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00:00It's finally here. Epstein Files Vote Day. The day the House of Representatives is set to vote

00:06on the release of the once divisive files. Only two short days ago, the vote was expected to be

00:11highly partisan and come down mostly along party lines, but now may be nearly unanimous.

00:18President Trump did a 180 Sunday night and basically gave his blessing for a yes vote,

00:23so it's believed that most if not all Republicans will join their Democratic colleagues to call for

00:28the full release of the files. Now, Trump's change of heart, because as he said, we have nothing to

00:34hide, seems to have freed up Republicans in the Senate as well, which means we have no reason to

00:40think that this wouldn't pass the upper chamber after the House votes yay and then the president

00:45is expected to sign it. Now, assuming that all happens, Attorney General Pam Bondi would have 15

00:51days to send a detailed summary of those files, including any names mentioned in them to Congress,

00:57and then 30 days to make a full release. Now, as the bill states, that release includes, quote,

01:03all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials.

01:09But that still may not be the end of this story, because of course it's not. President Trump has

01:14asked the DOJ to look further into Epstein's links to prominent Democrats like President Bill Clinton

01:19and into institutions like JPMorgan Chase. So we're kind of still on the not-so-merry-go-round.

01:27President Trump may not get his man after all. I'm talking about former FBI Director James Comey.

01:33There are a bunch of ways the perjury case against him could just fall apart. And here's the latest.

01:39U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick has ordered prosecutors to turn over secret grand jury

01:44records in the case. He's accused the feds of a, quote, disturbing pattern of missteps in bringing

01:50their case against Comey, and he wants to see the receipts. The judge ripped into President Trump's

01:56hand-picked U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan for what he called, quote, fundamental misstatements of the

02:03law, and said he noticed unexplained irregularities in the grand jury transcript. Here's one of the

02:09several examples the judge cited. After the grand jury opted not to proceed with one of the charges,

02:15Halligan basically wanted a do-over. Her timeline suggests that she wrote out a new charge, directed

02:22the grand jury on the law that it violated, sent them to deliberate, and then received their approval

02:27all in seven minutes. The judge said that that's just simply not enough time for all of those things

02:33to occur. Now, Fitzpatrick gave the U.S. Attorney's Office until the end of the day on Monday to hand

02:38over audio recordings of the grand jury proceedings, as well as any materials under seal. A new and

02:45surprising poll finds that a majority of voters support shutting down the Department of Education

02:50once they learn the nuts and bolts of exactly how that plan would work. This survey, commissioned by a

02:57school-choice non-profit, Yes, Every Kid Foundation, found that when voters had no details about the plan

03:03to shutter the department, only 38 percent supported it. But when more details were offered, like

03:08moving some parts of the department under other agencies and preserving K-12 funding, that number

03:15shot up to 56 percent. Abolishing the department has been a top priority for President Trump, and

03:20even though she'd be out of a job, his Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, too. Now, officially

03:25disbanding it can only be done with an act of Congress, and Republicans don't have the 60 votes

03:30they would need in the Senate to get it done. So instead, Trump and McMahon have been trying to

03:35wind down the department using other legal avenues. Since taking over, McMahon has slashed nearly half

03:42of the agency's workers and consolidated certain programs to make the department smaller in order

03:47to prep it for closure. For more on this story and everything else you could possibly want to know,

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