Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) engaged in a heated exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during Wednesday's Senate Finance Committee testimony, challenging him to release information about tariff reductions for pharmaceutical companies on TrumpRx.

Warren accused the administration of granting Big Pharma sweetheart deals, noting that companies received tariff relief exemptions but did not lower drug costs for consumers.

Kennedy claimed tariff relief required companies to commit to U.S. drug production within a year and agreed to share deals with Congress while withholding proprietary information.

Warren pressed him on, questioning why Americans pay hundreds of dollars for TrumpRx when identical drugs cost $12 at Costco. Kennedy defended the program, citing "lowest prices in history" and offering generics as alternatives.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) intervened, stating Kennedy was denying the public's right to know details.

CNN hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown described the exchange as notably heated and contentious.

Watch the video below.

FBI Director Kash Patel raised alarms inside his own agency after snooping on a journalist who wrote a story that was critical of his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Trump's FBI began investigating Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she published a story detailing how Wilkins was regularly escorted by FBI security, and raised questions about Patel's use of FBI jets for personal travel. Wilkins criticized the reporting and called Williamson a "stalker" on X.

The Times said Williamson had one off-the-record phone call with Wilkins herself during her reporting process. Williamson noted in her story that Wilkins "declined to be interviewed" for the story.

Williamson also spoke with several people in Wilkins' orbit for the story and exchanged emails with Wilkins before it ran, according to the NYT.

That apparently wasn't enough for Wilkins or Patel.

"Agents interviewed the girlfriend, queried databases for information on the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, and recommended moving forward to determine whether Ms. Williamson broke federal stalking laws, the person said," according to the NYT report.

"Those actions prompted concerns among some Justice Department officials who saw the inquiry as retaliation for an article that Mr. Patel and his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, did not like, and who determined there was no legal basis to proceed with the investigation, according to the person briefed on the matter," it added.

President Donald Trump is in political retreat after months of unpopular decisions and an electorate increasingly fed up with him, The Atlantic staff writer Ashley Parker told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday — and it's sapping the political capital he has to do anything.

This comes as the president rages against the result of the Virginia redistricting referendum on Tuesday, calling the result "rigged" and "deceptive" — as voters backed redrawing congressional maps in a move widely seen as a rebuke to his own calls for Republicans to redo their gerrymanders.

"Ashley, not surprising from the president," said Tur. "I wonder, does this rigged election claim still have the same power that it used to?"

"You know, it's a good question," said Parker. "I think who does not have the same power he used to is Donald Trump. And he had this incredibly kind of muscular, powerful first year in office in his second term. And what we're seeing now ... you can really trace it to the beginning of this year to January, is essentially a sophomore slump, which is shown everywhere from the poll numbers, as you outlined."

"I think he also has similarly low approval numbers to Joe Biden around this time," said Parker. "But also to, you know, he starts losing things on the domestic front in two ways. First, the Pretti killing in Minneapolis, which happens in January. Then the Supreme Court stands up to him on tariffs. And now we're seeing the essentially the cascading ramifications of his decision to go to war with Iran and midterms that are becoming competitive in a way that just a year ago would have been unimaginable for Republicans."

"So to answer your original question, does calling this in Virginia 'rigged' on Truth Social, which doesn't have the power that he had when he was on Twitter, back when it was on Twitter, carry the same oomph from a president who's struggling in a defensive crouch on a lot of fronts?" said Parker. "I think the simple answer is no, it doesn't."

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