President Trump's trade war is in the spotlight this week, with the back and forth causing tension for global markets.

On that and more of the week's news, we turn now to the analysis of Kephart and Pannuru.

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

David Brooks is away this evening. It's good to see you, gentlemen.

Thank you. for the National Review. David Brooks is away this evening. It's good to see you, gentlemen.

Thank you.

So from the indiscriminate firings of federal workers

to the now on again, off again tariff plan,

confusion has been a real feature of this second Trump term.

Jonathan, let's talk about the tariffs first,

because that has been the story of the week.

What stands out to you about the degree

to which the tariff reversals and delays

have really injected chaos into the economy and the financial markets?

Well, that's what I was going to point out. This on again, off again, yes, no, pause,

nowhere ago, no, we're not. I don't cover business, but I've been following business for a long time, and I've long heard

that business loves certainty. And what the president has done since his inauguration,

and definitely this week, is inject an amount of uncertainty into the economy, into business,

that we've seen wild gyrations of the stock market.

And, you know, one of the reasons I think the president backed away a couple of times from these

tariffs is the market was tanking. And even though he said in the Oval Office, I'm not paying

attention to the markets, we've been covering him long enough to know that he absolutely

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