With the war in Iran stretching on for almost a month,

and President Trump struggling to contain the economic fallout,

now is the good time for the analysis of Brooks and K-Part.

That's the Atlantic's David Brooks and Jonathan K-Part of MS. Now,

Good evening, gentlemen.

Hi, William.

Jonathan, as you talked about here last week,

the president has given all sorts of conflicting

ideas as to why we got into this war, how the war is currently going, and what might happen

to get out of this war.

The thing that's not unclear at all is the toll, the lives lost, the infrastructure damage,

the economic toll, With the Pentagon now saying

that they might need an extra $200 billion to continue fighting this, what does this say about

this ongoing conflict? Where to begin, William? I'm still trying to understand what the president's true objectives are. Is it regime

change? And if so, who comes next? What comes next? He wants them to surrender, but in the same

breath says, there's no one to talk to. We've killed everybody. Just before we came on air, there's a long truth social post from the president saying, basically, you know, we're almost there, and here are all the things we've been able to do, and then said to the allies, if you guys want to open the straight, that's on you.

And he's on, you say, we don't use the straight we don't

need it okay so then what does that mean for oil production what does that mean for americans here

at home who have seen their seen gas prices rise by tomorrow it could be that gas has increased a full dollar since the start of the war.

A huge jump.

A huge jump since the war started on February 28th.

And so, I mean, I would just love it if the president would do an Oval Office address

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