Today on the Playbook podcast, we've got the latest developments in the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

We have an immigration crackdown starting in Chicago, and we've got a special election in Northern Virginia.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, September 9th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. How you doing, Dasha?

Good morning. This week is already off to quite the start, my friend.

It is only Tuesday, and already we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

The subject that we spent so much of the summer talking about is dominating

the conversation in DC again. I'm sure everyone listening to this will be aware that yesterday afternoon

the House Oversight Committee released a trench of what we are contractually obliged to call the

Epstein files and including this, well, I don't know what the right word for it is really

Dasher, an extraordinary book that was given to Jeffrey Epstein 22 years ago.

Birthday book, yes.

Featuring various messages to him by friends, including one that appears on the face of it to be from Donald Trump, the president of the United States.

We knew about its existence from the Wall Street Journal. Trump insists that he didn't write this message,

and he's already suing the Wall Street Journal about it. But now we've all seen it with our own eyes,

and it was really quite a moment when you first see it, Dasha. Yeah, and I was watching the various

cable networks, CNN read the entire dialogue out loud. I mean, this is the kind of image that

Democrats are really hoping will stick in people's minds. I mean, this is the kind of image that Democrats are really hoping

will stick in people's minds. I mean, how could it not? Right. I'm sure, again, most people

will have read this or seen this now now, but it's really awfully creepy to read the sort of

language that is used in this message to Jeffrey Epstein, once you know, as we all, of course,

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