President Trump Backs Vote to Release Epstein Files
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:40.1 | President Trump has thrown in the towel trying to dissuade House Republicans from backing the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:49.9 | On social media late yesterday, the president said Republicans should vote for the measure. |
| 0:55.4 | His message was a sharp departure from previous efforts to deter his party from supporting the vote, |
| 1:01.3 | saying as recently as Friday that Democrats want to waste people's time. |
| 1:05.8 | A House vote to compel the DOJ to release the Epstein files is expected to take place on Tuesday. |
| 1:12.1 | The Federal Aviation Administration is lifting flight restrictions stemming from the government |
| 1:17.4 | shutdown, ending the 6% traffic cut implemented last week and clearing the way for normal |
| 1:23.8 | operations to resume. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA administrator Brian Bedford |
| 1:30.3 | said that the flight restrictions would end at 6am Eastern this morning. |
| 1:35.0 | Airlines have warned that it could take several days for full operations to resume |
| 1:39.3 | and for flight crews to get back in place. |
| 1:42.7 | And tech stocks rose earlier today in South Korea, |
| 1:46.2 | after the country's largest conglomerates pledged billions of dollars in new domestic investments. |
| 1:52.1 | It has been reported that Samsung pledged more than $300 billion, Hayunday more than $80 billion, |
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