Tonight, even more Epstein fallout for the president.

He's now attacking his own supporters as the White House is scrambling to contain the damage.

Then a wild day in the markets after Trump denies that he's planning to fire Fed Chair J. Powell.

What it all says about who's really in charge.

Plus, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Brock lands a $200 million contract with the Pentagon

just a week after it went on an anti-Semitic rant as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.

Good evening once again.

I am Stephanie Rural and welcome to the midweek nightcap. It is day 178 of the second Trump administration. And Donald J. Trump just cannot figure out how to deal with Epstein backlash. Here's a suggestion. Stop talking about it. Well, he's not. Today he tried something we very rarely see. He directly attacked his

own base, calling them weaklings for falling for what he now calls a hoax. I can't explain it well enough.

I'm going to have my colleague Garrett Haig, give you all the details.

Tonight, President Trump lashing out at his own supporters amid the ongoing Republican outcry

over his administration's decision not to release Justice Department files related to convicted

sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

I lost a lot of faith in certain people.

Yeah, I lost because they got duped by the Democrats.

The president dismissing the interest by some in the MAGA world in Epstein as a Democratic distraction

and chastising those supporters as, quote, weaklings.

It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats.

And some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.

And so they try and do the Democrats work.

They're wasting their time with a guy who obviously had some very serious problems, who died

three, four years ago. I'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy, the best

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