The Trump administration is still reeling from the backlash to its highly anticipated review of the federal files on Jeffrey Epstein after the government concluded that the disgraced financier did commit suicide while in federal custody and signaled no plans to release any of the records on the sex trafficking case in the future.

A group of Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding their Republican counterparts hold a public hearing on the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents. Why it matters: Democrats have homed in on a strategy this week of squeezing Republicans on the issue as President Trump comes under fire from his own base.

Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.

A broken promise to release more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case has sparked outrage among some of President Donald Trump’s loyal supporters

If the president wanted the Epstein controversy to fade away, he probably shouldn’t keep saying provocative comments about it.

Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI abruptly walked back the notion that there's an Epstein client list of elites who participated in the wealthy New York financier's trafficking of underage girls.

Republican strategist David Urban talks with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about President Trump’s attempts to tamp down the controversy over his Justice Department’s handling of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.