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A public health expert slammed claims made by a conservative podcaster on CNN that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost the trust of the American people.

Dr. Chris T. Pernell, director of the NAACP's Center for Health Equity, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" to discuss Florida's decision to end vaccine mandates for young children. Pernell called the decision "reckless" and argued that it would cause increased exposure to illnesses among children from low-income households.

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson warned Wednesday evening on CNN that the Republican Party is destroying their brand with their mismanagement and apparent cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files review — an issue President Donald Trump has tried to dismiss in recent days by calling it "irrelevant" and a "hoax."

"I want to play some of what the president and and others around him, many of whom are in the administration, have said about this before for quite some time," said Anderson Cooper, playing an extensive list of clips of various Trump administration officials, like Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, saying the public deserves the truth on Epstein and it would be coming soon. "Gretchen, it's crazy. They ran on this. They've been talking about this. They're, they're the ones running the FBI now, and the Justice Department. It's remarkable to see what they said and what they're saying now."

Two Democratic analysts slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for sacrificing the U.S.'s relationship with India for a personal grievance.

Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security advisor during the Obama administration, joined Tommy Vietor on a new episode of the podcast "Pod Save America" on YouTube to discuss Trump's approach to foreign policy. Rhodes noted that more than 20 countries gathered in China recently with the express purpose of "humiliating" Trump.

Civil rights attorney Nancy Erika Smith tore into President Donald Trump and his Justice Department on Wednesday evening, blasting them for their mistreatment of the survivors who came forward in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

As Trump has found himself in a mounting political crisis over his lack of transparency about the case files he promised to release, he has dismissed the case and the survivors' testimony as "irrelevant."

Following President Donald Trump's declaration that "we're going on" with a deployment of federal agents to Chicago, the nation's third-largest city and a frequent target of fearmongering by the president, Rep. Delia Ramirez led Democratic lawmakers in condemning the White House's threat to militarize federal troops in cities across the country.

Trump's persistent, baseless claims that large cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles are facing violent crime waves are part of an attempt, suggested Ramirez (D-Ill.), to distract from the fact that his administration and Republicans in Congress are slashing funding that millions of people rely on.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) flipped out during an interview with Eric Bolling of Real America's Voice on Wednesday over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On Tuesday, an anonymous administration official said the White House deemed a petition circulating in the House of Representatives to force the release of the Epstein files a "hostile act" toward the president. Greene speculated the statement likely came from one of President Donald Trump's closest advisors, although she said she doesn't know who released the statement.