House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling on the Department of Justice to release all available information related to Jeffrey Epstein, diverging from the Trump administration’s recent stance on keeping additional details sealed.

Plus, Adelita Grijalva wins the Democratic primary in the race for a House seat in Arizona. The seat was left vacant by her father Raúl Grijalva, who died in March.

President Trump’s base is angry at him for allegedly selling out on the Epstein scandal, despite the fact that there is no evidence of foul play or a client list.

The rhetoric marks a dramatic escalation for the Republican president, who has broken with some of his most loyal backers on issues in the past, but never with such fervor.

Trump said he had personally warned the Journal’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, and its editor in chief, Emma Tucker, that the letter was “fake,” calling the story “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

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President Donald Trump is facing one of his biggest political tests of the past decade, after spending years hinting at Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories.