Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news

show so that you do not have to. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Erin Matei. Good morning morning.

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There's so many colorful characters that we're grateful for every week who deliver the news

on the Sunday shows that we make fun of.

And it's been another great year of doing that.

And we're going to head to the end of 2025 with some more laughs, some more laughter.

We got two more shows, right?

We got today and then next and then we're doing next week.

So don't despair, guys.

Don't despair. We're not going to leave you hanging next week. Well, we might. You never know. I'm not going to promise that we're not. Who knows? Really? Yeah. I mean, who knows? I don't know. Maybe next week the shows will be good enough to... Oh, all right. Well, all things being equal. I'm just saying don't not tune in by default.

Well, unfortunately, because it's the holidays, the shows, I guess, are cutting back a little

bit.

So we didn't get our weekly recap from Meet the Depressed.

But don't worry, there's so much funny stuff to get to the news of the weekend was

the release of the first batch of the so-called epstein files and what we got was just a lot of

heavy redactions surprise surprise and the man in the middle of all this the guy taking the fire is the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche. And here he is defending himself. Here he is blanching.

In files, Transparency Act prohibits redactions, quote, on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, has anything been redacted on that basis?

Absolutely positively not. And that's another trend that is just simply false. There were a number of

photographs that were pulled down after being released on Friday.

That's because a judge in New York has ordered us to listen to any victim or victim rights group

if they have any concerns about the material that we're putting up.

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