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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:12.0 | Just the proximity between the two men is bad news for Donald Trump. |
| 0:16.6 | I mean, it is turmoil for Republicans. |
| 0:18.9 | New photos from House Democrats that put Jeffrey Epstein back in the spotlight. |
| 0:23.6 | 68 new photos that are, I think it's fair to say, disturbing. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah, I don't think anybody had Noam Chomsky on their Epstein bingo card. |
| 0:32.8 | This is a muddy and confusing story. |
| 0:35.6 | As the deadline for the release of the Epstein files gets closer, |
| 0:39.5 | here's what you need to know before the full files come out. From The Guardians today in focus, |
| 0:44.6 | this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. I'm joined by Jonathan Friedland, who is a Guardian |
| 0:51.3 | columnist and host of our sister podcast, Politics Weekly America. |
| 0:55.1 | Thanks for being with us, Johnny. |
| 0:56.6 | Johnny, it's a long-awaited moment, isn't it? |
| 0:59.1 | The deadline for the full Epstein files to be released is midnight US time tonight. |
| 1:04.3 | We're expecting to be given trunches of unclassified, some redacted documents. |
| 1:10.4 | But from your reading, what can we expect to receive later? |
| 1:14.8 | I think we can expect to receive lots and lots of documents and pages of paper. But whether they |
| 1:21.0 | are revealing or not, I'm a bit more wary. And partly for the reason you touched on, which is |
| 1:30.0 | redacted. Redactions are the key here. |
| 1:35.3 | We are told that there is this scramble of officials in the Department of Justice going through striking out those lines, which could be tremendously revealing, but which are covered by |
| 1:41.9 | various exemptions. And so I think the expectations should be managed accordingly. |
| 1:48.2 | But it is a big moment, isn't it? |
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