November 13, 2025 • 21 mins
BEST OF - We break down the top takeaways from the latest Epstein developments, including new details from recently released emails. We also cover the House vote to reopen the federal government and what comes next now that lawmakers have struck a deal. Plus, why coffee and banana prices may fall “very quickly." National Correspondent Rory O’Neill explains what to watch for now that the shutdown is over — and how Donald Trump surfaced in Epstein’s emails — while White House Correspondent Jon Decker reflects on marking 30 years covering the White House.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to some top takeaways from the latest Epstein developments,
and I want to start with why these Epstein emails
were released yesterday. Democrats wanted to take some of the
New cycle attention away from the reopening of the federal government.
They decided to shut it down. They failed to get
what they wanted out of the deal. Plus, you know,
those fires up the base. They're pretty pissed at the
(00:21):
Party for caving to Republicans. That's why House Democrats did
what they did. And I gotta say it's the smartest
thing they've done in a while. It's patriot out of
Trump's playbook, bad news cycle, need to fire up the base,
give him something to get them riled up, and that's
exactly what they did. Now. As for the substance, I
didn't find any of this surprising. Also, there's nothing indicating
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Trump was complicit in any crimes. But it is more
evidence that he knew what Epstein was up to, as
did Bill Clinton, as did Bill Gates, as did tons
of other people. And they all pretended they were deaf, dumb,
and blind to it all, which is pretty damning in
and of itself. And I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
(01:03):
Seeing the emails where Epstein claims President Trump knew about
the girls and was the dog that hasn't barred, it's
pretty jarring when it's a black and white it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But I don't think that we're learning anything new because
we all knew that Trump knew, Trump held around with them,
Trump kicked him out of Marrow Lago, and he confirms
that in the emails.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You know that he asked him to leave. I also
thought it was interesting that, after saying time and time again,
we have to protect the identities of victims, the second
an email put out by Democrats had a redaction that
made things look bad for Trump, and yes, Democrats did
that on purpose. House Republicans outed the victim.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, they were like, it was Virginia.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, no, it was her. It did add contexts
because the victim who spent hours with Trump at Epstein's home,
like you said, was Virginia Jeffrey, who has said she
never saw Trump do anything wrong, and the White House
kept reiterating that point. But to me, that's not the
problem here. It never has been. The problem is that
Trump knew what was going on and turned eye to
it all and I don't see how anyone can say
(02:02):
I care about holding pedophiles to account, but give him
a pass on that. And the same goes for Bill Clinton.
What's interesting to me about Clinton is that in the
documents released by Republicans after Democrats drop those Trump related emails,
there are emails from twenty eleven showing Epstein telling a
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contact called the Duke, which we now know is Prince Andrew,
that Bill Clinton was quote never on the island, and
that rumors about Clinton are complete and utter fantasy. So
the Republican's release actually kind of helps Clinton a little bit.
But again, maybe, like Trump, Clinton not complicit in a crime,
but don't tell me he didn't know what Epstein was
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up to. There were house business made by Epstein, White
house visits, there were flights on Epstein's jets, meetings at
Epstein's homes. In all these years, Clinton has kept quiet.
And you know, Trump's under the gun right now because
He've got reporters who have access to him to ask
some questions about all of this. Clinton, we don't say,
we don't hear. From the other interesting angle to all
(03:06):
of this, We've got this push from House Democrats and
a few House Republicans to force a vote on making
the Department of Justice release more Epstein files. What was
released yesterday was from a subpoena tied to the Epstein estate,
and you got the White House pushing a few of
the Republicans in favor of it, like Lauren Bobert Nancy
(03:27):
Mays really hard to change their minds Now it didn't work,
and there's some reporting that the pressure campaign actually made
Bobert even more dug in, like why are they so
adamant that this stuff shouldn't come out? And that's going
to be a problem for Republicans in the House. I've
think quite a few are going to vote for the
release of the files, even if they weren't in favor
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of the discharge petition, like Anna Paulina Luna, congressman from
the Tampa Bay area, not part of the discharge petition,
but is going to vote to get the files released.
But if you vote against it, what is your reasoning?
And you're gonna have to explain that. And if it
gets to the Senate, there's no guarantee it's going to
have the votes to pass. But again, if you're say
(04:08):
Ashley Moody, you've been a real fighter against sex trafficking.
How do you not vote for it? And if it
gets to President Trump's desk and he doesn't sign it,
that's going to be a big problem for him. You got,
there are not a lot of things that like, eighty
percent of Americans agree on, eighty percent of Americans want
the files released. And look, this is not an issue
that many people are super concerned about. It's not like affordability, right,
(04:31):
it doesn't affect our lives. No, But it's an easy
issue to digest and have an opinion about. It's dark,
it involves sex, really great to be honest, and powerful
people and possible conspiracies, and people eat that stuff up.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, well, I think there's been such a build up
over it that we that we want to know.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Last night, the House passed a funding measure to end
the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
On this vote, the a's are two hundred and twenty
two of the an a's are two oh nine.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The bill has passed.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The motion is adopted.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Two Republicans join most Democrats in opposition. Six Democrats voted yes.
The funding deal runs through January thirtieth. It reverses layoffs
triggered after October first. It provides full year funding for
key agencies. It also includes a promised Senate vote next
month on Obamacare subsidy extensions, but that promise only includes
(05:27):
a vote in the Senate, not that it will pass
or that'll even be taken up in the House. Yesterday's
vote was the House's first in fifty four days, and
now lawmakers head home for the rest of the week
before returning next week to deal with the backlog of
stalled legislation. Don't want to push them too hard. After
the House passed the bill, the President signed it to
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officially end the shutdown, and he said this the federal government.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Will now resume normal operations, and my administration and our
partners in Congress will continue our work to laura in
the cost of living, restore public safety, grower economy, and
make America affordable again.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now, as for the disruptions to air travel, the Department
of Transportation said they've seen a rapid decline in controller callouts,
leading officials to freeze flight reductions at its current level
of six percent. That was supposed to increase to eight
percent today and ten percent tomorrow, but now that's not
going to happen. Yesterday, more than nine hundred flights were
canceled nationwide, twenty two hundred were delayed. Just for comparison,
(06:29):
more than twelve hundred flights were canceled on Tuesday and
more than twenty four hundred were canceled on Monday, although
some of that had to do with those winter weather
conditions as well. And now that the shutdown is over,
millions of low income Americans should receive full snap benefits
within a day. The USDA said in a statement yesterday
that once the government reopens, most states will get the
(06:50):
funds within twenty four hours, which is good news for
almost three million Floridians depending on them. We're going to
have more on how it all went down last night
with Emily Brooks from The Hill at six thirty five
and then David Drucker from The Dispatch at eight thirty five,
and David's also going to break down some of the
winners and losers and what to watch for moving forward.
(07:11):
Yesterday we talked about a handful of new policies and
proposals that seem to indicate that Trump administration is well
aware there's a bit of an affordability crisis, even if
the President himself continues to say there is in one.
If you miss that segment, we've got a free in
the podcast. Just search for Ryan Gorman Show on your
iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. After floating
(07:32):
ideas like issuing two thousand dollars checks to most Americans
and other proposals like fifty year mortgages to lower monthly
mortgage payments, the Treasury Secretary is confirming what President Trump
told Laura Ingram the other night and taking it a
step further, saying that substantial relief on coffee, banana, other
fruit prices is on the way.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
You're going to see some substantial announcements over the next
couple of days in terms of things we don't grow
here in the United States, coffee being one of them,
bananas of other fruits.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now, Besen didn't provide details on how prices will be lowered,
but on Fox News the other night, Trump said they'll
be lowering some tariffs, including on coffee. And just a
quick reminder, back when Trump first enacted those massive tariffs
on Brazil, the world's largest coffee exporter, I told you
this is going to end up being a problem. You know,
coffee's not a luxury it's a necessity, and price increases,
(08:31):
we're never going to go overwhell. Like if the price
of peas goes up because of tariffs. Okay, nobody likes
peace and nobody needs them to get through the day.
Coffee is a different story. People get very cranky without
their coffee productivity drops. I mean, the whole economy could change. Yeah.
And here's the thing. If you put tariffs on say steel,
(08:55):
because you basically want to force companies to make that
here for say national security reasons. Okay, we don't do coffee, like,
we don't grow it here, we don't have the beans.
And like we learned from Curby your enthusiasm and Mocha
Joe got to have the beans. There's no bringing coffee
making back to America. So this is one of those
tariff decisions I always thought made even less sense than
(09:17):
some of the other ones. And in one more quick note,
if as Trump and Bescent have both now said, lowering
the tariffs on stuff like coffee will bring prices down quickly,
and then the mission that tariffs are responsible for some
of the price increases that we've been seeing, there's something
(09:37):
to think about. But now let's bring in our National
correspondent Rory O'Neil, whose reports brought to you by Mark
Spain real Estate. So, Rory, the record breaking government shut
down finally over. Things slowly starting to return back to normal.
It's going to take a little time to to ramp
things back up, including getting rid of those air travel
(09:57):
disruptions we've been experiencing. The vote took place last night.
The House passed the Senate's bill. President Trump signed it.
So we're moving forward until at least the end of January,
when we can do it all over again.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Right, which, honest of goodness, right, when's the shutdown going
to happen again?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Groundhog Day? It's crazy?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
But yeah, look, I don't want to be knocking on
the door of the Air.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
And Space Museum at eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
To see what's going on. But you know, yes, this
is all going to come together rather quickly. I caught
an interview with the head of Delta Airlines, which turned
one hundred years old this week. He said they could
be up and fully operational again this weekend, so they
expect a rapid return to quote unquote normal operations. He
doesn't think there'll be any problems for the airlines come
(10:50):
Thanksgiving two weeks from them.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, that's good news. That was the key getting this
wrapped up and having a little buffer time between the
end of the shutdown and that Thanksgiving travel week, and
it looks like that's going to be the case. The
flight reductions are frozen today at six percent. They were
supposed to go up to eight percent. But because you're
not seeing the staffing issues that we were seeing last week,
(11:14):
it sounds like the FAA and the Department of Transportation
better able to manage things, and hopefully that flight reduction
number will start to come down either today or over
the next few days. So lots of good news. The
snap benefits they're supposed to go out today, so you know,
again that part is behind us. But that doesn't mean
(11:35):
some of the battles that took place during the shutdown,
like the battle over healthcare, that that stuff's not going
to come back around real soon.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, right, and we're going to see that vote in
the Senate in December, and let's see how that goes.
But we heard from President Trump last night in the
Oval Office loading this idea of just give the money
directly to people, let them pick their insurance. Well, We'll
see how that goes. But yeah, still a lot of
that debate. You know President Trump, I mean, let's be
critical here. He's been promising a healthcare plan since his
(12:06):
first campaign, yeah, twelve years ago, and see it in
two weeks, we haven't gotten anything. Obamacare, the Affordable Care
Act is anything but affordable and still needs these subsidies.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So look, something's got.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
To We need grown ups to come to the table
and put the politics aside and actually try to fix
this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We'll see tackling healthcare heading into an election year. That
should be very interesting to watch. We're joined by our
national correspondent Rory O'Neil. Let's talk about the other big
story this morning, the Epstein emails. Got to tell you Democrats,
they knew they were going to have a rough news cycle.
They I thought, forced this government shutdown, held out, didn't
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get what they wanted out of it, caved, and then
on the day that it was all going to come
to a head, you've got House Democrats releasing some of
these emails from Epstein that include Trump's name. I mean,
look credit where credits do?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Pretty smart? Well played?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
All right, as I always say, Let's have it from
the Russian judge to grade that pivot, and I'd say
that was a night you know when.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It comes to pivot. No, it was smart tactic.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
And then that was the Democrats releasing those select emails.
Then you saw the whole House Overside Committee say all right,
let's flood the zone, going from figure skating to football.
But so now they're pushing all the emails out and
you know, ten or twenty thousand documents worth for poor
producers to try to sift through.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yesterday, Yeah, we're trying to unpack all of that. I mean,
you keep seeing new details trickle out. This one has
to do with Prince Andrew, this one has to do
with Bill Clinton. But the one thing that I think
really was going to lead this to come to a
tipping point yesterday, regardless of whether or not documents came out,
you had that final signature for the discharge petition that
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was going to lead to the vote in the House
to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.
And now we have that vote, according to the House Speaker,
scheduled for next week. And there was an interesting pressure
campaign that was put on Lauren Bobert's Nancy Mays yeah, yeah,
(14:17):
to try to get them to pull back their signature.
It was it was a pressure campaign put on by
the White House and Rory, I'm gonna make you reveal.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, I'm not going to do it. You're no, I'm
not going to say.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Well, can I say what you said that? Please? Okay? Rory?
Rory said, if the White House really wanted to cozy
up and get Lauren Bobert to do what they wanted
her to do, they, instead of pressuring her should have
taken her to a theater.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's where she geez didn't the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That was great? Rd Why did you want to own
that serial? I know, I know your you're national correspondent, right, No,
I I guess everyone takes you seriously.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
But when he's texting me at happy hours, going to
be said, uh so that's I think that's the next
big thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
What do Republicans do in the how you You're hearing
more and more of than say, I'm going to vote
for the files to be released, and if you don't
vote for them to be released, you're gonna have to
explain that vote. And I don't I don't know what
your reasoning would be for not voting in favor of it.
So that's going to be a tough political challenge for
some Republicans first in the House and then in the
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Senate to navigate.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Well, now, you think they want to do it as
early as possible. So it's the furthest time away from
next year's election, right, So let's do it now because
you got a year before voters go to the polls,
and frankly, a whole lot can happen that could influence
them by then to to to change sides.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So, uh yeah, this is an issue though that keeps
coming up.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
But it's also they've been trying to play both sides
of the deal here in the Trump administration, Attorney General
Bondi giving out those useless binders full of old information,
you know, trying to hype up we're going to be
transparent and then oh no, wait, we need a member
of Congress to come to the situation room for a
pressure campaign. Isn't that transparent? It's happening in the situation.
(16:24):
Couldn't be more transparent, that's that description. Mega, It's definitely
a situation. So way, where are those influencers that were
at the White House with those binders? How come they're
not knocking down the door to get all the information.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I feel like they're not very reliable. And I think
because they got those binders that made them feel special,
and so now they're just going to.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Keep their mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah. I haven't seen any of them. Yeah, and again,
those documents that were released yesterday, those were from a
subpoena issued to the Epstein estate. That's not stuff from
the Department of Justice.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Right, and that was but the House Oversight Committee has
that and they were able to now put it all out,
So it came from the full committee after the Democrats
on that committee put out some of the emails putting
the censored names and all that others.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, they were really putting christ in the mill
there for the hot oh Democrat. Yeah, I mean, you know,
keeping that redaction of Virginia Jeffrey. Now, everybody said they
wanted to keep the victim's names redacted, but boy, without
having that context worse. Yeah, there's no question they were
trying to mislead people. And then I would just say,
(17:31):
if you were sitting on all these documents, like twenty
thousand of them, like the House Republicans, eventually this stuff
hasn't been released before. Yeah, you just released it before.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So lots of questions still on all of this. Rory O'Neil,
our national correspondent with us this morning. Rory, thanks so much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Let's go back to the hotline and bringing our White
House correspondent John Decker, who's going to be honored at
the Swedish Embassy in Washington for achieving a really rare milestone.
This month marks John's thirtieth year covering the White House.
He's received congratulatory letters from President Trump and former presidents
George W. Bush and Barack Obama. John, we didn't write
(18:11):
a letter, but we'll congratulate you right here, right now.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
That's okay, All good, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
You know, it means a lot, you know, getting those
letters from those former presidents and from the current president.
It does, you know, it means that I'm doing my
job well to you know, receive such praise coming from
both a Republican as well as a Democrat. And you know,
for me, it's just a milestone. You know, I hope
to have many more milestones.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I love what I do.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Various presidents and press secretaries tell me. I'm good at
what I do, so I'm not going to be stopping
doing what I do anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, when we come to work here at the
station and we walk in, you know, it's where we work,
do it every day. When other people come in, we
bring people here, it's like a really big deal. You know,
they're just in everything. Yeah. Yeah, what's it like for you?
I mean when you go to the White House, it's
just like this is my office.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, everybody, to the rest of the world, it's like, Wow,
he goes to the White House every day and asks
the president questions.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's pretty incredible.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yeah, you know, it doesn't get old, so that's the
important thing. I'm not jaded by it all. It still
gives me a thrill when I walk through the White House,
skates you know, into the complex and I have workspace there.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I have real estate at the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's so cool.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
No, it never gets old, and it never gets old
when the President answers your questions, and that happens pretty
regularly with President Trump. So no, to me, it is unique,
you know in terms of what I do. And it's
interesting that you make that comparison. You know to for
when people come to the radio station. You know, you
come to Washington, d C. I'll give you a great
(19:53):
tour of the White House. To do it for so
many people, and I love to do it for you
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Was this your childhood dream to be your White House reporter?
I know you're also an attorney. So is this what
you wanted to do for when you were a kid
or did you kind of fall into it a little
bit later.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Well, you know, my start was not going to be
a journalist.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I have to tell you.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I worked all four years of college for Lehman Brothers,
the investment that that's just while I was an undergrad.
Then I worked on Wall Street for a year and
I realized that was not my passion.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I went back to school.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I worked as a press secretary to a US Senator,
and I did that until that senator was killed in
a plane crash, and that changed my life. That moment
changed my life, and then I realized my passion was journalism,
and I got a job in Philadelphia working for the
NBC television station. Moved shortly there after to Miami and
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worked for the NBC station there, and then in November
of nineteen ninety five, I moved to Washington, DC to
take a job as a White House correspondent for a
PBS television show. And I've been here ever since and
really remarkable experiences that I've had in places that I've
seen because of that job over the course of the
past three decades.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, it's an incredible career that's not done yet. But
the celebration tonight Swedish Embassy for thirty years covering the
White House very much deserved. Our White House correspondent John
Decker with us each and every morning. John, have a
great time tonight, and we want some really good stories. Yeah. Yeah,
(21:27):
that's a good question. I'm debating that right now. I
do not know the answer to that. All right, let
me figure that out as the morning goes on. We'll
talk to you soon, John, Thanks so much. All right,
Thank you, Ryan. All right, and again, you can check
out John and the White House Briefing Room podcast on
your iHeartRadio app
Speaker 6 (21:45):
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Let's get to some top takeaways from the latest Epstein developments,
and I want to start with why these Epstein emails
were released yesterday. Democrats wanted to take some of the
New cycle attention away from the reopening of the federal government.
They decided to shut it down. They failed to get
what they wanted out of the deal. Plus, you know,
those fires up the base. They're pretty pissed at the
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Party for caving to Republicans. That's why House Democrats did
what they did. And I gotta say it's the smartest
thing they've done in a while. It's patriot out of
Trump's playbook, bad news cycle, need to fire up the base,
give him something to get them riled up, and that's
exactly what they did. Now. As for the substance, I
didn't find any of this surprising. Also, there's nothing indicating
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Trump was complicit in any crimes. But it is more
evidence that he knew what Epstein was up to, as
did Bill Clinton, as did Bill Gates, as did tons
of other people. And they all pretended they were deaf, dumb,
and blind to it all, which is pretty damning in
and of itself. And I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
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Seeing the emails where Epstein claims President Trump knew about
the girls and was the dog that hasn't barred, it's
pretty jarring when it's a black and white it really is.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But I don't think that we're learning anything new because
we all knew that Trump knew, Trump held around with them,
Trump kicked him out of Marrow Lago, and he confirms
that in the emails.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You know that he asked him to leave. I also
thought it was interesting that, after saying time and time again,
we have to protect the identities of victims, the second
an email put out by Democrats had a redaction that
made things look bad for Trump, and yes, Democrats did
that on purpose. House Republicans outed the victim.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, they were like, it was Virginia.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, no, it was her. It did add contexts
because the victim who spent hours with Trump at Epstein's home,
like you said, was Virginia Jeffrey, who has said she
never saw Trump do anything wrong, and the White House
kept reiterating that point. But to me, that's not the
problem here. It never has been. The problem is that
Trump knew what was going on and turned eye to
it all and I don't see how anyone can say
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I care about holding pedophiles to account, but give him
a pass on that. And the same goes for Bill Clinton.
What's interesting to me about Clinton is that in the
documents released by Republicans after Democrats drop those Trump related emails,
there are emails from twenty eleven showing Epstein telling a
(02:23):
contact called the Duke, which we now know is Prince Andrew,
that Bill Clinton was quote never on the island, and
that rumors about Clinton are complete and utter fantasy. So
the Republican's release actually kind of helps Clinton a little bit.
But again, maybe, like Trump, Clinton not complicit in a crime,
but don't tell me he didn't know what Epstein was
(02:45):
up to. There were house business made by Epstein, White
house visits, there were flights on Epstein's jets, meetings at
Epstein's homes. In all these years, Clinton has kept quiet.
And you know, Trump's under the gun right now because
He've got reporters who have access to him to ask
some questions about all of this. Clinton, we don't say,
we don't hear. From the other interesting angle to all
(03:06):
of this, We've got this push from House Democrats and
a few House Republicans to force a vote on making
the Department of Justice release more Epstein files. What was
released yesterday was from a subpoena tied to the Epstein estate,
and you got the White House pushing a few of
the Republicans in favor of it, like Lauren Bobert Nancy
(03:27):
Mays really hard to change their minds Now it didn't work,
and there's some reporting that the pressure campaign actually made
Bobert even more dug in, like why are they so
adamant that this stuff shouldn't come out? And that's going
to be a problem for Republicans in the House. I've
think quite a few are going to vote for the
release of the files, even if they weren't in favor
(03:48):
of the discharge petition, like Anna Paulina Luna, congressman from
the Tampa Bay area, not part of the discharge petition,
but is going to vote to get the files released.
But if you vote against it, what is your reasoning?
And you're gonna have to explain that. And if it
gets to the Senate, there's no guarantee it's going to
have the votes to pass. But again, if you're say
(04:08):
Ashley Moody, you've been a real fighter against sex trafficking.
How do you not vote for it? And if it
gets to President Trump's desk and he doesn't sign it,
that's going to be a big problem for him. You got,
there are not a lot of things that like, eighty
percent of Americans agree on, eighty percent of Americans want
the files released. And look, this is not an issue
that many people are super concerned about. It's not like affordability, right,
(04:31):
it doesn't affect our lives. No, But it's an easy
issue to digest and have an opinion about. It's dark,
it involves sex, really great to be honest, and powerful
people and possible conspiracies, and people eat that stuff up.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, well, I think there's been such a build up
over it that we that we want to know.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Last night, the House passed a funding measure to end
the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
On this vote, the a's are two hundred and twenty
two of the an a's are two oh nine.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The bill has passed.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The motion is adopted.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Two Republicans join most Democrats in opposition. Six Democrats voted yes.
The funding deal runs through January thirtieth. It reverses layoffs
triggered after October first. It provides full year funding for
key agencies. It also includes a promised Senate vote next
month on Obamacare subsidy extensions, but that promise only includes
(05:27):
a vote in the Senate, not that it will pass
or that'll even be taken up in the House. Yesterday's
vote was the House's first in fifty four days, and
now lawmakers head home for the rest of the week
before returning next week to deal with the backlog of
stalled legislation. Don't want to push them too hard. After
the House passed the bill, the President signed it to
(05:48):
officially end the shutdown, and he said this the federal government.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Will now resume normal operations, and my administration and our
partners in Congress will continue our work to laura in
the cost of living, restore public safety, grower economy, and
make America affordable again.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now, as for the disruptions to air travel, the Department
of Transportation said they've seen a rapid decline in controller callouts,
leading officials to freeze flight reductions at its current level
of six percent. That was supposed to increase to eight
percent today and ten percent tomorrow, but now that's not
going to happen. Yesterday, more than nine hundred flights were
canceled nationwide, twenty two hundred were delayed. Just for comparison,
(06:29):
more than twelve hundred flights were canceled on Tuesday and
more than twenty four hundred were canceled on Monday, although
some of that had to do with those winter weather
conditions as well. And now that the shutdown is over,
millions of low income Americans should receive full snap benefits
within a day. The USDA said in a statement yesterday
that once the government reopens, most states will get the
(06:50):
funds within twenty four hours, which is good news for
almost three million Floridians depending on them. We're going to
have more on how it all went down last night
with Emily Brooks from The Hill at six thirty five
and then David Drucker from The Dispatch at eight thirty five,
and David's also going to break down some of the
winners and losers and what to watch for moving forward.
(07:11):
Yesterday we talked about a handful of new policies and
proposals that seem to indicate that Trump administration is well
aware there's a bit of an affordability crisis, even if
the President himself continues to say there is in one.
If you miss that segment, we've got a free in
the podcast. Just search for Ryan Gorman Show on your
iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. After floating
(07:32):
ideas like issuing two thousand dollars checks to most Americans
and other proposals like fifty year mortgages to lower monthly
mortgage payments, the Treasury Secretary is confirming what President Trump
told Laura Ingram the other night and taking it a
step further, saying that substantial relief on coffee, banana, other
fruit prices is on the way.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
You're going to see some substantial announcements over the next
couple of days in terms of things we don't grow
here in the United States, coffee being one of them,
bananas of other fruits.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now, Besen didn't provide details on how prices will be lowered,
but on Fox News the other night, Trump said they'll
be lowering some tariffs, including on coffee. And just a
quick reminder, back when Trump first enacted those massive tariffs
on Brazil, the world's largest coffee exporter, I told you
this is going to end up being a problem. You know,
coffee's not a luxury it's a necessity, and price increases,
(08:31):
we're never going to go overwhell. Like if the price
of peas goes up because of tariffs. Okay, nobody likes
peace and nobody needs them to get through the day.
Coffee is a different story. People get very cranky without
their coffee productivity drops. I mean, the whole economy could change. Yeah.
And here's the thing. If you put tariffs on say steel,
(08:55):
because you basically want to force companies to make that
here for say national security reasons. Okay, we don't do coffee, like,
we don't grow it here, we don't have the beans.
And like we learned from Curby your enthusiasm and Mocha
Joe got to have the beans. There's no bringing coffee
making back to America. So this is one of those
tariff decisions I always thought made even less sense than
(09:17):
some of the other ones. And in one more quick note,
if as Trump and Bescent have both now said, lowering
the tariffs on stuff like coffee will bring prices down quickly,
and then the mission that tariffs are responsible for some
of the price increases that we've been seeing, there's something
(09:37):
to think about. But now let's bring in our National
correspondent Rory O'Neil, whose reports brought to you by Mark
Spain real Estate. So, Rory, the record breaking government shut
down finally over. Things slowly starting to return back to normal.
It's going to take a little time to to ramp
things back up, including getting rid of those air travel
(09:57):
disruptions we've been experiencing. The vote took place last night.
The House passed the Senate's bill. President Trump signed it.
So we're moving forward until at least the end of January,
when we can do it all over again.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Right, which, honest of goodness, right, when's the shutdown going
to happen again?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Groundhog Day? It's crazy?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
But yeah, look, I don't want to be knocking on
the door of the Air.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
And Space Museum at eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
To see what's going on. But you know, yes, this
is all going to come together rather quickly. I caught
an interview with the head of Delta Airlines, which turned
one hundred years old this week. He said they could
be up and fully operational again this weekend, so they
expect a rapid return to quote unquote normal operations. He
doesn't think there'll be any problems for the airlines come
(10:50):
Thanksgiving two weeks from them.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, that's good news. That was the key getting this
wrapped up and having a little buffer time between the
end of the shutdown and that Thanksgiving travel week, and
it looks like that's going to be the case. The
flight reductions are frozen today at six percent. They were
supposed to go up to eight percent. But because you're
not seeing the staffing issues that we were seeing last week,
(11:14):
it sounds like the FAA and the Department of Transportation
better able to manage things, and hopefully that flight reduction
number will start to come down either today or over
the next few days. So lots of good news. The
snap benefits they're supposed to go out today, so you know,
again that part is behind us. But that doesn't mean
(11:35):
some of the battles that took place during the shutdown,
like the battle over healthcare, that that stuff's not going
to come back around real soon.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, right, and we're going to see that vote in
the Senate in December, and let's see how that goes.
But we heard from President Trump last night in the
Oval Office loading this idea of just give the money
directly to people, let them pick their insurance. Well, We'll
see how that goes. But yeah, still a lot of
that debate. You know President Trump, I mean, let's be
critical here. He's been promising a healthcare plan since his
(12:06):
first campaign, yeah, twelve years ago, and see it in
two weeks, we haven't gotten anything. Obamacare, the Affordable Care
Act is anything but affordable and still needs these subsidies.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
So look, something's got.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
To We need grown ups to come to the table
and put the politics aside and actually try to fix
this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We'll see tackling healthcare heading into an election year. That
should be very interesting to watch. We're joined by our
national correspondent Rory O'Neil. Let's talk about the other big
story this morning, the Epstein emails. Got to tell you Democrats,
they knew they were going to have a rough news cycle.
They I thought, forced this government shutdown, held out, didn't
(12:46):
get what they wanted out of it, caved, and then
on the day that it was all going to come
to a head, you've got House Democrats releasing some of
these emails from Epstein that include Trump's name. I mean,
look credit where credits do?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Pretty smart? Well played?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
All right, as I always say, Let's have it from
the Russian judge to grade that pivot, and I'd say
that was a night you know when.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It comes to pivot. No, it was smart tactic.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
And then that was the Democrats releasing those select emails.
Then you saw the whole House Overside Committee say all right,
let's flood the zone, going from figure skating to football.
But so now they're pushing all the emails out and
you know, ten or twenty thousand documents worth for poor
producers to try to sift through.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yesterday, Yeah, we're trying to unpack all of that. I mean,
you keep seeing new details trickle out. This one has
to do with Prince Andrew, this one has to do
with Bill Clinton. But the one thing that I think
really was going to lead this to come to a
tipping point yesterday, regardless of whether or not documents came out,
you had that final signature for the discharge petition that
(13:56):
was going to lead to the vote in the House
to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.
And now we have that vote, according to the House Speaker,
scheduled for next week. And there was an interesting pressure
campaign that was put on Lauren Bobert's Nancy Mays yeah, yeah,
(14:17):
to try to get them to pull back their signature.
It was it was a pressure campaign put on by
the White House and Rory, I'm gonna make you reveal.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
No, I'm not going to do it. You're no, I'm
not going to say.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Well, can I say what you said that? Please? Okay? Rory?
Rory said, if the White House really wanted to cozy
up and get Lauren Bobert to do what they wanted
her to do, they, instead of pressuring her should have
taken her to a theater.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's where she geez didn't the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
That was great? Rd Why did you want to own
that serial? I know, I know your you're national correspondent, right, No,
I I guess everyone takes you seriously.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
But when he's texting me at happy hours, going to
be said, uh so that's I think that's the next
big thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
What do Republicans do in the how you You're hearing
more and more of than say, I'm going to vote
for the files to be released, and if you don't
vote for them to be released, you're gonna have to
explain that vote. And I don't I don't know what
your reasoning would be for not voting in favor of it.
So that's going to be a tough political challenge for
some Republicans first in the House and then in the
(15:41):
Senate to navigate.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Well, now, you think they want to do it as
early as possible. So it's the furthest time away from
next year's election, right, So let's do it now because
you got a year before voters go to the polls,
and frankly, a whole lot can happen that could influence
them by then to to to change sides.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So, uh yeah, this is an issue though that keeps
coming up.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
But it's also they've been trying to play both sides
of the deal here in the Trump administration, Attorney General
Bondi giving out those useless binders full of old information,
you know, trying to hype up we're going to be
transparent and then oh no, wait, we need a member
of Congress to come to the situation room for a
pressure campaign. Isn't that transparent? It's happening in the situation.
(16:24):
Couldn't be more transparent, that's that description. Mega, It's definitely
a situation. So way, where are those influencers that were
at the White House with those binders? How come they're
not knocking down the door to get all the information.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I feel like they're not very reliable. And I think
because they got those binders that made them feel special,
and so now they're just going to.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Keep their mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah. I haven't seen any of them. Yeah, and again,
those documents that were released yesterday, those were from a
subpoena issued to the Epstein estate. That's not stuff from
the Department of Justice.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Right, and that was but the House Oversight Committee has
that and they were able to now put it all out,
So it came from the full committee after the Democrats
on that committee put out some of the emails putting
the censored names and all that others.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, they were really putting christ in the mill
there for the hot oh Democrat. Yeah, I mean, you know,
keeping that redaction of Virginia Jeffrey. Now, everybody said they
wanted to keep the victim's names redacted, but boy, without
having that context worse. Yeah, there's no question they were
trying to mislead people. And then I would just say,
(17:31):
if you were sitting on all these documents, like twenty
thousand of them, like the House Republicans, eventually this stuff
hasn't been released before. Yeah, you just released it before.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So lots of questions still on all of this. Rory O'Neil,
our national correspondent with us this morning. Rory, thanks so much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Let's go back to the hotline and bringing our White
House correspondent John Decker, who's going to be honored at
the Swedish Embassy in Washington for achieving a really rare milestone.
This month marks John's thirtieth year covering the White House.
He's received congratulatory letters from President Trump and former presidents
George W. Bush and Barack Obama. John, we didn't write
(18:11):
a letter, but we'll congratulate you right here, right now.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
That's okay, All good, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
You know, it means a lot, you know, getting those
letters from those former presidents and from the current president.
It does, you know, it means that I'm doing my
job well to you know, receive such praise coming from
both a Republican as well as a Democrat. And you know,
for me, it's just a milestone. You know, I hope
to have many more milestones.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I love what I do.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Various presidents and press secretaries tell me. I'm good at
what I do, so I'm not going to be stopping
doing what I do anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, when we come to work here at the
station and we walk in, you know, it's where we work,
do it every day. When other people come in, we
bring people here, it's like a really big deal. You know,
they're just in everything. Yeah. Yeah, what's it like for you?
I mean when you go to the White House, it's
just like this is my office.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, everybody, to the rest of the world, it's like, Wow,
he goes to the White House every day and asks
the president questions.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's pretty incredible.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Yeah, you know, it doesn't get old, so that's the
important thing. I'm not jaded by it all. It still
gives me a thrill when I walk through the White House,
skates you know, into the complex and I have workspace there.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I have real estate at the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's so cool.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
No, it never gets old, and it never gets old
when the President answers your questions, and that happens pretty
regularly with President Trump. So no, to me, it is unique,
you know in terms of what I do. And it's
interesting that you make that comparison. You know to for
when people come to the radio station. You know, you
come to Washington, d C. I'll give you a great
(19:53):
tour of the White House. To do it for so
many people, and I love to do it for you
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Was this your childhood dream to be your White House reporter?
I know you're also an attorney. So is this what
you wanted to do for when you were a kid
or did you kind of fall into it a little
bit later.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Well, you know, my start was not going to be
a journalist.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I have to tell you.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I worked all four years of college for Lehman Brothers,
the investment that that's just while I was an undergrad.
Then I worked on Wall Street for a year and
I realized that was not my passion.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I went back to school.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I worked as a press secretary to a US Senator,
and I did that until that senator was killed in
a plane crash, and that changed my life. That moment
changed my life, and then I realized my passion was journalism,
and I got a job in Philadelphia working for the
NBC television station. Moved shortly there after to Miami and
(20:46):
worked for the NBC station there, and then in November
of nineteen ninety five, I moved to Washington, DC to
take a job as a White House correspondent for a
PBS television show. And I've been here ever since and
really remarkable experiences that I've had in places that I've
seen because of that job over the course of the
past three decades.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, it's an incredible career that's not done yet. But
the celebration tonight Swedish Embassy for thirty years covering the
White House very much deserved. Our White House correspondent John
Decker with us each and every morning. John, have a
great time tonight, and we want some really good stories. Yeah. Yeah,
(21:27):
that's a good question. I'm debating that right now. I
do not know the answer to that. All right, let
me figure that out as the morning goes on. We'll
talk to you soon, John, Thanks so much. All right,
Thank you, Ryan. All right, and again, you can check
out John and the White House Briefing Room podcast on
your iHeartRadio app
Speaker 6 (21:45):
So Ryan Gorman Show on News Radio FLA, Follow us
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