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"The View's" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin believes that President Donald Trump's staff either isn't sharing the reality with him or isn't telling him the truth.

Trump spoke to ABC News in an interview for the first 100 days, and made statements that concerned his former White House communications director.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) blasted Republicans for a plan to partially pay for tax cuts for the wealthy by forcing federal workers to either receive less generous retirement benefits or lose their civil service protections.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, members considered the proposal that would create a new pension surcharge for workers who did not choose to serve on an at-will basis.

An appearance by House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) fell flat on MSNBC Wednesday as she stuck to talking points and failed to answer questions from "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist.

Given an opportunity to paint a vision for voters that contrasts with Donald Trump's comments at a rally in Michigan on Tuesday night, Clark was asked, "We talk about Donald Trump a lot. We recognize that many of his policies are very unpopular, as new polling has shown, marking his first 100 days. But in a Washington Post/ABC News poll, Donald Trump's approval rating was at 37 percent –– extraordinarily low about handling the country's main problems. Democrats, though even farther down at 30 percent. How do you explain that number, and what do Democrats need to do better?"

Clark answered, in part, "What Democrats are doing is we are standing strong in saying come back and focus on the American people. Put them in the center of the work you are doing, make sure that you are doing everything you can to fight for them. And that's what we're doing. We'll reach across the aisle when we can but what we have been met with in the House GOP is absolute resistance. They are loyal to one person and that is Donald Trump."

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The "Morning Joe" co-host pressed, "With all that said, and understanding your opposition to Donald Trump, much of the public's opposition, my question was why do you believe Democrats are rating lower even than President Trump right now if everything you just said is true? "

"Well, you know, we are going to continue our focus," she countered, "Listen, we lost an election, We're very clear eyed about that and we know that we have to show the American people that we are in it for them but that is where we are. That is the roots of the Democratic party and that is what we're going to work, we're going to do every single day."

Following her interview Geist sat with co-host Jonathan Lemire and commented, "Respectfully, I'm not sure the locker room speech we just heard is going to fire up Democrats to get off the bench and go play hard. But I will say in defense, there have been people out there, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Sanders. We've heard [Illionis Gov. J.B.] Pritzker of late articulating a more aggressive message about where Donald Trump has fallen short, but also their vision for the future at the same."

"I'll tell you," MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle commented. "It was stunning listening to Congresswoman Clark fail to answer your question twice when in front of her is Social Security is a real issue. People in her district, how many of them are in her district who are having trouble getting connections to Social Security because an office might be closed, or they don't answer the phone?"

"Why more Democrats don't talk about actual human beings and the human being issues that surround them," he continued. "The most important room going forward in this coming election year next year is the kitchen. How much it has cost to feed a family of 4 or 5? Why don't they ever talk specifically about things like that instead of blah, blah, blah, blah?"

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A financial analyst highlighted a "weird number" he expected to see in a new Commerce Department report.

The report showed the U.S. economy had contracted at an annualized 0.3% rate in the first quarter, as businesses rushed to import goods ahead of president Donald Trump's tariffs, and Yahoo Finance senior columnist Rick Newman told "CNN News Central" how the trade wars were only going to make things worse.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro spun the country's shrinking gross domestic product by arguing that the economy actually improved when President Donald Trump's tariffs and DOGE policies were not included.

Navarro spoke about the poor GDP numbers during a Wednesday interview on CNBC.

Donald Trump's rally Tuesday night at at Macomb Community College in suburban Detroit was not heavily attended according to one MSNBC guest who did take the time to show up.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, former White House Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri was asked how the president was received by the crowd as he marked the 100th day of his second term in office.

After watching clips from the evening's proceedings, which CNN characterized as "familiar grievances, an ebullient crowd and a difficult task ahead," co-host Jonathan Lemire commented, "There is an awareness, I'm told, from senior advisers that, look, they see the poll numbers. They're not panicking but there's a concern here about the impact the tariffs are having on the economy and then on Trump's political standing."

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"So Jen Palmieri, you were there in Michigan last night for the president's event and there aren't too many sort of old political cliches that apply to. Donald Trump because he has broken so many molds and norms but this one, I think does: if you're explaining, you're losing," Lemire prompted his guest. "And he last night [he] had to explain and defend and spin these tariffs because he knows there's already been some impact."

"Yeah, one of the most telling things I saw in Michigan was an ad for a local furniture store yesterday that was advertising tariff-busting prices," she responded. "So it, you know, it's something and also a lot there was there was a UAW worker there last night that spoke, that's a big supporter of President Trump and spoke in favor of it and said, we have to like, hang in there because this is worth it in the in the long term."

"The tariff section was not the section of the speech that got a good applause last night," she continued. "And I would say, you know, I saw some of our colleagues there that were covering the rally, and one of them told me, 'Don't focus on the crowd size.' But who focuses on crowd size? Donald Trump focuses on crowd size and this was the far and away the smallest rally I've ever been to of Trump."

"Doesn't mean there's still not a lot of support for him, but there was definitely a dutiful element to the to the rally, both in his delivery and the crowd's responses," she elaborated. "You know, they wanted to hear about immigration –– that's what got them excited –– they wanted to hear about him saying that, you know, he's going to put a stop to gender nonsense. That got a good response. 'Crooked Joe' was the biggest applause line of the night, it was not anything that he had to say about the economy."

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CNN's Kate Bolduan challenged a conservative commentator who downplayed president Donald Trump's comments about a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The president said in an interview that he had the ability to help return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an overseas prison but isn't willing to do so, which contradicts his the Justice Department's position that it was up to the Salvadoran government to release him, but CNN commentator Shermichael Singleton insisted Trump's statements were consistent with his administration.

President Donald Trump's tariffs could endanger a Republican proposal to generate more revenue to offset the elimination of the federal gasoline tax.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed a $20 annual fee on most passenger cars as part of the GOP budget bill, which lawmakers say would allow the federal gasoline tax to be phased out, but hardline conservative Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) was outraged.

A major announcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he is canceling the Women Peace and Security program at the Defense Department that was instituted during Donald Trump's first term left an MSNBC panel scratching their heads Wednesday morning.

According to a report from Politico on Tuesday, Hegseth described the program in a post on X as: "yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING."

President Donald Trump revealed a "clear sensitive spot" during a contentious interview on his handling of immigration, according to a CNN analyst.

The president defended his administration's refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, in defiance of court orders to "facilitate" his return to the U.S., and CNN's Washington bureau chief David Chalian flagged his comments on the legality of mass deportations as significant.

President Donald Trump's tumbling polls are doing more than hurting the Republican Party domestically, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening — they're even causing left-leaning foreign parties to surge in allied nations that are fed up with Trump's antics.

A clear example was the Liberal Party's rout in Canadian elections this week, mere months after polling had them all but doomed to lose their majority to the Conservatives.

President Donald Trump's combative interview with ABC News that aired late Tuesday stayed the course when the MAGA leader was pressed on whether he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin wants peace.

The contentious segment featured Trump and interviewer Terry Moran talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.