“He told me he has like 15 or 16 hours of videotape of Jeff. He was trying to help Jeff rehabilitate his reputation,” Mark Epstein said of Bannon. He said his meeting and conversation with Bannon took place in New York City after his brother’s death in prison — in either 2019 or 2020.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case amid a firestorm over the Trump administration’s handling of records related to the wealthy financier.

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Calif., says President Trump should release the Epstein files but is silent on why Biden did not do so for four years. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy)

President Trump is facing an uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein files. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton reports on how it’s unclear what could satisfy his enraged followers, with experts pointing out that MAGA’s Epstein conspiracy theories run deep.

A s the questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death—questions that Donald Trump once helped whip up—tornadoed into their bajillionth news cycle, the president’s team began to privately debate ways to calm the furor: appoint a special counsel to investigate.

President Donald Trump called his 'past supporters,' 'weaklings' over their calls for more transparency over the Jeffrey Epstein files, like MTG.

President Trump is threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal over a new Jeffrey Epstein story, denying that he once wrote Epstein a "bawdy" birthday letter with a drawing of a naked woman. Independent Political Strategist Reed Galen and Co-host of “The Weeknight” on MSNBC Symone Sanders-Townsend join Chris Jansing with analysis of how the White House has handled the controversy.