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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Can the DOJ Conceal Parts of the Epstein Files?

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Prof G Media / Vox Media

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Tarlov is joined by special Friday correspondent Aaron Parnas to talk about what comes next with the Epstein files release, now that the bill has sped through. They also look at the dangers of “sane-washing” Trump’s Truth Social threats, the latest legal challenges to midcycle redistricting in Texas and California, and the upcoming meeting between Trump and NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov.  Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:40.2

Welcome to raging moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlov, and my guest today is Aaron Parnas, who's

0:44.8

going to become our Friday special. It won't even be that special because Aaron's going

0:48.4

to be around a ton of Fridays. Welcome. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, it's going to be the best

0:53.4

Friday shows. The best Friday shows. It's got will end up getting competitive about it. He does have a crush on you, a remote crush. Not enough to actually come and hang out, but does talk about you and likes you a lot. Scott, if you're watching, come on next Friday.

1:07.2

Scott, if you're watching, no, Scott is not watching, but I'll tell him that there was a shout

1:11.7

out. There's so much stuff going on and you have been massively on top of what's going on

1:19.0

with the Epstein files doing these incredible interviews with survivors following the story

1:24.0

really closely. Obviously, we saw Trump's about face where he says, okay,

1:27.6

release them all almost unanimously passed the house. Only one person didn't. Clay Higgins gets through

1:33.6

the Senate right away. I thought he might stall a bit, but he ended up signing it. I'm curious as to

1:40.3

where you think this goes from here. There's a lot of speculation as to what Pam Bondi is going

1:46.2

to do, if she's going to be the one slow walking it, and what do you think the redactions looks like?

1:51.5

Yeah, so I think the key phrase in all of this is national security, and then the other phrase is

1:56.5

investigation. Those are the two kind of buzz phrases and words that they're going to use to try to conceal certain parts of the files from the public.

2:03.4

If you read the actual text of the Transparency Act, it allows Bondi to withhold information under the guise of national security and also under if it would impact any ongoing investigation.

2:14.7

And as we know, Trump just reopened the investigation that was already closed by his own DOJ. That's a hoax, but not really a hoax. So it's now open again. And so Pam Bondi is now saying she can't release any more information publicly, at least right now, because of the ongoing investigation. Do I think we're going to get some files? I do. I don't know how many files we're going to get,

2:34.6

but I will say in all of this, the other key point that a lot of people are missing is that

2:38.2

in the bill, it requires Pam Bondi to provide Congress with an explanation anytime she wants

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