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Immediately after Donald Trump concluded a press availability with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, MSNBC host Ali Velshi admitted he was stunned by the president's rambling and blustering answers to reporters' questions.

During the approximately 30-minute presser, the president praised the new ballroom at his Scotland golf resort, went on another extended rant about windmills, blew off questions about Gaza and pulled numbers out of the air about genocide in Rwanda.

After the president shut down any more questions, the camera cut to an open-mouthed Velshi who remarked, "Wow. That was bat poop crazy."

"That was crazy," he repeated while holding up a sheaf of papers. "I took lots of notes–– this is in no particular order: windmills are killing us. 7 million people died in Rwanda, 'But I ended that.' The Rwanda genocide ended in 1994. 'Energy needs no subsidy.' America subsidizes energy to a great degree."

"Windmills are, yeah, yeah 'windmills are killing us –– they're the most expensive form of energy.' He's going to have a deal with the EU in an hour. He's 'not in a good mood,' he said that? He said there's not going to be a deal really with the EU, he said very specifically, he said mostly I'm just going to charge tariffs. It's not really a deal per se, people are just going to pay tariffs," he continued.

Velshi pointed out, "He went on for a little while about a ballroom and how they don't have a ballroom in the White House because they've never had a developer in charge of the White House. But now he just built a beautiful ballroom and he could just drop it into the White House and that's going to be fantastic. Wow."

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According to a former Donald Trump communications official, there is no way that the president and his White House should be at the center of the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal which should be handled instead by the Department of Justice.

During an appearance on CNN's State of the Union" panel segment, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in the first Trump administration as the director of strategic communications, stated she was shocked at Trump's advisers letting the Epstein firestorm get out of hand.

Speaking with host Jake Tapper, she pointed out, "Sometimes when you've got a bad news story, the best thing you can do is just move away and focus on something else."

"This did not need to be a weekls-long story that's now permeated pop culture and beyond," she elaborated. "Donald Trump, many people around him ran on getting to the bottom of what happened with Epstein, bringing people to justice. He needs to somehow get this back to the Department of Justice, say he's not talking about it."

"Don't be talking about pardons for Ghislaine Maxwell and others and be able to focus on his agenda," she explained before adding, "The fact that this has dragged out for so long is just pure malpractice by those advising him and the president's inability to stay on message."

"He's got to get back to a proactive message, because this is something that –– we're a year and a half out from the midterms, there's going to be 20 other news cycles that happen before then. But people actually care a lot about this, and it will matter to House members who are up [for re-election]."

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The Republican senator who admitted that he killed a Senate effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in full because he wants to give Donald Trump "cover," was repeatedly corrected on the details about the convicted pedophile's case on CNN on Sunday morning.

Appearing with "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper, a combative Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) insisted over and over again that nothing from the Epstein grand jury presentation can be released by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

That led host Tapper to continually explain that a judge is only blocking the DOJ from releasing testimony and that the Trump-appointed Bondi is free to release federal evidence, which led the GOP lawmaker from Oklahoma to argue with him repeatedly.

In one exchange, Tapper explained, "I understand you're talking about a resolution you offered calling for the grand jury to release transcripts from the grand jury investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and a judge said no. But there's troves of information that the administration could release tomorrow if they wanted to and they've been promising to and they haven't. "

"Well, Jake, that's not that's not true, you know," Mullin shot back. "You know better than that, too, because you know, every piece of file that they have, every video, every every document, every flight log has all been heard by a grand jury. They've all been seen by a grand jury and we want the judges to release it. Pam Bondi has called on the judge to release it. Trump has called on the on them to release it and and the Congress has called on them to release it. But we can't because there is a true co-equal branches of government. So we can't force a judicial branch to do anything."

"Just because something has been shown before a grand jury, that doesn't mean it is only going to be –– it can only be released to the public by a judge. If the FBI has it, they can release it," Tapper explained.

Mullin later stated, "Remember, there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before I was in office, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, way before Pam Bondi was in his office, way before Kash Patel was director. 2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein and that sweetheart has not been exposed.”

Tapper countered, “It was 2008. The U.S. attorney at the time was a guy named Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become President Trump’s secretary of labor. It all took place in 2008.”

“Who was in office at the time?” Mullin asked to which the CNN host answered, "George W. Bush."

"No, 2009 is when the case came out. And Obama was in office at the time," the GOP lawmaker argued.

“It’s not true,” Tapper stated before later adding, "The point is that the sweetheart deal, which was completed in 2008, was under the Bush administration — US Attorney Alex Acosta."

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