So, the Trump administration is trying to quell what had been a brewing revolt from his MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein files. This was a big issue for the right. The president told his supporters not to waste time and energy on this issue on deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And the White House released this statement yesterday declaring the president's entire team would continue to work in quote lockep despite the reported feud over the matter involving Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Di ...

Welcome to the beat everyone. I'm Ari Melbour. The political debacle saddling Donald Trump over the course of this weekend and boiling over tonight is widely viewed on the right as his biggest problem with his base in this young presidency. A quote huge risk to his hold on the party even the coming midterms. That's from his allies. Headlines screaming about a quote rebellion or revolt against Trump. A politician who's certainly benefited from loyalty and a type of perception of almost lockep unassalable MAG ...

The political debacle saddling Donald Trump over the course of this weekend and boiling over tonight is widely viewed on the right as his biggest problem with his base in this young presidency. A quote huge risk to his hold on the party even the coming midterms. That's from his allies headlines screaming about a quote rebellion or revolt against Trump. A politician who's certainly benefited from loyalty and a type of perception of almost lockep unassalable MAGA loyalty is now finding it clearly in danger. T ...

A conspiracy theory about a dead sex criminal now threatens to do it a violent insurrection. 34 felony convictions, calling US soldiers quote losers and suckers, and a litany of broken promises from the economy to foreign policy could not drive a wedge of fury and betrayal between the MAGA political movement and its dear leader, Donald Trump. Donald Trump so far has failed to tamp down the rage from his own supporters after Attorney General Pam Bondi put out a memo rejecting conspiracy theories about Jeffre ...

There's something sick sad about the analogy being made by MAGA influencers to wanting a January 6 style commission when they didn't want a January 6 commission to look into what became a deadly attack on the US capital. What do you make of their fervor on this issue? Well, indeed, we had a bipartisan and biccameal agreement to have an outside 911 style commission to examine the events of January 6, which was then uh ruined by Donald Trump. They blew it up and that was why the speaker of the house, then Spe ...

A conspiracy theory about a dead sex criminal now threatens to do it a violent insurrection. 34 felony convictions, calling US soldiers quote losers and suckers, and a litany of broken promises from the economy to foreign policy could not drive a wedge of fury and betrayal between the MAGA political movement and its dear leader, Donald Trump. Donald Trump so far has failed to tamp down the rage from his own supporters after Attorney General Pam Bondi put out a memo rejecting conspiracy theories about Jeffre ...

NBC News confirming with two sources tonight. The deputy director of the FBI, the number two at the bureau, Dian Bonino, didn't report for work today and he may be on the verge of quitting altogether after openly clashing in the White House with Attorney General Pom Pam Bondi over her handling of the case. Now, before he got his job, Bangino was making a living doing stuff like this. I got a big question about the Epstein files. Who's on the Epstein tapes, folks? Who's on those tapes? Who's in those black b ...

I want to welcome everyone to the beat. I'm Ari Melbour and out of Washington, we are following what can truly be described as unusual breaking news. This is truly unusual breaking news. You know the breaking news animation. You know, sometimes the news is big, significant, serious. This one is unusual. A major escalation in what is increasingly a kind of political, quiet, peaceful civil war, but a civil war of political proportions for MAGA over these Epstein files. And it's roing the Trump administration ...

us now. Staff writer with the Atlantic and MSNBC political analyst Ashley Parker, New York Times Justice Department reporter Glenn Thrush and former chief strategist for the Bush Cheney 2004 presidential campaign and MSNBC senior political contributor Matthew Dow joins us. Glenn, um, this is what happens when you nurse a conspiracy theory and you then get into a position where you are responsible for quelling things that aren't true, for trying to suppress conspiracy theories. What happens now? Well, the, y ...

Donald Trump and his administration is today left holding the bag after a conspiracy theory that has animated and juiced his base and fueled the rise of multiple key members of his innermost cabinet suddenly and spectacularly imploded. On Monday, a Justice Department memo, unsigned, undated, and unadressed to anyone so as to ostensibly minimize any attention to it, concluded that disgraced financeier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and that there was no client list filled with inc ...