Did they think it would all just go away?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Major new Epstein files developments today.
What new revelations have emerged from the Jeffrey Epstein files?
The White House is straight up trying to shut down questions. They say they've moved on from the topic. That sounds pretty authoritarian to me. We also have new confrontations involving people tied to the files and lawmakers now reviewing unredacted documents and saying what they are finding in there is way worse than what we were told. We're also going to look at Trump bragging about cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs. Not exactly something to brag about unless you are suffering from MAGA brain rot and casually admitting that the tariff policy is based on who is annoying him personally.
What did Howard Lutnick admit about his connection to Epstein?
We also have brutal new polling for Trump and therefore Republicans now just nine months from these midterm elections and Megan Kelly has a full blown cultural meltdown over Spanish. Yes, it's about Bad Bunny. And it really reveals a lot about how parts of the right are thinking about culture and identity right now. And later, prediction markets are now putting real money behind the possibility of Trump not finishing his term. The why is what's really interesting there. We'll explain what it means and what it doesn't. All of it today on the show. Great to be back in studio.
We start with new developments in the Epstein files, and it really helps explain why powerful people keep trying to tell the public to move on. You'll hear Caroline Leavitt a little bit later in the show say we're moving on from this story.
How is the White House responding to questions about Epstein?
Well, good for you, Caroline. But we are members of Congress. We're finally allowed to look at unredacted Justice Department files about Jeffrey Epstein not all of them, not even most of them, actually just a portion. And even with that very limited access, we already have new, very extraordinarily serious questions about what is being hidden and why lawmakers from both parties almost immediately said we found the names of men likely implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, whose identities had been concealed by Justice Department redactions. We heard from Republican Thomas Massey.
What claims is Donald Trump making about jobs and the economy?
We heard from Democrat Ro Khanna, both of whom helped push for access to these files in the first place, say that in just a couple of hours spent reviewing sum of millions of documents, they found six men whose names had been blacked out, six men in a couple of hours. At least one is reportedly an American citizen. Another is a foreign national. One is described as a prominent individual. Another is tied to a foreign government. These are not little details that were hidden in the redacted versions of the files. Now, this raises the possibility that redactions may have been used deliberately to protect powerful figures rather than to protect victims, which, oh, my goodness, that's exactly what we've been saying all along as I almost knock over my water here.
But the point was, we were told they were only going to be redacting for the purposes of protecting victims or individuals who are not guilty or potentially guilty of anything.
What do prediction markets indicate about Trump's potential early exit?
Now, one of the most disturbing details in these latest revelations involves an email tied to a foreign business figure described in reporting as a sultan whose association with Jeffrey Epstein was known, but it hadn't been fully detailed. And according to what's being described from the files, an email referenced a torture video sent to Epstein. Now, we don't know the full context at this time. We don't know the details of the video. But the fact that materials like this existed in files and were redacted is already alarming. Like, you don't have to decipher
How is the Epstein issue being handled by Fox News commentators?
Is torture literal torture or is it code for something or a euphemism? The fact that it was redacted previously is the scandal. And it raises an obvious question. Who benefits from these redactions? I think we we can infer a lot about the from the answer to that question. There's another revelation.
What does recent polling say about Biden and Trump's presidencies?
that kind of resets the entire moral gravity of the case. Congressman Jamie Raskin says the documents he reviewed reference victims as young as 15, 14, 10 and in at least once one instance, a nine year old, nine years old.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
What new revelations have emerged from the Jeffrey Epstein files?
0:03–0:41
3
What did Howard Lutnick admit about his connection to Epstein?
0:41–1:45
4
How is the White House responding to questions about Epstein?
1:45–2:24
5
What claims is Donald Trump making about jobs and the economy?
2:24–3:26
6
What do prediction markets indicate about Trump's potential early exit?
3:26–4:04
7
How is the Epstein issue being handled by Fox News commentators?
4:04–4:27
8
What does recent polling say about Biden and Trump's presidencies?
4:27–1:04:24
Speakers
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