Good evening. I'm John Yang. President Trump continues to be dogged by a man who's been dead for more than six years, Jeffrey Epstein.

Late yesterday, the president broke with Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, a one-time staunch ally,

who was among four House Republicans who joined all 214 Democrats to force a vote next week on releasing the Justice

Department's Epstein files. In a truth social post, Mr. Trump called her a ranting lunatic

and said, all I see wacky Marjorie do is complain, complain, complain. Mr. Trump left Washington

late yesterday, but couldn't escape the controversy.

A board Air Force won, he sought to deflect attention onto political opponents.

It's really what did he mean when he spent all the time with Bill Clinton with the president of Harvard, you know, that is Summers, Larry Summers, whatever it's said, and all of the other people that he spent time.

There haven't been any allegations that either former President Clinton or Larry Summers did anything wrong.

Jonathan Lemire is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

Jonathan, we should start off by saying right off the bat,

there have been no allegations of wrongdoing against the president either in this.

But this story got a little gas this week because of new material that was released.

Remind us what was it and what did we learn new about the president's relationship with Epstein?

Well, we've been hearing about these so-called Epstein files for years now.

And that's not what we got this week. But what happened was

a few emails were released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee that shed some new light

on the Epstein-Trump relationship. We've certainly known that they're friends. These emails,

though, suggest perhaps closer friends than the president would like the public to know.

And then in response to that, the Republicans put out 23,000 emails, sort of an effort to flood the zone, to distract from the damaging ones that came out.

Although I don't think it really worked because some of those emails also, a lot of them mentioned Trump.

And some of them make clear that Epstein and Trump, you know, were friends and spent a lot of time together, even though they did later have a falling out.

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