Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert reporting on the continuing fallout from Donald Trump's

waking nightmare. Congress forcing him to release the Epstein files that his administration

has been hiding. This is an overwhelming rebuke. It strips Donald Trump of the presidential

veto power because both parties overruled him. Where other presidents have vetoed bills,

they strongly oppose. We've covered that from

Bush to Obama. Keep in mind, under the rules, Trump cannot veto this because he lost so badly,

he lost that option as well. He is not really presidenting when it comes to the Epstein bill.

And that is why what we're also witnessing risks for Donald Trump a wider contagion for his

perceived and actual declining power in Washington. Republicans just saw they can defy him. Democrats found a way

to run the Congress instead of the Republican Speaker, who you see there like Trump was on the run

yesterday, making claims that actually were evaporating in real time,

including his claims that the Senate was going to make changes, which they didn't do.

Because like Trump, when it comes to the Epstein files, you don't have the votes.

That's how Hamilton was memorably scolded by the founding fathers in the play.

You don't have the votes, you don't have

the votes, you're going to need congressional approval, and you don't have the votes. Well,

this is Donald Trump's Hamilton test, and like Cabinet Battle One, he failed it. Let me show you,

departing from the art back to real new history, the living history this week, what it looked like when Trump didn't have the votes, not even one single Republicans standing by him in the Senate.

Just seconds ago, a landslide vote in the House of Representatives. The release of the Epstein

files has passed the House. A reckoning over the Epstein files on Capitol Hill. The Trump

presidency, as we have known it, is over. This was a nearly unanimous vote. No amount of arm

twisting by Donald Trump managed to stop or slow the passage of legislation

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