President Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while researching their book, “Regime Change.” Here’s the inside story. Correction: An earlier version of this video mislabeled the date of Pam Bondi’s interview clip.
By Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, John Pappas, Jon Miller, Nikolay Nikolov, Rafaela Balster, James Surdam, Paul Abowd, Gilad Thaler, Whitney Shefte and Luke Piotrowski
June 10, 2026
