Welcome to The Beat. I'm Antonia Hilton in for Ari Melbert tonight. We begin with the political crisis rocking Donald Trump.

Overnight, new video surfacing, showing Epstein being grilled about Trump in a deposition. Also today, the Speaker of the House directly contradicting Trump saying this is not a hoax.

And Trump's former defense attorney spent the day in a Florida prison talking

to convicted Epstein associate Galane Maxwell. It's a pivot point in the Trump presidency.

As political puts it today, the Epstein bombshell explodes, adding the crisis is here.

Today, the number two at the DOJ, Todd Blanche, is meeting with Galane Maxwell

in a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. But the meeting may be planning the seeds for

more backlash. Maxwell's attorney spoke to the press afterwards.

We had a very productive day today with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and

Glenn Maxwell. He took a full day and asked a lot of questions. And Ms. Maxwell answered

every single question. She never stopped. She never invoked a privilege. She never declined to answer.

She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly, and to the best of her ability.

And Maxwell's own brother is now saying she's preparing new evidence. But Epstein victims warn Maxwell,

a convicted perjurer, as well as a child sex trafficker, can't be

trusted. Amid the clamor for more transparency, newly surfaced deposition video from 2010,

shows an attorney for an Epstein victim asking Epstein about Trump.

Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?

What do you mean about personal relationships?

Have you socialized with him?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Have he ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18.

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