Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as he is opposing the bill, he points to this investigation the Oversight Committee is doing frequently and says, well, this is the avenue that we need to take if we want to get full transparency here.
That's right.
And so because the White House and Republican leadership are opposed to this bipartisan bill, Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna file what's known as a discharge petition.
And the shorthand for a discharge petition is that if 218 members of the House, which is a majority of the body, agree on any one particular issue, they can force the House to vote on a bill.
And so Speaker Johnson essentially says, we don't need to do this.
We don't need to force a vote that would circumvent leadership.
We can look at the Oversight Committee and their investigation, and they'll do the work for us.
And what ends up happening is the Oversight Committee gets all of these documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, and it's the information in those materials that they end up releasing today.
So if you ask them, they'll tell you that they got these particular documents a few days ago.
It took them time to go through and redact information and decide that these needed to come out today.
That's the stated reason.
But I think there's also political dynamics at play, as there often are here on Capitol Hill.
Today is the day that the House is voting to end the government shutdown.
And House Democrats are really unhappy with the deal that the Senate made.
They think it makes them look weak, that they didn't get what they wanted.
And the release of these e-mails
intentionally or not, has changed and shifted the conversation on Capitol Hill so that the Epstein saga has become the focus again.
But it's very clear that Republicans, President Trump and the White House all want to be talking about the fact that Republicans ended the shutdown without Democrats having to make major concessions.
And instead, a significant amount of their time today has been spent talking about Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with President Trump.
So earlier this morning, House Republicans and the White House argued the Democrats were cherry picking documents and selectively choosing documents from this trove in order to present a specific narrative.
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