I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden.

You know, and we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia-Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through.

We've gone through years of it.

But she's handled it very well, and it's going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.

I was President Trump yesterday falsely accusing the former FBI director and former President

Obama for the Jeffrey Epstein files. His base continues to express anger at the administration

for not releasing records

connected to the convicted sex trafficker. And now House Speaker Mike Johnson is breaking with the

president. The question is, how will Trump respond to what's been the biggest fracture so far in his

coalition? Also ahead, defense secretary Pete Hegeseth is removing National Guard troops from Los Angeles.

The question is, why were they still there?

Plus, Senate Republicans were able to narrowly advance a package of spending cuts proposed by Trump.

The question is, what's in it?

And can Congress meet the President's Friday deadline?

It's way too early for this.

Thank you. early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has a lot of TV to binge watch now that

that the Emmy nominations are out as if I needed an excuse.

But we're going to have more on that later.

I'm Ali Vitale on this Wednesday, July 16th, and we'll start with the news. Despite President Trump's

repeated efforts to move past the Jeffrey Epstein case, the controversy continues to plague the Trump

administration and drive a chasm among MAGA supporters. The president spoke to reporters

yesterday, questioning why anyone would even care about the case of the deceased convicted sex offender, whom Trump once called a, quote, terrific guy.

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