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Happening now, reversing course.

President Trump is now urging House Republicans to release the Epstein files, but will the legislation ever end up at his desk? Why the road to release may end in the Senate. Plus, immigration crackdown agents' tactics are coming under scrutiny as leaders and residents question, why Charlotte? We're live on the ground with the very

latest. And a women's health alert new data say about a quarter of pregnant women in the

U.S. are not getting prenatal care in their first trimester. Rising tensions with Venezuela,

the U.S. Navy's largest aircraft carrier is in the Caribbean, and now President

Trump says there could be a path to discussions with the Venezuelan president.

Plus, the British journalist Sammy Hamdi joins us live in the Situation Room after being

held in ICE detention for more than two weeks.

And later, record-setting rains in California

as more could be on the way. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the

world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the Situation Room. We begin with a significant reversal. President Trump is now encouraging House Republicans

to support releasing the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The president's social media post last night declared, and I'm quoting

now, we have nothing to hide. Republican Congressman Thomas Massey, who is co-sponsoring the bill

seeking the release of more documents, said he believes that 100 or more Republican lawmakers

could support their release. Ahead of tomorrow's expected vote, Epstein survivors made a final plea.

Listen.

I was 14 years old. I was 16 years old.

Was 16. 17. 14 years old.

This is me. This was me. This was me. This was me.

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