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We've told you a lot about the sort of force of Trump when he does back a primary candidate. This time, it didn't go so well. Look, we're not moving forward with the fund You're right that there's a date that in the case in the Eterco of Virginia in June, but we are not moving forward the fund period. we we The reasons for the fund is something that President Trump talked about for a long time, which is the fact that there were a lot of people in this country who had their government weaponized against them The reasons for the fund, I think it remain as important as they were before, but we are not moving forward with the fund. Not moving forward ever. Correct. No there's no more fun then Well, to the extent there was a fund. I remember, the fund wasn't set up yet. There were no commissioners' named. There was no That is about as simple as Todd Blanche could make answer The acting attorney General has just cancellled The slush fund one point eight billion dollar fund many Democrats thought was earmarked for the Jan six's rioters who could claim victimhood And this represents a stunning U turn by the Trump administration Donald Trump will absolutely hate having to do that Is the Republican partarty Now, finally, After ten years findinding a backbone to stand up against him. Welcome to the News aggents USA The News agents USA with Emily Matlis and John Soopel It's John. It's Mateless. and What we had The other week was this extraordinary settlement place where Donald Trump had sued his own government And one, surprisingly, when all the government is there to do is to serve Donald Trump. and so he sued his own government, won over the release of his tax returns, and said, I am going to set up This anti weaponization fund For the victims of the Justice Department when Joe Biden was president It was actually court cases that were brought Before a jury, people were convicted of the january the sixth riots. In Donald Trump's mind, they were the victims And the reaction of the Republican Party and Republican Congressmen and women and senators to hide and run for their lives on january sixth was Hang on cannot be doing this. A time when people have got struggling with their bills, are we really going to be doling out money people who smashed up the Congress and attack police officers on january sixth And so the backlash was fierce and extraordinary because Donald Trump doesn't normally get a backlash. I mean, people whine quietly and whimper quietly, but they never actually make it clear. And this time they have. It's been so interesting the response This has been the rubican, right that Republicans would not cross I think this fund created an uproar, one because of the way to be frank, the Democrats, critics turn this around or showed it for what it was, you know, they called it the slush Fund for cop killers, and the trouble was that Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general And the administration couldn't deny that this money wouldn't be paid out to those people who had ransacked Congress. In fact, they never really tried to say that the money wouldn't go there And it created absolute uproar. There are too many Republicans who said, We will sink a completely unrelated immigration enforcement bill if that is part of it It had become attached to an immigration bill, which is obviously key central to Trump's work to Mike Johnson's work in Congress And Republicans had said, if that is part of it, we're not going to be part of that. We're not going to sign it off. It had also gone, we should say, through two courourt judgments, one in Virginia last week which had said this can't go ahead So they paused it, they put a temporary pause on to kind of have a look at where the payouts would go and one that just came within the last couple of days. And so the courts were against it Republican senators were against it And I think it's a sign of how Harious, frankly Mike Johnson Speaker of the House is currently feeling they could to lose Congress in the next five months. And what you're hearing now is people waking up to the very possible Chance. this is going to be a new reality and they don't want to upset the voters. What's so interesting is I think Trump in the first term You know, look, there was noise and there was chaos and there was you know, the clattering of cymbals and the banging of drums But he had an unbelievable political touch and finesse and kind of sense of where the public mood was and Just about kind of got it right and his campaign to win reelection in twenty four was brilliant in an awful lot of ways, focusing on economy, focusing on immigration, focusing on DEI, which turned out to be a very effective strategy But since then You know, so for example, the courts also last week ruled Donald J. Trump, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is just going to remain the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and it was illegal. what Donald Trump had done saying it would become the Trump Kennedy Centre. And so that's another setback. I mean, to be fair, there are plenty of other vanity projects, which will have Trump's name on.ot least a two hundred and fifty foot arch they call it the arc to Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, whatever The ballroom clearly that he's still pressing ahead with The birthday party, his eightieth birthday party, which has somehow got entangled in the two hundred fiftieth anniversary celebrations for America, which he now thinks of principally about about him. So there are plenty of other vandi projects which will probably take on where the Kendy Centre leaves on. Sure. But I think these are the areas where Trump is overextending. I mean Scott Besscent, the Treasury Scretary Coming to the White House briefing room And explaining why there needed to be a two hundred and fifty dollars bill to commemorate the two hundred fiftieth anniversary with guess whoses face on it? We've got it. Well, let's hear from Scott Besson. Do think it's a good idea though people are struggling to afford gas and groceries. Look. I think it has I think that it's bifurcated that do you think we should have a two hundred fiftieth anniversary be cer Well, that's happening anyway, no no, no, no No, no, no It is an extraordinary vision, this. Marco Rubio was last week, Scott Besseenders this week. while Caroline Levitt, who's the normal White House spokesperson is off on parental leave, maternity leave, they're all kind of being auditioned for her role. And I think it's Trump's way of kind of going, well let's put you in front of the camera and see who who sort of sinks or swims. So that's Scott Bess try to explain why a dollar bill with Trump's face on it is a really good idea. Just to go back to this slush fund, it reminds me of that bit in the Wizard of Oz, where the house has fallen on the witch and they've just got her sort of stocking sticking out underneath. and it feels like all the Republicans are going around kind of prodding it going, is it really dead or a bit dead? Is it definitely dead? And so you've got John Curtis, who is the Utah Republican senator saying, Is it dead or is it just partly dead? I just need to feel like it's dropped and done I think that is a metaphor for Trump himself. I think there is a feeling that you, despite obviously the impeccable health record that he got and you know the full marks he got from his position, there is a feeling that he is losing his touch politically and that he's starting to be a drag anchor on Republican ambitions for the House and for the Senate. I think in the midterm. Yeah, I mean, I think it's simpler than that. I think his Political touch is about himself and his legacy and The people in the Senate and in Congress are still dependent on votes of the people in the midterms to hold them in their jobs, right? It's as simple as that that Trump doesn't seem to be that engaged with the midterms. I mean, yes, he chooses his candidates, he tries to endorse the people he likes for the primaries he had an upset funnly enough in Iowa overnight when the person that he had been backing didn't make it. I mean, we've told you a lot about the sort of force of Trump when he does bac a primary candidate. This time, it didn't go so well But I think that The Republican Party as a whole is starting to sort of say, well, we might have to do this on our own guys, because he's not really fighting this one for us in any useful sense. He's not invincible He's not invincible and the Democrats have had quite a good run of the tables last night in some of the primaries place and a feeling pretty chipper about the midterimes. And they now think, for example The Iowa The Senate seat could be in play for the first time since Barack Obama was president. There are problems though as well, which we ought to talk about There's one really interesting Senate race that is taking place in Maine. Now you may know that Maine has got a Republican senator, Susan Collins who has been in the job decades, because she has mastered how to be an elected Republican in what is principally a deemocratic st A liberal state. I mean, a state that pretty much leans blue, but has tolerated or enjoyed her because she has sort of navigated her path through it a little bit like Joe Manchin used to do in a red state for the Democrats. This time round, the Democrats have put up pretty extraordinary candida, a guy called Graham Platner. He is an oyster catcher. He is Somebody who comes with, I think it's fair to say A lot of real life experience, but an awful lot of political baggage. Because a little bit like the reform candidate in Makerfield, he's a man who says, well I wasn't thinking of being a politician. I didn't sort of play out my life as if I was always going to stand for the Senate. So yes, you will find things that I've written or said or thought, spoken out loud and For some Democrats, they're going through his social media feeds and they're finding things he said about women. Things he said about ethnic minorities, things he said about gay people and going, this is repellent. This is absolutely intolerable. And for others, they're saying Would I have liked You know, a liberal feminist in this seat? Yes. Will I still vote Democrat because he's the best that we've got and it's our chance to flip the Senate. Yes. and so I think the Democrats are really they're having a sort of moral tug of war in the party at the moment about whether they really want to see this guy elected and what it might cost. And There are fabulous cross currents as well, because actually he positions himself now as kind of on the very progressive wing of the Democratic party. So Allied to Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders backed him And Bernie Sanders is saying Wh whyy wouldn't I still back him Well, maybe because you've kind of spoken out about LGBTQ rights and you've spoken out about black people don't tip in restaurants victims of sexual assault should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up Yeah. And he also claimed that he was a communist and he labelled white rural Americans as stupid and racist and called police officers bastards. So realistically, not that helpful. Not that helpful and quite a bit of baggage. And you can see why politics, you know, if you're Donald Trump And you've got that bagage, it seems to be fine He gets away with it for whatever reasons, because he's an outsider, because he's come at this as being a you know, TV reality star and a property tycoon or whatever it happens to Be people knew him, I guess before he tried to go back. I think in conventional politics, there are still certain rules that apply. And this guy Platner is a really difficult sell. for the Democratic Party right now. If they're going to, you know, maintain hold on me. I also think it's part of this whole like existential reckoning that the Democratic Party is having. You know, everyone's saying you sound too formal, you sound too elitist. you're no longer speaking to working people, you're only speaking to the rich, you're only speaking to the coastal elites. And this has sort of doggged the Democratic Party in the last ten years or so, I guess since Trump came on the stage. And so I think part of the party is saying, well, how do we sound different? or how do we appeal to normal people? O how do we go back to something that is more in tune with you know working class people or working class roots or whatever And so they've landed on this guy who sort of seems to be mana from heaven until you look at the social media feeds. you know He seems to do everything that Maine would want. He's connected to the sea. he's got a real job. He hasn't just worked for sort of, you know, a think tank and a hedge fund for the last twenty years. He's somebody who feels like he could represent Maine if you don't look too deeply at what he's actually said and I guess That is part of the big, you know, the bigger battle that the Democrats are having in themselves is to, you know, the Republicans have managed to turn a blind eye to everything that Trump has done. And what does it take? It takes a sort of a jelly like Findellessness and an absolute dedication to the cult of Trump loyalty first. The Democrats are still sort of trying to have you know, play myground and play by the rules and think about, you know, whether this is actually the sort of person they want representing the party. And so I think it is It's really making people nervous because if he wins, is that a blueprint? And if he loses They just fucked it all up again One other race I think is worth talking about. And that is what's happening in California For the governorship of California You know, I suspect an awful lot of people who listen to this are probably based in Britain And you may have seen the TV show The Thicker bit which depicted someone who was very akin to David Cameron's advisor back in the day who didn't wear any shoes, who wandered around Downing Street in, you know in t shirts and kind of being hippieish and all the rest of it person was based on Steve Hilton Wh was David Cameron's advisor And Steve Hilton now, having moved to California a few years ago when his wife got a big job with one of the tech companies is now running as a Republican, y Republican and has Donald Trump' backing and looks like he's going to be the Republican candidate for the governor' Siff of California. Again, the Democrats have done themselves no favours in this race because They have essentially managed to split the vote sort of three ways, three different candidates None of which really has sort of grabbed California's imagination enough. Tom Steyer, who is the Democrat who is sort of the anti billionaire candidate, who's a billionaire. He's bionaire He' done a lot of great sort of fundraising of billions, but he's sort of playing to the left of the party. Javier Bessera, who used to be in Obama's administration, very much of the sort of, you know, the sort of mainstream Democrat for California and he's on about twenty five percent the vote. and Steve Hilton, extraordinarily out in front with twenty seven. I mean, Steve's been on this pocker. He used to be one of my closest friends in Hong Kong kind of thirty years ago and always talked about standing for the goovernor's race with us years ago. We never quite believed it would happen. And to now look at where this race is lying is absolutely gossmacking. I mean, you know He's an English guy Right? A British guy who's obviously now got US citizenship. Got US citizenship and two kids that are being brought up there But I guess this is the point about a governorship. Unlike the president, you can do what Arnie did. You can be from outside America. You don't have to be American born to stand for it. And so you have this very English sounding bloke. who may yet become The next governor of California, that is frying my brain And I do think the Democrats have got other questions to ask themselves there because obviously Gavin Newsom is ending his term. He's had the job for what a decade, ten years And the fact that they haven't really been able to get the party to coalesce around one candidate yet, I think is a real When we started this episode talking about the problems that Donald Trump has got and the judgment. one of the rememaining lingering problems is, of course, the Epstein files. We'll be talking to of the Democratic Cgressmen who is making waves on this issue Miss satisfying breads and pastas and want to add protein without going overboard on calories? Stack sandwiches fully loaded bagels, Noodles built for serious sauce. Hero Bread delivers up to nineteen grams of protein. Think bagels and ellbow noodles with nearly twice the protein of national best sellers, but less than half the calories. Plus, you can get up to thirty two grams of fiber per serving A bonus when you're trying to stay full and fueled. 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Data accurate as of two twenty twenty six The News agents USA join us now, Congressman Suhaser Brmania, who has been really one of the key voices at the forefront with the Congressional oversight Committee at trying to help us get to the bottom of the Epstein files since they were releasast in the last six months. The committee has been tirelessly trying to find some accountability where accountability has not been forthcoming. And last Friday your committee griommed Pam Bondy, who was the outgoing attorney Geral, congressman, who at one stage looked like she wouldn't actually have to face you at all over the questions that victims and survivors still wanted answering. I wonder if you can just take us into That hearing. I know it was behind closed doors, but how did she come across? What did you ask Well, she always comes across as combative. That's her style, especially when it comes to questioning from members of Congress. But she was also uncomfortable in this one because we were asking her uncomfortable questions, like why did you stop releasing the files at different points? Why were have you covered up two and a half million files that are set to be released. We had someub questions for her. and the strategy she had coming in was one She was accompanied by high level officials at the Department of Justice, which is not usual given that she's no longer the head of the Department of Justice. And so the number two at the Department of Justice was there to essentially block questions or block her from answering any of our questions that had to do with the president or the cabinet members essentially trying to protect the administration. And the second part is she would generally say talked to Todd Blanche and Todd Blanche is the acting atttorney general now. and he was in charge of the release of the Epstein files. And he said over and over again, the Epstein matter is done in his mind. There's nothing else to see here U a lot of interesting insights, but a lot of kind of deflecting the blame over to current administration officials, which was surprising to us It was extraordinary watching the three hour committee hearing that you did in West Palm Beach a couple of weeks ago, where we heard from several of the victims and they survivors, the young women, who made very clear the questions that they have for Pam Bondi now One of them was why Their names were released into the public with the Epstein files last November when they had specifically asked to be redacted and why the names of the perpetrators had still been covered up And hearing their testimony, they clearly think that wasn't a mistake. That was an attempt at intimidation and silencing. Did she address that at all Yes, she did. And if you ask her, she would say And she did say that this was a mistake, that she's sorry. for it that the reason it happened was because they were under a tight timeline and Mistakes were made by reviewers that were overseen by Todd Blanch I don't accept that. She's been saying since last March that she's had all the files ready to release She's been misleading the American public in that case. and certainly if The least they could do when looking through the files was to make sure that the survivors names and information was protected. That's not a hard thing to do. The other thing is they've withheld two and a half million files because of one of the reasons is because of the privacy of survivors. But many of the survivors also asked us at that hearing in Palm Beach for them to release files where they were naming names to the FBI. It's one to shield them from from prosecutioner from being sued, but also they would at least like their own files personally because They'd like to know what was said about them and what they said to authorities at the time. We still don't understand why The Department of Justice in the United States seems to find nothing further to investigate. There are jurisdictions all over the world that are now working at trying to find accountability for politicians, for people who are mentioned in those files. We know who those people are, you know who those people are. Why is the Department of Justice saying there is nothing to see here and there is no one to investigate The reason they're saying that is because President Trump and his acting A atttorney Genal Todd Blanche do not want the American public to continue discussing this. They want this issue to go away because it appears to be deeply uncomfortable for them. And so it has hurt the presresident within his own party. The president is personally going after Republican members of Congress who have demanded accountability. He just endorsed against Nancy Mace, who is running for governor. She's the one that pushed for the Bondi deposition. He's now against Lauren Boebert, a longim ally trying to push for an opponent for her, which he hasn't been successful with And so just a couple examples of him going after Republicans who have pushed for transparency and accountability. But you know I think a lot of people voted for him because they thought they would get more transparency when it came to the Epstein files and other cases like it. They're sick of the rich and powerful getting away with heinous crimes. It's so interesting, isn't it? the case of Pam Bondi being fired as attorney general C protecting Donald Trump as much as she did, which seems to be, you know, is she being fired because of the cover upps or because she didn't cover up more She's being fired because she didn't cover up more. She's also being fired because she didn't do enough to go after the president's political opponents, if you call, as soon as atting acting attorney General Blanche was assuming that role A few weeks ago, he initiated a prosecution of former FBI director James Comey. And so they felt like Pam Bondi wasn't doing enough of that and they wanted someone who they felt was even more of a loyalist And Todd Blanche is the former as the president's former personal attorney He's the one that also met with Glaine Maxwell before she was transferred to a minimal security prison where she has an assistant now. And so you know Tod Blanche has been behind a lot of the controversy of thep the files and he's being rewarded for being behind that controversy. Can you help me with one specific? And this is something that's emerged in the past twenty four hours. And Representative Madeine Dean said, what is true is that the president has lied about being on Epsen's plane and the unreredacted files prove that There's a lot in here. It's all covered up Now I think I'm right in saying you've had access to the unrereddacted files. Can you confirm that Well, I can confirm that. Yes, the president was on the Fve seen plane many times and had said that he wasn't we have gone through the unreacted versions. I will say when I went to look at the unreddacted quote unquote versions of the files that have been released, Many were still redacted And so we have not gotten a great explanation on why that is and that it's obviously a violation of the the law that we had passed. But there's also two and a half million files that haven't been released. So I think what many are pointing to when it comes to a cover upp is not releasing those files. Many of which have the information we're looking for. We're talking about draft indictment materials, we're talking about three hundred two statements from survivors where they name names, really sensitive but important documents that were meant to be released as part of the Trparency Act that we passed. This line Fr the administration There is nothing more to see here Bullshit Absolutely. I think even with the files that we have now, that's enough to start going after people. from a criminal standpoint, certainly from a civil standpoint. yet this administration has refused to continue looking into the matter or to prosecute anyone based on what we have found. But are you saying it can only be civil cases now without The Department of Justice on board, it's only going to be civil cases Well, that's complicated. and that's a big problem in the US laws. Basically, if someone commits sexual assault or a sex crime, There's actually a statute of limitations. So after a certain period of time, they can no longer be prosecuted And so that's something I have legislation to fix that I know others do as well. This is Virginia's law right's difficult. it's the It's the one called Virginia's Lw after Virginia Robert Stu Frey because she wants to end that idea of the statute of limitations, allowing justice to remain Undone Yes, that's Virginia's laaws is one of several I have some of my own too to little bit broader in scope and trying to incentivize states to do it But the point is, yes,, you know, we have laws that are deeply flawed and need to address the fact that many survivors can't even bring actions against their perpetrators. more realistically Can your committee achieve given that the Justice Department has said, well, you're going to you've seen all you're going to see. So you know, time to move on I know you're going to hear from the former JP Morgan executive, Je Staley What do you hope that will reveal Yes, so as far as what we can achieve, we can achieve quite a bit. We can achieve a lot. Take the Pam Bondi interview as an example She was not made they did not make her swear in. It was not a sworn deposition like we had asked. It was a transcribe interview, meaning you know she could refuse to answer questions. But if we had enough Republican support We could, you know, force a deposition if we felt like we didn't get enough from her, which we didn't And we could also continue these interviews and make them sworn depositions, which are far more productive for us And then we can continue to push for the release of the two and a half million files. Look at how far we've gotten already in our investigation. And frankly, it's not our job on the Osight committee to be doing the full Epstein investigation. It should be the FBI and the DOJ It's just they are beholden to the president and the president doesn't want a real investigation. so we have to do it. That's the way I look at this. We need to earn the trust of the people in the United States and around the world that our institutions will hold rich and powerful people accountable. Congressman, know I think both of us sitting here in London know the British system of select committees kind of very well where Normally The parties put aside some of their differences and work together because they've got an investigation to do. I just wonder what it's like on the oversight commommittee the extent to which you are working together with Republicans or are Republicans sitting on the committee there're purely to defend Donald Trump Many of the Republicans, if not all of the Republicans in Congress, are beholden to President Trump. He has an enormous stranglehold over the Republican partarty right now. and so as he goes, so does the party. And there are a few exceptions to that. And the Epstein files have shown that. There's several members on the committee who are Republican and they have felt frustrated by the president's actions and lack thereof and so they have decided to take it upon themselves. to push this investigation forward and they're paying a dire political consequence for it. One of those good o. One of those is the Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey, of course, who's just been Prime Reed out of his chance to stand in November Um What do you expect him to do in the next six months? I mean, is this sort of a gloves off time or O Or will the country be worse off? without him I would say I would rather Thomas Masy be in that seat than the guy who beat him because he is principled And he will certainly have a lot to say and do and access to grind over the next six months and beyond, but he's not even on the oversight committee and look at how much he's done. and The other Republicans who are on the oversight committee have pushed this further. than we expected it would go and So you know, we will see what happens with the Republican Party at large, but as far as this investigation We're going to continue to try to find Republicans on the committee who will work with us to try to get answers and try to get justice. And if Democrats are in the majority next year, you better believe this is going to take a new life, and we're going to be incredibly aggressive in making sure that the survivors have a voice and that we get to the bottom of everything that happens Congressman Saronium. Thank you very much Ieed. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you Miss satisfying breads and pastas and want to add protein without going overboard on calories? Stack sandwiches fully loaded bagels, Noodles built for serious sauce. Hero Bread delivers up to nineteen grams of protein. Think bagels and ellbow noodles with nearly twice the protein of national best sellers, but less than half the calories. Plus, you can get up to thirty two grams of fiber per serving bonus when you're trying to stay full and fueled. So whether you're grilling burgers, building a serious sandwich, or digging into pasta, you're getting real flavor with a smarter protein to calorie balance. 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I mean, when as I watched it, I thought, Ohh my Godd, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death. Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. you kn all the Yeah, Dr. Joill Biden, two accounts of what happened that night on the CNN debate stage, where one she says post hoc Yeahah, I was really worried about him. but obviously in the immediate aftermath of it saying, Oh Joe, you were fantastic. you knocked it out the park. mean Honestly, the insincerity of it is just dazzling It has been two years, pretty much since we heard from Jill Biden, and she has released her memoir, View from the East Wing, in which it's all now tumbling out. And yes, she sits there with an interviewer saying I thought he was having a stroke, which does not explain why she took her husband straight off to an after party, where she congratulated him a little bit like a kindergarten teacher. I remember saying