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President Donald Trump predicted that his war in Iran would be "a little winding road for a little while" but said it had to be done because the country had an "evil curse."

During an interview with controversial YouTube boxer Jake Paul this week, Trump attempted to explain his thinking on the Iran war.

Longtime campaign strategist Mark McKinnon, who advised former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), could not contain his laughter after watching Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) being interviewed on CNN late Thursday.

Appearing on MS NOW with host Chris Jansing, McKinnon watched Jordan tell CNN's Kasie Hunt, “President Trump is committed to achieving that [Iran regime change] goal, and if that means prices go up for a time, I think Americans understand, we can live with that .But, in the end, we want all that to happen, and we want it all to happen in as quick a time as it possibly can.”

President Donald Trump suggested some Muslims shouldn't be in the U.S. because of their "genetics."

During a Friday conversation with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, Trump reflected on Thursday's attacks at Old Dominion University in Virginia and a Synagogue in Michigan.

President Donald Trump insisted that the war with Iran would only be over when he felt it in his bones.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked Trump about the war during an interview on Friday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s combative press conference at the Pentagon on Friday morning was on the mind of MS NOW contributor Sam Stein hours later when he made an appearance to discuss Donald Trump’s next overseas target.

Hegseth spent a great portion of his thirty-minute-plus appearance attacking reporters and dictating what headlines he thinks they should be reporting, while accusing them of a lack of patriotism.

Pro-MAGA morning show host Gina Loudon suggested President Donald Trump was using the Iran war to distract from the Epstein files.

During a Friday conversation on Real America's Voice, co-host Terrance Bates followed up Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's briefing by arguing the U.S. was in a "holy war."

Two hosts on MS NOW called out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth immediately after he fled the stage following a Pentagon press conference that “Morning Joe” host Jonathan Lemire called “hysterical."

With the manic Hegseth repeatedly bashing the press, singling out CNN in particular, and dictating headlines he feels that should use to describe the unpopular war in Iran, Lemire and co-host Willie Geist both suggested that Donald Trump’s Pentagon head is feeling the pressure of a war gone wrong.

CNN's John Berman reacted to Friday morning's press briefing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine on the war in Iran.

The defense secretary complained about media coverage of the war and offered suggestions for framing stories that he based on his previous career as a Fox News host, and he specifically targeted CNN for reporting that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran's capacity to shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped at a reporter Friday for asking whether Iran has placed mines in a crucial sea shipping route, attacking the journalist over what he said was their "reckless" and “wild” reporting.

“Has Iran placed any mines since the war started?” a reporter can be heard asking Hegseth during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “Is Iran placing new mines?”

Donald Trump has repeatedly called his Iran war an “excursion,” which drew rolled-eyes on MS NOW on Friday morning, with one host claiming the president doesn't seem to know the true meaning of the word.

The “Morning Joe” segment began with a supercut of the president making statements like, “This is an excursion. We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They'll also come down,” and later claiming, “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.”

A conservative journalist bashed Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) for assuming that Americans were willing to make sacrifices for President Donald Trump's war on Iran.

The Iowa Republican expressed her support for Operation Epic Fury and suggested that other Americans understood the necessity of sending U.S. troops into harm's way to protect national security, but panelists on "CNN This Morning" were highly skeptical.

GOP strategist Scott Jennings's attempt to defend President Donald Trump's shifting story on the war in Iran blew up in his face on Thursday during a panel on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip.

The Trump administration has justified coordinating recent bombing strikes against Iran by arguing that the country was close to achieving a nuclear weapon and that Iran presented an "imminent threat" to the U.S. While the administration has been saying everything is going great, recent reports indicate that the Iranians have figured out effective ways to fight back.

Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor delivered a blistering assessment Thursday on MS NOW on how unprepared President Donald Trump was for the risk that Iran would shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

"One of the things I really have been trying to do is not to let my biases and priors override how I am interpreting the news, which is I obviously don't think particularly highly of the individuals that run the federal government or White House," said anchor Chris Hayes. "But at the same time, I want to think, well, it can't be as shambolic as it looks, right? I'm missing something. Obviously, the Department of Defense has an incredible architecture around planning. As someone who worked in the first Trump administration, like, how are you interpreting these signals?"