The Honorable Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, thank you so much for joining us.

We're so glad that you're here.

How are you doing?

You know, I'm doing okay, Don. First of all, thank you for having me on your show and giving me the opportunity to, you know, share the message about what Democrats are doing. So, you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say six, given what's happening right now, but looking forward to going home and spending time in the district. Let's get into it. Yeah, looking forward to going home and spending time in the district.

Let's get into it. Yeah, looking forward to going home and spending time in the district,

but wouldn't you much rather be there interviewing or voting on Geline Maxwell or interviewing her or, you know, working on those things and going home? Yeah, I mean, you know, there is some important legislation that the Republicans are just

refusing to bring to the floor because they're afraid that in the Rules Committee, which

determines what comes to the floor, that they will have to vote yes or no on amendments

related to releasing the Epstein files.

And Don, I want to point out that 10 Republicans have already signed on saying they want the files released.

Yeah.

So why aren't they doing it?

Why is Mike Johnson?

Why is the speaker doing this?

I mean, I'd say the same thing, the same reason you've seen this GOP just bend the knee to whatever

Trump wants. They're afraid of him. And here's what's so bizarre about all this. How is releasing the

files bad for them politically? Their own base is mad right now that they are not releasing the files.

President Trump ran on this in 2024. And so it just

makes no sense. But a lot of things that we've experienced in D.C. with the GOP in leadership

makes no sense. What do you think, beyond that, your estimation, why doesn't he want to release

those? Why is he so gung-ho him and all of his

all of his supporters were so gung-ho about these files and then all of a sudden you have this

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