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It is Sunday, November 16th. I'm Ali Valsh, live from MSNOW's brand new studios in Times Square.

And begin this hour with the unraveling of the president's relationship with some of his

former top supporters as the Epstein file scandal closes in on him.

Donald Trump has spent the weekend, rage posting to his own social media site against

Republicans who supported a successful measure to force the vote on a bill that would compel

the Department of Justice to release

all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein. We have new reporting this morning. White House sources

tell MS now that the vote, which is scheduled for Tuesday, is a, quote, losing battle for the

president. But they also say there's no scenario in which Trump would order the release of the

files. Now, the Epstein Files Transparency Act is set to be passed in the House

after a petition to force a floor vote reached 206 to 18 signatures this week.

GOP leadership is expecting dozens of deflections.

A hundred or so Republicans could end up voting for this bill.

Ro Kana, one of the proponents of the

push, was on Meet the Press this morning to outline the political problem that the president

faces. You know why Trump is losing his MAGA base on this? The reason he's losing it is he ran

saying there's a corrupt governing elite that has shafted you, that this is the Epstein class versus forgotten

Americans, and I'm going to stand up for forgotten Americans. He's forgotten those forgotten

Americans. If and when it passes the House, it would then go to the Senate. It would have to be

signed by the president. While Trump would not likely sign such a bill, that's not really the

point. The fact that he won't release the files

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