Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

I know people are waiting for information on what happened in Utah.

We don't have any more information than you do at the moment.

There's already been a couple of false positives, so we're waiting for a clearer picture. So today, we're going to talk about the Senate

GOP blocking the Epstein file release. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer surprised a lot of people.

When he announced on the Senate floor Wednesday that he was planning to file an amendment to the National Defense

Authorization Act that would require the Attorney General to release all the files and documents

related to Epstein. The NDAA is a must-pass piece of legislation. A move to attach the amendment

to that bill seemed to surprise people on both sides

of the aisle, although it had to have been discussed at least a little bit at some point. Schumer,

who is infamous for keeping with Senate tradition and procedure, broke heavily here with the norm.

By tradition, the majority party takes the procedural step of filing cloture to push a floor vote. Schumer's amendment was pretty much

the same as the one being pushed in the House. The Republican side of the aisle described Schumer's amendment as a,

quote, extremely hostile act. They went on to talk about how it could jeopardize bipartisan

budget negotiations. Even Republicans who support the idea of releasing the files took issue

with the way Schumer went about it.

Republicans were barely able to dismiss the amendment because Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri

and Ram Paul of Kentucky voted with Democrats. The final vote was 51 to 49, but this is unlikely to be the last time the Senate has to deal with the issue.

So far, the Senate has avoided the turmoil over this that has plagued the House, but it's under the surface.

It seemed as though they had put it aside while they worked on the budget deal.

This chain of events brought in a few questions from people who saw Schumer's move as

uncharacteristic. Uncharacteristic is my word. More than one of the questions asked if or

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