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A CNN analyst was befuddled by the more than 2,000 videos he reviewed from the Jeffrey Epstein files that were released by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, said during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins that the files paint a "clear picture" of a "creepy guy" and raised questions about why so many people in his inner circle hung out with him. The videos show Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal, discussing some menial items like landscaping his properties, as well as interviews from a documentary that former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon was making about Epstein.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed horror that President Donald Trump moved to reopen his "vendetta" against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, threatening once again to fire him early, despite not having any clear statutory authority to do so.

"Mr. Trump is frustrated that his Administration’s criminal investigation into Mr. Powell over a cost overrun on a Fed building renovation is backfiring in a big way. Perhaps that’s what prompted his outburst in a Fox Business interview on Wednesday in which he doubled-down on his earlier threats to sack Mr. Powell," wrote the board. "If Mr. Powell doesn’t leave when his term as Chair ends on May 15, 'I’ll have to fire him,' the President said, adding 'I’ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial.'"

A legal expert was astounded by the "searing inconsistency" that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is showing in a high-profile case during a podcast interview on Wednesday.

The Trump DOJ recently filed a superseding indictment against Brian Cole Jr., who has been accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees before the Jan. 6 insurrection. The new indictment charged Cole with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and committing an act of terrorism.

Political analysts and observers mocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday after the New York Post published details of a bizarre science experiment he conducted as a kid.

The Post reported, citing a forthcoming book from Washington Post journalist Isabel Vincent, that Kennedy once pulled over the family car somewhere on I-684 while on a road trip so he could remove a raccoon's sex organs and "study them later." The book cites private journals that Vincent received from a source who knew Kennedy's late wife, Mary Kennedy, after Mary Kennedy's death.

A former Fox News host revealed a "scary" truth Wednesday underpinning President Donald Trump's latest shocking social media post during an interview on CNN.

On Sunday, Trump posted and then deleted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The photo also included pictures of military troops, the Statue of Liberty, and the American flag. The post sparked outrage among political analysts and observers, prompting Trump to eventually remove it.

A Fox News reporter was forced to admit to viewers on Wednesday that American enemies are helping Iran target U.S. troops.

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin told viewers of "Special Report" with host Bret Baier that the station had confirmed exclusive reporting from the Financial Times that showed Iran was receiving spy satellites from China, and the intel from which has been used to attack American military troops in the region. The report adds to a growing account that suggests President Donald Trump may be ignoring the impact adversarial countries like Russia and China are having in the war in Iran.

A Democratic senator excoriated her Republican colleagues during an interview on CNN on Wednesday for failing to rein in President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined CNN's Phil Mattingly on "The Lead" to discuss the war in Iran. Baldwin argued that Trump has broken promises to his voters by starting the war, yet Republicans have been unwilling to hold the president accountable in a meaningful way.

Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement flipped out on Wednesday after a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election was officially disbarred.

John Eastman, one of the architects of Trump's strategy to overturn his election loss, was disbarred in California, according to documents from the California Supreme Court. Eastman is the latest lawyer who has been disbarred for their efforts to help Trump. Others include Kenneth Cheesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Rudy Giuliani.

A former federal prosecutor who spent two years prosecuting the cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a dark warning about the Trump Department of Justice's latest "horrifying" move.

On Tuesday, the Trump DOJ announced it was moving to vacate the convictions of several high-ranking Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two paramilitary groups aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement that helped organize and participate in the insurrection. Brendan Ballou, a former federal prosecutor, said on CNN's "The Lead" on Wednesday that the move would lead to more violence in the future.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized to one of her colleagues on Wednesday after she made what she described as "hurtful" comments about his family.

Speaking at the University of Kansas School of Law last week, Sotomayor said Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour" in response to a question about a recent case concerning immigration law. In the case, Kavanaugh argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should be allowed to conduct what's known as "roving stops" to check someone's immigration status.

The panel on CNN's "The Lead" broke out laughing on Wednesday as one of President Donald Trump's loyalists in the Department of Justice made his life much harder.

Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell from his post for months over Powell's insistence that interest rates remain elevated to combat inflation. At one point, the president accused Powell of causing more than $500 million in cost overruns on the Federal Reserve headquarters renovation project, a figure Powell has publicly described as "inflated."

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) unloaded on the Trump administration's attempts to investigate the Federal Reserve for allegedly mismanaging the headquarters renovation project in a new interview on Wednesday.

Tillis spoke to a reporter from The Associated Press on Wednesday, where he described the investigation as “bogus, ill-timed, ill-informed."