Amid Demands For Epstein Files, Trump Releases MLK Jr. Records

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	Tonight, a sleight of hand by the president as he in the White House try to get everyone
0:38.3	to look at anything but Jeffrey Epstein.
0:41.3	Plus a CNN exclusive, the mother of Brianna Taylor, speaking out her first television interview
0:47.3	after the controversial sentence of an officer involved in the raid that killed her daughter.
0:53.3	And he is the Texas Democrat that Joe Rogan thinks should run for president.
0:59.0	You know what?
1:00.0	Join me tonight.
1:01.0	I'm Laura Coates Live.
1:06.0	You know if you tell a kid to stay away from the cookie jar,
1:14.4	that all they can think about are cookies?
1:17.5	That's what happened to President Trump last week
1:19.9	when he told his MAGA supporters to stop obsessing over the Epstein files.
1:24.7	So this week, a different approach.
1:31.3	What cookies? He's been dangling one shiny object after another, talking about everything but the Epstein files. I mean, here's just some of what
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