MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the escalating MAGA meltdown and internal crisis sparked by President Trump’s DOJ and its handling of the Epstein files, as Trump continues to attempt to squash the story.

When Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, then-President Donald Trump speculated that authorities might be wrong in ruling it a suicide.

The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.

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

Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI abruptly walked back the notion that there's an Epstein client list of elites who participated in the wealthy New York financier’s trafficking of underage girls.

If Attorney General Pam Bondi finds herself taking the fall for the furor over the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm, she has no one to blame but herself for setting expectations too high with an earlier Epstein stunt that flopped spectacularly.

Ghislaine Maxwell's family have questioned why the Trump administration have decided not to release the Epstein files to the public, despite claiming they would do so

Trump is expected to make a controversial announcement or policy decision shortly in order to offset the unwanted attention on Jeffrey Epstein

Democrats have already forced Republicans to take tough Epstein-related procedural votes that have stoked a barrage of constituent calls into GOP offices, but they have not yet been able to force a clear up-or-down vote on releasing the so-called Epstein files.