"Things Happen": Trump Goes All In On MBS

What A Day

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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President Donald Trump joyously welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, to the White House on Tuesday. That's despite the fact that, according to US intelligence, MBS allegedly ordered the 2018 murder of Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The meeting was supposed to center on Saudi investments in the United States in exchange for military equipment and possible access to nuclear technology – as the US and Saudi Arabia become closer partners than ever before. So for more on what MBS's very friendly visit means for U.S.-Saudi relations, we spoke with Pod Save the World co-host Tommy Vietor. And in headlines, Education Secretary Linda McMahon works to "break up federal bureaucracy", the US takes one step closer to maybe possibly finally seeing the Epstein files, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he'll take the state's redistricting fight to the Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, November 19th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.
0:06.0	The show just noting President Donald Trump's comments when speaking to a female journalist asking a question about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's emails on Air Force One on Friday.
0:18.2	Quiet, quiet, picky.
0:24.2	The President of the United States of America.
0:34.8	On today's show, Education Secretary and former WWE CEO Linda McMahon body slams the Department of Education.
0:37.1	And we're one step closer to maybe finally seeing the Epstein files.
0:41.8	But let's start with two big stories about President Trump's besties,
0:45.7	Jeffrey Epstein and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
0:49.1	On Tuesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill
0:52.9	to compel the Department of Justice to release its files on Epstein,
0:56.2	a bill President Trump opposed up until, oh, Sunday evening.
1:01.0	That bill then headed to the Senate, which declared the legislation deemed as passed, sending it directly to the White House.
1:07.8	We'll get into more about the vote later in the show.
1:10.4	But as a person who
1:11.3	definitely doesn't care about the release of the Epstein files, Trump still got very, very
1:16.5	heated in the Oval Office when asked a very simple question as to why he didn't just have the
1:21.5	DOJ release the files himself. Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files?
1:26.3	Why not just do it now?
1:30.3	It's not the question that I mind.
1:31.1	It's your attitude.
1:33.7	I think you are a terrible reporter.
1:36.9	It's the way you ask these questions.
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