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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) grilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about his views on Russia's war in Ukraine.

"Number one, who's the aggressor and who's the victim in the conflict?" McConnell asked Hegseth during a Wednesday Senate subcommittee hearing.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Mayor Karen Bass started laughing at Donald Trump's proclamations about the unrest in California's largest city before "Morning Joe" regular Mara Gay could finish her sentence.

Invited on to discuss the success of the curfew she set imposed on the city on Tuesday night, which was largely successful, Gay prompted Bass with, "Mayor, have you received any kind of communication from the federal government about or even the state government about what you can expect from the hundreds of marines who are in Los Angeles right now and what their mission is," before pausing as Bass laughed and saying, "go ahead."

Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly declined to say what President Donald Trump's threshold was for invoking the Insurrection Act in California.

At a press gaggle on Wednesday, a reporter asked Bondi what events would force the president to use his powers to deploy troops under the 1807 law.

Reacting to a half-hearted middle-of-the-night apology from Elon Musk to Donald Trump, a former Republican House member claimed on MSNBC that it probably won't mean he will be accepted back in the White House.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) told the hosts that Musk had already worn out his welcome at the White House and little the billionaire can say now will change that fact.

CNN's Erica Hill needled tech mogul Elon Musk's late-night about-face in his feud against President Donald Trump.

The president and his billionaire benefactor publicly split last week after Musk lambasted the so-called "big beautiful bill" as a "disgusting abomination," and the break-up quickly escalated into a bitter war of words on social media that Musk now regrets.

Conservative actor Jon Voight fulminated against California Gov. Gavin Newsom – whom he called a "lying dog" and a "fool" – just days after meeting with him in his role as president Donald Trump's "Hollywood ambassador."

The 86-year-old actor posted the blistering harangue late Tuesday, after Newsom sharply criticized the president's escalation of the situation in Los Angeles by activating National Guard troops and U.S. Marines without the governor's approval, and Voight defended Trump in a two-minute video posted on X, reported The Daily Beast.

A former homeland security official walked through a number of president Donald Trump's claims about the Los Angeles protests and found that almost none of them were accurate, and some were unlawful.

The president has called out thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of U.S. Marines to the city, where protesters have clashed with local police over the Trump administration's recent immigration crackdown, and former Department of Homeland Security undersecretary Juliette Kayyem fact-checked the president's justification for escalating the conflict.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tore into President Donald Trump's latest claim that the California governor and Los Angeles mayor "paid troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists" to riot — one of the many pretexts he is using to send the National Guard and Marines into Los Angeles to break up protests against his mass deportations.

"What's your response to that, Senator?" CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked him on Tuesday evening.

The mayor of Los Angeles was aghast Tuesday at President Donald Trump’s newest attack, in which he accused California officials of paying "troublemakers, agitators, and insurrectionists."

Trump escalated his feud with Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom during a speech earlier in the day at Fort Bragg. Trump's comments became the topic of discussion on Erin Burnett's show, "OutFront."

President Donald Trump made a series of inaccurate claims in his remarks on Tuesday, conflating World War I and World War II, incorrectly suggesting he spoke with the governor of California on Monday when it was just after midnight Saturday morning, and asserting—contrary to the First Amendment—that protests, even peaceful ones, can be shut down with “heavy force.”

During remarks to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked when he last spoke with California Governor Gavin Newsom. “A day ago,” he said Tuesday afternoon, which was three and a half days after the governor confirmed his phone call. Trump also confirmed the call by sending a screenshot to a Fox News reporter. The screenshot read June 7, 1:23 AM.

A prominent House Democrat urged U.S. military members Tuesday afternoon to question any orders given by President Donald Trump as they pertain to their deployment to quell protests in Los Angeles.

Trump ordered the deployment of both National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in recent days in response to heated protests against his administration’s immigration enforcement actions. The move came despite strong opposition from California’s state and local leaders.