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🗓️ 27 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Good Sunday morning to you. It's July 27th. Congress may be on vacation for the next month, |
0:11.2 | but Democratic lawmakers and some Republican ones, too, are keeping up the pressure on this administration to release the Epstein files. |
0:18.1 | Before House Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly decided to begin that month |
0:21.4 | long, August recess in July, the Democratic Congressman Roe Kana partnered with the Republican |
0:27.4 | Congressman Thomas Massey to co-sponsor a measure to force the federal government to release |
0:32.5 | all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein's case. Now, moments ago, they both spoke with my colleague, Kristen Welker, on Meet the Press, |
0:41.3 | about their push for more transparency from the Trump administration. |
0:45.0 | And during the interview, Congressman Massey also responded to Speaker Johnson's criticism |
0:49.9 | that he's trying to inflict political pain on his own political party. |
0:54.6 | I don't know why it should be politically painful to be transparent. |
0:58.8 | Is the pain he's talking about that somebody in our party will be embarrassed by those files, |
1:04.3 | then that's not a good excuse. |
1:06.0 | Is the pain he's talking about is that the legislators, when they vote, have to pick between protecting |
1:13.2 | embarrassment of the rich and powerful versus getting justice for victims. I don't really understand |
1:18.7 | what he means by that. Well, the Epstein files continue to cause turmoil over domestic politics. |
1:24.5 | Donald Trump doesn't seem as worried about it right now. He's spending a few days in Scotland, the country where his mother was born and raised. He's primarily there to participate |
1:31.9 | in the opening of a new Trump golf course in the country. He's added some official business to the |
1:36.6 | schedule while he's there, but the president didn't exactly receive a warm welcome from locals. |
1:42.2 | Protesters turned out at a few different cities over the weekend |
1:44.9 | to express their anger and frustration with how Trump has antagonized much of the world on a number |
1:50.5 | of different issues. As I said, though, Trump seems unconcerned with how Europe is reacting to his |
1:55.8 | visit. Upon arriving in Glasgow on Friday, it didn't take them long to start criticizing |
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