Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert, and I want to tell you first. We have another installment in our special report as we go through these emails, evidence, and facts.

This one is on some of the other powerful figures ensnared by these early Epstein files. The emails are the expected tranche of part of what is the larger Epstein files.

Last night, you may recall,

we showed you some of that footage of Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, which now looks a lot

worse when we see their secret private emails leaked about rehabilitating Jeffrey Epstein's

reputation. Why did such a top Trump ally want to do that? Well, we have more for you,

volume two tonight. That's coming up.

But I begin right now with something you know about that's only getting worse since it happened.

We have the reporting here on President Trump's clearly worst week this year, that bipartisan rebuke from Congress on a key vulnerability forcing the coming

release of the Epstein Files. The president has just posted on his social network that he has now

signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. We're just hearing that Trump has signed the Epstein Act.

Donald Trump put his surrender and humiliation in writing in capital letters.

He didn't do it in front of the cameras.

He likes to do everything in front of the cameras, not this.

Trump does like cameras.

In fact, Donald Trump, through a very long public career, has followed the pretty cliched claim that

any press is good press. But I guess that has its limits when it comes to press about blatantly

hiding a sex traffickers files. Why would you do that? Or any press is good press, but what if it's press about your massive humiliating loss that's really been heard around the world?

A loss that shows Republicans will actually overrule Donald Trump as he gets deeper into his lame duck era, and that he doesn't have total power over his party, despite the many,

many times we've been told that by some, whatever their agenda, reason, or just misperception.

He didn't have total control over any of his party in the Senate this week.

We've also seen how he has now followed the Democrats lead, surrendered to their demand and position,

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