The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday sent lawmakers home early for a six-week summer break to avoid being forced into awkward votes on the probe into the late, politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Show" correspondent Josh Johnson took his first spin in the late night series' hosting chair, wasting no time calling out President Trump on all of his efforts over the past week to distract from his administration's ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The White House pulled out all the stops Wednesday to promote claims that Barack Obama headed a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump, seeking to redirect public attention from uproar over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Amid GOP conflict over how to handle the release of information related to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is working to shift the spotlight.

The attorney general reportedly told President Donald Trump in the spring he was named multiple times in the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump says the Epstein controversy is helping him instead of hurting him, and accuses Barack Obama of treason - without providing any evidence.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, denounced Donald Trump's recent allegations against Barack Obama, calling the Trump administration's claims 'politically motivated to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.' Trum

A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, saying the request doesn’t meet any of the extraordinary exceptions under federal law that could make them public.

Donald Trump is attempting to evade an uproar of questions about escalating developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. MSNBC's Antonia Hylton is joined by Maya Wiley, former SDNY Civil Prosecutor, and MSNBC Political Analyst Basil Smikle to discuss.