Welcome to the beat. We begin tonight with Donald Trump's DOJ facing pressure in person for hiding even more Epstein documents.

By in person, I mean what we're watching play out right now. Top House Democrats and lawmakers are meeting with in battle attorney general Pam Bondi and Deputy A.G. Blanche over the hiding of files and alleged abusive redactions.

The meeting is confidential. It's happening at this hour. If we get any news, we'll bring it to you.

Congressman Garcia says the meeting itself will not substitute for a further grilling under oath.

There's been some reporting that somehow they're not interested in doing the full subpoena conversation and the

deposition under oath. This is not a substitute for that. And so that is the very first thing

that I'm going to remind the Attorney General of. That's new from Garcia as they talk about that

meeting. Bondi has faced Maga blowback already and

even calls for impeachment. She's had several Epstein debacles. There was the binder incident,

binder gate, where basically she oversaw a lying campaign that claimed to release Epstein files and

documents in those binders, but there was a lie, and there was

backlash over that. Bondi famously claimed she had a client list on her desk at the beginning

of last year. Trump supporters did not take well to all that. There was a revolt over several of

those misleading spectacles. There were her other false claims about

basically the fact that other men linked to Epstein and the material they had even before the

files came out. They were all cleared of wrongdoing, she said. No further cases possible.

Well, that, of course, has been shredded by other countries pursuing cases against people linked

to Epstein.

We cannot tell you legally that all those cases are going to result one way or the other,

but her initial claim that there was literally nothing else to investigate, nothing to see here,

well, those kind of self-destructed.

The news now is that Congress is officially subpoenaing Bondi over Epstein, which shows bipartisan pressure. Remember, Congress is controlled by Republicans. You need some of them to get any subpoena out there. She's, of course, tangled with Congress before. Now she has a high-sake date, April 14th for this testimony. And as her actions are drawing fire, the administration also tried to put a different face forward.

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