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Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin seemed to contradict President Donald Trump's claim that Iran was "not shooting" at U.S. forces.

After two U.S. aircraft went down near Iran on Friday, Griffin indicated that search teams were still trying to rescue one crew member.

With Pam Bondi out as Attorney General, her eventual replacement is expected to meet several requirements, one of which will likely be "impossible for anyone” to meet, former U.S. attorney Elie Honig said on Friday.

Bondi was ousted as the nation’s top law enforcement official this week by President Trump, who reportedly was dissatisfied with her inability to secure criminal convictions for his perceived political adversaries. Trump appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting attorney general in the immediate aftermath of Bondi’s firing.

MAGA host Gina Loudon concluded that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was in a worse spot than ever after a court upheld her conviction on election tampering charges. However, she was also ordered to be resentenced.

"Yeah, well, I thought it was really good news, and I was really excited about it until I texted my Tina Peters, reliable people inside her camp," Loudon said during a Real America's Voice segment on Friday. "And they tell me this is, in fact, not a good thing at all and that this will mean that she's back in a court that will not rule in her favor, that if anything, this was a way to insulate her case from a pardon from Donald Trump."

Attorney General Pam Bondi was axed this week by President Donald Trump, and her eventual replacement, as predicted by a former U.S. attorney on Friday, is likely to face an “uphill battle” and a “heated” confirmation process.

“Whoever is appointed is going to have an uphill battle in confirmation because we're mighty close to the midterms, and you'll find that the senators who have to explain their vote get a little more careful on how they exercise that vote the closer they get to the ballot box,” said Michael Moore, a former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, during an appearance on CNN.

Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon warned future interim Attorney General Todd Blanche that he must follow through with his duty to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

During a Friday segment about Attorney General Pam Bondi's firing, Loudon said that the RAV audience had predicted her ouster.

Appearing on MS NOW on Friday morning, former Naval College professor Tom Nichols was asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest firing of top Pentagon officials and he pointed out a distinct pattern that deserves additional scrutiny.

On Thursday, the volatile Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy A George, which the New York Times described as “a move that reflects growing hostility between Mr. Hegseth and the Army’s leadership, military officials said.”

CNN host Abby Phillip threw President Donald Trump's words back in his face in a searing takedown on "NewsNight."

During an Easter event at the White House on Wednesday, Trump claimed the federal government cannot afford to continue paying for programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Instead, he suggested that states raise their taxes to pay for it, and that the U.S. government should focus solely on defense spending.

A new intelligence report on Iran's military capabilities alarmed an expert during a CNN interview.

CNN reported, citing sources inside the Trump administration, that the president's intelligence community has determined that Iran has roughly half of its missile launchers intact and that thousands of one-way attack drones are still in the country's arsenal. That's despite President Donald Trump claiming that the country had been completely decimated during his national address on Wednesday.

With Attorney General Pam Bondi getting the pink slip on Thursday, MS NOW's Ali Velshi opened the night's edition of "The Briefing" with a sendoff to one of Trump's longtime foot soldiers — and pinned down one of the key moments she humiliated the administration.

"There were a lot of reasons to fire Pam Bondi," said Velshi. "There were plenty of moments from her career, a tenure as attorney general that you could choose from. But there was one moment that I couldn't stop thinking about today. Happened back in February, when Bondi was asked in Congress why she had not prosecuted any of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators, and she said this."

A journalist flagged the "cancer on the body politic" that the Republican Party refuses to deal with in a new podcast interview on Thursday.

John Avlon, who has written extensively about political extremism, argued during a new episode of the podcast, "The Court of History," that the Republicans seem to be refusing to acknowledge the growing antisemitism within their party. He described it as a "cancer on the body politic" that will need to be addressed one way or another.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche startled some political analysts and observers on Thursday when he flubbed a softball question about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Blanche was asked whether the public would learn the identities of the men who abused young women that are mentioned in the Epstein files during a press conference. Blanche's answer left some observers unsettled.