Tulsi Gabard says she has evidence that Democrats manufactured a connection between Trump and Russia to steal the 2016 election as Trump tries to beat back more stories tying him to Jeffrey Epstein. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on the week at the White House.

House Speaker Mike Johnson rebuffed pressure to act on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, instead sending members home early on Wednesday for a month-long break from Washington after the week’s legislative agenda was upended by Republican members who are clamoring for a vote.

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South Park's new season premiere featured President Trump in bed with Satan and talking about the Epstein files which drew fierce criticism from the White House.

Three Republicans on a subcommittee for the House Oversight panel joined a vote forced by Democrats to subpoena files from the Department of Justice on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. CBS News' Natalie Brand reports.

Both Republican and Democratic Senators agree that the Epstein files should be released even if President Donald Trump is directly named in them. On July 23 a House subcommittee voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and now the Senate is considering following suit.

Inside his cavernous office on Monday afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson was facing a growing crisis. The House GOP conference, which included some of the Louisiana Republican's key allies, was in full rebellion over the spiraling Jeffrey Epstein situation.