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President Donald Trump's is reportedly considering escalating the war in Iran by sending ground troops to take a key island in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that alarmed one political analyst on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing "U.S. officials," that Trump hosted a meeting in the Situation Room late Tuesday night to discuss options for taking Kharg Island "and other territory along the Strait of Hormuz." The report added that "airstrikes against more targets in Iran, including energy sites, also [remain] a possibility."

President Donald Trump is not only violating civil liberties by setting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the public without body cameras, he is also putting those agents themselves in danger, former ICE chief of staff Jason P. Houser told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday.

This comes after ICE briefly stood down from traffic stops after public outrage exploded following killings by agents in Maine and Texas — then went back to business as usual after Trump ranted on Truth Social, "We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands."

Vice President JD Vance admitted to podcast host Joe Rogan that the Trump administration was "guilty" of mishandling the Jeffrey Epstein files after the podcaster said the White House's claims of transparency were little more than a "performative display."

The admission came Wednesday on the Joe Rogan Experience, during a lengthy back-and-forth in which Rogan pressed Vance on the administration's Epstein record.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced sharp questions about ethical lapses over a deal that shielded his former client, President Donald Trump, from IRS scrutiny.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Blanche, the former Trump attorney who now leads the Justice Department, was asked about his role in crafting government deals that benefited the president.

Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, refused multiple times to answer who won the 2020 election during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, a performance described by countless onlookers as an “embarrassing” attempt to protect President Donald Trump’s “ego.”

“Who won the 2020 election?" asked Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) bluntly when questioning Clayton.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered mandatory testosterone screening for all active-duty service members 30 and older, framing the program in a video posted Wednesday as essential to keeping troops on the "leading edge of lethality."

The new screening will be added to the annual health assessment soldiers already complete each year, Hegseth announced on his official X account.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was put on the spot Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing regarding the Justice Department’s repeated attempts to seize states’ voter rolls, and was reminded of his agency’s repeated failures to enact President Donald Trump’s “election interference” agenda.

The Trump administration has sought to gain access to states’ voter registration lists, with the Justice Department suing countless states in order to compel them to hand over their rolls. The administration has gone as far as to impose new rules that would punish defiant states by cutting federal funding earmarked for disaster preparedness, rules that one former Trump official called “extortion.”