Welcome back to the home front. This is your host. I am your host, Reed Galen. Today, I am once again joined by the inimitable Katie Fang. Katie, welcome back.

I dig that adjective, Reed, always. I'll take it. That's all right. I've got my thesaurus here. The next one's going to be even better.

Love it. All right. So while you and I are talking in Washington, D.C., something

pretty, it's unfortunately remarkable, but it is remarkable, which is, uh, yesterday there was a

closed door meeting, uh, with bipartisan members of Congress listening to victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine Maxwell,

Thomas Massey and Roe Kana have led the charge on a discharge petition to bring this stuff to a vote.

There's a, there's the video of a teary-eyed, almost sobbing Nancy Mace leaving the meeting.

Now, who knows?

Even now, I will give her the benefit of the doubt.

I will provide some grace when she wouldn't to so many others.

But what is your assessment of all of this?

We've been waiting 10 years for the thing, but this,

this is the one that seems to not have died. It sort of, it sort of went quite a little bit in

August, but everybody came back from recess and now here we are again. Well, Reed, if you'll recall,

it went quiet in August, but not by choice, right? As in the Democrats didn't want it to do. You saw Speaker, you know, House Speaker Mike Johnson, he chicken shitted out, right? I mean, he was like, I'm going to, I'm just going to peace out and I'm going to make everybody go home because we're not going to force this issue, which is why his hypocrisy drives me nuts that he's calling for this House vote that's basically performative because you

don't need a vote for the House Oversight Committee to continue to do its investigation.

But even yesterday, though, Reid, you know, we have to be very mindful about the credit giving,

giving credit where credit is due.

Anna Paulina Luna, House GOP, making it seem like whatever they posted publicly was some type of big disclosure from the DOJ.

Congressman Robert Garcia from House Oversight said it's exactly the same stuff they got from the first tranche from the DOJ, of which 97% was stuff that was already publicly available.

And the only documents that were not were flight logs and those in and of itself were not, you know, anything revelatory.

I will say this to read.

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