US Congress votes to release Epstein files
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Both houses of Congress in the US have passed a bill that aims to force the publication of files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Once President Trump signs it into law, the Justice Department will have a thirty day deadline to release the documents. Also: Donald Trump defends the Saudi Crown Prince on his first White House visit since Jamal Khashoggi's murder; violence rises between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; five hikers die in Chile's Patagonia; a report from the front line of Europe's standoff with Russia's shadow fleet; Meta wins a five year legal battle; we look at the future of test cricket; and Australian prisoners fight for their right to Vegemite.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Nick Myers, and in the early hours of the 19th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.1 | US Senate has unanimously approved a bill to force the release of the Justice Department's files on |
| 0:22.2 | the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump has defended the Saudi Crown Prince |
| 0:28.4 | over the killing of the journalist Jamal Hashoggi by Saudi agents seven years ago. |
| 0:37.3 | Also in this podcast, we report from the West Bank. |
| 0:40.8 | Dozens of Israeli settlers surrounded a house in the village of Juba, setting cars alight. |
| 0:46.3 | Other homes and vehicles nearby were also attacked. |
| 0:49.2 | There's graffiti on the walls, death to Arabs. |
| 0:52.6 | Where violence against Palestinians has reached its highest level in almost 20 years. |
| 0:57.9 | And there's a win in court for the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. |
| 1:07.4 | For months, Donald Trump has been trying to get America to talk about something else, |
| 1:12.6 | but one name has refused to go away, that of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:18.2 | The yeas are 427, the nays are one. |
| 1:23.4 | Two-thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, |
| 1:29.5 | and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. |
| 1:35.9 | That was the result of a vote in the House of Representatives, |
| 1:39.4 | where both Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly approved the release of all the information |
| 1:44.9 | the Justice Department holds on Epstein. A few hours later, the Senate also passed the bill. |
| 1:51.6 | Jeffrey Epstein died whilst awaiting trial in 2019, so this information never made it into a courtroom. |
| 1:58.2 | But campaigners are convinced it will shed more light on the powerful people the sex offender |
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