I'm Charlie Sikes. Welcome back to the To the Contrary Podcast. You know, the zone is flooded once again with the Epstein files. You knew that that was actually going to be coming. It does feel as if, you know, Donald Trump

has done everything possible. I wrote this in my newsletter yesterday. He's tried all the distractions.

He's tried the cover-ups. You know, for whatever reason, this guy has bragged that he could shoot

somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote. And of course, you know, he tried that.

He orchestrated a coup and got reelected. He was a convicted felon and got another four years in office. A federal jury found that he was liable for sexually abusing a woman and it did not stop him. But there's something about these Epstein files that has him spooked. And I think we're going to find out why. We had all those emails. We're not going to

dive too much into that because I don't know that they are smoking guns. They certainly do not

look good. But we do know that the more is coming because we, you know, as the government

reopens, we're going to have the new Congresswoman from Arizona who's going to be sworn in

50 days after she won the special election.

The House of Representatives has been in this sort of stupor for several months now, but now they're going to get back to business.

One of the first things that's going to happen will be that she will become the 218th vote on the discharge petition, which will require a House floor vote.

This floor vote that Mike Johnson and Donald Trump absolutely positively do not want to have about releasing the Epstein file.

So this story is not going away anytime soon.

So joining me today is the author, editor, creator of the Talking Fed's Substack,

Harry Littman. Thanks for coming back on, Harry.

Always a pleasure, Charlie. And I want to talk about whatever you want to talk about,

but let me comment quickly. I agree with everything you said. But the stupor here, I think

we now need to realize, was a self-induced stupor here, I think we now need to realize was a self-induced

stupor. They had delicate negotiations where they were holding the line. I agree with you,

lamentably, the Dems kind of cave. But on the shutdown, we now know, I mean, that the Republicans

knew this was coming.

These three emails were coming out.

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