Welcome to The Rest Is Politics US with me, Cathy Kay, down oddly in Texas,

which is the center of America's political world this Monday, and we'll explain that in the second half.

Hello, Anthony.

Is that a blue state now, Caddy Kay?

Well, who knows? We'll get into that. No, I don't think it is. They go chasing unicorns down here, but they have had a little bit of a victory and we can talk about the meaning of that. Okay, so what are we talking about today, Cathy? So we're going to talk about the Epstein files, dum, dum, dumb,

and millions of documents have been released and photographs and images and videos. And we will

talk about what we actually learned after this massive weight that we've had for these files.

Who looks like they're implicated who looks like they're not

Donald Trump says this all clears him we'll get into that and then in the second half we are

going to talk about this state senate race in Texas where a Democrat won unexpectedly in a very

Trumpy area and it's got Republicans all of a Twitter

and they're worried about what it might mean for the midterm elections.

But let's start with Epstein and quickly just to remind everybody, the DOJ released millions

of these documents that they've been holding over the weekend.

180,000 images were released, some 2,000 videos were

released, emails, lists, diagrams all out there. There are emails between Andrew Mountbatten

Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein inviting him to various parties.

There are emails between Elon Musk asking where Epstein's wildest parties would be.

There are emails which suggest Bill Gates had an affair and may, according to, some of these documents have caught a sexually transmitted disease from a Russian girl.

There are photos of Andrew crouching over a woman, young woman, I would say, judging by the

image, lying on the floor. Donald Trump, in reaction to these documents, has said that

it all absolves him from blame and he has attacked and threatened

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