Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Megan Messerly.

It's Wednesday, September 3rd.

And this is the Playbook podcast, and we have White House reporter Megan Messily with us again.

How are you doing, Megan?

Nice to see you.

Nice to see you too, Jack.

How are you doing?

Well, I'm very excited, Megan, because we get to talk about Jeffrey Epstein again, and it's been weeks since we've got to do that. It's been so long, and here we are again. Here we are again. Let's dive right into it, because this is clearly going to be driving the day in Washington this morning. We knew that this moment was coming. It is here.

There is going to be a big press conference on the steps of the capital, I think, at half-past

this morning, led by the two House representatives who've been really leading the charge on the

Epstein files, Rokaneau from California, Thomas Massif in Kentucky. They have got Megan 10 victims of Jeffrey Epstein with them who are going to

speak on camera in a sort of real show of force about why they want these files to be released.

And that is going to be a really big moment, I think. It really will be. I mean, it just puts

additional pressure on this situation, right? I mean, we've seen efforts from Speaker Mike Johnson from the White

House to really quell this and state the desire for more information on this front. The House

Oversight Committee yesterday night released the first trench of documents on Jeffrey Epstein.

Of course, a lot of those were things we've already seen before and isn't really

quelling this desire for more information to be released. And so we find ourselves in this situation.

We were in a month ago with these calls continuing to persist from some of these victims

calling for more of these documents to be released. Listening to the congresspeople who are pushing this this morning, they believe that having the

victims themselves come and speak about this is going to bring a sort of power and an energy

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