A panel discussion on MS NOW's "The Weekend: Primetime" went off the rails on Sunday night after a MAGA Republican defended President Donald Trump's latest "war."

Early Saturday morning, Trump posted a nearly eight-minute video on Truth Social where he announced the U.S. and Israel would conduct coordinated strikes against several sites in Iran, an operation known as "Epic Fury" that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the brutal dictator who had ruled the country since 1989. In the video, Trump referred to the operation as a "war" even though Congress has not passed an official declaration of war.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) argued on Sunday that Trump's authority to authorize the strikes rests on his Article II powers, which define the presidency and outline executive authority.

She also appeared to reference a 2024 report that Iran had attempted to assassinate Trump in her justification, an assertion that the other panelists pounced on.

"So, Congresswoman, are you saying that it went into the decision to invade Iran, to attack Iran, to decapitate their leadership, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump?" MS NOW host Elise Jordan asked, adding that it made it seem like a "personal" matter for the president.

Luna also argued that the strikes on Iran did not amount to a war, and therefore, the president did not need Congressional approval to authorize the operation.

"I just talked to the Secretary of State [Marco Rubio]," she said. "Strategic strikes are not [a] war."

The panel got heated when host Ayman Mohyeldin pressed Luna to provide an example of when Iranian terrorists killed American citizens on American soil.

The crosstalk led Mohyeldin to tell Luna that she didn't "have a good grasp" of the facts in Iran.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board issued a surprising warning to President Donald Trump about the "biggest mistake" he could make after striking Iran.

Early on Saturday morning, U.S. and Israeli forces conducted coordinated strikes against multiple sites in Iran, which killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the dictator who had ruled the country since 1989, multiple government officials, and damaged the country's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities. Trump has said the strikes will continue until the U.S. achieves its objectives, of which few details have been released.

The WSJ editors celebrated the move in a new editorial on Sunday, but also warned Trump not to end the campaign too soon.

"The first two days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran have been a striking success, but the response of the Iranian regime has also revealed the reason it was necessary," the editorial reads. "The biggest mistake President Trump could make now would be to end the war too soon, before Iran’s military and its domestic terror forces have been more thoroughly destroyed."

The editors added that Iran's continued strikes against its neighbors in the region speak to the necessity of the strikes.

"The attacks underscore that Iran is the main threat to the entire region," it added. "What it has been doing all along by proxy, it now does directly. This is an opportunity to rally even the region’s equivocating states into a coalition for changing the Tehran regime."

"All of this reveals the risks of ending the bombing campaign before Mr. Trump’s stated war aims are achieved," it continued.

Read the entire editorial by clicking here.

President Donald Trump's "signature crisis" has become a defining moment for the U.S., according to one columnist.

David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that the way the Trump administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files is one of the "signatures of our time" because it connects to many other issues the U.S. faces, from political corruption to wealth inequality and everything in between.

"Some leaders have a signature accomplishment," Rothkopf said. "Donald Trump has many, many scandals. But this is his signature scandal."

Throughout his second term, Trump has been dogged by public demands to release the Epstein files, which he promised to do while running for office in 2024. He's combatted those demands by filling his administration with loyalists, including installing his former criminal defense attorney at the Department of Justice, who have worked tirelessly to keep the Epstein files hidden from the public.

To date, the administration has released a little more than three million pages of documents, accounting for roughly 2% of the files it possesses, according to reports. Meanwhile, Trump administration officials have removed documents from the tranche where Trump was accused of sexually abusing a minor, and ones that contain information about his relationship with Epstein, according to reports.

All the while, the Trump administration has released documents containing personally identifiable information of Epstein's victims, according to reports.

Rothkopf argued that the way the administration has handled the files is a window into "how huge swaths of our society work."

"It's the signature crisis of our time," he said. "It is the story that connects to all stories because of the people involved, but also because of what it reveals about how broken our society is, how corrupt our society is."