Susan Glasser, it comes against the backdrop of the thing that has consumed Washington for weeks now. The very focus of your piece here in the New Yorker, which is on the continued fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case files. It's titled, "Trump redefineses the Washington scandal." And in you write in part, quote, "The scandal is not the revelation that Trump was friends with a sexual monster who exploited underage women since that's not a revelation. Nor is it that the president lied to the American public ...

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you know, the the president doesn't really want to be talking about this or focusing on on this, but now you have the DOJ launching a special unit, right. They're calling it this like strike force basically to investigate a conspiracy theory related to former President Obama. Do we know if this is deflection.It is clearly obviously changing the subject off of Epstein. Right. >> Right.Democrats are very very vocal saying that this is a big nothing burger and that this is a distraction. And I I think we can o ...

The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is today trying to throw a political lifeline to Donald Trump by showing up to the White House press briefing today, standing behind the podium and doubling down on her baseless conspiracy theory that President Obama's administration engaged in quote sedicious conspiracy by pushing a lie that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump's campaign. A conspiracy so outrageous and dangerous it drew an exceedingly rare rebuke from President Obam ...

What are they so afraid of in the Epstein files. I think they do not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. You know, they fed into this conspiracy theory and now they want to run away from it.And you you can't have it both ways. This is like the Trump one greatest hits. What happened today is a new low for the Trump administration who's willing to declassify anything regardless of the danger to try to stop themselves from declassifying the Epstein files.What's your take on what's going on right I don't think ...

The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is today trying to throw a political lifeline to Donald Trump by showing up to the White House press briefing today, standing behind the podium and doubling down on her baseless conspiracy theory that President Obama's administration engaged in quote sedicious conspiracy by pushing a lie that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump's campaign. A conspiracy so outrageous and dangerous, it drew an exceedingly rare rebuke from President Oba ...

Joining us now, staff writer for The Atlantic and MSNBC political analyst Ashley Parker. Staff writer for The Atlantic and author of its newsletter, Galaxy Brain, Charlie Wartzell. Jake and Tim are still with us.Um, that was uh that moment where Donald Trump said, "I want a foreign government to hack into the emails of a not just private citizen, but a political figure in this country was a um disruptive moment in 2016 to say the least." Later, we found out, Ashley, that Russia did start around that time tr ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joining me now outside the White House is NBC Chief Justice and National Affairs Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell. Kelly, every day there's something new with this story and we saw some of the president's reaction to it and then the push back from the administration. Tell us what is the mood like inside the White House and what is the White House saying about Pam Bond's role in all of this.Well, it has been a tumultuous time timeline as we look at how the president's responses have have adjusted from frustrati ...