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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remained stone-faced Wednesday after President Donald Trump called him a "difficult character" to his face – a jab Trump seemed to find funny, letting out an awkward laugh after delivering it.

Meeting in Turkey Wednesday for the NATO summit, Trump and Zelenskyy spoke briefly before taking questions from the media. But before opening the floor for journalists, Trump issued the Ukrainian president a sharp jab.

As Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) continues to recover in the hospital from an undisclosed health issue, his wife has made at least one trip that surprised political analysts.

Elaine Chao, Trump's former Transportation Secretary, who has been married to McConnell for more than 33 years, reportedly traveled on June 12 to an event over 7,500 miles from her husband at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Chao, who received an honorary degree from the university in 2013, was "invited back for its 130th anniversary alongside Chinese Communist Party members and other dignitaries," according to The Daily Beast. Two days later, her husband was found unconscious in their home.

President Donald Trump has a potential new scheme to implement his desired voter suppression and intimidation tactics against his political critics — but it's the same old playbook federal courts already threw out when he implemented his tariffs, Hofstra University law professor James Sample told MS NOW's Katy Tur, and it's even more tenuous now than it was then.

"There was an interview on CNN with Peter Tickton, who Donald Trump calls his childhood friend," said Tur. And Tickton, in that interview, said "he wants him to push an executive order to effectively seize federal control of the upcoming midterms by declaring a national emergency based on alleged foreign interference through electronic voting machines."

Democrats are preparing to capitalize on public fury and backlash against President Donald Trump's efforts to seize control of the voting process, former GOP strategist Rick Wilson told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday.

This comes amid reporting that Trump is prepared to lean as hard as he can into election issues and his conspiracy theories about "rigged" votes to motivate his base and place new restrictions on voting rights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became combative on CNN Tuesday when host Dana Bash put him on the spot about the “suffering" in Gaza.

Towards the end of the nearly 30-minute interview, the CNN host admonished him by saying there were two sides in the conflict that have put Israel in the spotlight of becoming a pariah nation.