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The View: Behind the Table

Could Trump Still Block Epstein Files? Alyssa Farah Griffin's Take

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Farah Griffin joins executive producer Brian Teta to discuss if the Trump admin could still block the release of the Epstein files and the president's defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Then, she weighs in further on a Hot Topic this week: Is America ready for a female president? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7

It is Wednesday. I am here with the lovely Alyssa Farah Griffin, who despite being

0:34.0

pregnant apparently spent the day working on vintage cars.

0:37.1

I sure did. I could give you a tune-up if you need one. A man in the audience said that I looked prison chic. And I was like, thank you. That's what I was going for. I mean, honest to God, I have no fashion sense whatsoever, which is apparent anybody is watching. But I get tickled by the outfits every day. To be honest, I was going for comfort.

0:56.4

I looked in the mirror and I'm like, I don't get it, but I'm comfortable.

0:59.9

You look beautiful.

1:01.0

Sarah look beautiful today.

1:02.0

She looked like a ladybug.

1:03.0

I don't really understand it all, but it's great.

1:04.8

And we have very talented people working on the show who understand fashion.

1:18.4

All right, let's go right into politics and let's talk about the Epstein files.

1:21.1

There's a bill that is now on President Trump's desk.

1:25.1

You really credit this to the power of the American public.

1:28.4

And I actually think that's right because this is something, and no matter where you are on the dial, this does not happen without hardcore mega

1:35.3

Republicans demanding it, along with the Democrats and everybody else. This really is important.

1:42.1

I think that I said something like it on air, but if there is one issue that should be

1:46.7

bipartisan, it's that we should expose, prosecute, and hold accountable child sex

1:51.3

traffickers.

1:52.0

Like that shouldn't be a controversial take.

1:54.2

And I think that we have seen so few examples in the Trump years of the country, but the MAGA base with them, just turning against

2:04.2

him and being relentless in their pursuit of something saying, we want to see this information,

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