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President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at media outlets over their coverage of the two-week ceasefire agreement his administration reached with Iran, which has been heavily scrutinized for the concessions the United States would make to the Middle East nation.

On Tuesday, Trump announced that “authorities” were investigating CNN for having published a “false” statement from the Iranian government, a statement in which Iran claimed to have achieved a “great victory” in the conflict. Other media outlets have also published stories that include statements, letters and documents from the Iranian government.

During an appearance on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, noted historian Douglas Brinkley expressed surprise that Vice President JD Vance has chosen to ally himself so closely with Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán as he seeks re-election.

While the US was prepping for a massive escalation of the war in Iran, which was averted at the last moment after Pakistan brokered a two-week ceasefire that heavily favors Iran, Vance was taking part in a MAGA-style rally for the Hungarian prime minister who is fighting an uphill battle to hang on to his job.

President Donald Trump ended a call with PBS reporter Liz Landers after she asked if he regretted threatening Iran's entire civilization.

Following a press briefing with Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, Landers said she had contacted the president by phone.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been featured recently in a series of videos that have “flooded the internet” since the United States attacked Iran in late February, videos from pro-Iran groups that prominently feature the sexual assault allegations leveled against the current president and his top Defense official.

“Trump is globally known for sex crimes and, like Hegseth, charges of sex crimes – and the Iranian videos depict the two men explicitly as rapists,” reads a report published Wednesday in The New Republic.

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."