4pm: Today on Capitol Hill, the ousted CDC director Susan Monarez testified to the Senate about her firing and HHS Secretary Kennedy's ask to approve every recommendation of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel, regardless of any scientific evidence. Nicolle Wallace, with our political and medical experts, discuss the impacts of her testimony. Plus, she and our panel of economic experts discuss the Fed's first rate cut in nine months.

5pm: On Capitol Hill, House Democrats grilled FBI Director Kash Patel on his handling the Epstein files. One of those representatives, Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman joins Nicolle Wallace, to discuss Patel's evasive answers and his apparent willingness to indulge Trump's unsubstantiated claims that the birthday book is fake. Plus, she and our political experts discuss President Obama's warning of a "political crisis" in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing.

This afternoon on Capitol Hill, Alex Acosta, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, testifies to the House Oversight Committee on the Epstein case. Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia tells Alicia Menendez — in for Nicolle Wallace — what went on in that closed door testimony. Plus, how Donald Trump is threatening free speech and a judge dismissing Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times. 

The latest play in Trump's revenge might find a U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia fired for refusing to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. Alicia Menendez — in for Nicolle Wallace — and our panel of political experts discuss Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department. Plus, New York City officials arrested in ICE holding facility protest and the latest targets in the crackdown on free speech.