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President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Kevin Warsh, repeatedly dodged questions Tuesday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, refusing to acknowledge the president’s election loss in 2020.

During the hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the top Democrat on the committee, cited remarks from Trump that she said raised concerns.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve on his financial holdings and ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Fed nominee Kevin Warsh faced questions Tuesday during his confirmation hearing about undisclosed holdings of two individual assets worth more than $50 million each, and his wife Jane Lauder, granddaughter of the cosmetics founder Estée Lauder, holds an estimated $1.9 billion fortune.

Appearing on MS NOW, Bloomberg reporter Jeff Mason lightly laughed when discussing a Monday interview with Donald Trump and admitted the president became abusive when cornered on his Iran difficulties.

During a segment on the on-again, off-again Iran war negotiations that has the president scrambling for good news, co-host Willie Geist pressed Mason for what is going on inside the White House.

More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces.

"Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions," Hegseth said in a statement on Tuesday. "Even when those decisions posed no threat to our military readiness, you know what I'm talking about, what happened: COVID-19 and the vaccine. No more. That era of betrayal is over."

President Donald Trump praised himself for "doing a great job" after 13 service members were killed in the Iran war.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Trump noted that many other wars lasted years instead of months.

CNN's Harry Enten highlighted a potential advantage that could help Democrats regain the House majority in this fall's midterm elections.

Voters will decide on a contentious redistricting measure in Virginia that would redraw the state's congressional map to give Democrats an advantage in 10 of its 11 seats, and Enten examined how Tuesday's election results would impact the November contest.

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission Tuesday when pressed by CNBC’s Joe Kernen about his threats to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, suggesting the decision was not ultimately his to make.

“I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bomb the bridges and the electric grid, but I don't think the regime cares about the people of Iran,” Kernen said, with Trump phoning in to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The citizens of tiny Social Circle, Georgia, where Donald Trump received 70 percent of the vote all three times he ran for president, are in full revolt against the president’s administration after the Department of Homeland Security bought a facility projected to hold 10,000 immigrants while they await deportation.

According to MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton, that has led to a standoff with the city manager who is insisting the town of approximately 5,000 does not have the water and sewage infrastructure to accommodate the flood of detainees.

A retiring House Republican contradicted President Donald Trump on a pair of key political issues.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) appeared on "CNN This Morning," where he was asked by host Audie Cornish about his decision to join 34 other GOP lawmakers who are retiring from the House in this midterm election cycle.

Reacting to reports out of the Beltway that Republican lawmakers are crossing their fingers and hoping either Supreme Court Justices Sam Alito or Clarence Thomas will make a surprise retirement announcement just prior to the midterm election, MS NOW Now’s Jonathan Lemire reported that Democrats have their own opinions about what is transpiring.

Last week it was reported that both of the elderly justices will be returning, which dashed the hopes of some far-right lawmakers who want Donald Trump to pack the court with younger right-wing extremists.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, appeared on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” over the weekend to push back against criticism of the U.S. war against Iran and its high number of civilian casualties, but in doing so, inadvertently made a telling admission, writer and analyst William Saletan noted on Monday.

“As you know, some Iranian advocates are urging the United States not to target civilian infrastructure, and you say the United States is okay targeting civilians?” NBC News’ Kristen Welker asked Waltz during his appearance on the network on Sunday.

CNN's Abby Phillip delivered a brutal fact-check to a pair of GOP pundits during Monday's broadcast of "NewsNight."

The panel discussed a recent claim by Energy Secretary Chris Wright that U.S. gas prices could remain above $3 per gallon until 2027 due to the ongoing war in Iran and the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration sent a delegation to negotiate an end to the war last week, led by Vice President JD Vance, but they returned empty-handed.