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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth interrupted his Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning to bash the press, taking particular aim at CNN and urging an ownership change.

After opening by complaining the press was not willing to “admit” the success of his Iran war planning, he later added, “They see headlines. I used to be in that business, and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, a banner or a headline ‘Mideast War Intensifies,' splashing on the screen the last couple of days, alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit. Because that's what they do.”

President Donald Trump’s team is gearing up to launch a multimillion-dollar “revenge campaign” against Indiana state Senate Republicans for having defied the president’s redistricting push last year, but multiple prominent conservatives say the effort may very well blow up in the president’s face, and on a historic scale.

The White House unsuccessfully pressured Indiana state Senate Republicans last year to approve a new congressional district map to help the party’s electoral prospects in the upcoming midterms. Now, those defiant Republicans have become a target for Trump’s team, with Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz telling Politico in its report Friday that he predicts they’ll “be crushed in their upcoming primaries.”

Donald Trump has repeatedly called his Iran war an “excursion,” which drew rolled-eyes on MS NOW on Friday morning, with one host claiming the president doesn't seem to know the true meaning of the word.

The “Morning Joe” segment began with a supercut of the president making statements like, “This is an excursion. We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They'll also come down,” and later claiming, “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.”

President Donald Trump insisted to other G7 leaders that the U.S. was on the verge of winning his war on Iran and insulted one of the leaders who offered his nation's assistance, according to sources.

The U.S. president took part in a virtual meeting Wednesday with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the EU, and three officials briefed on the call told Axios that Trump boasted Iran was "about to surrender" and claimed Operation Epic Fury had already been successful.

Donald Trump's Iran war is fracturing his inner circle, with fierce internal battles over whether to escalate military operations or declare victory and exit—a conflict that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to suppress as being "based on gossip and speculation."

According to a Reuters exclusive by journalists Nandita Bose, Matt Spetalnick, and Humeyra Pamuk, Trump administration officials are locked in a "complex tug-of-war" driving the president's shifting public statements on the conflict. Three weeks into the war, aides are still debating when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.

GOP strategist Scott Jennings's attempt to defend President Donald Trump's shifting story on the war in Iran blew up in his face on Thursday during a panel on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip.

The Trump administration has justified coordinating recent bombing strikes against Iran by arguing that the country was close to achieving a nuclear weapon and that Iran presented an "imminent threat" to the U.S. While the administration has been saying everything is going great, recent reports indicate that the Iranians have figured out effective ways to fight back.

President Donald Trump's administration announced an oil market move on Thursday that had some analysts up in arms.

The Treasury Department announced that it had temporarily rescinded sanctions on Russian oil already at sea. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move was in response to skyrocketing energy prices resulting from the war in Iran, but several analysts noted that Russia benefited from the move in myriad ways.