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MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off Wednesday's edition of "The Briefing" by taking Trump's Pentagon chief to task for a bizarre anti-press fixation, at a moment when he should have far more important things on his mind.

"I have something to show you," said Psaki. "This something is something that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, really, really does not want you to see. And it's probably not what you're thinking."

Democrats have been triumphing and overperforming in special elections around the country, including in places they have no business being competitive — and it partly speaks to how badly Republicans are letting themselves be outplayed, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said on Wednesday's edition of MS NOW's "The Weeknight."

"The race to fill former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in Georgia is headed to a runoff," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "Shawn Harris, a Democrat and retired U.S. Army officer, and Clayton Fuller, a Trump-backed Republican, will face off on April 7th after edging out the competition in Tuesday's crowded primary. And in New Hampshire, there was a stunning upset last night, Democrat Bobbi Boudman flipped a Republican-held state house seat in a district — get this — that Trump won by 9 points back in 2024."

Iraq war veteran and political commentator Paul Reickhoff tore into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House," over his emergence as one of the most strident voices cheerleading a wider war in Iran — and said that Graham's hunger for more war is threatening to send what's left of President Donald Trump's administration careening off track.

"What's interesting to me, Paul ... is, so Trump beats Lindsey Graham in the 2015 Republican primary and sort of sides with the isolationism, which Trump sees before the Republican his opponents in the primary do," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "And now he's siding with Lindsey Graham on foreign policy. Let me show you the hot war of words between Lindsey Graham and Megyn Kelly."

President Donald Trump was roundly mocked on Wednesday after he made an inadvertent admission during a speech in Kentucky.

Trump spoke at Verst Logistics in northern Kentucky, a company that the president has claimed is investing $10 million into its domestic manufacturing capacity. During his speech, Trump made a claim that raised the eyebrows of several political analysts and observers.

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy seemed to tire of President Donald Trump's doublespeak on the Iran conflict and pressed him to define the operation.

"And we did a little excursion. We had to take this little couple of weeks, a few weeks of excursion, but it's been incredible," Trump said while touring a factory in Ohio on Wednesday. "Our military is unbelievable, the job they're doing. I would say, to put it mildly, way ahead of schedule. We've knocked out their Navy, their military in it, all forms. We've knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership, twice. We knocked out twice their leadership."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum dismissed environmentalists' concerns by telling investment firm BlackRock that people who want to protect public lands were not "financially literate."

During the BlackRock infrastructure summit in Washington on Wednesday, the host complained to Burgum about how long it takes to get permits approved.

President Donald Trump claimed not to know that the U.S. military determined that it was responsible for killing about 150 people in the accidental bombing of an Iranian girls' school.

"Day 11, and as you know, we're doing something that nobody ever thought was possible to do," Trump announced to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday. "Our military is the best, it's the most powerful in the world, and they're hitting them very hard."

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) had an angry confrontation with an NBC film crew after he changed course on his support for the filibuster to attempt to push through a voting bill backed by President Donald Trump.

In a Wednesday op-ed for the New York Post, Cornyn admitted that he had changed his mind on the filibuster as he was hoping for an endorsement from the president in his tight Senate race.

President Donald Trump has passed an ignominious milestone in the first year of his second presidency.

The 79-year-old president returned to the White House in January 2025 after four years away, but CNN's Harry Enten presented data showing he quickly wore out his welcome and never earned it back.

President Donald Trump's current strategy in Iran is leading him into a "trap" of his own making, terrorism expert and legal scholar Robert Pape warned in a segment on CNN Wednesday morning.

This comes amid a growing fear and division among Republicans on the ethical and political advisability of following Trump on his Iran plans.

Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran is causing him to finally understand that his actions have consequences beyond his control, and he is reacting poorly to that realization, a journalist said.

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ Financial Times editor and longtime columnist Ed Luce claimed the massive jump in oil prices after the Gulf of Hormuz was shut down caused the president to lose it–– which was good news for Iran’s leadership.