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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's some news on the Epstein files today. |
| 0:02.3 | The House Oversight Committee released 33,000 pages of materials relating to the late child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, just in the last couple of hours. |
| 0:10.8 | Now, it's the first batch of materials that the Republican-led committee received from the Department of Justice under subpoena last month. |
| 0:17.7 | And 33,000 pages may sound like a lot. |
| 0:20.6 | And if you're just tuning into this, you may think |
| 0:22.0 | that sounds like a lot. Who knows? But it turns out that the vast majority of these materials |
| 0:26.6 | are not, in fact, new at all. Democrats on the committee who spent a week inspecting the files |
| 0:32.1 | behind closed doors say that 97% of the materials released today were already public. |
| 0:38.0 | In fact, according to Congressman Roecona, these 33,000 pages represent only 1% of the total number of Epstein files. |
| 0:47.2 | Just 1%. |
| 0:48.3 | Now, tonight I'm going to talk with Congressman Robert Garcia. |
| 0:51.1 | I just mentioned that to Chris. |
| 0:52.1 | He's the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. And we're going to talk about what's new in these files, what's not new in these files, which is the overwhelming majority. There's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny bit new. And we're also going to talk about the apparent strategy by House Republicans and the Department of Justice to keep recirculating old information in hopes, I guess, of wearing us all out, |
| 1:13.1 | not clear. That seems to be part of the strategy. So we have a lot to get to tonight, but I'm going |
| 1:18.0 | to start with Donald Trump, because until this afternoon, he had been basically absent |
| 1:23.4 | from the public eye since last Tuesday, which was his longest stretch away from cameras since |
| 1:29.1 | becoming president. And that absence, and you may have seen this over the weekend, if you |
| 1:34.3 | looked at any social media platform, prompted quite a wave of online speculation about the president's |
| 1:40.0 | health and well-being. So today, when he re-emerged from his absence for an event in the Oval |
| 1:45.9 | office, even my buddy Peter Ducey from Fox News couldn't resist asking about it. |
| 1:52.4 | Something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend. |
| 1:57.9 | How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead? You see that? |
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