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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to withhold video from one of his attacks on alleged drug boats, not only from the public but also from members on Congress, is ludicrous, according to retired US Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling.

With the Trump administration continuing their attacks, claiming they are going after narcoterrorists without providing any evidence, Hertling claimed the Donald Trump appointee’s excuse for hiding the notorious Sept. 2nd attack video showing survivors of an earlier attack being killed doesn’t hold water.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) sounded the alarm late Friday night over two crucial documents he says are “missing” from the Justice Department’s release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, documents he said he knows are held by the agency and described as the “most important.”

“What we found out is the most important documents are missing,” Khanna said, speaking with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Friday night.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out Friday after a viral video showed him leaving a Washington, D.C. restaurant following a public heckling, insisting in a Fox News interview that the confrontation was set up and blaming not only the “deranged” activist, but also the restaurant itself.

And he had a few choice words for both.

Far-right InfoWars webcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had a dire warning for MAGA on Friday: President Donald Trump is blowing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, and falling into a trap set by his Democratic opponents.

"This is a disaster for Trump," said Jones. "And I predicted it and everybody predicted it, that if he obliquely joined the cover-up, the Democrats would selectively hang it around his neck. Evidence last week, they give the estate a few months ago of Epstein over to them, 90-plus thousand files. They picked 19 files, and it's Trump at public events with beauty queens and stuff and they black their faces out. MSNBC says, 'Is that the girls? Do they black them out because they're victims?' And we debunk it quickly, but the point is, it doesn't matter. Because Trump joined in it."

President Donald Trump is taking his supporters for a ride on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Friday's edition of "Deadline: White House" — and the new dump of documents only proves that further.

"Andrew, we've been talking theoretically. You've been reading," said Wallace. "Anything strike you in terms of what the Department of Justice has made public?"

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued Friday in no uncertain terms on MS NOW that the new release of Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files proves that Attorney General Pam Bondi lied to the American people — and separately threatened both Bondi and another Justice Department official with impeachment.

"So the survivors themselves have illuminated the problem, in their view," anchor Nicolle Wallace said. "With that approach, some of what is in the files are their 302s, their interviews with the FBI. Is it your understanding that the survivors themselves have not been contacted about their own 302s, if they've been released?"

President Donald Trump declined to take questions just hours after an attorney with the Department of Justice said that the administration would defy a law requiring all of the files on Jeffrey Epstein to be released by the end of the day.

Trump ended a Friday meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs by announcing that he had suddenly had an idea to meet with health insurance companies. The president insisted that he didn't want to "soil" his idea by taking questions from the media.

Among the attractions at the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend is an opportunity for attendees to get their picture taken in front of a re-creation of the tent where founder Charlie Kirk was murdered.

The four-day event, called "America Fest" is the first major gathering since Kirk was shot in the neck by an assassin as he took questions at a Utah college.