Rory O'Neill has the latest on the Epstein files

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, today's day. I actually think it's gonna be a
bit later, early this evening. The vote is supposed to
happen to whether or not release the Epstein files. President
Trump was asked about it by a reporter yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Take it, do whatever they want. We'll give them everything. Sure,
I would let the Senate look at it, let anybody
look at it, but don't talk about it too much,
because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us.
It's really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein's friends,
all of them. And it's a hoax. The whole thing

(00:31):
is a hoax.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, we'll see what happens. But he does say he
will sign it if, in fact he gets to his desk,
So yeah, he's ready. He changed his mind and release it.
Let's go. I'm tired of this. It's just a distraction.
Join us now, talk a little bit more about this.
Are corresponding Royal Neeland roy Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hey there, JT. Good morning. And yet you know he
can just release them on his own. You don't need
an Act of Congress. It's the Department of Justice and
the Attorney General who decided back on the July fourth weekend,
to say, there's no one else to prosecute, and we're
not going to release the file. That was what they
sort of dropped on the Friday of fourth of July weekend.
But yeah, and they could just decide to release them too.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, what was the big switch in the turn on
this whole thing? Is it the distraction? He's tired of
it and we're trying to get some things accomplished here,
I mean, and Schumer comes out and says, you know,
people want to know what Trump's hiding.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Trump's hiding?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I mean, the Democrats had this two shuck. Did forget
that that Biden had these files and if there was
something in there about Trump, it probably would have been released.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, the president is also switching teams because he lost, right,
So now, look, they had the votes, the numbers were there.
They tried to get Lauren Bobert to flip. She refused
to do so, so they were going to lose. So
rather than lose, they're switching teams and declaring victory here,
saying go ahead, release this enough.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Well, it's supposed to happen today the votes with the House.
I talked with Congressman Gary Palmer yesterday a little bit
about this, and he says, yeah, they're going to go
for the vote on this. Is there anything that could
jump in the way of this from happening.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, this is just one step in the process, and
now it looks like it might even be unanimous by
the way it passes, because as we heard the President say, there,
go ahead and release it. You know, now does the
Senate take up the issue too. They may sit on it.
They're not compelled. They don't have to have a vote
on it because the House passed it. So let's see
what kind of pressure now goes to the Senate. And again,

(02:20):
now you'll have the pressure on the White House as
well if it gets out of there. But back to
my first point, the president, they could just release this,
we don't need to go through congress.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, why are we doing the congressional.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Thing then, because Attorney General Bondi said in July she
wasn't going to release it. That was her decision.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, now that the president has changed his mind, why
are we going through the process so.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, now that is a good question, and you know,
and that's I mean, we haven't gotten an answer to that. Said, well,
if you're fourth, then why not tell the ag to
release it and let's be done with it.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, apparently, as you mentioned, the Senate coate sit on
it majority of later John Thune hasn't committed to holding
the vote on this thing.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Right, So it may but look, if this does pass
the House, and it may be unanimous, because let's face
it on paper, who wants to vote against releasing these files? Right?
Because then the question comes to that member of Congress,
what do you have to hide or what are you
trying to hide? So we look, and this is the
low hanging fruit, right, This is sex, power and money,

(03:20):
and that's why we're all drawn to this. It doesn't
affect any American really. But if you want to talk
about healthcare, that's complicated and that's tough to talk about.
But if you want to talk about sex, money and
drugs and power, well yeah, here we go.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well there's a mini series soon on this one too,
I'm sure, and you'll let's not forget about that. Also,
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he and Trump and
a lot of others as well, even Democrats, are worried
about protecting victims who don't want their names made publics.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh, that all that stuff is going to be redacted
and then look a lot of those victims are already
coming forward. Anyway. My thing is, hey, Democrats, careful what
you wish for look out because there could be some
names in this that you don't want tied up in
this thing. So we've already seen it with Larry Summers
issuing a new apology and sort of going off the

(04:05):
radar now and hiding out.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I've also heard from a member of Congress, very
reliable source, the Democrats are redacting things for just the
sole purpose of having a black sharpie on the sheet
of paper where people will look at it and go, oh, redaction.
That's going to be something about Donald Trump, and it's
going to be redactions on just just nothing, just to
give the appearance.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
So now that's going to be in the House Oversight Committee.
That's where the Democrats have a sharpie. Now, But this
legislation is about the Justice Department and their files. And
again that's a Republican sharpie, so they may or may
not use it there.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, I'm just saying, you know, in those committee meetings
they are protected with some immunity on what they discuss,
and you don't have to, you know, make that public
but when you start saying things in the press about
things that are not real, then there's the problem. So
we'll have to keep an eye on that as well.
And Roy, thank you, buddy. I sure to appreciate you.