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The war in Iran could very quickly turn bad for Americans at home if it continues, economist Steve Rattner warned Mike Barnicle on MS NOW Wednesday morning.

"Wall Street clearly does not like unpredictability or uncertainty. No one does," said Barnicle. "But on the global stage, there's no way of telling how long we will be actively involved on a daily basis in a war in Iran. What happens if this war lengthens out in terms of the United States presence and participation in that war? What happens to those charts behind you right now?"

President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations threatened his Iranian counterpart in an appearance on Fox Business.

U.S. envoy Mike Waltz clashed with Iran's UN ambassador Saeid Iravani at an emergency meeting Sunday of the UN Security Council after the president ordered joint airstrikes with Israel that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top leaders, after the Iranian envoy urged American representatives to "be polite."

Semafor reporter Dave Weigel summarized the state of play on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" after the high-profile Texas primaries on Tuesday, and flagged that Republicans are facing what they had most feared going into this week, as state Rep. James Talarico wins the Democratic Senate primary and the Republican Senate primary advances to a runoff between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

"Trump's advisers are saying Cornyn is the safest pick, Dave Weigel, because they believe he has a better shot to win in the general election there," said anchor Jonathan Lemire. "I have been talking to advisers in the last couple of days, who say there's some momentum for Trump to do that. And I think ... that if Cornyn had lost even by any number, maybe Trump can't, but because he's more or less pulled even he could justify it and say, I'll put you over the top. But I'm not 100 percent sure he will ... and Democrats are salivating at the possibility of taking on Paxton."

President Donald Trump has little room to maneuver politically after pushing the nation into war with Iran, according to a veteran journalist.

The 79-year-old president ordered the airstrikes at his lowest approval yet, and early polling shows just one in four Americans approve of the operation, and CNN's Ron Brownstein said that leaves Trump in a perilous position.

Democrats haven't won a statewide race in Texas in over 30 years — but after an intense primary that ended with poll confusion drama and alleged voter suppression, they have perhaps their best opportunity in all that time to finally come through, political data analyst G. Elliott Morris wrote on Substack Wednesday morning.

"This year, Democrats might have a real shot at winning a statewide election in the Lone Star State," wrote Morris. "On Tuesday, March 3, Democratic primary voters picked state House Rep. James Talarico over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett to become their party’s nominee for the November election to the U.S. Senate. On the Republican side, no candidate won above 50%, so incumbent John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are headed to a May 26th runoff election."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump last week with a tantalizing tidbit that has since blown up into a major war operation.

Three sources tipped off Axios to the Feb. 23 call, which Trump took in the White House Situation Room and had not been previously reported, and said that Netanyahu told the president that Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were all set to meet Saturday morning at one location in Tehran – giving U.S. and Israeli forces an opportunity to kill them all in a single strike.