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Fox News host John Roberts told White House aide Howard Lutnick that President Donald Trump's claim of cutting drug prices by 600% was "mathematically impossible."

"I'm going to ask you about the reality versus the perception," Roberts said the day after Trump's speech to the nation. "Because some of them were just mathematically impossible."

CBS News staffers were spared an end-of-the-year all-hands meeting with the head of the news division after a much-hyped town hall with Erika Kirk, widow of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, produced poor ratings and criticism from a conservative news outlet.

Bari Weiss, the former New York Times opinion writer appointed by Donald Trump-friendly Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to oversee CBS News editorial direction, personally hosted the town hall with Kirk on Saturday night. Her decision to conduct the interview herself, rather than utilize existing CBS on-air journalists, initially drew skepticism.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly left a restaurant in Washington, D.C. after a woman heckled him.

NOTUS reporter Daniella Diaz said she was dining in Adam's Morgan on Wednesday when she noticed the woman heckling Bessent.

MAGA conspiracy theorist Candace Owens came out of her meeting with Erika Kirk with questions about FBI Director Kash Patel.

Following the meeting with the wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder, Owens said she would focus on Patel during her Wednesday show.

President Donald Trump threatened NBC's broadcast license days after the network aired an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

"Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!)" Trump ranted on Wednesday. "Warnock spent the entire show using Religion to try and divide the Country! If a Republican, in particular ME, made those statements, it would be FRONT PAGE NEWS."

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted he had not lost control over the House after Republicans signed onto a Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on extending health care subsidies.

"Look, we're working through very complex issues as we do here all the time," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday, downplaying the discharge petition. "Everybody's working towards ideas. We're keeping the conversation going. That's what happened."

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) scolded FCC Chair Brendan Carr for threatening ABC host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made in the days after Charlie Kirk was murdered.

During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, Schatz noted that Carr had effectively threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license if the network did not take Kimmel off the air.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to resign after he threatened the broadcast license of a small radio station in California.

"So in February, under your leadership, the Federal Communications Commission opened an investigation into a San Francisco radio station over its coverage of a federal immigration raid," Markey explained during Wednesday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing. "In a worst-case scenario, the FCC could shut down the station by revoking its license."

Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon acknowledged that President Donald Trump was delivering an unexpected address to the nation on Wednesday because he "almost" lost control of the narrative on the affordability crisis ahead of the midterm elections.

"The president is going to be in the Oval Office tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern," co-host David Brody noted on Real America's Voice. "Big address to the nation. He's elevating this. Clearly, this is to regain the narrative and explain more about the affordability issue in America and what this administration is doing. I think they're trying to seize this right off the top and make sure that it doesn't get away from them."

Two top MAGA supporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Alex Jones, wondered whether President Donald Trump could be "saved" after his attack following the killing of liberal Hollywood director Rob Reiner.

During a Tuesday interview on The Alex Jones Show, the host said he was "very concerned" about the president's future.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were reportedly pelted with snowballs as they were accused of holding a pregnant woman "face down on the ground."

On Monday, WCCO's Esme Murphy reported that the agents were seen taking the woman from Karmel Mall in Minneapolis.