Rachel Abrams

He's not going to push this through.

Obviously, there is a long history of Republicans who go against President Trump getting defenestrated from Washington.

But Republicans also just lost a bunch of elections last week.

The president's approval is very low.

Lawmakers are very aware that Jeffrey Epstein is an issue that has divided the MAGA movement and President Trump's supporters.

And it's an issue where many of Trump's supporters want a lot of transparency.

So

Wouldn't you expect to see more Republicans voting to release these documents?

But the Epstein story just hasn't gone away, has it?

It is a story that has dogged President Trump.

And just to step back for a minute, I kind of wonder why you think that is.

Why is this a story that just won't go away?

Michael, just step back for a second and talk about the larger context this is all happening in.

It feels as though the lesson over and over again in recent elections has been that the electorate, the American people care about affordability.

They care about the cost of living.

They care about health care.

We saw Democrats win big up and down the ballot recently.

Also about affordability in many respects.

President Trump won the most recent presidential elections.

in large part because people cared about the economy more than any other issues that the Democrats were pressing.