President Trump is facing a MAGA backlash over Jeffrey Epstein, and Trump’s broken 2024 pledge to release all files. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports, joined by New York Times’ Emily Bazelon and Michael Grynbaum.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared to signal support for the release of the government’s files on Epstein during a press conference Monday. “The American people deserve to know the truth,” he said, accoring to The Hill. “What, if anything, is the Trump administration and the Department of Justice hiding?”

Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell.

Here’s a look at the Epstein sex trafficking case, how the Trump administration has handled it, and how his supporters have reacted to recent developments.

The president asked his supporters to “let Pam Bondi do her job” as she faces scrutiny over handling the release of documents related to the disgraced financier.

After President Trump urged a rattled MAGA base to not "waste [t]ime" on the Jeffrey Epstein case, some are softening their tones. But others still have their teeth sunk in the storyline. The big picture: Trump-world influencers and the president's base were blindsided by the Justice Department and FBI's conclusions that the disgraced financier did not have a "client list" and died by suicide,

From claiming Barack Obama was born in Kenya to accusing Ted Cruz’s dad of involvement in the JFK assassination, Donald Trump has always loved hyping conspiracy theories for political gain, and the Jeffrey Epstein case was no exception.

“Surprisingly, MAGA world, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” he said, and played clips of figures on the right trashing the president after the Justice Department said last week that the long-rumored Epstein client list doesn’t exist.