Hi there, everyone. It's Fort Gwag in New York. Happy last week of the year. Our gift to you, we will monitor that live event for any news and tell you about it as it develops. But we start with a story that you might have missed, a story that takes a whole lot of time and energy

and mental bandwidth to stay on top of every important twist

in development.

It's the Epstein story.

But given that those things, time, mental energy,

bandwidth are not exactly an abundant supply this time of year

for anyone.

We'll bring you up to speed on what you might have missed.

In fact, it appears to be the case that the timing of everything we've learned over the last few days is deliberate on purpose.

In other words, some of the most damning revelations freshly in the hands of the American people and Epstein survivors, more importantly, are coming out now precisely

because our tension is divided and in such short supply. For instance, the Department of Justice

followed up on its past due Christmas week release of some 30,000 Epstein documents with an infuriating

news dump on Christmas Eve, something that if they'd checked under

the couch cushions and uncovered more than a million documents, new ones that are now going

to take weeks to process. At this point, if you're asking yourself, wait a minute, didn't they

pass a law? Weren't they legally compelled to have all of this material out 10 days ago?

The answer is yes. Congressman Robert Garcia,

the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said this in a statement, quote, every day we see

lies, incompetence, missed deadlines, and illegal redactions. Pan Bondi needs to testify to Congress

under oath to explain herself. Someone else who probably has a bit of explaining

to do, Donald J. Trump. Because following that announcement of a million additional documents,

Donald Trump, did what he always does, took to social media to complain loudly. After bemoaning

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