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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.”

President Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly refused to answer questions under unrelenting grilling from Democrats, prompting Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) to begin yelling at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Walter "Jay" Clayton III, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for his confirmation as director of national intelligence — the official who oversees all 18 of America's spy agencies.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) got under the skin of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday when he brought up reports of FBI Director Kash Patel drinking on the job and gallivanting about with his girlfriend.

Toward the end of his allotted time, the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat paused and then began, “Let me ask about the FBI. How long do you intend to put up with that Kash Patel character?”

Tensions mounted Wednesday between a frustrated Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and an increasingly testy Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as they discussed the Justice Department's handling of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Durbin spurred the heated exchange when he raised the issue of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by both houses and signed by President Donald Trump, to trigger the release of the Epstein files.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) put acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the spot during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about his personal crypto dealings and his transfer of wealth to members of his family.

The ranking committee minority leader switched gears on the Donald Trump appointee, while noting the president has also been cashing in on crypto under suspicious circumstances.

Republicans were reportedly forced to 'shift' strategy at acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing Wednesday, after their most fervent planned advocate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), died days before the hearing began.

Graham, a senior member and former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, died Saturday after a sudden illness, his office announced. He was 71.

MAGA Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) got on a high horse about violent political rhetoric on NewsNation Wednesday — then was forced to backtrack when anchor Markie Martin reminded him of his own words.

The exchange came during a discussion of Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett's Capitol Hill requests for extra security funding for the Supreme Court this week, amid a rise in threats against judges nationwide.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is slated to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is expected to face tough questions from members on a number of topics, chief among them his role in the Justice Department’s botched release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

After firing Pam Bondi in April, President Donald Trump nominated then-Deputy Attorney General Blanche to assume Bondi’s role, a nomination that has received intense scrutiny given Blanche’s history as Trump’s personal lawyer, as well as his handling of the release of Epstein-related files.

In the wake of another ICE killing of an innocent man in Biddeford, Maine, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough pounced on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).

On Wednesday, the ‘Morning Joe’ co-host went on an extended rant where he raked Collins over the coals over her promise to investigate previous ICE killings when she voted to increase funding for the controversial agency.

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), under fire in her home state after a father was gunned down on Monday by ICE agents she helped fund, is about to suffer another blow courtesy of President Donald Trump, a political analyst argued Wednesday.

Appearing on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, John Heilemann said that Trump’s nationally televised speech planned for Thursday night could create a new “nightmare” for the Maine Republican, as well as other GOP candidates who will be on the ballot in November.