So just how many times is Donald Trump mentioned in the Epstein emails?

The lead starts right now.

New messages and new questions all emerging from the 20,000 newly released documents related to the dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump's name keeps appearing who and what else is mentioned.

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Welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper today and we start with our politics lead and the fallout over Jeffrey Epstein's emails where he mentions Donald Trump by name.

These emails are part of thousands of newly released documents.

The House Oversight Committee obtained from the Epstein estate.

It's worth underscoring here.

Trump has never been accused of criminal wrongdoing by authorities in the Epstein case

and has adamantly denied involvement in Epstein's crimes.

But these emails reignite questions about what Trump knew and when.

They also give a deeper look at Trump's relationship with the convicted sex offender.

And meanwhile, the White House is struggling to contain this Epstein saga.

House GOP leaders are bracing for a significant number of Republicans to break from Trump and support a bipartisan bill calling for the release of all of Epstein's files.

It's a contentious bill that Speaker Mike Johnson said he will bring to a vote on the House floor next week earlier than expected.

Again, the vast amounts of documents you're seeing from the House Oversight Committee were obtained from the Epstein estate,

and we have yet to see the entirety of what the Justice Department may have on the Epstein case.

In a moment, we're going to dive into all of this with a journalist who has worked exposed the extent of Epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring. But first, I want to bring in CNN's Tom Foreman, quite a lot to sift

through here, Tom. Way too much. I mean, literally thousands of messages to go through here.

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