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A former Army lieutenant general said on Wednesday that he was alarmed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech at West Point's commencement ceremony over the weekend.

Hegseth discussed his usual culture-war topics, such as removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming from the military, during the speech. But it was the Secretary's comments about the Trump administration's support for military members that alarmed Gen. Mark Hertling, the former commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe.

President Donald Trump seems to be denying a key reality in the war in Iran, and it's costing him at the negotiating table, according to one columnist.

Bob Kagan, a columnist and neoconservative scholar, discussed the war in Iran on a new episode of "The Bulwark Podcast" with host Tim Miller on Wednesday. Kagan argued that Trump doesn't seem to accept the reality that the U.S. lost the war back in March, and that Iran is basically "shaking Trump down for money" at the negotiating table.

A legal expert floated a disturbing theory on Wednesday about why former Attorney General Pam Bondi is returning to President Donald Trump's administration.

Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, said in a new reaction video that Bondi's return is another way for the Trump administration to continue hiding the Jeffrey Epstein files from the public. Bondi faced considerable criticism from Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress over her handling of the files, leading to multiple fiery exchanges during hearings in the House and Senate.

A Texas congressman dodged questions about Ken Paxton's scandals on Wednesday, pivoting to culture war attacks on the Democrat who will face the newly minted GOP Senate nominee in November.

The confrontation came on the Charlie Kirk Show, where host Andrew Kolvet pressed Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) to respond to critics — including New York Times conservative columnist David French — who argued that Republican primary voters actively embrace corruption rather than merely tolerate it.

Republicans have indicated they intend to portray Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as a "freak," but he pushed back strongly against his GOP rival in Texas, Ken Paxton.

The Donald Trump-endorsed Texas attorney general Paxton slurred the state legislator as "Tala-freako" in his victory speech after beating Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a closely watched GOP runoff election.Talarico leveled an attack of his own after Paxton and other Republicans smeared him in thinly veiled homophobic language.

Approximately 15 minutes into Donald Trump's rambling televised Cabinet meeting, MS NOW host Chris Jansing and her producers pulled the plug and called out the president for his boasts and lies about his direct-to-consumer drug program.

As the president jumped from topic to topic, the he eventually boasted, “You remember, some of you were at the news conference I had my first term where I got the prices down one eighth of a percent, one quarter, one eighth of a percent, my first term and I'm so proud of it because prices, drug prices hadn't come down in 28 years. And I was the first one to do it.”