Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch,

brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Monday, November 17th, 2025. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, house rink and file try to flex their muscles. Number two, what to watch on the Epstein files. And number three, the Senate looks to move on more funding bills. Happy Monday morning, Jake. Good to be back with you. Yes, ma'am. Let's get to it. All right. So we've got some news here at the top. Lawmakers from both parties are trying to schedule a Capitol Hill visit for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. During his upcoming trip to Washington, according to multiple sources, the Crown Prince is set to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. But they are looking to also get a meeting on Capitol Hill. We'll see if that gets set, but they are targeting Tuesday afternoon. Yes, I think it will get set, to be honest with you, unless the fact that we're writing it gets set spooks them. All the people on the hill that would be involved in this say that it's happening it's going to happen it's

in the mix the right people are talking to the right people so to speak so it's just a massive

shift obviously in the in the politics around saudi arabia since lindsay graham said i mean we

all know this back in 2018 when jamaul kashgi was killed. He said there's not a smoking gun,

there's a smoking saw. He was very, very critical of MBS and his role in the Khashoggi murder.

And this is obviously MBS's first time back in the United States for a visit like this

since that episode. You know, and by the way, coming to Capitol Hill, which has been

very critical of him and the Saudi government is just a huge, a huge change in tone and

change in tenor and change in strategy. All right, let's move on to our top story this morning,

looking at how how string and file are trying to wrestle some power back

after several weeks where Speaker Mike Johnson flexed his muscles, certainly unprecedented for him

in his rule over the house, keeping the house out of session for 54 days, refusing to swear

in Representative Adelaide Grajava, and also, you know, working really closely with

majority leader, John Thune, to get President Trump out of cutting a deal with Democrats during

the shutdown.

But this is going to be a big shift here.

And we'll have to see how Johnson deals with a couple of big issues that are bipartisan in some ways.

Yeah, let's take this piece by piece. Epstein files. The Epstein files is the vote on the

discharge petition is coming up this week. And this is something that the leadership has tried

to avoid. It's interesting. They've alternatively ignored it and tried to avoid it. Donald

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