This is the beat, and we begin here with a piece of the story we were just discussing and a lot more of the Epstein political meltdown, including what victims say is Donald Trump's betrayal and favoritism for pedophiles.

That's their words. I'm going to get to that. It's what might be the greatest peril of Trump's second term.

The economy economy we've

been discussing the Epstein uproar hitting a whole new pitch today because it's gone beyond

promises and talk and content and into coddling Epstein conspirators. So today we have an

extraordinary move. Donald Trump, as Stephanie Ruh and I were just discussing, firing the data

official who does these jobs numbers. Critics say it's an abuse of power. People involved in this

type of work, labor, finance, say they've never seen anything quite like this. And it all was

quite blunt. If you can say one thing about the second term that might be different than the first

is Donald Trump just does whatever he wants immediately. We don't see guard rails. We don't see a lot of

spin and we don't see the Washington game of them saying, well, wait till midnight, wait till Sunday.

Nope. Came right along with what was bad news for the Trump administration. Hours after this

tough jobs data, which shows hiring basically sharply slowing,

which means that's a bad thing because it's not the kind of job gains they wanted. And second,

a lot of concern and indicators that this could relate to Trump's policy. So it's not just bad

news. It's bad news partly caused by Trump. According to experts, we'll get into the details.

They fell short of the expectations.

And this is widely understood here.

It's summer.

Some people are busy.

Some people turn off the news.

But in finance, where this monthly jobs number is a big deal, it hit hard.

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