Annie Karni

And we immediately saw even the most hard right Republicans who had said they are a hard no, that it's a Democratic hoax, they would never vote for this, suddenly say like, yeah, of course I'm voting for it.

Trump told me to, literally.

That's what Troy Nels from Texas told me last night.

Yeah, Trump said to vote for it.

So now I'm for it.

Yes, it's expected to be a unanimous or near-unanimous vote to release the files.

No one wants to be on record saying they don't support transparency on the Epstein issue.

Correct.

And Trump goes even further.

In the Oval Office on Monday, he says that if it passes the Senate and comes to his desk, he'll sign it into law.

Just a reality check here is that if he really wanted to compel the Justice Department to release these files, he actually doesn't need Congress to tell him to do so.

He could just do that, and he hasn't done it.

So there are still questions on what will a release really look like, what will actually be released.

But for now, it's just a total change of tune.

It does.

It feels like it is indicative of a splintering that's happening in the movement that we're seeing on multiple fronts in this moment, a realization that the base and Trump are not totally aligned.

And I just think enough cannot be said about the fact that four hard-right Republicans—

stood up to Trump in a way that we have not seen any moderate or center-leaning Republican do in 10 years.

Right.

And they break with him on something incredibly important to him.