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What should Americans make of the Trump-Epstein scandal? Are calls to "release the Epstein files" about justice for victims, or scoring political points?

Critics say President Donald Trump is working to change the conversation from the Jeffrey Epstein files as the administration faces pushback for more transparency.

Divisions inside the Republican Party over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation boiled over on Capitol Hill. Speaker Mike Johnson said the House won't take action before leaving town for the August recess at the end of the week.

With the twin pressures of summer temperatures and the Jeffrey Epstein controversy keeping things hot in the nation's Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson is apparently hoping things cool down by September.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join John Yang to discuss the week in politics, including the MAGA debate over releasing the Epstein files intensifies and congressional Republicans deliver Trump a win by clawing back $9 billion in foreign aid and public media funding.

An unreasonable movement, it turns out, cannot easily be reasoned with.” (On the subject of that Trump-Fox interview before the election, a quick detour: Fox has recently been scrutinized for airing an abbreviated version of Trump’s answer in which it edited out the caveats and made him sound keener on releasing the Epstein files than he actually was.

As a general rule, coverups are difficult in free societies with democratic governments. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.

President Trump expressed frustration over the Jeffrey Epstein files controversy on social media as more details emerge about the Department of Justice's apparent attempt to reach Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team.