stuff we do on not being a rapacious

European-style imperial dominating power. After World War II, we didn't try to take over Germany and

Japan. We gave them money so they could recover. And even George W. Bush, whatever you think of the war,

the intentions were okay. But to threaten to wipe out a civilization is pure malevolence.

It's an assertion of true evil.

And it didn't work.

And so if you want to know how the war is going, look at who's moving.

The U.S. used to have regime change.

Now today, Trump said, just if we can stop the nuclear

program, and the nuclear material have been unaffected by this war, by the way. So we're pulling

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