House Releases 23,000 Pages Of Epstein Documents, Trump Calls It A ‘Hoax’
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Julie Chapman in San Diego, California, walking alongside thousands of others in the Susan G. Coleman three-day, a 60-mile journey powered by hope and laughter. This podcast was recorded at 12.21 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, November 14th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll still be surrounded by my pink bubble family walking for a world without breast cancer. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:29.4 | I've always been so impressed with people that do that walk. It is endurance. It's a good cause for sure. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Stephen Bowler. I also cover politics. And I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:45.6 | And today on the show, the House Oversight Committee has released 23,000 pages of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private files. |
| 0:54.1 | We will talk about what we learned |
| 0:55.5 | this week and what the White House has to say about it. So, Stephen, you've been combing through |
| 1:01.3 | this massive document release this week. What have you found? It is first important to note that |
| 1:08.3 | these are not the Epstein files that everybody is talking about |
| 1:12.0 | in the same way. As you mentioned, these are private files that the House Oversight |
| 1:16.5 | Committee has obtained in batches using a subpoena from the Epstein estate. That is different |
| 1:22.7 | from the Department of Justice files on Epstein and his various criminal cases, his life, his death, |
| 1:29.3 | and everything that came after. So these are private files. And on Wednesday, it started with |
| 1:35.7 | House Democrats releasing three emails that show Jeffrey Epstein talking about Donald Trump. |
| 1:43.1 | And shortly thereafter, there were 20,000, the full batch, |
| 1:47.7 | released by House Republicans, who say that's not the full picture. So these documents, |
| 1:53.1 | they come from Epstein's private files. They're not all emails. But who are the emails between? |
| 1:58.5 | And how did the House committee get these documents? |
| 2:01.4 | These emails are to and from Jeffrey Epstein and various powerful associates over the years. |
| 2:07.9 | And they were obtained by a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee from Epstein's estate. |
| 2:13.8 | And Stephen, I mean, rumors about these documents or these kinds of documents have been obviously swirling for a long time. |
| 2:19.7 | But how much of this is new information? |
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