It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So if you went into the weekend thinking the big news Monday morning would be revelations from the Epstein files, you were probably

mostly wrong. There are some things worth knowing and what they released on Friday afternoon,

but one of them might be that the release didn't live up to the name of the law that required

it, the Epstein Files Transparency Act. There's a lot that remains pretty opaque. We'll parse some of what we can.

There's an opacity issue for Democrats, too, that maybe you didn't expect going into the

weekend. They had promised, as some of you may know, to release a so-called autopsy on why they

lost the presidency to Donald Trump last year, and Congress too. But now that the report is

complete, the NC Chair Ken Martin decided to keep it secret. After all, many Democratic activists

are furious at their party leadership. And there are new divisions on the Republican side, too.

Perhaps you were shocked on Friday, like many people were, that rising GOP star

Elise Stefani, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to run against Kathy Hokel for

Governor of New York next year, suddenly announced she is quitting the race and will quit her seat in

Congress too at the end of this term. And you probably didn't expect this kind of story from the first Turning Point USA gathering

since its founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

As the New York Times headline put it, Turning Points annual gathering turns into a gripe fest.

So we'll explain Democratic and Republican

unhappiness with their own, the Epstein Files, Sort of Transparency Act release, and more now,

with Philip Bump. One of the many big-name columnists who left the Washington Post this year

after they announced their new very specific editorial direction, emphasizing personal

liberties and free markets.

He had been with The Post for 11 years and been on this show so many times in that role.

He is now an MS Now contributor, author of the How to Read This Chart newsletter.

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