CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten looks at public sentiment over the Jeffrey Epstein case and how the government is handling it.

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Polling data reveals that a significant majority of Americans, across both major political parties, believe the federal government is hiding Jeffrey Epstein's alleged client list. Both Republicans and Democrats express strong dissatisfaction with the amount of information released about the case so far.

Despite this widespread distrust and dissatisfaction, the issue has not had a notable effect on Donald Trump's approval ratings among Republicans. Polls from CNN and Quinnipiac show that Republican support for Trump has remained steady or even slightly increased, with very few respondents considering the Epstein case a top national issue.

How Americans are reacting to Epstein files fallout

Polls show that Americans are paying attention to the recent revelations in the Epstein case. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten now with what the numbers tell us about how the public and the president's base feel about the story that won't seem to go away. Interest in the Epstein files and the Epstein case is sky high and the American public does not trust what the government is selling them. What are we talking about here? Is the government hiding Epstein's alleged client list? Get this, 69% of Americans agree that the federal government is, in fact, hiding Epstein's alleged client list versus just 6% who say that they are not. And get this, a majority of Republicans and Democrats do, in fact, agree on this issue that the government is hiding Epstein's alleged client list. You can never get a majority of Republicans and Democrats to agree on anything, but they do agree on this particular issue. And perhaps not so surprisingly, you get a plurality of Democrats and Republicans agreeing that they are dissatisfied, dissatisfied with the amount of information that the government has released so far. What are we talking about this? Well we're talking about if we look at Republicans and independents who lean Republican, 43% are dissatisfied with the amount of information released so far compared to, get this, just a 4, 1, 2, 3, 4% of Republicans who are, in fact, satisfied with the amount of information released so far by the federal government when it comes to the Epstein case. And we look over here on this side of the screen among Democrats, get this, 60% of Democrats and independent leaning Democrats are, in fact, dissatisfied with the amount of information released so far. And get this, just 1, 2, 3% of Democrats are, in fact, satisfied so far with the amount of information released. Now you see this, you see that the plurality of Republicans are dissatisfied. So how is it impacting President Trump's overall approval rating? Republicans who approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing. Get this, in our CNN SSRS poll, it was 86% prior to this whole Epstein saga. Now it's 88%. In fact, the percentage of Republicans who approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing has actually, if anything, climbed a little bit according to our CNN polling. How about Quinnipiac? 87% before this whole Epstein saga started approved of the job that Donald Trump was doing among Republicans. Now it's 90%. So we see agreement between the CNN polling and the Quinnipiac polling. Yes, Republicans are not thrilled with how the government is responding to the Epstein case, but so far they are, in fact, not taking it out on Donald Trump, at least when it comes to his overall approval rating. Now you might be asking yourself, why? Well, I think this nugget gives it all away. Republicans who said the nation's top issue was the Epstein case. Get this, 0, 1, 1, 1 respondent, not 1%, 1 respondent of Republicans said that the nation's top issue was, in fact, the Epstein case. What we're dealing with is a public that is very much dissatisfied with how the government is responding so far to the Epstein case. A lot of folks, both on the right and the left, do, in fact, believe that the government is hiding Epstein's alleged client list, but yet when it comes to his approval rating, Donald Trump's approval rating with the Republican base, so far they're sticking with him because at this point, even if they believe the government is potentially hiding something, they don't think it's all that important. Back to you.

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