President Trump himself campaigned on releasing a lot of these files, right? It's not just something from the Republican base. And so a lot of the kind of anger and frustration on the Republican base to get these files out is because they're saying, Tartouf, why did you not do what you said you were going to do? So this is kind of almost a sense of accountability on the president from his own base. Is that the first mission of Tartouf in the post?

I mean, new. So this is kind of almost a sense of accountability on the president from his own base.

Is that the first mission of Tartouf and the post-reports? I mean, 100%. Did you make a deal with

someone where you were like, I'm going to get this word in somehow? Yeah, I'm getting $50 after this now.

No, I'm just kidding.

From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Report's weekly politics roundtable.

I'm Kolby Ekowitz. It's Friday, November 14th.

Newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein suggest that President Donald Trump may have known about his conduct with underage girls.

We're going to dig into what those emails say and how the White House has responded.

And then we'll discuss the end of the longest ever federal government shutdown.

We'll talk about what both political parties learned from it and why Trump seemed to take a hands-off approach.

Back with me at the table is Dan Marica co-anchor of our politics newsletter, The Early Brief. And we are thrilled to be joined by Dan's colleague and co-anchor Matthew Choi. Thanks guys for joining me. We're happy to be here. Thanks for having us. Speak for myself. I'm happy to be here. I'm sure Matthew is thrilled. Oh, I'm thrilled too. You're thrilled too. It's the newsletter kind of combo that you've been waiting for.

I have been waiting. I feel like we've got like there's going to be some like deadpan and then like I'm really excited to see what you bring to the table.

All right.

No pressure.

No pressure.

So let's get into these Epstein emails.

House Democrats dropping a major bomb this week.

They released these emails from Jeffrey Epstein. There were emails to Julian Maxwell, his partner in all of this. They seem to suggest that President Trump knew about Epstein's conduct with underage girls. Dan, it's been a minute since we've talked about Epstein on this podcast. So before we

get into what was in these emails and why they matter, quick refresher on the Epstein scandal.

So Jeffrey Epstein was a powerful New York financier, had a lot of famous friends, including Donald

Trump, but also Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew in the United Kingdom.

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