The week's political headlines began with attacks on elected state officials here at home and ended with the president considering U.S. military involvement in Iran.

To go deeper on both these issues and more, we turn tonight to the analysis of Kephart and Pannuru.

That's Washington Post Associate editor Jonathan Kepart and Ramesh Poonuru, editor for the National Review.

David Brooks is away this evening.

Good to see you, gentlemen.

So President Trump, after reviewing strike options in Iran, says he's pulling back for now.

He's going to decide within two weeks as to whether he will push the U.S. into direct involvement.

Jonathan, what do you make of this sprangmanship?

Well, one, this idea that I'm going to wait. Within two weeks, I'll make a decision.

This phrase of his, to me, this is the Trump version of setting up a blue ribbon commission.

You set up a blue ribbon commission, you send the issue over there, and then you

never hear about it again. There's so many things that President Trump has said we will find out

in two weeks that we still haven't heard what he's going to do. And so to me, when I heard him say

that, I thought for sure that he either doesn't know what he's doing or what he wants to do

and is hoping that within two weeks this will all get resolved.

But the big question for me is, well, let's say he does decide to get involved.

He does decide to use those bunker buster bombs.

Then what's next? I keep thinking about, I don't know

how many top gun Maverick fans there are. Great, so then you know exactly what I'm about to say.

All of this reminds me of the big plot of that movie, which is American Air Force jets have to go in

and destroy a nuclear facility in Iran.

Great for Hollywood, but I don't know if that is the wisest course of action for the United

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