Drip, drip: Trump team goes silent as new Epstein stories come out

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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New reporting breaks on Jeffrey Epstein's ties with Trump as NBC News reports that the White House is choosing silence as their best strategy amid the backlash. Then, top DOJ lawyer Todd Blanche meets with Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and schedules a second visit with her tomorrow. Plus, Trump gets fact-checked live by Fed Chair Powell during the president's visit to the Fed's headquarters. Peter Baker, Amna Nawaz, Sam Stein, Joyce Vance, Steve Liesman, John Harwood, and Matt Goldstein join The 11th Hour this Thursday.

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0:00.0	Tonight, a top justice department lawyer meets with Epstein associate and convicted sex
0:05.5	trafficker, Elaine Maxwell.
0:07.6	Now he's set to meet with her again tomorrow.
0:10.1	What we know about these talks.
0:12.0	Then Speaker Johnson faces an all-out rebellion for members of his own party as the Epstein
0:17.5	controversy follows Republicans home for summer recess.
0:26.9	Plus, the president takes his fight to the Fed headquarters and gets fact-checked live on camera.
0:29.9	The $11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night.
0:55.4	Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and it is day 186 of the Second Trump administration. And today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who used to be Trump's personal attorney, well, he met with Galane Maxwell. You know who she is, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Today, Blanche posted the following, quote, I met with Galais Maxwell,
0:59.8	and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time, end quote. The very unusual
1:06.4	meeting is the administration's latest attempt to deal with the massive backlash it is facing
1:12.3	over the Epstein investigation. My colleague Garrett Haake has all the details. Watch this.
1:18.1	Tonight, Attorney General Pam Bondi's top deputy meeting at a Florida courthouse with Galane Maxwell,
1:23.1	the convicted accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
1:28.8	meeting privately with Maxwell and her attorneys. Earlier this week, Blanche posted if Maxwell,
1:34.5	quote, has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ
1:39.7	will hear what she has to say. This tonight from Maxwell's attorney. She answered all the questions
1:45.4	truthfully, honestly, and to the best of her ability. The Trump administration seeking to cool
1:50.4	the ongoing firestorm over its handling of the DOJ's files on Epstein. Today's meeting blasted by
1:56.4	Democrats. There is every reason to fear that Donald Trump could offer Jislane Maxwell a pardon in exchange for silence or even worse, phony exoneration.
2:09.2	It comes 24 hours after the Wall Street Journal report, citing senior administration officials, that the president was briefed in May by Bondi, that his name appears in the unreleased files.
2:19.7	The journal reporting, the files contained what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people,
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