Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent discusses US President Trump's changing stance on the Epstein files

US President Donald Trump is now asking for some of the Epstein documents to be released. 

The President, who earlier this week was calling for people to forget about the files, has now changed his approach to the situation.  

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson told Ryan Bridge, ‘I think he wants to try and get ahead of this, even though he has been trying to divert attention from it.’  

These documents are suspected of containing important information about the identities of some of Jeffery Epstein’s clients. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The tech CEO in America, has been outed as having
an affair at a Coldplay concert. He and his HR
director were at Coldplay's show in Boston together, and you
know the kiss cams in America, one of those came up.
They immediately break apart when they're on camera, tried to
get out of the camera's view as quickly as possible.

(00:20):
But Chris Martin, who fronts Coldplay, commented on their suspicious
behavior live, So internet slews get to the bottom of it,
work out who he is, workout who she is. And yes,
apparently they were having an affair. Rule number one of affairs,
of course, don't do it in public. That's what motel

(00:42):
rooms are. Four twenty two to five, Dan, Good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Now my favorite. That is my favorite story of the day.
If they had just looked normal and had not ducked
the camera, nobody would be paying attention to them. Because
they did that, they've gone viral. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's just just embarrassing, isn't it. And then you feel
terrible for the families too. Anyway, Trump has asked for
some Epstein documents to be released. This is after the
Wall Street Journal ran quite an explosive report about a
birthday card that he sent to Epstein.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
He did a collection of letters I guess for Epstein's
fiftieth birthday that was back in two thousand and three
or so, and it had a note from Trump with
an outline of a naked woman and it was inscribed
on there. And then Trump said in an interview with
a journal that act he never wrote the letter or
drew the picture, and he threatened as soon the newspaper
if it published his story, Well guess what they did.

(01:33):
So in response to that story, Trump just a short
time ago posted on truth Social that he's ordered the
Attorney General to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony,
penning court approval for this. I think he just wants
to try and get out in front of this, even
though he has been trying to divert attention from it. Now.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Donald Trump also well Caroline live at his presecretary was
fronting the priest today and talked about his health, some
of his age related health issues. Nothing Maja, but swollen ankles.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, yeah, there's there's been a lot of I guess,
you know, concern or interest in marks on his hand
and then his ankles that have just swollen up to
and these pictures have been making the rounds on social
media about his legs and maybe look very swollen. The
White House says this is a common condition in people
over the age of seventy. He had this checked out.

(02:26):
There was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease.
And the problem is that the doctors are saying that
this is kind of normal for people who are overweight
or in the obese category, which is where the President
has been for some time. He says he's not when
his you know, health checks come out, he says he's
in great shape. But there's bigger concerns that these these

(02:49):
you know conditions, this condition could lead to things like
sleep apnea or may trigger a heart condition. So I
think that's why there's been so much interest in the
press about this.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, and just finding Stephen Colbert's late night show getting
in the X, I was surprised to learn that there
are two hundred staff working on that show. That's that's
got to be expensive.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, it is, and linear TV is and I know
we've been seeing this for a long time, but linear
TV is dying a very slow death. So there have
been cutbacks to late night TV. Here, the Tonight Show
just takes four nights a week. Other late night shows
have gotten rid of their bands, their live bands, and
CBS says, you know what, we're not going to replace anybody.
After the Late Late Show ended with James Cordon and

(03:32):
now they're cutting the Late Show. It'll be over in May.
They're saying that has nothing to do with their ratings.
It is just down to the bottom line. And the
problem is the shows themselves aren't being watched in their
entirety anymore. It's more like clips, you know, TikTok videos
that generate the hits in the views, like James Cordon
did with carpool Karaoke. And so I think this is

(03:52):
kind of what we're seeing, you know, late night and
even some early morning shows are just having to go
away as these networks are just burdened with these these
mass of staffs and budgets.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, it's the old it's the old beasts that you've
got to feed and the cost of transmitting to Dan
Appreciate your times. Dan Mitchinson with US our US correspondent
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