Tonight on 360, the talk was taped in what Jelaine Maxwell told the top Trump administration

lawyer in her quest for clemency could soon be made public.

The question is, why would the White House do that?

And would she tell the truth about anything?

Also tonight breaking news out of Texas, where the governor has just tried to get a top

Democratic lawmaker removed from office for opposing Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional map.

And later, the report is in on what doomed the Ocean Gate Titan on its trip to the Titanic and all the warning signs that either went unseen or were kept from the public view.

Good evening, everyone. John King in for Anderson tonight, and we begin with striking and in some ways puzzling new developments in a story that never seems to run out of either.

They concern what already were too highly unusual, if not totally, unprecedented meetings

between the Deputy Attorney General, who also happens to be

the President's former criminal defense attorney, and a federal inmate, who also happens to be

one of the most notorious sex offenders and exploiters are underage women in recent American history.

Today we learned that the conversation between Todd Blanche and Jeline Maxwell, just days before

she was transferred to a so-called

club-fed prison camp, was recorded.

Not only that, three senior officials tell CNN the administration is considering releasing

a transcript of the talks.

Maxwell, you'll remember, is a potential cooperating witness in the continuing Jeffrey

Epstein saga, as well as the focus of more than

a little suspicion involving her motives for talking and whether she'd tell anything resembling

the whole truth. And there are questions as well about why the administration is making such an

effort to get her to talk, even as that same administration box at releasing what lawmakers

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