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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped at CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes and insisted President Donald Trump wasn't "making anything up" when it came to the war with Iran.

"The president said yesterday for the first time that he had to strike Iran because he believed Iran was going to strike U.S. targets within seven days," Cordes explained during a Tuesday briefing. "He then bumped that down later to three days. Where is he getting that?"

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared all-out war on conservative media figure Tucker Carlson on Tuesday in just the latest development in their ongoing feud.

Speaking in Washington, D.C., during the National Review’s “Symposium on Antisemitism” event, Cruz condemned what he described as rising antisemitism among young conservatives, antisemitism that he said was fueled in large part by Carlson.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) scolded his Republican colleague, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), after he attacked Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) without giving him a chance to respond.

During a Tuesday Senate Banking Committee hearing on sanctuary cities, Moreno mocked the Democratic witnesses after they declined to approve of a law that obstructed legal immigration.

As Republicans’ midterm election prospects grow increasingly bleak, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered a unique pitch to voters Tuesday while speaking at a Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump — a pitch that labeled voters who don’t support GOP candidates this November as “foolish.”

A new NBC News poll released Monday revealed that Democrats are well-positioned to take back control of the House this November, with some Republicans now fearing they may also lose control of the Senate. Even a prominent Republican – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) – predicted that the upcoming midterms would be “disastrous” for the GOP.

Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.

As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.

Pro-MAGA morning hosts David Brody, Gina Loudon, and Terrence Bates expressed full-throated support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "religious war" in Iran after he quoted scripture to support the U.S. strikes.

"Religious war! It's on!" Brody exclaimed during a Real America's Voice segment following Hegseth's Tuesday briefing. "I'm telling you that's happening. We've always looked at this from a Judeo-Christian standpoint, as relates to spiritual warfare. We know that God is richly blessed America."

Sen. Rand Paul warned of a "disastrous election" if President Donald Trump did not end his war against Iran.

"As far as the reasons for the war, there have been many different reasons floated, but none of them, I think, have been very convincing," Paul told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. "Another statement has been made, well, they're a week away from a nuclear weapon. You can take clips from the '90s all the way through the present of people arguing that they're a week away from nuclear weapons."

CNN's John Berman highlighted a major question about the Iran war that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth steered clear of addressing.

Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided an update Tuesday morning about Operation Epic Fury, but the defense secretary refused to address a definitive timeline for the conflict.

CNN's Sara Sidner struggled to make sense of President Donald Trump's seemingly contradictory statements about how long the Iran war might last.

The 79-year-old president declared the war "pretty much" complete in a phone interview Monday, but hours later told Republican lawmakers "we haven't won enough" to ensure long-term security — but then assured them he considered the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation a "short-term excursion."

An attempt by former Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba to take a dig at 2024 Democratic presidential candidate fell flat when she managed to screw up the late Jesse Jackson’s name.

Habba, who was booted from her appointment by Donald Trump to be a US attorney in New Jersey, appeared on Newsmax and attempted to criticize Harris over her eulogy at the civil rights legend’s funeral, and instead name-dropped New York Yankees and Oakland A’s Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson instead.