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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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-- On the Show
-- Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, joins us to discuss her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor
-- The Trump administration releases the Epstein files under a transparency law but heavily redacts documents and removes files from the Justice Department website
-- Justice Department Epstein files that include photographs of Donald Trump vanish without notice and the release shows more secrecy than before
-- Infighting at a Turning Point USA event explodes publicly as JD Vance, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson and others attack each other while Donald Trump stays away
-- Donald Trump appears visibly unwell at rallies, glitches while claiming perfect health, and alarms even his own supporters
-- CBS leadership under Bari Weiss pulls a fully vetted 60 Minutes investigation on Trump administration migrant deportations to El Salvador hours before airtime
-- Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett admits on air that Americans pay tariffs, directly contradicting years of administration claims that foreign countries foot the bill
-- Lawmakers from both parties move toward contempt proceedings against Attorney General Pam Bondi for defying the Epstein Files Transparency Act and removing mandated documents
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump appoints an envoy to Greenland who wants the US to acquire the island, Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor, Mitt Romney calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump thinks he is getting away with it and we are going to show you exactly how |
| 0:04.6 | this administration is bearing the Epstein files. |
| 0:07.5 | It's not just heavy redactions. |
| 0:09.2 | It's documents disappearing, reappearing, photos being pulled and the biggest lack of transparency |
| 0:15.1 | we've maybe ever seen and it gets worse. |
| 0:18.5 | At turning points, Amfest, MAGA melting down in real time, the MAGA Civil War explodes, |
| 0:23.7 | J.D. Vance, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly. |
| 0:27.3 | It is real friendly fire for them. |
| 0:30.6 | And then we will go to Trump's weird rally because what's he running for in North Carolina. |
| 0:35.4 | And the audience started to realize that something is |
| 0:38.3 | very wrong, slurring and rambling and bizarre tangents and still claiming to do really well |
| 0:43.9 | on cognitive tests. Plus a 60 minutes disaster under Barry Weiss, a fully reported, vetted, |
| 0:51.1 | and confirmed investigation into Trump's deportations and torture allegations |
| 0:56.2 | pulled at the last minute only because somebody didn't like it. |
| 1:02.0 | Finally, Donald Trump's own economic advisor walks straight into a trap on tariffs and accidentally |
| 1:08.2 | admits the truth that they have been lying about for months, which |
| 1:11.5 | is that Americans pay the tariffs. |
| 1:13.9 | It is all today. |
| 1:15.3 | We're calling it the flu show. |
| 1:17.3 | The flu is in my house. |
| 1:19.4 | I believe I have it right now. |
| 1:21.7 | What a day. |
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