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President Donald Trump and his family's self-enrichment schemes, which stand to net them $1.4 billion in crypto profits alone, are more than a moral issue, Nobel Prize-winning economist-turned-political pundit Paul Krugman told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Wednesday — they're an active threat to the U.S. economy.

"We talked earlier in the program about what is wrong with Trump's corruption, how it also violates his own claims and past vows," said Melber. "I thought I would start by asking you in plain English, as an economist, what is the cost to the rest of us, the public, if the government is corrupt or captured, separate from the morality?"

Things got a little uncomfortable for a GOP strategist during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on CNN.

Tapper was joined by Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod and GOP strategist Shermichael Singleton during one segment, where the three discussed recent comments by some Republicans about affordability, the issue voters care about most as the midterm elections approach. When Tapper started playing clips of the Republicans' comments, Singleton looked like he wanted to bury his head in the sand.

President Donald Trump's family has been profiting big-time from controversial cryptocurrency deals, to the tune of $1.4 billion. And MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace and Vaughn Hillyard were floored on Wednesday, reviewing the president's son Eric's recent speech on why he's so keen to get into the crypto space.

"Let me show you all of the on-camera confessions," said Wallace, playing a clip of Eric Trump that, she noted, features him saying that "I went to crypto basically because I had to" and not just to grift off his association with the White House.

The victory of progressive Democratic Socialist challenger Melat Kiros over longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on Tuesday is a "political asteroid" and a flashing alarm bell for party leadership, argued left-wing commentator Ken Klippenstein in a Substack post released Wednesday.

The win, combined with other progressive victories against incumbents in New York City, signifies "a generational shift in the Democratic Party — gerontocrats dying electorally or literally, public approval at an all-time low, party-approved candidates getting mowed down like a brontosaurus napping in the Yucatán circa 66 million years ago," Klippenstein wrote.