House poised to pass a bill to force the release of the Epstein files in a bipartisan vote

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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House poised to pass a bill to force the release of the Epstein files in a bipartisan vote

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0:00.0	Everything was going up. Government jobs were going up, real jobs were going down. So you would have had that catastrophe. And on top of it, instead of 20 trillion coming in, you would have had 10 trillion leaving our country. In other words, you would have had a catastrophe. You probably would have had a bankrupt country.
0:21.1	You are so damn lucky that I won that election.
0:23.8	I'm telling you.
0:25.1	Okay, part of President Trump's speech yesterday,
0:28.1	bragging multiple times about the state of the economy,
0:31.5	in an event which was supposed to be about affordability,
0:35.0	it comes as the president continues to face real pushback from members
0:39.2	of his own party over the Epstein files. We'll dig into that ahead of a vote today in the House
0:46.0	on those documents. Plus, we'll bring you expert legal analysis in the federal case against
0:51.1	former FBI director James Comey after the judge yesterday issued a stark
0:55.9	warning to prosecutors. We will also preview a consequential visit at the White House today
1:02.4	with Saudi Crown Prince, with the Saudi Crown Prince, set to meet with President Trump.
1:07.8	It comes on the heels of the United Nations Security Council voting yesterday
1:11.6	to adopt a resolution endorsing the 20-point ceasefire plan in Gaza. And make no mistake of it,
1:20.9	we're going to be talking about a lot of things today. I think 10 years from now, 15 years from now,
1:35.2	if the peace plan sticks, Jonathan Lemire, what's going on right now with the United Nations?
1:44.0	What happened yesterday where you actually have Hamas coming in, agreeing with this plan, Israel agreeing with this plan?
1:45.6	You've got the Saudis going to the White House today. Hard not to believe after the F-35 deal that they're not going to sign under the Abraham
1:53.4	Accords. Again, we're seeing again a complete, dramatic restructuring of the Middle East and a chance for Palestinians to actually
2:05.5	have peacekeepers come in. And a belief, I talked to somebody in the administration yesterday,
2:11.2	a belief that Hamas will actually disarm under this deal.
2:17.6	I mean, that's always been the key sticking point, whether or not they will lay down their arms.
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