The House Rules Committee laid the groundwork for an eventual vote to call for release of the Epstein files, reflecting Republican uneasiness with the president’s refusal to divulge information from the investigation.

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.

Over the course of the event, it became clear that there are now five distinct Epstein factions within the MAGA movement, creating a type of factionalism that is uncommon among Trump’s backers. Here, dear reader, is your handy guide to those factions.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher joined “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” to discuss her reaction to the Senate voting by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of cuts that would decimate public media,

President Trump said yesterday on social media that he was authorizing the release of “any and all Grand Jury Testimony, subject to Court approval,” in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Trump cited “the ridiculous amount of publicity” surrounding the case. Here’s the latest.

Tucker Carlson's claims that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent have reignited a controversial conspiracy theory, prompting strong denials from former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The theory,

PRESIDENT TRUMP went to war with some of his top allies Wednesday, saying he no longer wants their support if they continue to fixate on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a

Trump files lawsuit against Murdoch, WSJ and NewsCorp over Epstein birthday card expose - The president has filed a libel lawsuit in Florida against the right-wing media mogul and journalists who wrot

After a week of angst over Jeffrey Epstein, the GOP base gave President Donald Trump a breather today from the relentless criticism. All it took was a media report suggesting the president was even closer to the disgraced financier than he’s been letting on.