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A MAGA lawmaker told Democrats and "the left" to "look in the mirror" after Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) and his family escaped a firebombing attack that scorched the governor's mansion.

Shapiro’s official residence was attacked in an arson incident early Sunday. Cody Balmer, 38, scaled a fence at the Harrisburg mansion, broke windows with a hammer, and threw homemade Molotov cocktails fashioned from beer bottles and gasoline into two rooms, igniting flames.

Two Republicans got more than they bargained for during a heated CNN segment Wednesday night, as a former MSNBC host called their remarks "disturbing" and asked them to consider how they'll be remembered in the annals of history.

The fiery segment occurred on CNN's "NewsNight" during a discussion over due process and whether the administration should send suspected gang members to El Salvador without a court hearing.

President Donald Trump’s reported plans to slash $40 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services sent MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow into a ferocious takedown of his MAGA administration’s new efforts.

The primetime host spent the opening minutes of her Wednesday evening show by highlighting the growing backlash to Trump’s policies across the country before flagging reports surrounding his proposal to gut “fully a third of what the United States spends on health care and research.”

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg laid down the law in his warning that he was on the brink of holding Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday evening.

The move, which could lead to the jailing of Trump administration figures, stems from the ongoing defiance of federal rulings about the mass deportation of migrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT megaprison, which is being done without any due process.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville didn’t hold back his thoughts on the new multimillion campaign targeting incumbents in his party – an effort launched by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg.

“Well, it's the most insane thing,” Carville said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”

CNN conservative Scott Jennings sparked an on-air clash with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as the two found themselves on opposite sides of the brewing debate over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and the Democratic efforts to retrieve him.

The heated exchange unfolded Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena” as Jennings, a longtime GOP strategist, continued to insist that the Maryland father deported to an El Salvadoran mega-prison by President Donald Trump last month did not have a legal right to remain in the United States.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt flatly rejected a reporter seeking to ask a question after the mother of Rachel Morin finished delivering emotional remarks during a news briefing at the White House.

Patty Morin gave a deeply emotional and graphic account of her daughter's brutal killing at the hands of an undocumented immigrant. She recounted the evidence presented at the trial, including the physical injuries Rachel endured.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused the Trump administration of blatantly lying about the whereabouts of wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García on Wednesday.

After touching down in El Salvador to inquire about García's whereabouts, Van Hollen said that he was not able to see García nor even to have a phone call with him.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled on Wednesday that "probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled. They, however, landed in the Central American country and the occupants were transferred to a jail there.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell predicted "significantly larger" inflation and slower economic growth due to President Donald Trump's tariffs.

"The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth," Powell told the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday. "Both survey and market-based measures of near-term inflation expectations have moved up significantly, with survey participants pointing to tariffs."

Fox News host Joe Concha tested the 5-second rule by dropping a banana on the floor and eating it.

In a Wednesday segment on the Outnumbered program, co-host Ainsley Earhardt reported that a scientist had recently demonstrated that bacteria grow on food less than one second after it's dropped on the floor.

Reacting to comments made by Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday, where she defended a refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. despite a unanimous ruling from the conservative Supreme Court to "facilitate" his repatriation, three MSNBC reporters called her out.

During her address before reporters where she announced her plan to sue the state of Maine for "discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women's sports," Bondi was asked why she won't lift a finger to bring the Maryland father home.

As she told reporters, "He is an illegal alien who has been living illegally in our country from El Salvador. ICE testified an immigration judge ruled he was a member of MS-13. An appellate judge ruled he was a member of MS-13. He's from El Salvador, he's in El Salvador and that's where the president plans on keeping him."

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That brought a quick rebuttal from MSNBC host Ali Vitali, who told viewers, "We've got to do a quick fact check here. The administration has yet to provide any evidence Abrego Garcia has ties to MS-13. Furthermore, the 29-year-old has never been formally charged or convicted, either here in the U.S. or in El Salvador."

She added, "A federal district court judge on Tuesday laid into the Trump administration, saying they've done nothing to comply with her requests. The judge added she won't tolerate future gamesmanship or grandstanding. This case could very well end up back in the Supreme Court."

Asked to comment MSNBC legal analyst Ken Dilanian pointed out that Fox News reporter put Bondi on the spot immediately, with Dilanian adding they "...urged the attorney general to present any evidence that she has on this score, and both times, she essentially dodged the question," before she asserted, "We have the transcripts from the court hearings. I'll be glad to give you the court hearings from 2019, what we have. "

Dilainian then did his own fact-check.

"Let me just explain that that was an immigration court hearing," he told Vitali. "Immigration courts are not courts of law. The immigration judge in this case took at face-value what the police said and the evidence that we're aware of supporting the idea that this man was an MS-13 gang member consisted of essentially an allegation from a police informant and the fact that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls ball cap in the Home Depot parking lot when he was picked up –– so that's not evidence by most people's lights."

NBC's Kelly O'Donnell added, "They [the Trump administration] have been pressed multiple times, in addition to the clip you played with the attorney general that has been raised at the White House briefing room and there will still be additional opportunities to raise this to the president."

"Part of why this is at issue is because evidence is essential in the American process, and due process is afforded to those who are not even American Citizens if they are in the United States and he was at that time," she explained. "So providing evidence would be perhaps the shortest, fastest way to affirm their position and to explain it."

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One political expert said that the more anger seen at town halls and from voters, the more pressure is placed on U.S. House and Senate members. She further suggests this might force Republicans to use their power on President Donald Trump.

Lindsey Drath, a former regional finance director for Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-UT) campaign, told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart that the kind of town halls lawmakers are facing back home could ultimately have an impact.