Welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It's another day that ends in why in Donald Trump's assault on American democracy. He's worried about what's in the Epstein files. So in Texas, Republican state lawmakers acting as Trump lackeys are poised to redraw the state's congressional districts to hand Trump five more seats in Congress, or at least they'll try to here in Washington because Trump is worried

about what's in the Epstein files. A handful of Republican states are now in the process of

sending their National Guard troops to act in a domestic law enforcement capacity, giving

the nation's capital the feel of being under occupation. Three big guests joining me today,

starting with independent journalist Aaron Parnas.

A little later, I'll speak with YouTuber and Dem Strategist, Keith Edwards, and my friend,

veteran White House correspondent April Ryan, will join me.

She's wonderful to talk about Trump's whitewashing over at the Smithsonian.

Aaron, great to see you.

I mean, we were just talking before we got started.

It's been an exhausting week, and it's only Wednesday.

It has, but I mean, this is just the news cycle nowadays. It's been an exhausting seven months of this presidency. So we still have three years and five months to go.

We do. We do. And I don't know, I'm sure you saw this earlier today. J.D. Vance,

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth walked into a train station. No, that's not a joke. That really happened over at Union Station. Vance was asked by Juan Heckler whether he had plans to have

intercourse with a sofa. This was all while they were surveying the troops. They were looking at the National Guard troops at Union Station. Aaron, your thoughts on all of this. I know you've been posting on this. What do you think? Yeah, it'll actually be at Union Station tomorrow morning covering. So if everyone wants to come out, come out, say hi. I mean, I think here's the thing. Everyone who says there's no

crime problem in D.C. is lying to you. Obviously, there's a crime problem, but there's a crime

problem in major cities across the country. But the question remains, just because you have a crime

problem, does that mean you need military boots on the ground? And the answer is no. I've been

around the city the past week, two weeks,

ever since he declared this emergency. I've seen some national guard members, and they're more

busy taking pictures with tourists than they are fighting any crime. Crime doesn't really exist on the

national mall or by the union station in daylight hours, places like that.

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