NPR News: 08-05-2025 7PM EDT
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
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| 0:24.9 | Live from NPR news, I'm Giles Snyder. At the White House today, President Trump was asked |
| 0:30.7 | about the situation in Texas where Democrats have fled the state to prevent Republicans in the |
| 0:36.4 | State House from moving forward with a redrawn |
| 0:39.0 | congressional map that Trump has pushed for. They've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything like it, |
| 0:43.7 | even though they've done it twice before. And in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned |
| 0:49.4 | the state. It looks very bad. More than 50 Democrats left Texas over the weekend, leaving the State House without a |
| 0:55.3 | quorum for the second day in a row today. The fight over the Texas congressional map is spreading to |
| 1:01.2 | other states. Democratic governors, including California's Gavin Newsom, have threatened to retaliate |
| 1:06.2 | with their own redistricting efforts. House Oversight Chairman James Comer has issued subpoenas to the Justice |
| 1:11.9 | Department, former President Clinton, and several others for information related to Jeffrey |
| 1:17.1 | Epstein. MPR. St. Dr. Walsh reports on the bipartisan push. The Oversight Panel approved the |
| 1:23.1 | subpoenas last month. Now, Comer has sent letters to former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, |
| 1:29.4 | and former attorneys general and FBI directors who served under Republican and Democratic |
| 1:34.5 | administrations to appear for depositions this fall. Comer directed the Department of Justice |
| 1:40.7 | to turn over full, complete, and unredacted Epstein files by August 19th. |
| 1:46.5 | DOJ has informed federal judges in New York that there were no new materials to unseal |
| 1:51.7 | related to grand jury deliberations in Galane Maxwell's case. |
| 1:56.0 | Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking in 2021 in connection with Epstein. |
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