Mark Halperin

Not everybody get asked about everything.

Even stuff that shows up in gossip columns or blind items on the Internet.

So there are two things I want to say about this.

First of all, from the Epstein files, again, there are a lot of questions people might ask Howard Lutnick.

I don't know if reporters are going to have access to him anytime soon, but will they ask him?

Could be, maybe not.

President Trump.

Here's one of the many things that have been released from the Epstein files about President Trump.

And again, as you know, he's all over them.

This is from March 11th, 2019.

Is A4, please.

This is an email from Michael Wolff, the journalist, to Jeffrey Epstein, and it's about President Trump's decision to stay over the holidays in the White House while his family went to Mar-a-Lago.

And the allegation here is that a woman who worked for President Trump

was having an affair with President Trump.

It says, now the president's telling friends that he wasn't staying at the White House because of the shutdown.

There was a government shutdown going on.

He was staying because he was having sex with this woman.

And Michael Wolff says, was this shutdown bravado?

Was it locker room talk?

Or all part of a new alternative reality that only President Trump seems to be living in?