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Today on the Playbook podcast, the government has reopened and DC is getting back to normal, whatever that means.

The House will vote next week on relacing the Epstein files after yesterday's bombshells.

What does Maga think of all that?

And a big day in court, how many times have we said that this year? James Comey, Letitia James, trying to get the prosecutor who's going after them thrown out of her job. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Thursday, November 13th. Dasha, they did it. It's open. Is it over? Is it over? Can we stop talking about it? It's all over until January the 30th when we can talk about it. I keep hearing. People tell me that it's going to happen again and I just want to tear my hair out. I think we can save that for a different podcast. Okay, perfect. The government is open. People are going back to work just after 10 o'clock last night. You've probably seen the clip already. Donald Trump in the Oval Office signing a funding bill that has reopened the government after the longest shutdown in history. Dasha, we can talk about that in a minute. The immediate implication, though, politically is that we're going to get a vote on the Epstein files next week in the

house. Yeah, and the drama has already started. Hasn't it started? I mean, it's just erupted

yesterday morning. No one saw it coming when suddenly these emails were released and then more

emails were released and it really completely took over the news cycle. How concerned and upset

and annoyed do you think they were in the White

House yesterday about the way this just suddenly erupted? I mean, look, the way that they're

playing this is the exact way that they were really criticized for last time around by MAGA,

which was playing it down. You know, the president posted on truth social saying,

look at this convenient timing.

The Democrats put this out selectively, right? When the government's about to reopen, they're

trying to distract from the fact that the shutdown is bad for them, which like he said it was

actually bad for Republicans, not so long ago. So that is the line that the administration

is going with right now.

Interestingly, we're not seeing the same sort of eruption out of MAGA that we saw the last time around.

That's, of course, for now.

But the dynamic here is fascinating to me just because it does feel like the tone around it has shifted now that

the president's name has appeared in some emails. Yeah, to be clear, the Democrats on the Oversight

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