President Trump's shifting deadlines on Iran and his renewed threats today are raising fresh questions about his messaging on the war.

To discuss that and more, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo. That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. It's always great to see you.

So, Amy, let's start with you. What's said out to you from President Trump's press conference today? Yeah, if you were looking for that press conference to help answer the question, where are we going in the Iran war? You would not have gotten an answer. I know in Liz's piece, she pulled out the quote, which I think really said it all, asking, are we ramping up or are we backing off?

And the president said, I don't know.

We don't really know where we're going on this.

I do think it is also telling that here we are, what is this now, a month, more than a month.

And I think what voters really want to know,

what Americans really want to understand is, when are we going to decide that we have made

either a deal or an off-ramp or have completed the mission? The president said in that

press conference today, Iran will not become

a nuclear power, but did not answer the question about how we will ensure that will be the

case. Does that involve having troops on the ground to take the nuclear material, or will it

be through a process of diplomacy?

And, Tam, did he say anything that clarified a broader strategy in Iran such that a strategy

exists?

No.

He did say that he has a strategy, he has a plan, but he is not going to tell people what

the plan is, because if he did,

then, uh, but that can be a tell more than anything else. You know, this was the second time in two

weeks that President Trump used the trappings of the presidency, a solo press conference in the

briefing room last week, an address to the nation. These areppings of the presidency, a solo press conference in the briefing room, last week,

an address to the nation. These are sort of the big tools of the bully pulpit of the presidency.

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