Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) confronted Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) during a closed-door Republican lunch Wednesday.

Sources described it as a pile-on over Lee's push to keep the Senate in session until a voter ID bill passes, reported Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio.

Cornyn and Kennedy challenged Lee's strategy for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, complaining that President Donald Trump was being misled about the bill's passability, saying it undermined Republican unity and Trump's agenda.

The confrontation followed a public spat five days earlier when Cornyn, despite co-sponsoring the bill, publicly called out Lee on X, writing, "you don't have the votes" and urging him to focus on Democrats rather than attacking Republicans.

"'On what planet is this an attack on Republicans?'" Lee responded on X, adding, "That's not an attack on Republicans. That's a plan of attack against voter fraud."

The House-passed legislation requires citizenship documentation to register and a photo ID to vote federally.

The bill has 50 Senate votes but needs 60 to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

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A Republican Senate candidate boasted of his AI experience at a campaign event, then admitted seconds later that he was "scared" by a video that later turned out to be AI-generated.

Heartland Signal obtained audio from a March 17 event hosted by the Oakland University College Republicans. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), a former FBI agent and House Intelligence Committee chairman running for Michigan's open Senate seat, has made national security and tech experience central to his campaign.

"I'm in a company right now that uses AI," Rogers told the crowd. "So I'm sure they're terrifying you young students that AI is gonna kill you, and take your job, and stuff you in a trunk, right? Oh, man. The fearmongering of all of that."

Seconds later, he changed course entirely.

"Did you see that video of the Chinese soldiers? They are completely autonomous soldiers," Rogers said. "That was a little terrifying to me. I don't know. I looked at it. It was a little scary. I mean, they were functioning as — as soldiers. They're completely robotic, armored up, and they were doing a combat lane run and were performing pretty well."

That video was a fake. A fact-check by Deutsche Welle, the German public broadcaster, found telltale signs of AI generation, including missing shell ejections and an empty magazine being loaded into a weapon.

Forensic ballistics expert Philipp Cachee concluded the footage was "almost certainly" AI-generated after spotting errors in how the robots handled weapons.

Rogers also reposted the video on LinkedIn after Deutsche Welle published its debunking.

A recent TIPP Insights poll found that all three of his potential Democratic opponents were slightly ahead of him in general election matchups, with the seat rated a toss-up.

An administration appointee blew off President Donald Trump as a "lazy warmonger" after his approach to the military conflict in Iran led to what that official called an inevitable defeat.

While the self-described "Peace President" has proven adept at initiating wars, even his own senior officials believe the 80-year-old lacks the sustained commitment to prosecute them with the required intensity, and they told Zeteo that left the U.S. in a bad position entering peace negotiations.

“They’ve got him by the balls,” said another senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity to avoid being fired or jailed. “We want out, and [the Iranians] know we don’t have all the cards.”

Trump signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, symbolically invoking one of history's most infamous treaties while attempting to frame the agreement as anything but a surrender.

Senior administration officials and Pentagon aides told analysts that the U.S. had exhausted its negotiating position and faced an imminent economic crisis if hostilities continued.

Multiple Trump advisers acknowledged the administration lacks the leverage it publicly claims, with officials citing concerns that prolonged conflict could destabilize the global economy, undermine Republican midterm prospects, and potentially destabilize the administration itself.

Trump's repeated threats of resumed bombing campaigns have lost credibility with both Iranian and American officials. His pattern of threatening "mass slaughter" and ground invasions before withdrawing has convinced senior government figures in both countries that he lacks the political will to resume the conflict in any meaningful way.

At the G7 summit, Trump attempted to project toughness, saying "if I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head," and "if they don't behave, we'll go back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head." Yet these threats carry diminished weight given his demonstrated reluctance to sustain military operations.

"This is true of many officials and aides I’ve spoken to lately at the Pentagon, White House, and elsewhere," reported Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng. "Trump lost this one, badly."