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CNN's top fact checker flagged what he called "big, startling claims" uttered Tuesday by President Donald Trump and his so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" right-hand man Elon Musk.

Trump and Musk took questions from reporters in the Oval Office as they continued to defend slapdash efforts to purge the federal workforce and root out "fraud" from the government — which federal judges have already put the brakes on, and Musk is threatening to force a constitutional crisis over.

There's no shortage of conflicts of interest in the new Donald Trump administration, said MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, speaking to former Republican Tim Miller of "The Bulwark."

The Office of Government Ethics has a leader appointed to five-year terms approved by the U.S. Senate, but Trump fired him late last night anyway.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace cut into Elon Musk's rambling press conference on Tuesday afternoon to say that watching Musk take over Donald Trump's event prompted her to question who is in charge of the White House.

"One: Irony died while he was talking," said Wallace at the start of a fact check.

CNN senior justice reporter Evan Perez laughed his way through a news segment on Tuesday moments after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told reporters she believes two shooters were involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

“I mean, look, so to be clear we've seen no evidence to indicate that there is anything to this,” Perez said.

So-called Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk responded to what critics have called a "hostile takeover" of government by saying Americans got "what they voted for."

The billionaire was asked about his agency during Oval Office remarks on Tuesday.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) on Tuesday struggled to answer questions from CNN's Dana Bash about major problems faced by American farmers thanks to the actions taken by X owner Elon Musk with the blessing of President Donald Trump.

During her interview with Smith, Bash played a video of a Missouri farmer named Skyler Holden discussing being unable to get payments he's owed from the United States Department of Agriculture to make improvements to his farm.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) accused Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) of "voter fraud" after he had another member cast a vote so he could participate in Bill Maher's HBO show on Friday.

In a House floor speech on Tuesday, McGovern clarified that Donalds had broken Rule 3 by not voting in person for the Protecting American Energy Production Act, part of President Donald Trump's "drill, baby, drill" agenda.

President Donald Trump, fresh from meeting the King of Jordan at the White House on Tuesday, took reporters's questions — and was bombarded with requests for comments on Hamas.

"You know what a bully is, right?" Trump told the media. “A bully is the weakest person. And they’re bullies. Hamas is bullies.”

President Donald Trump insisted that the United States would own the Gaza Strip without paying for it.

During a Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah, Trump was asked where he would find the money to buy Gaza after vowing the U.S. would own it.

CNN's Pamela Brown on Tuesday confronted Trump White House adviser and convicted criminal Peter Navarro over the economic impacts of President Donald Trump's tariffs.

During a contentious interview, Brown quoted from studies showing that the tariffs waged during the first Trump administration cost consumers money, while also pointed out that the even large tariffs Trump is contemplating for his second term come at a time when consumers are anxious about inflation.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slurred his words while trying to recall the nation's motto — E pluribus unum — to U.S. troops.

During a rant in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday Hegseth spoke about President Donald Trump's executive order ending government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.