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Ever since Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired last week, it has left the unsettled question of whether she still has to sit for the upcoming congressional deposition, where, among other things, she was set to be asked about the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

The GOP-led commission has stated Bondi won't attend. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed on Wednesday, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) demanded that he publicly clarify she does, in fact, still have to participate.

MAGA host Gina Loudon said she found it "very upsetting" after Democrat Emily Gregory defeated a Trump-endorsed candidate in the district where the president's Mar-a-Lago home is located.

During a discussion about a special election to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) seat in Georgia, Loudon said she couldn't shake off Gregory's win in Florida.

If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Donald Trump’s deadline that included a threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt inside the Pentagon, according to new reporting.

That is according to MS NOW’s David Rohde, who told “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire that a handful of Pentagon lawyers were committed to refusing to approve some of the targets the White House wanted to destroy.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was widely ridiculed Wednesday after framing the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement tentatively reached on Tuesday as a “military victory,” and one that Iran “begged for,” despite many of its provisions directly contradicting some of the Trump administration’s stated war objectives.

“Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it,” Hegseth claimed during a Pentagon press briefing.

The campaign manager for Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) has been let go after right-wing news outlets surfaced his old social media posts going after President Donald Trump, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported on Wednesday.

Barr is currently running in a crowded GOP Senate primary to succeed the longtime departing Sen. Mitch McConnell, who served as the GOP's Senate Leader for over a decade and became an institution in both U.S. and Kentucky politics.

Republicans in state legislatures across the country are increasingly worried about citizen-led ballot initiatives enacting Democratic Party policies or overturning Republicans' own policies — and they're working to clamp down on the right to get those issues on the ballot in the first place.

According to The New York Times, "In North Dakota, Utah and South Dakota, legislatures are sponsoring measures on the November ballot that would raise the threshold for approving citizen amendments to 60 percent, not a simple majority. In Missouri, the legislature placed a measure on the ballot that would set an even higher bar: Citizen-sponsored amendments to the state constitution would have to win in each of the state’s eight U.S. House districts. An initiative that wins 95 percent of the vote statewide could lose if it fails in a single district."

Fox News host Lawrence Jones pointed out that Iran achieved a ceasefire without giving in to many of President Donald Trump's demands.

"You said it perfectly, talking about the Iranian demands," Jones told Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday. "All of them, all 10 of them, are non-starters for the United States."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insulted and cut off ABC News reporter Luis Martinez during a press briefing on Wednesday morning after the Senior Pentagon journalist put Gen. Dan Caine on the spot with a probing question about the Iran war.

After earlier calling another reporter “rude” for attempting to ask a question during the press availability, Hegseth broke from his usual habit of calling on friendly reporters from conservative outlets to allow Martinez to ask the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the Iran ceasefire.

Trump administration officials are scrambling to find “positive” media coverage of President Donald Trump regarding his decision to accept a tentative ceasefire agreement with Iran, with one senior official fearing the president’s hatred of “being humiliated” may lead him to reignite the conflict and spark an “Iran-war apocalypse,” Zeteo reported on Wednesday.

“A problem is Donald Trump hates being humiliated,” a senior Trump administration official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “He is going to see coverage that he was beat by the Iranians. I am expecting that to change his thinking.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped at a journalist Wednesday during a Pentagon press briefing after being asked about potential violations to the two-week tentative ceasefire agreement reached between the United States and Iran.

Responding to a question about Iran continuing to launch strikes Wednesday after having agreed to the tentative two-week ceasefire agreement, Hegseth said that he still believed the ceasefire would “hold.” A journalist then shouted out a question regarding the alleged Iranian strikes.

According to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” if Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement with Iran holds, the US still came out as a loser after the US launched the unprovoked war.

According to “Morning Joe” regular Mike Barnicle, there should be no doubt that Iran may have lost militarily, but now holds a stronger hand than before the war began.