LIVE REACTION: Epstein Files Released, Elise Stefanik Quits
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | miracle, Tim. It is. We're having a holly. It's a Christmas miracle. There's a lot of news happening |
| 0:05.7 | right now. And so we wanted to have a holly jolly Christmas together with all of you. |
| 0:10.4 | Elise Defonick's career is over, apparently, and Sarah Longwell's having a martini. |
| 0:15.9 | And before we get to the joy of Elise Tophonic and the eggnog and the cookies, the dessert, |
| 0:22.6 | there is some other breaking news right now. |
| 0:24.4 | The Epstein files have been released, and we're going to want to talk about that. |
| 0:27.2 | And so, Chris, could you pull up on the screen what we've got? |
| 0:29.2 | It's the first tranche. |
| 0:32.9 | That's been the first trunch from the government there. |
| 0:36.6 | That is document 00006209. |
| 0:41.0 | Dot PDF. |
| 0:42.3 | There's 100 pages that look just like that. |
| 0:47.0 | So I don't know. |
| 0:48.5 | I don't know if we're going to resolve anything today on the Epstein files. |
| 0:51.6 | There were some pictures of Bill Clinton looking a little creepy, |
| 0:54.8 | but we're still going through them. The team is going through them. But it seems to me that, |
| 1:01.0 | you know, maybe they're not actually going to give us everything. You know, maybe they might not |
| 1:06.0 | totally, there might not be full transparency related to Donald Trump. Not committed to transparency |
| 1:10.4 | from the Trump administration is what you're telling me. |
| 1:12.9 | What do you think about it? |
| 1:13.7 | Have you seen anything from the Epstein Files worth chatting about before we get to a lease? |
| 1:18.2 | I'm shocked. |
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