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CNN host Abby Phillip noted on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration has entered an "extraordinary" moment as his base begins to turn against him over a new conspiracy theory.

Over the last week, Trump's MAGA base has begun to speculate that the assassination attempt against the president's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024 may have been staged. That happened at a time when the Trump administration is facing significant criticism for its handling of the war in Iran and its collateral impact on the American economy.

A GOP strategist panned the reportedly negotiated bailout for the ailing airline Spirit Airlines by President Donald Trump's administration during a CNN segment.

Shermichael Singleton, a GOP strategist, argued on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that the $500 million bailout that Spirit and the Trump administration have been negotiating behind-the-scenes is a bad use of taxpayer money. The deal would include the U.S. government taking a stake in the company, which caused some of Trump's Republican colleagues to decry the president for spreading socialism.

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said on Wednesday that the paper's leadership warned reporters that there may be more investigations conducted by President Donald Trump's FBI.

Haberman's comments came hours after the NYT reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had reviewed information the agency had about reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she published a report about the level of FBI security given to Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, and Patel's use of FBI jets to travel to see Wilkins.

A former FBI official shredded FBI Director Kash Patel's claim on Wednesday that he was unaware his agency was probing a New York Times reporter who wrote an article critical of Patel and his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins.

The NYT reported on Wednesday, citing a source inside the FBI, that the agency had started looking into reporter Elizabeth Williamson over the article, which raised questions about the amount of security Wilkins received and Patel's use of FBI jets to travel to see her. Wilkins described Williamson as a "stalker" in a post on X after the article was published. The FBI declined to pursue formal charges, the NYT added.

Rep. John Rose (R-TN) laid into Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Todd Starnes' Newsmax show Wednesday evening, suggesting the Republican leader should step aside if he isn't prepared to carry out the full MAGA agenda.

Rose particularly took issue with the fact that President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act, a draconian crackdown on voting rights, hasn't been able to pass despite a Republican Senate majority, and the fact that the GOP is still wrangling over how to bypass Democrats to pre-fund immigration enforcement through the entire remainder of Trump's term.

A Republican strategist's comments were sent into the abyss Wednesday on CNN as producers ended a segment while he was trying to respond to a Democratic strategist's claim.

David Urban, a Republican political operative, joined former Obama speechwriter David Axelrod on CNN's "AC360" on Wednesday, where the group discussed the upcoming November midterm elections. Host Anderson Cooper shared recent polling data showing that President Donald Trump's job approval has continued to sink since the war in Iran began in late February, and asked the two analysts for their reactions.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's recent speech at the University of Texas at Austin about the ties between progressivism and vicious fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler alarmed an analyst on a new podcast episode on Wednesday.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, co-hosts of "The Court of History," argued in a new episode that Thomas's claim that all the ills of modern society can be traced back to the original Progressive era was not an accurate reading of American history. Wilentz was alarmed by the speech because it seemed to further claims that have been circulating on conspiratorial parts of the internet for several years.

President Donald Trump received a tongue-lashing from the late Reverend Billy Graham's granddaughter on CNN on Wednesday over an AI-generated image the president posted of himself.

Last week, Trump posted, and then deleted, an image of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The image showed Trump dressed in a white robe with a red shawl, a common Christian symbol, and also included images of the Statue of Liberty and soldiers. Trump claimed the image made him look like a doctor.

CNN's Senior White House Correspondent, Kristen Holmes, reported on Wednesday that there is an unspoken reason Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed a Navy leader.

Holmes reported that Hegseth may have removed Navy Secretary John Phelan because of his proximity to President Donald Trump, rather than for any job-related reason, because he was a threat to Hegseth's power. Initial reports of Phelan's departure indicated Hegseth may have fired him because he was "too slow on ship reform," Holmes said.

A former federal prosecutor was astounded on Wednesday after a court cleared a "runway" to sue President Donald Trump.

Glenn Kirschner, host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, said during a new episode of "The Legal Breakdown," a podcast that Kirschner co-hosts with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, that a recent ruling from District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., could "clear the runway" for Trump to testify about his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection. The civil lawsuit was filed by Democrats and law enforcement officials who contended that Trump incited the mob to storm the Capitol.

President Donald Trump's Republican Party stunned a journalist on CNN on Wednesday after a new report indicated that Republicans are seriously considering a "politically cancerous" pardon.

Politico reported that lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee are split over whether to approve a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently serving a more than 20-year sentence for her role in his crimes.

A national security expert unloaded on a MAGA pundit during a segment on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on Wednesday.

Josh Rogin, a foreign policy columnist for The Washington Post, unloaded on Tom Sauer, a military veteran who defended Trump's war in Iran and advocated for sending U.S. troops to the country to recover any enriched uranium that the Iranians buried underground. The segment happened at a time when the Trump administration is facing mounting criticism for its handling of the war.

President Donald Trump is in political retreat after months of unpopular decisions and an electorate increasingly fed up with him, The Atlantic staff writer Ashley Parker told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday — and it's sapping the political capital he has to do anything.

This comes as the president rages against the result of the Virginia redistricting referendum on Tuesday, calling the result "rigged" and "deceptive" — as voters backed redrawing congressional maps in a move widely seen as a rebuke to his own calls for Republicans to redo their gerrymanders.