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Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) shredded President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, for rushing headlong into a war in Iran without any idea why they are doing it or what they are going to do now that it's happening.

"You said on Armed Services, these are issues you've thought a lot about," said anchor Jonathan Lemire. "Give us your take now about these mixed messages from the administration as to why this war even began. But more than that, it seems so very clear there's not a plan for the day after, including President Trump yesterday, in a moment, perhaps, of unexpected candor, said it sort of dawned on him like, oh, he was asked who could follow the Ayatollah as Supreme Leader? And he's like, oh, well, I guess the worst case would be someone who's just as bad. It's very clear there's no plan for the next day."

The war in Iran could very quickly turn bad for Americans at home if it continues, economist Steve Rattner warned Mike Barnicle on MS NOW Wednesday morning.

"Wall Street clearly does not like unpredictability or uncertainty. No one does," said Barnicle. "But on the global stage, there's no way of telling how long we will be actively involved on a daily basis in a war in Iran. What happens if this war lengthens out in terms of the United States presence and participation in that war? What happens to those charts behind you right now?"

President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations threatened his Iranian counterpart in an appearance on Fox Business.

U.S. envoy Mike Waltz clashed with Iran's UN ambassador Saeid Iravani at an emergency meeting Sunday of the UN Security Council after the president ordered joint airstrikes with Israel that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top leaders, after the Iranian envoy urged American representatives to "be polite."

President Donald Trump has little room to maneuver politically after pushing the nation into war with Iran, according to a veteran journalist.

The 79-year-old president ordered the airstrikes at his lowest approval yet, and early polling shows just one in four Americans approve of the operation, and CNN's Ron Brownstein said that leaves Trump in a perilous position.

Conservative analysts at The Bulwark were floored on Tuesday after watching Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Noem appeared before the committee on Tuesday to answer questions about her agency and some of the decisions she has made as its leader. Republicans and Democrats showed a rare sign of bipartisan unity by sharply questioning Noem about DHS's marketing expenses, some of the contracts the agency has awarded to people close to Noem's inner circle, and the agency's investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were killed during "Operation Metro Surge" in Minneapolis.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was shredded during Senate questioning on Tuesday, former Trump administration DHS staffer Miles Taylor told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday — and, incredibly, he argued, the worst part wasn't even getting chewed out by a Republican senator for literally shooting a puppy.

"The person most culpable for the lowest approval ratings Trump has ever had since he descended the escalator is Kristi Noem," said Wallace. "I mean, I think 100 percent of Americans probably agree nothing other than shooting and murdering a puppy is sick. When that is being raised by members of your own party in televised hearings, how much of that does Donald Trump tolerate?"

CNN host Kasie Hunt was visibly taken aback on Tuesday after she played an expletive-laden montage of MAGA figures criticizing President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

Hunt played the montage on "The Arena" on Tuesday, which included commentary from MAGA radio personality Megyn Kelly, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who cited her falling out with Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files as her reason for leaving Congress in January.

Democratic campaign strategist Chuck Rocha doesn't think Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has a path to keeping his seat in the GOP primary on Tuesday night — and walked through the math with MS NOW's Katy Tur on why he thinks he's a dead man walking.

Cornyn has fought his way through a vicious primary that includes state Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt. The latter two portray Cornyn as insufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump, who has refused to make an endorsement in the race.

The former spokesperson for ShamWow is suing the Republican Party of Texas after his "ShamWow" nickname was removed from the primary ballot.

In his bid to unseat Rep. John Carter (R-TX) in U.S. House District 31, Offer Vince Shlomi concluded that the removal of his nickname from the ballot would harm his chances. The candidate sought a temporary injunction against the Republican Party of Texas, requiring his nickname to be restored to the ballot.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he was "suspicious" that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) might have committed treason by leaking President Donald Trump's plan to strike Iranian leadership, many of whom are now dead.

On Tuesday, Sen. Johnson spoke to MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on a broadcast titled, "Ilhan Omar LEAKED U.S. Military Attack Plans to IRAN — Treason?"