Wednesday, November 19, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses Congress’s historic move to set up the release of the Epstein files, the rise of democratic socialists in American politics, and how far the Kennedy name can get Jack Schlossberg.
Part I (00:14 – 13:58)
Historic Moves by Congress Sets Up Release of the Epstein Files: Americans Demanded the Release of the Epstein Materials, But There’s a Chance They Still Won’t Be Satisfied
- Senate sends bill to release Epstein files to Trump by Axios (Stephen Neukam)
The Rise of Democratic Socialists in American Politics – A Big Shift to the Left on Both Coasts
Part III (22:33 – 26:16)
How Far Can the Kennedy Name Get Jack Schlossberg? Democrats are Not Sold on President Kennedy’s Grandson
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 19, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events. |
| 0:12.8 | From a Christian worldview, there is simply no doubt what the big headline news is in the United States, in this news cycle and likely for some to come. |
| 0:22.4 | And that is the decision that was made in terms of action by the House of Representatives and then summary action by the |
| 0:27.4 | United States Senate on the same day in which you have overwhelming, and that's an understatement. |
| 0:33.1 | Only one representative, one member of the House of Representatives voted against the motion to require |
| 0:39.1 | the government to release all its files on Jeffrey Epstein. And if you look at America's |
| 0:45.5 | historic context, you could just say, okay, there are moments in which there were significant |
| 0:50.5 | turns. There was a before and an after. You can point to certain dates when something |
| 0:56.0 | was politically plausible and then instantly it wasn't. Or something was implausible and then suddenly |
| 1:02.0 | it becomes plausible. Something was acceptable and now all of a sudden it is unacceptable. |
| 1:07.7 | And when it comes to the government release of this information and with the legislation |
| 1:12.6 | that would require the Trump administration to do so, you can see an overwhelming change in the |
| 1:19.7 | American public's moral conviction on the issue. And that's really what you see in the action |
| 1:25.3 | taken yesterday in the House and in the Senate. |
| 1:40.4 | It wasn't that all of a sudden, members of the House and members of the Senate, after a long period of moral and political reflection, decided that November the 18th, 2025 was the date in which this would happen. |
| 1:45.3 | No, in the course of the public unfolding of this event, it just turned out that yesterday was the day that turns out to be the fulcrum. There's a before and after. Before yesterday, |
| 1:51.6 | there was a debate about whether or not all these files should be released. After yesterday, |
| 1:56.9 | there is overwhelming support so much so that there was only one out of 435 members of the House |
| 2:03.5 | of Representatives who voted against the release. And the Senate simply took action through a summary |
| 2:09.6 | action. Responding to the action in the House, it didn't even require the kind of roll call vote. |
| 2:16.0 | And that shows you how quickly all this has taken place. |
| 2:18.7 | The big question as of early afternoon yesterday was, what will the Senate do after the House action? |
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