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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) appeared to freeze during an interview with Fox Business' Larry Kudlow.

The conversation had turned to President Donald Trump's mass deportation programs when Kennedy commented, "Everybody else thinks.... Everybody else ...." and he stopped speaking, licking his lips before the camera cut from Kennedy.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was ruthlessly mocked Tuesday by CNN analyst Scott Jennings — a former GOP campaign strategist and usually one of President Donald Trump's most faithful supporters on the network — comparing his decision to shut down the House rather than take a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to King Arthur and his knights from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" running away from danger.

"Is this going to work?" asked anchor Kasie Hunt. "Is Mike Johnson's attempt to get out of dodge going to help defuse all this for the president?"

President Donald Trump's intelligence chief no longer seems to be working in the best interest of America, according to one analyst.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was one of Trump's most controversial cabinet picks. Not only does she have no direct intelligence experience, but she has also held clandestine meetings with former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, publicly supported people who leaked classified military information, and has ties to shady religious groups.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she was "not sure" if President Donald Trump or anyone in his administration communicated with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) before a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents was scuttled by canceling the final day of Congress before summer break.

Although the House was scheduled to hold votes on Thursday, Johnson moved to cut the week short as many members indicated that they would push to force the Trump administration to release files on the convicted sex offender.

Former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson couldn't help but notice that President Donald Trump is acting differently lately, and he thinks he knows why.

Speaking with a panel of political analysts on Tuesday, MSNBC host Katy Tur remarked that she was trying to understand Trump's motivation around the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal.

CNN correspondent Isobel Yeung confronted Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a hardcore Trump supporter in Congress and an outspoken voice about canceling foreign aid to Afghanistan, over the consequences of his actions.

Yeung witnessed a baby die in front of her while reporting on the effects of U.S. foreign aid cuts in that country — and told him about what she witnessed. But he didn't bat an eye as he repeatedly told her it wasn't his problem.

House Republicans have effectively “been paralyzed” out of fear of inter-party dissent on Jeffrey Epstein, and have left key GOP priorities on the cutting room floor ahead of a congressional recess, CNN’s Lauren Fox noted Tuesday.

“You have some conservatives who are very frustrated with the fact that they feel like this is a campaign promise,” Fox said.

Republican strategist and political analyst Susan Del Percio slammed House Republicans’ efforts to stonewall measures to unseal documents on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, arguing their tactics are actually “prolonging” criticism of Republicans among their base.

“I think he's prolonging it and making it actually worse,” Percio said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports.

President Donald Trump lobbed criminal allegations at Barack Obama, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and other political opponents during an Oval Office meeting with Philippines president Bongbong Marcos.

The U.S. president was asked about his Department of Justice seeking a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sends lawmakers home to avoid action on the growing scandal, and Trump instead told reporters they should be talking about his administration's criminal claims against Obama and others.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused President Donald Trump of a plot to silence Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he would meet with her before she testified before Congress.

Hours before the House Oversight Committee approved a motion to subpoena Maxwell, Blanche confirmed that he intended to meet with her at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

President Donald Trump insisted that he was not aware of the Department of Justice's effort to speak to Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Amid the fallout from the Trump administration's decision not to release additional Epstein files, the president was asked on Tuesday if he urged Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to meet with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex offenses.