Hi, there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East. Happy Wednesday, breaking late this afternoon,

brand new bombshell reporting from the Wall Street Journal that might explain why Donald Trump

appears so anxious and, frankly, flat-footed when it comes to releasing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Wall Street Journal citing senior administration officials in its reporting that when Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a, quote, truckload of documents related to Epstein earlier this year, they discovered Donald Trump's name appeared multiple times from

that report, quote, in May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White

House that his name was in the Epstein files, the official said. Many other high-profile figures were

also named. Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn't a sign of wrongdoing.

The officials said it was a routine briefing that covered a number of topics and that Trump's

appearance in the documents wasn't the focus. Now, in response to this reporting in the Wall Street

Journal, the White House has issued a statement to NBC News that reads, quote,

The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media,

just like the Obama-Russia gate scandal, which President Trump was right about, end quote.

That is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends.

Staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Chait, is here.

Also joining us, MSNBC senior political analyst, my colleague Alex Wagner's here,

and former top official, the Department of

Justice, MSNBC legal analyst, Andrew Weissman, is here. Because this story dropped, I want to do

a little bit more of letting this sink in for any of our viewers who haven't had a chance to read

through it all before I turn this over to all of you. This importantly from the

Wall Street Journal, which I think days ago, found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from

Donald Trump because of its reporting on this elaborate birthday card and drawing, so important

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