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.

The president is expected to sign into law Friday a package of cuts passed by Congress late Thursday night but the talk in Washington is still dominated by the Epstein files and how the president is responding to the controversy.

The FBI and DOJ said they do not plan to make future public disclosures related to their review of Epstein's case, stoking outrage among Trump's most vocal supporters.

A Justice Department memo seeking to douse conspiracy theories around Jeffrey Epstein has split the MAGA influencer ecosystem into competing factions, with some of President Trump’s loudest

President Donald Trump dramatically turned on MAGA fans Wednesday for “buying into bulls--t” over the Epstein files, portraying them as gullible “weaklings” and declaring he no longer wants their support.

This has been brewing for a long time. And MAGA finally lost it on July 7 when Bondi's department issued a memo refuting two key points in the conspiracy theory: Epstein really did kill himself and did not leave behind a "client list" of wealthy, powerful perverts he had blackmailed.

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.