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Anderson Cooper 360

Hours Away: House Expected To Vote On Releasing Epstein Files

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What's behind the president getting behind a bill to force his hand on the Epstein files? Keeping Them Honest, this is something he could have done himself, with no bill and no forcing. Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, the bill's Democratic and Republican co-sponsors, speak to Anderson. Plus, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose support for the bill, among other things, has made her a verbal target of President Trump's, as well as a real target, she says, for violence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tonight on 360, what's behind the president getting behind a bill to force his hand on the Epstein file?

0:21.6

Something he could have done himself with no bill and no forcing.

0:24.6

Rokana and Thomas Massey, the bill of Democratic and Republican co-sponsors, join us live.

0:29.6

Also tonight, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, whose support for the bill, among other things, has made her a verbal target of the presidents, as well as a real target, she says, for violence.

0:39.3

And later, the Border Patrol descends on their latest target city.

0:43.3

You never quibra, you'll take you to Charlotte, North Carolina,

0:53.3

where federal agents have started rounding people up.

0:55.7

They broke the window of this man and took him.

0:57.9

He says he's an American citizen.

1:00.1

Good evening. Thanks for joining us.

1:01.9

Tonight, the president is now fully behind a bill, he says, to do what he could have already done without one.

1:07.3

At any point, his administration with just a memo or a phone call from the Oval Office for any reason or no reason at all.

1:13.6

He could even do it tonight by ordering the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, which would be unconventional, but what hasn't been lately.

1:20.6

Instead, in what's being billed as a total reversal, President Trump is now supporting House legislation to do the exact same thing,

1:27.7

just not so simply or so quickly, and perhaps that's significant.

1:31.5

He laid it out over the weekend in a post on his social network.

1:34.7

In it, he writes, as I said on Friday night, aboard Air Force One to the fake news media,

1:39.3

House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide,

1:43.7

and it's time to move on

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