Joining us now, Bull Works senior reporter Will Summer, New York Times opinion columnist David French and New York Times reporter and MSNBC contributor Jeremy Peters. Will, let's talk about the um the fever swamps of this conspiracy and and and why it's so hard to dismiss it, why the administration and even these high-profile MAGA people are having a hard time dismissing it. What exactly did they help people become convinced of? Sure. I mean, this has been a huge issue for the MAGA movement going back at le ...

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He has said that he wants all the credible files related to Epstein to be released. He's um asked the uh the attorney general to request the grand jury files of the court. All of that is in process right now. My belief is we need the administration to have the space to do what it is doing and if further congressional action is necessary or appropriate then we'll look at that. But I don't think we're at that point right now because we agree with the president. So, no vote, no vote on this resolution before. ...

So Ben Smith in his latest piece for semaphore which carries the headline how to resist the Epstein temptation. And in it Ben writes this. There's obviously great fun in watching the world's dumbest media revolution.The social media Epstein detectives lied by led by podcasters turn keystone cops devour its children. There are political incentives for Democrats to join MAGA and stoking wild theories. And there are good non-conspiratorial questions about how Epstein linked business, social climbing, and sex.M ...

Jeremy, I'll begin with you. You've you cover Republicans. You've written extensively about the Trump base.You have said uh correctly that conspiracy theories are sort of coin of the realm for a lot in uh Trump's orbit. Um but now the shoe's on the other foot. And it's interesting.I mean, we've heard from Trump a lot on social media, but he has not fielded a question from a single reporter uh since the Wall Street Journal story broke Thursday evening. He had some events Friday. He ignored shadow questions.W ...

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RT Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman)BREAKING: @DNIGabbard says there are over 100 documents that prove Barack Obama DIRECTED this treasonous conspiracy."This is not a a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious that it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic." ...

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We begin this hour with the continued fallout from President Donald Trump for President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files and the calls for accountability from the Department of Justice. In a move seen as trying to win over the MAGA base, the DOJ filed a motion yesterday to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein. There is no word yet from the federal judge whether he will agree to the request. But even so, the move would fall short of what some Magaloyalists are calling for, whic ...

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