Breaking Their Silence
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening out, breaking their silence. |
| 0:04.0 | Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are sharing their stories on Capitol Hill as pressure intensifies for the Justice Department to release all of the files in his case. |
| 0:14.0 | And the Chicago Showdown escalates. President Trump vows to deploy National Guard troops to crack down on crime as local politicians |
| 0:22.0 | prepare to fight back, accusing him of abusing his power. |
| 0:26.5 | Plus, strengthening the alliance, President Trump will soon welcome the new president of Poland |
| 0:32.0 | to the White House as he grows increasingly frustrated with Vladimir Putin's lack of progress to end the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:40.3 | And resign now. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are demanding. |
| 0:47.2 | RFK Jr. stepped down. They're accusing him of putting the health of all Americans, a direct |
| 0:52.9 | quote, putting the health of all Americans, a direct quote, putting the health of all Americans |
| 0:55.1 | at risk. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Fletzer |
| 1:01.5 | with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 1:15.0 | And we begin with the breaking news. |
| 1:16.4 | Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein will soon speak out at a news conference up on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:21.9 | It's supposed to happen any moment now. |
| 1:24.1 | They'll be joined by a bipartisan duo of key members of Congress, Republican, Thomas |
| 1:29.6 | Massey, and Democrat Roe-Connor. The two are trying to force a House vote on the full |
| 1:35.3 | release of the Epstein files despite resistance from the Trump administration. Some of those |
| 1:41.4 | survivors met with members of the House Oversight Committee and the House Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday behind closed doors for more than two hours. |
| 1:50.0 | There are accounts leaving Congresswoman Nancy Mace in tears. |
| 1:55.0 | She went on to a post on social media this quote. |
| 1:59.0 | Since it's already being reported, yes, I left the oversight briefing with Epstein victims |
| 2:04.3 | early. |
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