Thanks so much. Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melba reporting on these damning Epstein emails.

It's evidence that is clearly rocking the Trump White House. And now, Congressional Democrats,

who first released a handful of Epstein emails that implicated Trump, are finding that what

they're doing with facts is working. Remember, this was a development where the Democrats

used those emails to bring facts to what had at times felt like a Trump propaganda fight.

But the emails, the facts, starting yesterday morning, upended everything. Those damning emails,

driving headlines and outrage across the nation. Trump, being alleged

by Epstein to have known about the girls, of course he knew about the girls, he was told.

Some Trump voters, people around the world, all reacting to this. Epstein and his now convicted

conspirator Maxwell discussed in 2011 how Trump spent, quote, hours with a victim at Epstein's house.

And so those first emails, if you're following this story, swiftly led to thousands more.

And the only reason there were thousands of other documents, emails, materials, sitting around Congress,

was that Republicans had it and had been holding it all back,

holding back that material on Epstein from the public. Now, Democrats had forced their hand

yesterday morning, and so Republicans then drop more material. Congress is going further. It is now on

a path to vote on releasing even more Epstein material. And so I'm going to show you a few more things

in the reaction, but as we kind of take this in a day into this story, basically, we can see how

facts and pressure can still matter in this MAGA era, even on an issue where Donald Trump has

pulled out all the stops to pressure his own party, and it's his

Republican party that controls both houses of Congress. And yet here we are watching more

material come out and a glide path to a vote, which is expected to have even more Republican

defections. Indeed, most members of Congress willing to say anything about this now escalating Trump-Ebstein crisis have been uniformly negative, including Republicans.

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