Senator Chuck Schumer

In this case, not only is it the right thing to do, but it's helping people.

And people every day, every day, more and more people get these notices.

More and more people hear their nursing home is closing.

More and more people hear their rural hospital is closing.

They've done it with judicial nominees?

They've done it in a few instances, but removing it altogether would be a huge deal.

And, you know, I have a lot of friends on the Republican side, and I don't think they could even get the number of votes to do it.

I think there are a good number of Republicans who say that would undo the whole bulwark of the Senate.

And so I think...

I don't think Thune wants to do it.

Now, sometimes he's pushed to do things, and he too often goes along with what he's pushed to do, even if he knows it's wrong.

But in this case, I think there's a pretty deep feeling among the Republican senators not to do it.

Nominees have been somewhat different.

And I think this would be on the most major issue facing us to do this in a way that would affect all future legislation is way beyond what happened with nominees, as bad as that was.

There's something really going on here, okay?

First, everyone wants the Epstein files released.

It showed leaders of our country and government doing all kinds of very bad things and then covering it up.

So even the MAGA people, you have so many of these MAGA people getting out and saying they should be released, okay?

Johnson would not release it.

Trump wouldn't want it released.