Stephen Fowler

Well, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey, he's one of the main people that have been pushing for the files to be released.

He shared a 14 minute video yesterday explaining his expectations.

He says there's information from Epstein's victims that should be included in these files, like the names of at least 20 men accused of sex crimes.

It's not.

The law does give the Attorney General's Office leeway to redact certain things, and the House won't be in session today to react.

Massey thinks it'll take a few days to understand if there's anything that's been left out.

In the meantime, there have been other releases dripping from the House Oversight Committee Democrats and Republicans of different Epstein materials, including one just yesterday.

These are things that are like private files, emails, photographs, texts, and more from Epstein's private estate handed over under a congressional subpoena, and there is this massive body of already public files and court records and things like that that already exist.

Absolutely.

The way the Trump administration has handled the Epstein files, including downplaying the release of information for much of the year, means that anything that comes likely won't be the end of the story.

Democrats have used the file this year, and Trump's changing message is one of the few levers of power they have to go after the administration.

There's also a large portion of Trump's base that's been unhappy because they were promised by the president, attorney general, FBI director, and others that

that there was a cabal of child predators being protected by powerful people in the government that would be revealed.

Throughout all of this, Epstein and Maxwell's victims say they're disappointed that their allegations of abuse have been used as a political cudgel wielded by politicians in Washington.

Thank you.

President Trump won Tennessee's 7th congressional district last November by about 22 percentage points.

This week, Matt Ben Epps won by nine.

After super PACs from both parties poured millions of dollars into this high-profile contest, Democrats say the 13-point overperformance by their candidate, Afton Bain, is a good sign for 2026.

In 60 state legislative and congressional special elections this year, Democrats have improved from their 2024 margins by an average of 13%.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.