Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. It's another day that ends in why and Trump's struggle to escape Epstein Gate. He has thrown out just about every distraction in the book, including what looks like an invasion of Washington, D.C. I'm coming to you live from the nation's capital, which is currently living under a kind of occupation by MAGA, it seems. Trump has pressured Republican governors to send their national guards to D.C.

My big guest on today's show, you can see right there is former U.S. attorney and legal analyst, Joyce Vance.

She writes the civil discourse on substack. Joyce, you and I were just talking a few moments ago.

I'm not allowed to say I'm a big fan of yours because, as you were saying, before we got started, you were just a prosecutor doing your job. But I'm going to say it anyway, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to say it as well. But I do want to talk about Ukraine and the Ukraine talks over at the White House in a moment. But as you and I were just saying, there is breaking news to get into, and that is the Justice Department is going to begin sharing the Epstein files with Congress on Friday, according to James Comer, who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

I mean, this just came down on the Washington Post.

Joyce, your thoughts on this?

I guess it depends on which files, how quickly they come, lots of questions.

I think that's right. And look, Trump is in a box on the Epstein files. They had no

option other than to say that they would comply with this subpoena. But Comer, even this early

on, is already making excuses for partial compliance. And of course, if you can pick and choose what you release and claim it's a big, complicated

file and delay for months at a time, well, this is how Donald Trump operates, right?

He knows delay always works in his favor.

He hopes that Epstein drops off the public's radar screen and he never has to belly up for everything

that's in there.

Yeah.

And you're absolutely right.

You can sort of read that Comer's lowering expectations a little bit in the statement that he put out.

He said in a statement that there are records, there are many records in DOJ's custody and

will take the Justice Department time to produce all the records and ensure the identification of victims and any child sexual abuse material are redacted.

It makes you wonder what they're redacting, what that process has been like, who's been doing the redacting and have any political motivations entered that process. One has to

assume it's the Trump administration. And yes, that is the case, that there are some political

considerations going on here. Right. I mean, there's no longer any reason to give this administration,

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