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President Donald Trump is raging at Republicans, urging them not to join Democrats in pushing

for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But all of a sudden,

evidence is mounting that things are going in the wrong direction for Trump, with many more Republicans

poised to jump on board than expected. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green is now predicting

that the number of Republicans who will vote to release the Epstein

files next week will be a lot higher than the current four Republicans who are already a public yes.

That would be a huge problem for Trump. So we've been thinking, what happens then? Will that

cause a snowballing effect that ends up cracking White House and GOP opposition?

The process that's about to unfold is dicey and unpredictable, so we're working through it all with Representative Yasamine Ansari of Arizona, who's been a high-profile voice all

throughout this. Congresswoman, thank you so much for coming on. Thanks, Greg. Thank you for having

me.

So we now have emails from Jeffrey Epstein that are a problem for Trump. In 2011, Epstein wrote to his accomplice, Gillen Maxwell, that one of his victims, quote, spent hours at my house with Trump.

In 2019, Epstein wrote about Trump that, quote, of course he knew about the girls as he asked

Glenn to stop. Trump clearly knew a lot more about Epstein and probably his sex trafficking as well

than he's admitted. Congresswoman, we have a lot more new information as well. Can you quickly

sum up what we know now and what jumps out about it for you?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, first of all, I think that everything that we have learned from the 23,000 pages that

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