Well, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show.

It's a special edition because we have Beto O'Rourke here.

Beto, it's great to see you. Thanks for doing this again. And, you know, I think we should just jump right into this because, you know, one of the things, you know, that's been sort of a theme on my show lately is, you know, Donald Trump's in a jam right now. He's in a big time fix, you know, whether it's the Epstein files or the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which, you know, you may have your own name for it. Everybody has a name for it. I call it the big boulder of bullshit earlier on in the show a few weeks back. But anyway, and so you have to think he wants to extricate himself from this. You got to think that the Republican leaders in Congress, they want to extricate themselves and keep those

gavels. And now they cooked up what looks to be the scheme to do that. And, you know, that they have

now released this proposal for a new redistricting map in Texas that could gain up to five additional

seats in Texas. I'm just curious, I mean, this is your home state. This is your turf. What do you

think? Yeah, I think you just gave everybody the why in terms of why would Donald Trump

try to steal five congressional seats in the state of Texas?

It's because he fears accountability for what he is implicated in when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.

He's fearful of the accountability from the voters on these deeply unpopular policies,

you know, kicking tens of millions of people off of Medicaid, using these

Gestapo tactics to terrorize hardworking Americans transferring. I think it's just under a

trillion dollars of Americans' wealth to the richest 1% in the country. None of that stuff is

popular. Of course, none of that stuff is polling well. He's absolutely in the tank. And on Epstein, I think 90% of Americans want to see the files. Try to get 90% of

America to agree on anything, like whether they like ice cream, whether, um, just name it. You

can't get 90% except on this. Pizza. I think pizza you might think. I think they like pizza.

Maybe that's it.

So, so he gets what's going on.

And he understands that if because of how deeply unpopular he is and this, this desire for

accountability on the part of the American public, If he was to lose the House of Representatives,

he would have a check on his lawlessness. There'd be accountability for his corruption and crimes.

And all of us, whether you're Republican or Democrat or independent, could have the real

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