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"Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie shared a heart-wrenching plea to social media on Wednesday, addressed to whoever abducted her mother, Nancy, over the weekend.

Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home on Saturday. She was reported missing after she didn't show up for church on Sunday morning. Police and investigators have not released any information about potential suspects or persons of interest in the case.

President Donald Trump's administration is about to face a "tsunami" from the federal court system, one former judge said on Wednesday.

Since Trump's second term began last January, officials and lawyers representing the administration have consistently ignored court orders that they found to be inconvenient and attacked the federal judiciary whenever judges ruled against them. Trump's days of bullying judges appear to be numbered, according to Michael Luttig, a conservative former federal judge.

The eye-popping comments President Donald Trump made during an interview on Wednesday show that somebody inside the White House has gotten to him, according to a former Fox News anchor.

Trump gave an interview to NBC News on Wednesday, in which he acknowledged that his administration could have used a "softer touch" in its immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. His comments represent an abrupt about-face for a president who has consistently defended his deportation regime and claimed they were only going after the "worst of the worst" criminals.

A former FBI profiler floated a new theory about who could have taken Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing earlier this week.

Candace DeLong, host of the "Killer Psyche" podcast, discussed Guthrie's disappearance on "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on Wednesday. She said that even though investigators in Pima County, Arizona, have released few details about any suspects, there seems to be enough evidence to suggest that Guthrie was abducted by an experienced criminal.

President Donald Trump's new effort to seize control of election infrastructure from states is more than a pursuit of his 2020 conspiracy theories, election lawyer and Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias warned MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday — it's a "desperate" reaction to his fear of losing the midterms, and his frustration that his pressure campaign to get Republican states to redraw congressional maps to give him extra seats backfired on him.

"Marc Elias, let me bring you in on this," said Wallace. "This is a playbook you and I have been talking about and covering really for years now, since before Donald Trump was elected a second time. But Chairman Rob Pitts again at this press conference, suggesting that he and other major Georgia figures would be arrested."

The past several weeks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns and the rising protests to stop them are proof of just how badly Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller misfired in assuming America was ready for an all-out purge of immigrants at any cost, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told MS NOW on Wednesday.

"The Wall Street Journal has a great TikTok of how those folks, the victims of ICE killings, get victimized," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "That Stephen Miller, it is known someone in the White House is talking about it because they told the Wall Street Journal that before any of those statements were reviewed or fact-checked, Stephen Miller goes out there and tells the world they were 'domestic terrorists.'"

President Donald Trump's latest "Hail Mary" legal scheme is almost surely doomed to fail, according to one expert.

On Wednesday, Trump's lawyers filed a motion in New York federal court to remove Trump's 34 felony convictions to federal court. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein expressed skepticism about the move because Trump's lawyers waited so long after his conviction, according to reports. He also noted the timing seemed conspicuous, given that the Supreme Court issued a ruling granting the president broad immunity before they filed the appeal.

Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump as "perceptive" because he complained that CNN's Kaitlan Collins did not smile more.

"I mean, like, there was a moment in the Oval Office. I wasn't even in there, but, you know, I was in the West Wing," Vance recalled to Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "[Trump] was talking to Kaitlin Collins, who's the CNN anchor... But the president, she's asking a question, the president says, 'Why don't you ever smile?'"

First lady Melania Trump faced questions after she seemed to promote her movie at an official White House event.

While speaking with freed Israeli hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel on Wednesday, Trump put in a plug for her movie.

MAGA influencers celebrated the idea that undocumented migrants could burn their hands trying to get into the country after the Trump administration painted a portion of the border wall black.

On Wednesday, NewsNation's Ali Bradley shared a video of the new black border wall in Nogales.

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang was asked to leave a bar in Minnesota after being accused of harassing the staff. Lang, however, claimed that it was due to his support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump.

Lang shared a video of his visit to BLVD Tavern in St. Paul this week.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on President Donald Trump to "nationalize" elections by deploying the U.S. Army to voting locations.

During an angry Wednesday rant about Trump's decision to pull Homeland Security agents out of Minneapolis, Bannon argued that the administration should provide "zero" cooperation with cities in blue states.