Michael Barbaro

Again.

Yeah, I like it.

I think it really, the verisimilitude is good.

On Tuesday night, not long after we spoke with Carl, the Senate moved quickly to call a vote in support of the Epstein bill, which now puts the bill on track to pass the Senate by Wednesday morning.

If that happens, the bill could be signed into law by President Trump by the end of the day.

We'll be right back.

Here's what else you need to know today.

During a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump offered the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, lavish praise and dismissed a report from U.S.

intelligence officials who found that bin Salman was responsible for the murder of a journalist from The Washington Post, Jamal Khashoggi.

Now, who are you with?

You're with who?

Fake news, ABC fake news, one of the worst.

Before Ben Salman could answer a question about the murder from a reporter, Trump interjected and defended the crown prince.

You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.

A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about.

Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happened, but he knew nothing about it.

And we can leave it at that.

You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.

And...

In a major blow to President Trump's efforts to redistrict his way to victory in the midterm elections, a federal judge has blocked Texas' newly redrawn congressional map from going into effect.