The Lead with Jake Tapper

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv, calling on the Netanyahu government to end the mass starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza as new images illustrate the dire hunger crisis, man made in the region.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein problem keeps growing, today he dispatched his deputy attorney general to Florida to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend who groomed underage girls for Epstein. She is currently serving a 20 year sentence. Plus, Trump’s visit to the Federal Reserve headquarters was born from his continuing anger at Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s unwillingness, so far, to lower interest rates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A slew of new details emerge in the Jeffrey Epstein case just as a judge declines to release some grand jury documents from the criminal investigation. CNN has confirmed that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump back in May that his name was one of many in the Epstein files.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department today says they want to speak with Ghislaine Maxwell, the once girlfriend and associate of pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Will she comply and would she tell the truth?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump shows fake clips of President Obama in handcuffs and calls for the Washington Commanders to change their name back to the Redskins or else. Is operation change the subject underway? Trump drums up controversy while avoiding discussing his own connections to pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the scandal around it.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Attorney General Pam Bondi, at the direction of President Trump, asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury testimony related to the prosecution of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senate Republicans shut down debate over controversial judicial nominee Emil Bove leading Democrats on that panel to walk out.  The walkout left Democrats unable to question Bove on a range of issues including his involvement, if any, in decisions to keep the Epstein files out of the public eye.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is frustrated by supporters’ continued demand to see the files on pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Today he called those supporters weaklings and suggested they take a hike. Plus, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is accused in a new lawsuit by a former police commissioner of running the NYPD as a criminal enterprise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is attempting a course correction on the controversy relating the DOJ’s Jeffrey Epstein memo by sharing conspiracy theories. House Speaker Mike Johnson now says the Justice Department should release everything they have on Epstein.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is picking sides after a heated blowup over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile case. What is going on at the DOJ? Plus, a look at President Trump’s pressure campaign on Vladimir Putin.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices