All right, hey, everybody.

It's me, Sam Stein.

Managing out of the Bullock here with Joe Perdico and author of Press Pass.

Just filed the Press Pass.

Moving at lightning speed.

Breaking news, or at least covering breaking news, I should say.

Epstein Files, the vote on the House just concluded to release the Epstein Files.

It's been a months-long process.

And despite all the drama, it passed 427 to 1 in the house.

The one lone no vote was Clay Higgins, an eccentric character to say the least,

who said that he believed, according to his tweets, that this was a, you know, break of criminal justice

procedures and would injure thousands of innocent people and witnesses, never mind that there's

provisions in the bill to protect them, yada, yada, yada. Joe, you were there. You've been covering

this. Was any of it a surprise by the end? So I think the way the speed at which this snowballed was a surprise to everyone. There were so much

opposition and then there was just a handful of Republicans who triggered the discharge.

And then suddenly it gets enough signatures last week and we think, oh, maybe this is going to get

quite a few GOP votes. And I was thinking,

oh, it's going to get 50. And that amongst the press corps, I thought that was pretty optimistic.

By today, it snowballed to where I thought it was going to be unanimous until Clay Higgins decided

to defy Trump. So we'll see.

I think that as it goes to the Senate, it's going to be really hard for them to say no

to something like this, especially such an overwhelming vote.

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