11/14-ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID IF THERE'S A GUN IN ACT ONE, IT WILL GO OFF IN ACT THREE. WHAT WOULD HE SAY ABOUT TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST?

RYAN MAURO is a national security prodigy. He's been chasing fire engines around the world since he was old enough to be allowed out and he landed his first real job with a national security think-tank at the age of 16. The entire Middle East has been one half-step short of all-out regional war for years and the Israeli hit on the military leader of Hamas has ramped that catastrophe even closer. Mauro visits Sara and Barry this evening to apply the best "windshield wipers" in America to clarify that picture and America's and Israel's likely role in it.