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MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski rained scorn on Donald Trump's boast about the sudden release of water from two dams in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The president has been patting himself on the back by ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to allow irrigation water into engineered waterways, ostensibly as drought relief after devastating wildfires in the region, but the Los Angeles Times reported that much of the water wound up in retention basins and soaked into the ground – which won't help farmers who depend on the water to irrigate their crops in the summer.

Although President Donald Trump and his White House are trying to spin his decision to back off slapping Canada and Mexico with massive tariffs as a triumph, Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) is pouring cold water on their exuberance.

Appearing on CNN, Ryan said that he agreed with a Wall Street Journal editorial that said that the president backed down from his threats against Mexico and Canada without gaining any significant concessions from the two countries.

President Donald Trump's whirlwind first few days in office have hit America with a “shock and awe” campaign that has startling similarities to George W. Bush’s policies in Iraq, a New York Times columnist wrote Tuesday.

After vastly dismantling the nation’s government, Bush put in place “right-wing apparatchiks, some barely out of college” — and left the nation a destabilized mess, wrote Michelle Goldberg.

While Republican strategist Brad Todd is normally supportive of President Donald Trump's initiatives, he said the president would be making a massive mistake if he established a sovereign wealth fund and used it to buy TikTok.

In the wake of Trump musing about buying TikTok on Monday, Todd appeared on CNN Tuesday to pour cold water on the entire venture and said that it would be nonsensical to bring the Chinese-owned app back after having had it removed from U.S. government devices.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shared an alarming reason he said Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and other Republican senators are dropping their objections to some of Donald Trump's "unqualified" nominees for Cabinet posts.

Collins announced her support for Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence despite her previous objections, and the "Morning Joe" host said skeptical Republicans were approving Trump's choices in fear of something more ominous than a GOP primary challenge.

Jonathan Kott, a former senior adviser to Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chris Coons (D-DE), predicted that President Donald Trump's love of spectacle will come back to bite him when voters realize he's not making their lives better.

Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Kott said that Trump was good at getting publicity for appearing to take bold actions, even if the substance of those actions was minimal.

Tech reporter and podcaster Kara Swisher on Monday said tech billionaire Elon Musk’s dramatics over the last two weeks as chair of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency and pal of President Donald Trump is what one would expect from the world’s richest man who she’s closely followed for years.

“It’s very typical,” Swisher said Monday night during an interview on CNN. “This is how he conducts himself all the time. He's always in a state of high drama, high agitation.”

A CNN anchor broke down Monday night as a father wept while remembering his wife and daughter, who were among 67 people who died last week in a mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a military Blackhawk helicopter.

Andy Beyer joined CNN's "The Source" with anchor Kaitlan Collins, and said the past week has felt "unreal."

Republican political strategist Brad Todd found himself on the defensive during a Monday night interview on Anderson Cooper’s primetime show when he was called out by the host for appearing to evade questions related to the government's long-established anti-HIV/AIDS initiative.

The moment happened Monday during a panel discussion on CNN's “Anderson Cooper Live,” when Cooper grew frustrated with the longtime Republican strategist dodging his line of questioning while discussing the possibility that the U.S Agency for International Development, or USAID, could shut down and prevent HIV medication from being distributed overseas.

A war of words between a well-known GOP strategist and a Washington Post columnist broke out Monday evening in an animated back-and-forth interview segment where both political analysts traded barbs before the show host jumped in to tell one of them to “relax.”

The tense on-air moment unfolded during CNN’s “The Situation Room” during a debate over Trump’s tariff pauses on both Canada and Mexico, a situation Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell described right out of the gate as laughable.

President Donald Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, didn't bat an eye when reporters inquired about tech billionaire Elon Musk's proposal to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, arguing Musk is fully qualified to understand the agency's functions.

"What expertise does Elon Musk have in the areas of global health or humanitarian aid to assess what's happening at USAID?" a reporter asked Leavitt in an exchange captured on C-SPAN.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) sounded the alarm on reports that President Donald Trump’s administration was on the verge of naming a former White House speechwriter to a top State Department role despite being previously fired over ties to white nationalists.

Murphy appeared rattled by what he called the “radical views” of Darren Beattie — who is expected to take on the role of acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs — but told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Beattie's reemergence in the new Trump administration isn’t surprising.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace sounded the alarm about the legality — or lack thereof — of the staff of USAID being blocked from entering their offices on Monday.

Wallace announced the segment as "The Elon Musk Show."