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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod’s concerns about a second Donald Trump administration prompted him to hit back at a Republican insider during a back-and-forth exchange Friday evening that left Axelrod sarcastically remarking, “I actually took civics.”

The on-air moment happened on CNN’s “OutFront” after Axelrod expressed his worries amid reports that the Pentagon is preparing for a possible Trump order to deploy troops on Americans. Joining him in the discussion was former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), who similarly expressed fears about Trump’s threat to terminate the Constitution and surround himself with administration officials who “submit to him.”

The message being sent to Democratic Party leadership in the hours after voters propelled Donald Trump to a second White House term has been clear, a political reporter said on CNN: “Burn it all down.”

The bleak message to party leaders soul-searching after Tuesday night’s bruising defeat came Friday evening during a discussion on CNN’s “The Situation Room” revolving around Nancy Pelosi’s statement in which she blamed Biden for not bowing out of the race sooner.

The resistance to President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration is starting to show signs of life, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters, who declared that the 2028 presidential race has already begun.

“The resistance is coming into focus,” Watters said Friday on “The Five,” adding that the opposition during Trump’s first term included Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace welcomed foreign policy experts on her Friday show to discuss the future of international relations in the era of Donald Trump. Among the comments was that Trump doesn't even know what a "strongman" is.

She showed a clip of Trump talking about some of the authoritarian leaders he admires.

The Pentagon is bracing for "major upheaval" ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term, according to CNN, with officials already holding informal talks about how the Defense Department will respond if Trump orders it to deploy active-duty military troops on his own citizens and makes good on promises to boot large swaths of workers.

Trump insinuated during his campaign he could use the military as a law enforcement mechanism to carry out his plan for mass deportations, and that he would replace government workers with loyalists.

Appearing on CNN Friday afternoon, Senator-elect Jim Banks (R-IN) was pressed for how the incoming Donald Trump administration will round up 15 million immigrants, and then proceeded to blow off questions about the horrific impact it could potentially have on families and the economy.

Speaking with CNN host Dana Bash, Banks dismissed reports that a central motivating factor for Trump's win was concerns about the economy, and claimed the ex-president has a overwhelming "mandate" to rid the country of undocumented immigrants.

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According to the Indiana conservative, he expects Trump will make a "quick car ride" to the Oval office after his inauguration and sign paperwork ordering the round-up.

"We are going to begin the process of deporting the over 15 million illegals that have come into this country under Joe Biden's watch," he boasted to which Bash pressed, "First of all, just to better understand what the actual policy is and how it will be executed will be, do you see all undocumented immigrants –– should they all be kicked out of the country?"

"Conservative estimate says there are at least 15 million illegals who have come into the country on Joe Biden's watch," he replied. "It's my hope that we deport every single one of them that we can and it starts with violent criminals who are in the United States who came here illegally who have committed violent crimes, and I think, once you do that, President Trump is committed to making that his first and top priority when it comes to mass deportation."

"And how does that work? That's a huge undertaking," the CNN host asked.

"No doubt about it. President Trump said yesterday that it could be costly, but the American people deserve it," he replied.

"If you just pick Indiana, for example, how do you want the federal government to go about finding people and physically getting them out of the country?" he was asked.

"I don't think it's that complicated," he blithely replied. "I spoke with a local sheriff in Indiana earlier today, local law enforcement is ready to go and do what it takes to help with a mass deportation effort but if you take away the incentives and put pressure on businesses who hire illegals in this country, most of those who are here illegally are going to go back on their own. And that's what Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate are focused on."

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Marc Lotter, the former Trump 2020 director of strategic communications, was confronted by CNN's Pamela Brown for not answering her questions on immigrant family separation.

Specifically, Brown asked Lotter to comment on the incoming second Trump administration's plans for American citizens who are currently living with relatives who are undocumented immigrants.

Donald Trump has promised to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a major role overseeing public health, and an expert shuddered at what that could mean for Americans.

The president-elect has said he would allow Kennedy to “go wild” on health, food and medicine in some unspecified role in his second administration, and public health expert Dr. Paul Offit appeared Friday morning on CNN to discuss the dangers posed by the vaccine opponent's plans.

A refusal to answer a question about what to expect from Donald Trump now that he has been re-elected led "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough to admonish famed journalist Bob Woodward on Friday morning.

Woodward, who has a history of being criticized for sitting on bombshell stories and saving them for his books, was asked by the MSNBC host, "Right now you have people in and out of government trying to figure out, was that just Donald Trump on the campaign trail talking, or should he be taken at his word? His own supporters say, 'Oh, he doesn't mean any of that, he's just saying that to rev up the crowd.' Based on your knowledge, if you were Mark Milley or Liz Cheney or CBS News, would you be worried right now?"