Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the Nightcat. Check your calendar.

It is day 229 of the second Trump administration if you're wondering why you're so tired and what a week it has been for this president.

His Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

F. Kennedy, Jr., faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from both Democrats and Republicans,

which is rare.

Senators are not happy about his handling of vaccines and the firing of his CDC director.

Then there's today's dismal jobs report that suggests the president's economic policies

are not having the effect he's been

promising, i.e., the economy is slowing. In California, a judge ruled that Trump broke the law

when he sent the military to Los Angeles a few months ago, and despite all of his efforts

to try to move past the Jeffrey Epstein case, the calls for the administration to release more

documents have not stopped

and they continue to grow. With that, let's bring in our nightcap and you're in luck. It is a fantastic

one. My dear friend and home girl, MSNBC's Ali Vitale, she's our senior Capitol Hill correspondent,

but you know her as the host of Way Too Early with Ali Vitale is here. Brendan Greeley, contributing editor at the Financial Times,

Paul Reikov, founder and CEO of Independent Veterans of America

and host of the Independent Americans podcast and recent Harvard grad, Tommy Barone.

If you didn't know this about him yet, you're going to find out now.

He's a Rhodes Scholar and the former

editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson. All right, gang, there's a lot to cover. Paul,

I turn to you first because you usually bring the most heat. Let's start with RFK.

What do you think the hearing actually showed us about what's happening in our government health

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