Welcome to the Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. And I'm R. We're reporting on Americans revolting against Trump

over these ongoing high prices as he craters to his lowest approval ever amid the war. And the

hypersensitive woes of FBI chief, Cash Patel. He's turned out to be really probably the

largest snowflake in the whole administration as he takes drastic steps to attack

criticism, which actually just tends to be part of the job when you run the FBI. So we have that

story coming up later. And Barack Obama making waves with his star turn on Colbert. You're going to see

some of that here by the end of the hour. It was of interest to many. You'll hear exactly

what he said. But our top story starts right here with that Trump official caught lying about his

visit to Epstein Island. You have Epstein in the foreground and the gentleman in blue behind him.

Howard Lutnik back in the hot seat today,

Congress grilling the Commerce Secretary about those Epstein links and his Epstein lies. He has been

forced to address a lot of it after what was a very unusual law that no one at the time expected

to come out, but it did. We lived through that, and that law

forced out evidence, including the photograph on your TV screen or your YouTube or your phone,

however you're watching us, but wherever you're watching us, that evidence is on your screen.

That's a photograph that they never thought would come out. They never wanted it to come out.

It was only the huge,

unusual pressure that made it come out and contradicted this Trump official's claims.

We now know Lutnik was named over 200 times in the Epstein files. Those are the ones we've seen,

including the emails arranging the very island visit that we just showed you. His assistant relayed, it was nice

seeing people there. And those long secret emails from Lutnik and his team and other Trump allies

like Elon Musk have served to publicly shred those men's past denials. And so, even by the low standards in D.C. today, it was too much. As we showed you in our

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