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Matt Gaetz, a former MAGA lawmaker and ally of President Donald Trump, was stunned on Tuesday after learning who had been selected as the new Supreme Leader in Iran.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was selected by Iran's Assembly of Experts as the country's next leader. Khamenei has been described by experts as "his father on steroids," and the New York Times described the new Khamenei's reign as a "show of open defiance to Iran’s attackers."

A legal expert appeared astonished on Tuesday by a new report that President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor in Miami is struggling to indict one of the president's political foes.

CNN reported on Tuesday that U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in the Southern District of Florida and officials in Trump's Department of Justice have been pushing to indict former CIA Director John Brennan over his involvement in the 2016 investigation into Russia's interference in the general election. However, that push has been thwarted by weak evidence against Brennan, CNN reported.

Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) claimed in an interview released on Tuesday that low-income people don't know how to "navigate the real world" because they're too dependent on the government just handing them money.

"People living in poverty are just not very experienced at navigating the real world, right?" said Husted, who was appointed to the Senate seat held by now-Vice President JD Vance. "I remember talking to one young lady who said, 'Well, I don't really know how money works at a grocery store,' because she grew up and has lived all of her adult life using SNAP cards to buy groceries. You literally have to teach people how to budget."

Pro-Trump country music star John Rich regaled right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren about the time he put "warmonger" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in his place at a dinner retreat, while Donald Trump watched.

Prior reporting from 2022 describes a heated meeting involving the three in Nashville, as part of a series of secret dinners Trump hosted with his supporters while trying to get together his comeback campaign. Rich and Graham were said to have clashed over Operation Warp Speed, the emergency program Trump put in place to expedite the development of COVID vaccines; Rich railed against vaccination, while Graham defended the vaccines as a signature accomplishment of the Trump administration. Rich has held a grudge against Graham ever since.

A Senate Republican took the Trump administration to task on Tuesday during a new interview with CNN.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" to discuss the strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed about 175 civilians. Last week, a New York Times investigation revealed that American forces likely dropped the bomb on the school as military forces were operating in the area at the time the strike occurred.

Podcaster Joe Rogan slammed President Donald Trump for waging an "insane" series of strikes in Iran after running for election by promising not to start wars for regime change.

During a Tuesday conversation on Rogan's podcast, author Michael Shellenberger said he had scrapped a column on the war in Iran because Trump's reasoning was unclear.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped at CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes and insisted President Donald Trump wasn't "making anything up" when it came to the war with Iran.

"The president said yesterday for the first time that he had to strike Iran because he believed Iran was going to strike U.S. targets within seven days," Cordes explained during a Tuesday briefing. "He then bumped that down later to three days. Where is he getting that?"

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared all-out war on conservative media figure Tucker Carlson on Tuesday in just the latest development in their ongoing feud.

Speaking in Washington, D.C., during the National Review’s “Symposium on Antisemitism” event, Cruz condemned what he described as rising antisemitism among young conservatives, antisemitism that he said was fueled in large part by Carlson.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) scolded his Republican colleague, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), after he attacked Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) without giving him a chance to respond.

During a Tuesday Senate Banking Committee hearing on sanctuary cities, Moreno mocked the Democratic witnesses after they declined to approve of a law that obstructed legal immigration.

As Republicans’ midterm election prospects grow increasingly bleak, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered a unique pitch to voters Tuesday while speaking at a Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump — a pitch that labeled voters who don’t support GOP candidates this November as “foolish.”

A new NBC News poll released Monday revealed that Democrats are well-positioned to take back control of the House this November, with some Republicans now fearing they may also lose control of the Senate. Even a prominent Republican – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) – predicted that the upcoming midterms would be “disastrous” for the GOP.

Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.

As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.