Puck News Chief Political Columnist John Heilemann, Washington Post White House Reporter Emily Davies, and Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama Ben Rhodes join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the new reporting from Emily finds that Donald Trump is furious that the Epstein scandal is dominating headlines as he loses control of the narrative.

The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.

The House is leaving Washington a day early for it's five-week August recess after tensions erupted over efforts to force release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Why it matters: Fallout from the debate over the Epstein files has effectively frozen House business.

The Supreme Court could decide in late September whether to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he ended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and threw the now-disgraced financier out of his private club in Florida after Epstein betrayed him more than once by hiring people who had worked for him.

In 1961, the committee, then dominated by the chamber’s bipartisan conservative bloc, was its own rogue source of power. The chairman, Rep. Howard Smith, D-Va., opposed newly elected President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier agenda — especially its civil rights plank.

President Trump wants an expedited deposition from Rupert Murdoch as part of his lawsuit against Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal over the alleged Epstein letter.

President Trump’s promise to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein helped feed into a broader narrative last year: he was the agent of change, while President Biden and Vice President Harris were guards of the status quo.

“Everybody knows that he knew Epstein at some point,” said Missouri Senator Josh Hawley. The House Oversight committee voting Wednesday to subpoena the Department of Justice for access to those Epstein filed.

The comments came as part of the president’s efforts to distract, deny and deflect from his long-running relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump wants Rupert Murdoch, 94, deposed within the next 15 days in his defamation case against The Wall Street Journal for its reporting on a bawdy birthday greeting under Trump’s name in a compilation of letters for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th.

Trump is trying to divert attention from the Epstein conspiracy theory with a new-and-improved one about Barack Obama and treason.