Name: House set to vote on release of Epstein files next week
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Description: Republican Rep. Time Burchett of Tennessee joins to discuss the House voting to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein next week.

Republican Rep. Time Burchett of Tennessee joins to discuss the House voting to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein next week.

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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold a vote on the release of the Epstein files, as announced by Speaker Johnson. Congressman Tim Burchett, who has previously advocated for the files' release, expressed surprise at the development and reiterated his call for public transparency.

Burchett criticized prior efforts to delay the release and accused Democrats of attempting to control the narrative around the files. He also addressed recent claims regarding former President Trump, stating that any incriminating evidence would have already been publicized. The vote is anticipated to take place next week.

House set to vote on release of Epstein files next week

Tim Burchett, the Congressman from Tennessee, joins us tonight. It's so good to have you on. The release of the Epstein files gets a full House vote next week. Speaker Johnson making that announcement yesterday. Tell us your reaction to that. I'm surprised. Let's do it. Let's get it on. They did block my efforts to do that. Unanimous consent, of course, and people don't understand the rules. It's in the rule book. I did a video today. I even gave the page number. I can't think of it. I think it's 850. I'm not sure right now. But yeah, they continuously have blocked. And the reason I did that is because let's just get it out. Let's rip the bandage off. Let's let America see what's in that thing. But what the Democrats want to do, they want to delay. They want to run it through a different committee, whatever, and then mislead the public, just like she just attempted to mislead the public on who's on that file. The woman swore in court that Trump didn't do anything wrong to her. And then she's going to risk perjury. And who are they believing now? The Democrats? Givzlain Maxwell and Epstein, apparently, in some crazy email they have. Look, the Democrats have had this thing for four years. Four years. And they didn't—if Trump had been implicated in that thing, you know they would have brought him up. You know? I mean, during the presidential election? Are you kidding me? Trump is the Antichrist to those people. They wake up every morning and they see him on the news and they just all start collectively screaming and holding each other's hands and clutching their pearls. They're the biggest bunch of wusses there's ever been in the political arena. Without question. And now they can't stand it. So let me just ask you this. Boebert went to the White House yesterday and the media Democrats alleged that it was the president trying to pressure her against voting to release the files. And we don't know what happened inside of that meeting. Do you believe the White House wants these files released? I do. I do. But I think they want to go through the proper procedure. And that's what Chairman Comer was trying to do. He's doing a great job of it. Released thousands of files, pages today. But the Democrats want to be able to take stuff out of context. And they want to be able to do that with the help of the so-called mainstream media. And they've been doing a pretty good job of it so far. This thing kind of went away. And now they don't have the shutdown blow up in their face. Oh, we got the Epstein files. We're going to bring that up again. And just bring it up. Let's get it on. Let's get it out there and let America see it. But what did they do when I tried to do it? They blocked it. Well, everything, like you said, everything that could possibly hang Trump has been out there. And what they're saving can't be anything big, because they would have used it already, as we know. But I think the Democrat page on X pushed out another email that claimed that Epstein hung out with Trump on Thanksgiving in 2017. This one came today. It's based on an email where Epstein mentions Trump's name to somebody asking who else is down there. The funny thing about this one is that there's full documentation, because Trump was in the White House. He had an event with the troops. You see images on the screen. He also spent time with his family and staff at Mar-a-Lago. Nothing he did when he was in 2017 Thanksgiving was not shown to the American people. He's covered. He's the president. Everything he does, if he was at Epstein, we would have known it. The Democrat page on X had to delete that post later. Your thoughts? Well, and I've said this many times. They've had this thing so long. Yeah. You know, it's been tampered with, I'm sure. And then also the things that are going to come out. I'm not an attorney. There is a legal term for this. A lot of stuff that's going to come out has already been discussed. Some have been in court of law. Some of it's been disproven. But now you're going to get it all rehashed. She started talking about the pictures of Trump, a girl sitting on his lap. That has been discredited continuously. It is the worst AI. It's like something I made with a People magazine showing a bunch of movie stars hanging out with me because I cut out the pictures out of People magazine and pasted it. Yeah. Just amazing. The willingness to lie and just the capacity they have to do it. Tim Burchett, Congressman, thank you so much for coming on. Always a pleasure, brother. We'll see what happens with that vote next week to release these files. Thank you. Appreciate it.

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