U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that he would have "great pause" if President Donald Trump pardoned Ghislaine Maxwell, but deferred to Trump.

President Trump is struggling to escape the controversy around Jeffrey Epstein and convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, even when he’s abroad in the United Kingdom this weekend. WIRED Senior Writer Jake Lahut,

"She probably wants a pardon from Donald Trump, and so her meeting with Trump's Department of Justice cannot be trusted, and anything she says must be corroborated with documents and records from the actual Epstein files,

Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has finished 1 1/2 days of interviews with Justice Department officials

President Trump’s DOJ interviewed convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell for the second day in a row. MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton reports on the Epstein whirlwind around President Trump and is joined by former special agent Asha Rangappa and author Tara Setmayer.