Scott Simon

And of course, the speaker has other things to deal with.

Preeminently right now, a vote to force the release of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

How do we expect that to play out?

Right.

This issue was forced on the speaker and we expected a vote in the House in early December.

But with increasing calls from Republicans to get these files out, the speaker decided to move that up.

And there's going to be a vote this week.

The politics on this are really bad for the speaker and the Republican Party in the White House.

The party's divided.

And this bill is even picking up more and more Republican votes each day, even as top Trump officials were pressuring Republican lawmakers to even block a bill from coming up in the House.

The speaker argues the House Oversight Committee has already been investigating Epstein.

And we should say that the documents the committee released are from the Epstein estate.

The legislation on the floor this week is requiring the release of the Justice Department's files.

We expect this bill to pass easily.

The big question is how big of a vote will it get in the House?

And is that going to put pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to take up this issue?

And here's Deidre Walsh.

Thanks so much.

Thank you.

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