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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped at a journalist Wednesday during a Pentagon press briefing after being asked about potential violations to the two-week tentative ceasefire agreement reached between the United States and Iran.

Responding to a question about Iran continuing to launch strikes Wednesday after having agreed to the tentative two-week ceasefire agreement, Hegseth said that he still believed the ceasefire would “hold.” A journalist then shouted out a question regarding the alleged Iranian strikes.

According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.

According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.

Donald Trump’s last-minute ceasefire deal with the leadership of Iran was greeted with a great deal of skepticism on MS NOW on Wednesday morning with co-host Jonathan Lemire astounded by concessions the normally combative president agreed to.

On “Morning Joe,” the ten-point agreement brokered by Pakistan was broken down point by point by a panel of diplomatic experts, but it was Lemire who pointed out near the end that Iran came out ahead in the deal with regard to the Strait of Hormuz blockade with Iran essentially maintaining control.

President Donald Trump's Iran strategy has been such a disaster, said MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Tuesday's edition of "The Briefing," that it even has far-right pundits saying the exact thing about the military that, just a few months ago, Democratic lawmakers enraged the Trump administration by saying.

"After all that bluster, after all that maximalist language and reprehensible threats of genocide, after all that, where does this leave us?" said Psaki. "I mean, gas prices are at their highest levels in years, with the national average now sitting at $4.14 a gallon, according to AAA. Trump has destroyed America's already-fractured relationship with our closest allies, threatening the future of the NATO alliance. America has lost any moral authority on the question of war crimes and whether we can expect other countries to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, as Trump ignores them. He's risked the prestige of America's military, treating them like a bunch of toy soldiers."

President Donald Trump's threats to commit war crimes and genocide against the people of Iran, only to back down at the last second and agree to a deal that gives Iran more leverage than they had when the war started in the first place, has been a disaster, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.

In fact, he said, it merits serious consideration of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

President Donald Trump just handed the Iranian regime a massive "strategic victory" after retreating from his previous threats, according to one expert.

Trump announced a two-week ceasefire to the more than five-week-old war in Iran on Truth Social on Tuesday. The announcement came about one hour before Trump's self-imposed deadline for a deal to be reached, and just a few hours after he threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization in a separate Truth Social post.

A historian flagged a hidden message buried in President Donald Trump's "extremely grave" threat to Iran.

On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," a thinly veiled reference to the U.S. destroying Iran in response to the country shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's threat sent shockwaves throughout the world, with several lawmakers calling on the president to be removed via the 25th Amendment.

One of President Donald Trump's former national security advisors made a staggering prediction about the president's latest threat to destroy Iran's "civilization" if a deal to end the war is not reached.

On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran does not agree to a deal to end the war. The threat follows Trump's previous statement that he plans to attack civilian infrastructure like bridges and water systems.

President Donald Trump's war with Iran is too much for self-described white supremacist Nick Fuentes to handle.

During a new episode of his podcast "America First" on Tuesday, Fuentes reflected on an Easter threat Trump sent to Iran via his Truth Social platform.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested on Tuesday that if he were ousted from his role in the Department of Justice (DOJ) – much like his predecessor, Pam Bondi, was last week – his only response would be to communicate his love for his boss, President Donald Trump.

Blanche, who was named acting attorney general in the wake of Bondi’s firing, was asked during a press conference whether he was interested in serving as the “full-time” attorney general.