New Delhi, June 6 -- Rep. Madeleine Dean had her notes ready. She had visited the restricted reading room where lawmakers are permitted to view unredacted portions of the Epstein files. What she found, she said, was proof that President Donald Trump had lied about his relationship with the late sex offender. What she got instead, on Tuesday, was a gavel.

claiming her allotted time had expired. The first interruption came within minutes of her opening exchange, before she had completed a single line of inquiry about the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

"I beg your pardon," Dean shot back. "How do I get cut off two minutes into this?"

Rogers didn't relent.

The confrontation crystallized what Democrati...