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President Donald Trump's scheme to strongarm Republicans around the country to redraw congressional lines to give themselves extra seats has been an utter failure at shoring up their odds of holding their House majority, CNN election data analyst Harry Enten told Sara Sidner on Thursday — and it might even have failed at tilting the maps in their favor altogether.

"So just how much of the chance that the GOP have to hold on to those House seats since this redistricting happened in Texas?" asked Sidner.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton had some harsh words for the current administration's strategy on Iran on CNN Thursday.

"I want to play an exchange or one part of an exchange," said anchor John Berman. "I want to read you something else. And this has to do with Iran apparently boarding and seizing, taking possession of vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz. This is how the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, explained it."

In yet another sign that things are not going well despite all his predictions that the war with Iran is about to come to a close, Donald Trump is threatening more violence in the Strait of Hormuz where the Middle Eastern country has the upper hand.

The war, which the president claims the US has already won, has now been raging since the beginning of March and, despite White House announcements of a ceasefire, it continues with constant skirmishes.

Three key Republicans in the House are breaking from President Donald Trump's strategy to pass funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the latest complication to a process already rife with disagreement.

According to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman, "House Republicans are increasingly ignoring the Trump White House. First they scoffed at Trump's 18-month clean extension of FISA. Now top House Republicans are pushing to EXPAND the reconciliation package."

During an appearance on MS NOW on Thursday morning, Cook Political Report Senior Analyst Dave Wasserman delivered grim news to the Republican Party, with the midterm election only seven months away.

Speaking with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, Wasserman claimed there is little at the moment that is going their way with an unpopular president and an unpopular war dragging them down to new low approval depths.

Kristi Noem may be gone from the Trump administration, but her handiwork lives on in a burst of orders that could strip land from property owners along the southern border.

The Trump administration is aggressively pushing landowners in west Texas to cooperate with border wall construction, and representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers delivered an ultimatum at a rare in-person meeting: Work with the government or face seizure of property through eminent domain, reported Axios.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has a sharp message for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: take January 6 seriously, or you won't be confirmed to your role permanently.

This comes after Blanche delivered a triumphant speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference about how he "cleaned house" and got rid of many federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases. He also bragged about the pardons issued to the January 6 rioters and told the crowd, "when folks say ‘you’ve done nothing,’ I say you have a very short memory."

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville was hit by a red-hot Donald Trump attack — and he hit back with better than he got.

The famed campaign mastermind schooled Trump with a basic history lesson — then challenged him to a face-to-face debate.

Donald Trump’s Iran problem is not going away and maybe worsening, and he can thank the only three people who seem to have his ear, according to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.”

With the Strait of Hormuz still caught up in a stranglehold as a result of the president’s unprovoked war on the Middle Eastern nation, Trump has been fuming at the current state of affairs that is costing him MAGA support and has an increasing number of GOP lawmakers looking for a way to rein him in.

A former staffer to President Donald Trump sighed heavily when discussing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest moved aimed at consolidating power within the U.S. military.

The Pentagon abruptly announced that Navy Secretary John Phelan, a businessman and major Trump donor who lives near Mar-a-Lago, would be leaving his job effective immediately, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke told "CNN This Morning" that he had mixed feelings about the move coming as U.S. forces enforce a naval blockade against Iran.