Liz Wheeler

The British are coming. The British are coming because we needed to be out of the way of the of the hallway for the UK prime minister. Now, being the political nerds that we are, we all thought that was really funny. Once the last time someone shouted, the British are coming in in the White House.

But once we get outside, we see that there's a gaggle of press essentially in the bushes to the side of the White House. Um, and they, the looks on their faces, so sour, so dour, so astonished to see us because it wasn't a, you know, publicly announced meeting per se. And, um, they were kind of like, what the heck are you guys doing here?

But once we get outside, we see that there's a gaggle of press essentially in the bushes to the side of the White House. Um, and they, the looks on their faces, so sour, so dour, so astonished to see us because it wasn't a, you know, publicly announced meeting per se. And, um, they were kind of like, what the heck are you guys doing here?

But once we get outside, we see that there's a gaggle of press essentially in the bushes to the side of the White House. Um, and they, the looks on their faces, so sour, so dour, so astonished to see us because it wasn't a, you know, publicly announced meeting per se. And, um, they were kind of like, what the heck are you guys doing here?

And so we were again, giddy from having been in the Oval Office, having just come out of a meeting with RFK where he was telling us some remarkable things he's working on. And they were curious about what we were holding. Now, this is a very important part of the story. We had not been told up to that point that there was any sort of embargo on this information.

And so we were again, giddy from having been in the Oval Office, having just come out of a meeting with RFK where he was telling us some remarkable things he's working on. And they were curious about what we were holding. Now, this is a very important part of the story. We had not been told up to that point that there was any sort of embargo on this information.

And so we were again, giddy from having been in the Oval Office, having just come out of a meeting with RFK where he was telling us some remarkable things he's working on. And they were curious about what we were holding. Now, this is a very important part of the story. We had not been told up to that point that there was any sort of embargo on this information.

It was our impression at that moment that within about two minutes, we would be able to break the story of the SDNY stonewalling Pam Bondi. And so when the media was so sour and bitter that we had gotten this binder that Yes, we were kind of laughing at them. We were holding up the binders in defiance saying, you know what?

It was our impression at that moment that within about two minutes, we would be able to break the story of the SDNY stonewalling Pam Bondi. And so when the media was so sour and bitter that we had gotten this binder that Yes, we were kind of laughing at them. We were holding up the binders in defiance saying, you know what?

It was our impression at that moment that within about two minutes, we would be able to break the story of the SDNY stonewalling Pam Bondi. And so when the media was so sour and bitter that we had gotten this binder that Yes, we were kind of laughing at them. We were holding up the binders in defiance saying, you know what?

You've been relegated to the bushes because you lie and you smear and you gaslight the American people. And we are the media now. And that was the background of that picture.

You've been relegated to the bushes because you lie and you smear and you gaslight the American people. And we are the media now. And that was the background of that picture.

You've been relegated to the bushes because you lie and you smear and you gaslight the American people. And we are the media now. And that was the background of that picture.

Now, within about two minutes of that picture being taken, we were told, please don't report on the binder itself or the story about the SDNY until 3.30 in the afternoon because they didn't want the press conference between Donald Trump and the UK prime minister to be solely focused on the SDNY Epstein Files story. So all of a sudden, we are in this situation where

Now, within about two minutes of that picture being taken, we were told, please don't report on the binder itself or the story about the SDNY until 3.30 in the afternoon because they didn't want the press conference between Donald Trump and the UK prime minister to be solely focused on the SDNY Epstein Files story. So all of a sudden, we are in this situation where

Now, within about two minutes of that picture being taken, we were told, please don't report on the binder itself or the story about the SDNY until 3.30 in the afternoon because they didn't want the press conference between Donald Trump and the UK prime minister to be solely focused on the SDNY Epstein Files story. So all of a sudden, we are in this situation where

where the press has gotten photos of us with these binders that appear to be real Epstein files, and yet we knew that they were not. And we begged for the embargo to be lifted. The process of that embargo being lifted was frankly botched up. That should have been, I mean, it was an error on the part of the White House not to allow us to go ahead and do that.

where the press has gotten photos of us with these binders that appear to be real Epstein files, and yet we knew that they were not. And we begged for the embargo to be lifted. The process of that embargo being lifted was frankly botched up. That should have been, I mean, it was an error on the part of the White House not to allow us to go ahead and do that.

where the press has gotten photos of us with these binders that appear to be real Epstein files, and yet we knew that they were not. And we begged for the embargo to be lifted. The process of that embargo being lifted was frankly botched up. That should have been, I mean, it was an error on the part of the White House not to allow us to go ahead and do that.

We, of course, were being respectful of that embargo because we were just given an exclusive story. But what happened then is pictures of us holding the binders were the only things that we were allowed to post at that moment. But we thought we'd be able within about five minutes of those posts, just getting people's attention to tell what the real story is. And yet the embargo wasn't lifted.