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,

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.

A mixture of conspiracy theories and defiance from President Trump yesterday on 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, breaking with the president, will go through all of that.

Meanwhile, Russia is dismissing President Trump's call for a ceasefire in 50 days, as well as his

tariff threat will look at what could come next in that

years-long conflict. Also ahead, an update on the New York City mayoral campaign as Democratic

candidate Zoran Mamdani met with business leaders in hopes of easing their concerns about him.

Good morning. And welcome to morning. Joe, it is

Wednesday, July 16th, along with Willie and me. We have the co-host of our fourth hour,

contributing writer at The Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, and New York Times opinion columnist,

David French. And Willie, it seems the far right, much of it, digging in on finding answers

and justice as it pertains to sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. And some people who had decided

to let this go came back to it again yesterday. There is no let up now in the drumbeat for

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