Welcome to the beat. I'm Jason Johnson in for Ari Melbour. We begin with new heat on Donald Trump amend the Epstein uproar as his latest attempt to slide slide slipply slide away from any accountability blows up in federal court. Today, in a scathing ruling, a judge essentially accusing Trump's DOJ of trying to fool the public with quote the illusion of transparency. Hours later, in a sign of how this is absolutely dogging Donald Trump, reporters are pressing him about that ruling. It happened during his pr ...

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And Trump's former defense attorney spent the day in a Florida prison talking to convicted uh Epstein associate Galain Maxwell. It's a pivot point in the Trump presidency. As Politico puts it today, the Epstein bombshell explodes, adding, "The crisis is here." Today, the number two at the DOJ, Todd Blanch, is meeting with Galain Maxwell in a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.But the meeting may be planting the seeds for more backlash. Maxwell's attorney spoke to the press afterwards. We had a very ...

This is not an administration that tells the truth. They constantly lie. And I I think that we need to make sure that this is all in public. The public deserves to see what is in these files.And uh again, I'm struck by the witnesses, you know, who were who were sexually abused um by Epstein now coming out and saying that they feel uh so outraged by what's going on because they no longer think that there's going to be justice in this case um in holding him accountable or the other powerful people that are in ...

But for all of Trump's efforts to change his subject, the Epstein story is not going away. And part of the reason it's not going away is that Trump himself is prolonging the story. I mean, today Trump's former personal attorney, who is now, of course, the deputy attorney general, reached out to lawyers for Epstein's co-conspirator, Galain Maxwell, who is in year four of her 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking a minor.She's the woman Trump acknowledged with words of support on the occasion of her arr ...

Steven Coar did his first show since the announcement of its cancellation last night. He's got about a year to go until CBS shuts it down for good. The cancellation immediately raised suspicions because Paramount, the owner of CBS, is desperate for the Trump administration to appro approve its proposed merger with Sky Dance.It agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle an utterly baseless lawsuit. Today, we learned it may be a lot more than that. Trump bragging that in addition to the 16 million, he anticipa ...

And joining me now is Promise Senator John Asaf, a Democrat from Georgia who's running for reelection, is the father of a new baby. Congratulations on that as well. So, I just played the clip of you saying um what I think everybody was thinking, but you articulated the best way.Did anyone actually expect Donald Trump to be an advocate for releasing Epstein files or any more information. What do you think. I just gave my take.What do you think is holding him back. What's behind it. Well, they've really tied ...

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