11-20-25 RYAN SCHMELZ - EPSTIEN FILES RELEASE

Ryan Shcmelz of Fox News joined Todd to talk about the pending release of the Epstein Files.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome in Ryan Schmells from Fox News and the
Epstein files. We're going to release the crack and Ryan,
but are we really going to learn anything here but
after redactions and such?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I well have to wait and see. You know. The
argument before was that the files that have been released
so far were overly redacted to the point that you
couldn't see any information or couldn't read any information that
was coming out of it. So the legislation is supposed
to restrain some of those redactions so that they can
get more of a picture of what the Epstein files

(00:33):
ultimately say. Now, of course, there will still be retractions
in here related to sensitive victims information. But this is
one of the concerns Speaker Johnson had about the legislation
in the first place, that he was worried it would
reveal sensitive information and potentially put DOJ investigations at risk
in the future.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, and also, Ryan, aren't we concerned that anybody's name
that shows in there in any superfluous way, like it
could say.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Ryan Schmell's in there for some reason, and.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Then all of a sudden he's connected with Jeffrey Epstein,
and that's going to be highly unfair.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, yeah, I mean that certainly is a problem, and
you're already seeing names start to pop up, and you know,
we don't know if there's any of the farious activity
with some of the names being involved there, but just
the fact that you're mentioned in here, or you have
any type of connection to Jeffrey Epstein, you know, it's
becoming a major problem now. Of course, the idea though,
was to also find out the people who have not

(01:28):
been held accountable for their role in Jeffrey Epstein's behavior
and his crimes. So you know, if you want to
get justice for the victims, this might be a necessary
step to get that accomplished.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Ryan Schmell's and Fox News Radio with us. Of course,
none of these files were released during the Biden administration.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Do you find that somewhat ironic? What are people saying
about that?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, I think people have made the argument that, well,
if Donald Trump's name was in here, if there was
anything Donald Trump had to hide, this would have been
leaked to the press well before the twenty twenty four
And you know, Democrats have had to answer questions about this,
about why the Biden administration did not release the files
in the four years they were in office, and there
have been some Democrats who've openly said yes, they should

(02:12):
have and that's a problem. And there was one Democrat
who said that he would love to question Merrick Garland
about this under oath. So, you know, I think there
is certainly backlash and certainly answers that the Biden administration
still had to answer for with these Epstein files.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
But at the real same time too, Donald Trump is
now the president and he campaigned on releasing the Epstein.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Files, and they will be released, but of course they're
not going to be released today.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Ryan, do we have a timeline with.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
This Thirty days is the timeline that Democrat that that
the legislation gives. The Department Justice put this mission on
its website and have a downloadable link to access them.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, they released sixty thousand pages, I think before have
we heard any credible estimate of how many pages?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
This is?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh, a good question. I don't have that information. Yeah,
the sixty thousand was released to the House Oversight Committee.
But those those are those are some of the documents
that have received that criticism of being overly redacted. So
we'll see if those if you know, those ones have
less redactions on it in the future.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, Ryan, you can have some fun on the Fox
News newsroom doing over under on the number of pages.
Let's go with one hundred thousand and see where we
end up. Ryan Schmels in Washington, thanks for joining us
this morning.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
He of course, thank you.