Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds and Washington Post ABC News IPSOS poll says Democrats have a fourteen point advantage in certainty that they will vote in the midterms, the widest since at least two thousand and six. We have such a great
joke for you today, talking FEDS. Harry Littman stops by to talk about the interesting details of the DOJ hiding a report that alleges trumpet sexual interactions with the minor. Then we'll talk to Congressman Jared Moscow. It's about how the public might be able to see more of the Epstein files. But first the news.
Milly, I know last night you were like, I can't believe how much I enjoyed President Trump's State of the Union speech. You were just texting me feveredly like, yes, these are the greatest moments of my life. Well, I'm going to shock you here to tell you since I was being very sarcastic, that's how everyone else felt. And this is the least popular speech of the century that's been pulled.
Let's talk about this poll here. Donald Trump's State of the Union speech least popular this century. Usually polls are split like four ways or five ways, you know, disagree, strongly disagree, you know, a neutral option, agree and strongly agree. What happened here is that Donald Trump he has like the haters. They're really strongly disagreeing, and his hater numbers are really really high.
Would you say that this might be the haters and the losers.
So voters are unconvinced that Trump will lower the cost of living, and there's a reason for that, and that's because he won't.
What was also really interesting is the c SPED dial poll last night that tanked for him. Like people, even the Republicans turned down the dial toy. We don't believe that what do you say is true?
It was a speech where Trump did a lot of his usual shtick, and the cost of living problems are big, and you have someone who has literally come into office and has made things worse and was offered I mean, I think voters sort of understand that. Overturning the tariffs the way the Supreme Court did gave Donald Trump an off ramp, which he refused to take. Nearly two thirds of speech watchers said they had at least a somewhat
positive reaction to Trump's speech. So remember those are, by the way, Republicans, right, because most of the people who were watching that speech were Republicans, and they didn't like it as much as they had liked it last year. So I mean, you're really seeing, like the speech and the pulling all sort of reflecting the same sense, which is that after a decade of this, even Trump's most fervent folks are getting exhausted.
Well, if you wanted more proof about how unpopular he is. During the State of the Union last night, Democrats won three elections.
Yeah. So they were special elections, as there are often on Tuesdays. These were two in Pennsylvania and one in the Great State of Maine and their state legislative seats. And again you have a democratic governor in both of those states, and Shapiro is like this very popular governor. Mills polls much as well. But they both need to have a democratic state house in order to get anything done.
So these are big wins for both of them. And again it just shows that special elections Democrats have been wildly overperforming.
Yeah, and we've been seeing that consistently throughout the last year. Since Trump was elected and goes along with a lot of pulling are seeing So I know you and I have often been skeptical of some pulling, but uh, the elections keep lining up with the polls.
Yeah.
All that's about to change, though, because the face of this administration, that giddy young fellow, everyone's favorite FBI.
Head can get you here is either face or the eyes of the administration.
I was trying not to do that.
Well, what the FBI is always watching, BALI that's what I met by that.
Yes, so the FBI, which has historically been headed by a serious suit wearing kind of boring Republican but you know, sort of can I.
Give you another pushbuck suit wearing j Edgar Hoover. I don't think that's what it was.
We knew just said.
So.
The job once occupied by boring tall guy James call me is now occupied by short, party loving Cash Battale. This weekend, he took the jet to the men's hockey game, where he then did an incredible TikTok of drinking beer in Milan discuss So.
When Charlie Kirk, who is a hero for them, was murdered, it took a little while for the investigation to get started because somebody was busily traveling on some jets that they weren't supposed to do.
Yeah, I mean, and we keep seeing this again and again. When the federal government works, nobody thinks about it. It's like, you know, it's like federal aviation. When it works, you just don't think about it if you're a normal airline flyer. But when it doesn't work, everybody notices. And so we saw this this summer when the FBI took somebody in it wasn't the right guy. Tweeted about how they had
somebody in custody. Wasn't the right guy. And this is the thing we've seen before too, with a lot of these different high profile cases, is that the FBI take somebody in the follow a tip it doesn't work. And this is a whistleblower who I think has got a good point here. And look, there's a reason that the FBI is historically though again to talk about Hoover for a minute, hasn't always been nonpartisan, but it's supposed to be nonpartisan. Is because catching bad guys should not be
a partisan activity. It should just be something that the FBI does. That was not why Cash Buttel took the job. He took the job to do cool shit like going to the Olympics, and during the time when he was supposed to be looking for the killer of Charlie Kirk, they couldn't get the planes because Patel had been engaged in irresponsible joy riding on FBI operated aircraft's at the expense of the American taxpayer. I just want to point out this is not all that different than what everyone's favorite.
Christy no secretary of private jets. She's trying to buy a new one. She also does.
That, you know, a legal deportation mascot has circled around my brain a lot.
Yeah, that's a good one. I don't know as someone who enjoys plastic surgery, I thought she looked like she was melting last night too much. Baby.
I think that's a general vibe for her. Yeah, okay. So when we think of the woke leftist Marxist as mister Trump likes to talk about, you know who, I often think of that with that as Goldman Sachs. You know, they are so so anti capitalist, so and so. One of the things we do this economy is built on right now, is ai one of the weird things we're seeing is all these companies release people from their jobs
and then go, oh, this didn't help. These AI agents are working the way that all the hypists told us they would. And so now we have a report from Goldman Sachs that is very similar to a report from Apple that also said nearly the exact same thing, which is AI added basically zero to US economic growth last year.
Yes, in case you're wondering if AI is a bubble, gold In Zacks says, yes, AI added basically zero, which means the Donald Trump hockey video, one of the great pieces of AI slop, is not adding to our economy. I am shocked. It turns out that the AI revolution is we don't actually view AI investments as strong growth positive. I think there's a lot of misreporting the impact of AI investments had on the US GDP growth in twenty
twenty five. It's much smaller than is often perceived. Oh, I feel like we're you know, it's like wiley coyote running off the cliff.
You know. And I keep thinking of it's not a house of cards. It's a house of cards where the cards are printed on it, or a bunch of pictures of a very muscular Donald Trump.
Things are going great. Harry Littman is a former US attorney in the host of the podcast Talking Feds. Welcome, Welcome, Harry. We're having our Talking Feds fast politics matchup, mash up, not match up the hope. I want to talk to you about these Epstein files. So the big news is that Congressman Garcia, who actually we've all been talking to. I interviewed him yesterday. He's on the scene as the ranking member of oversight. James Comer is of course the
chair of the oversight. Because Republicans control the House, they control the committees. But basically this has been reported by NPR and also our friend Roger Sullenberger. But there are all of these missing files, and what we have is the numbers of the files are in the FBI disclosure but then the files are missing. Talk us through what we're seeing with the Epstein files, and this is just this strane of documents.
It's really true.
By the way, Good to be with you, Molly, mash up excellent, excellent old culture reference. So look, here's the important thing, Molly. These are the crown jewel kinds of documents. When it came time to what has been revealed before, what hasn't What everyone wanted to see was so called three oh two reports filed by FBI agents to memorialize interviews.
I want you to explain exactly what a three tozho two document is because I've heard about it endlessly, but no one has ever said down and explained to me what it is.
You come in. You're a victim.
First of all, we saw in that horrendous hearing with BONDI most of the victims haven't even had a chance to go to the DOJ. This is one who did sat down with an FBI agent and gave her a story, and the FBI agent sort of mechanistically writes down everything she.
Said, so we know what the allegations are.
And that's what a three to OO two and.
The three h two is that report.
So from the start we knew there'd be emails that don't talk about much. So, by the way, you're really awesome. New York Times op ed shows the panoramic scope of this whole thing, with all the currency that isn't straight up sex trafficking. But these are the very memos that show, among other things, what he's alleged to have done, but also when the DOJ knew about it and what they did about it. So here these are the majority of three h two reports from a victim who we know
was talking about Trump, and somehow mysteriously they've disappeared. It's just one example NPR did its detective work. There could be others, but this alone, Molly, are the very sorts of documents that people who know what's in an FBI file have been most eager to see. What exactly did the victims tell you? What are the allegations? This is the sort of document would use, for example, to build a criminal investigation or whatever you would do with it.
But this is the real, you know, kind of money documents of the of the pile.
And they're missing.
First of all, I think there's something like fifteen in total from this victim. Only one has been made public. Apparently some others have been revealed to Congress, but the majority have just not been revealed, which we know only because NBR happened to stumble across it. So it goes to this broader point, if I can, which is somehow DOOJ and Todd Blanche, even though they were late and non compliant, all the way never said anything about redactions.
They seem, I think, to be an aposter of raising it out with a couple million documents undlivered at least from what they'd estimated, and just hope that like, oh, we're sort of done now. We did our best, and this is an example of what their best it is.
So let's talk about a three or two for a second. We have all of these victims who are hanging out, going to events. Some are going to be at the State of the Union tonight. We know that Schumer is bringing Danny Belski, who's one of the clearest communicators of the victims, and I met her before. She's really great. All of these victims have told Representative Garcia, have told me, have told others that they have sat for three O two's and they do not want their testimony to be redacted,
and they don't understand why it would be redacted. Explain to us why a three to two, what the rationale for these reactions are if there is a rationale, And I also want you to talk about the way this law was written. It's written so that BONDI was supposed to explain the reactions.
Great questions and look you and I were together.
We've been on deadline whin I was with a victim who's and I want to add one thing, which is my understanding. And this was from the BONDI hearing a lot of them wanted to but never got the chance to talk to the FBI. Anyway, the FBI sits down and takes down everything, including the names of the people who were involved, especially the names of the people who were involved, and these missing documents we have reason to think have Donald Trump all over them, and maybe others who.
Else could substantiate this, etc. Etc.
Now the Epstein Transparency Act, this is also really important because there are normal rules that the DOJ could apply when asked to give documents, for example, don't give over grand jury documents. Epstein Transparency Act voted on by every member of Congress, but one signed in the law by Trump. Trump saw that it says, here are the narrow reasons you can redact, and only these, so your other reasons
are out the window. Redactions they're supposed to make. One of them is for victim confidentiality, so we're not supposed to find out victim's names. Of course, as it turns out, we found out not only victims' names, but also pictures and what was redacted a lot of names. It sure appears of big shot customers or people otherwise involved with Epstein. Witness again your New York Times up in all kinds of people.
He was a concierge to the rich.
As you put it, they get somehow get blacked out even though there's no legal authority. But the final point that you raised about Bondie, and there's a lot going on with redactions, Yes, they're required, so you can evaluate them because anything they could react could potentially yield. They have to give a real reason. Well, in this case, we're saying this, and here are the three reasons that qualifies.
They've done that exactly zero times. They've made a few kind of general thoughts about why they did it, and they've given Congress or court nothing to work with. They say they will down the line. That's a really big deal for you know, from the lawyer's standpoint, knowing if they've done it right. Okay, hey, my turn, but I
want to stick with Epstein. You know, we find out in the last week this huge disconnect between you know, clearly the center of Epstein's activity and as you put it again is big concierge service doling out jobs in Woody Allen movies or the like. Is the United States, and here the fallout has been relatively muted and basically zero in the government I'm thinking of Howard Latnik in particular. But in Europe it's been huge their investigations, not necessarily
even about the sex stuff. Andrew is now under criminal arrest because of maybe having fed him private information. What is the kind of political underpinnings of the fact that until now the fallout is next to nothing here, the real fallout, you know, in terms of like careers and as you and like Asha. When Goppa's point about shame so much less here than Europe, what the hell?
So I think that there are two things happening here. One is that so there have been two arrests. One was Andrew, and we had the King of England saying like, don't stop justice on my account. And then we had Peter Mandelsson who had been brought in as the ambassador to the UK. And remember we had had a UK ambassador who was a woman. Was just a very strange changeover and again Peter Mandelssohn may end up being the undoing of this government of the UK government because he
was put in this job. So not only have a UK government that is grappling with Epstein, we have real accountability for even tearstormer stormers. So we really have a moment where the UK looks just wildly ahead of us. But what I would say is that we don't I don't know how this will play ultimately, and I think it's worth pausing for that and just saying that for now, it looks like Trump is covering for his government, and he's keeping people like Howard Lutnik staunchly in place, and
maybe that keeps on, but maybe it doesn't. I think that accountability, you know, you can evade it for only so long. And so while Trump is making a case that he can keep Howard Lutnik in there, that he can keep there are many many people in the Trump cabinet who are in a Epstein world. Right, You've got Lutinik, You've got John falen Flew on the plane, and you have just a lot of trumb right Donald Trump numerous times,
I think we'll see more of this accountability. And I think that Trump's polling is through the floor and his whole thing has been like he never fires anyone. But there's a reason that people fire people. They fire members of their cabinet, and there's an argument to be made
that Trump would be better off if he would fire people. Yeah, I want to talk about the three or twos for another minute, Okay, because we're looking at these documents that are missing, and news Channel four in the UK said that this is only like four somewhere between two and four percent of all of the tranches of data because they were looking at the numbers the terabyte the Trump administration BONDI says that's it, this is all of it,
or that maybe there's another three million documents missing. I wonder if you One of the things that I've been struck by is that supposedly there are members of the FBI who are quietly saying that there's more that clear alay, if you're a member of the FBI, you've been doing this for a long time, you have dedicated your life to this, right, you did this instead of doing perhaps more high paying job in the private sector. Like there are clearly whistleblowers out there who may or may not
come forward. I wonder what you think there's clearly more documents, more accountability, and were you one of those whistleblowers, what would that look like.
Yeah, so it's a great and important question.
First, this two to four percent or any kind of quantitative assessment of the like is meaningless. It's always been clear one that there are a relative small number, and next if the denominator is three million of incendiary documents, and two that this administration really knows how to be selective. The very first day when it was supposed to give over everything, magically one hundred documents appear. That made the whole thing look like it had to do with Bill Clinton.
That was not done randomly.
Right.
If there are two percent of three million that have to do with Trump and they've been withheld, that's a scandal. Second, on again on the three h twos, you make a really look the FBI.
It's not that they've just devoted their career.
The rank and file of the FBI, there's very good reason to think is just furious with the administration. Even though they are tend to be politically conservative, they have been so mistreated and bible and politicized. Patel and Bonji, you know, are such jokers. This is a legal point to make but it's true, it's really really precarious to try to cover up a document because there are so many copies here and there. So I think it is
likely that individual agents might well know. Third on the way on, how how would it then work for them to bring it to light? First, there's all the unofficial routes that you know as well as I better, where you know, somebody gives you a call. But there is
also whistleblower protection. Now, this administration, as part of its process of completely you know, corrupted protections for employees of the executive branch, and we can look at the whistleblower complain against Christy newm has done things to bottle those up or or kind of make them seem unimportant with
their own hand picked inspectors General. But I tend to agree with you that while it's hard to really identify the mechanism, man oh man, if there's somecendiary stuff there, at a minimum, they're playing with fire trying.
To suppress it. Just too many different copies.
If there's incendiary stuff, they're playing with fire.
Absolutely, you know that better than I.
Right, because why because the leaks, oh.
Yeah, if it comes out, it's not just the content it's the fact of the cover up that used to be the Washington adage. I mean the eighteen and a half minutes for Nixon for our older like me listeners. Okay, a general question, but we are at a point and you've just averted to it where his numbers are really
plunging historic lows. And I do think it's sort of catching on this notion, certainly in places like Minnesota that man, oh man, this is whatever I reason I voted for him, this is not the America I wanted, and the price to democracy it's really corrosive, et cetera. But you see a lot of Democrats saying that don't get too cocky on this stuff. You really have to make it. It also so happens he's totally whatcher the economy. The terroifts are going to be paid for by the American people.
So I just wonder if you have views about the Dems need to not go too strong on the sorts of things I think about every day, the erosion of democracy, and to stay on you know, kitchen table issues.
No, I think it's a huge mistake to just to do that. Used to do everything, and especially people are so mad about Epstein and you know, I think just make it Ebstein in the files, the releases. Where are the cover up, Pam Bondy. I mean the idea that you should focus just on one thing, especially when it is so clear that the American people are not moron and that they can hold all sorts of opinions at once. So I think that the whole thinking that they can only talk about one thing is a mistake.
Good.
So let's talk speaking of not being able to talk and think about more than one thing at once. I want you to explain to us when we look at the criminal complaints around Epstein. So one of the things when I talked to Robert Garcia was on our last episode he talked about how he's hoping that other states will continue with criminal charges out of the Epstein flows.
Talk us through what it would look like if you were a New York Attorney general, or you know, if you were trying to make criminal cases out of some of these documents, what it might look like.
Yeah, man, another great question. And you're you're you should go to law school. Well, you already have been in And I do want to point out, by the way, your new subspact pure unadulterated. Mollie is really stormed out of the gate. Okay, in general, big big issue parallel jurisdiction between state and federal. In general, you have to have something happen in a state that's a crime.
New York's a great example.
They have a what's called the Martin Act that gives them all because New York is the seat of so much stock, the New York Stock Exchange and the like that a lot of things that would be federal fraud are also fraud there. And then it's also the case a lot of these potential crimes are really kind of tawdry and you know, sort of uh small in their fact pattern, and if they took place in an individual state, it's basically there are it's more the case than not, Molly.
I guess this is how I put it, that a crime within a state's borders that has a federal statute will have a state statute. So you know, it's both that the facts took place there, so there's jurisdiction, but then also at least certain states, new York pre eminent among them, have ways, like the Feds have ways of getting at things broadly. Even though the downstream impacts are kind of nationwide because of how they originated.
Say your tiss James's office, you're working in that office, you see a allegation, say you see a three or two that's redacted, but not that redacted, So that means you have a witness, you have a crime. Say you have an unindicted co conspirators list. Can you make a case from that?
Well, that's the question exactly.
We're seeing this in Minnesota, where states normally would get the cooperation of the federal government for the shootings of Pretty and Good, and not only aren't they getting it, the Feds are trying to actually impose obstacles and say.
We're not going to give you this name.
Were not.
So the answer is, yeah, you got to start from scratch and develop it. You couldn't use the three to zero two anyway, but it's now been made publicly available. Lots of cases originate in public materials like what was in the paper yesterday. But you've got to start from scratch. So you got to find this favor. And by the way,
here's a big thing. If we're thinking about Epstein statutes of limitations for certain sex assault crimes or murder, there isn't one, but for a lot of the hijinks of the sword you document again and then New York times off bad. This statute would already have run. So lots of procedural obstacles, and the Feds are going to make it harder. But theoretically, yes, you just got to start from scratch.
But the statute of sex crimes is there has been extended in New York State.
That's right. Two things.
It had a window where you could bring claims that had to do with then that's why Trump was also charged with a crime in the e Gen Carrol case.
I think that was a narrow window.
But in general, sexual assault statutes of limitations sometimes go forever because it's so often the case that the damage or even the knowledge of it doesn't fully develop and tell a victim is older. So for the sex crime jest. But you know, your point is really important. I think how he had such a network of different things. Andrew has been arrested not because of this. That's that's also the same behavior that the general counsel of Goldman Sachs had to resign over a lot of that stuff will
be really hard to reach for. Statute of limitations reasons now, but still have political salience.
Right exactly, all right, So do you have another question for me?
So I want to switch to the refunds and the tariffs.
There's you know we're finding out now they're trying to put it on other grounds, et cetera. I don't want to ask about any of the law stuff, but I think we can expect even though the Department of Justice said last year, if this is struck down, we'll return it all. Give me a break, they're going to impose all kinds of obstacles. It could be you know, legal
tangles for years and years. As Trump said, I just want to ask you politically, you know, what's going to be the impact of people not seeing companies not seeing refunds.
How volatile an issue.
Is this if they just you know, never never give the money back.
Yeah, So FedEx just soon today for the refunds. So it is certainly possible that we see a real court case. And look, you know, here's what's going to happen. Since Supreme Court has said no go on the tariffs, Trump has tweeted a lot of angry stuff, and since going to be ten percent, and then it's going to be fifteen percent. I think there's a scenario.
Where FedEx sues and Trump decides that he's going to like push back in the court of public opinion, and then the ADMIN is going to quietly settle, Like we've seen that before, that admin quietly loses in court.
Trump loves the tariffs because they are a vehicle for kryptocracy, because he can negotiate in a way that is kryptocratic at best. I think I still think there's a scenario where they lose in court and it doesn't matter and he just keeps obfuscating.
Or then maybe FedEx but lather rents, repeat with the other companies.
Fedick's a huge company, and they'll be more if they sense that there's possible when this could be very bad for Trump world. And again, I don't think that FedEx is ideological. I think they're practical. So you know, this is like a dumb It's not dumb because it's what Trump wants. It does the thing that Trump wants it to do. But I still think it could unravel the whole thing.
Well, it's always fun. See you next month.
Than great to see you. Congressman Jared moscow Itz represents Florida's twenty third district. Welcome, Welcome, Congressman Jared.
What's going on? Alli? How you doing?
How are you.
Living the dream? Over here in Congress? Everything is great? Why is there something going on? I s could know about nothing?
Oversight it seems to be in a Twitter war with GOP rapid response on Twitter formerly Twitter now acts the Epstein files. Talk us to where you guys are with the Epstein files.
Well, look, first of all, you know, the Overset Committee is run by my dear friend James Comer.
That's right, a giant among men.
Yes, a man of many words, as you know, right, He's only interested in transparency, of course, you know. And now we find out there are fifty three pages missing that the DOJ is holding back because it has stuff in there about Donald Trump. We find out that there are apparently boxes of documents around the country that Epstein
has hidden in all sorts of filing cabinets. We don't know if the FBI has those are Now you know, the members myself included, went over to the DOJ to look at these unredacted documents, and they tracked what documents we were looking at.
Pam Bondi, Yeah.
You know, they spied on us so that they would know, you know, how how to deal with it in committee. You know, they have mismanaged this thing from the beginning, even though this is what Dan Bongino and Cash Betel why they wanted to come to the FBI, Right, Pam Bondy, you know the here's the binder, the list is on my desk. Then there's no lists. I mean, this was
their thing. And you know, then the President launched the war on his own people, you know, saying that this was a hoax, and you know it's a hostile act if they released the files, and then of course after they were forced to release it by all of Congress, everyone in the House except one person, and the entire Senate, then all of a sudden, they were the most transparent executive branch in American history. And so here we are
the drip, drip, drip. We continue to see it. You know, we're seeing other countries arrest people, by the way, right, we're seeing that happen. We're seeing in other countries people lose their jobs. Here we haven't. We haven't seen that account ability. You know, I know, the stuff about Howard Lutnik came out, You know, we learned that wasn't true. What he said. He barely knew and barely had, you know,
anything to do with him. You know, he went to his house one time and he saw the massage table and he said, I'm never going to be alone with him again. And then we find out he went to Epstein Island with his entire family and had business ties with him. Apparently, you know, Cash Pttel told us Trump's name barely in there, less than one hundred, right, and then we find out it's in there like thirty eight
thousand times. Okay, you know, Cashpttel under oath says that the only person who trafficked girls was Epstein, only to himself, nobody else. Then we get the documents, we find out there's co conspirators. We find obviously that he trafficked it to other people, and we find out he had a whole ring of people who were recruiting these girls, grooming them, and where they were shipping him these girls from out of the country. Just totally disgusting behavior.
When you went to the DOJ, were you able to see things unredacted or were things still stuck with reactions.
There's a bunch of stuff that's unredacted, so we were able to see that, But there are tremendous amount of documents. In fact, I would say the majority of the documents were still redacted, and they were sent into this electronic system all redacted. They were sent to us redacted. So when we look at them and we pump from the redacted that I can't unredacted because they were scanned in as redacted. We don't know what those documents are. We have suspicions that some of those are the FBI.
Memos that were not TEO twos, Right.
Oh twos, that's exactly right. In fact, we have none almost none of those. Almost all the three O two's are still redacted. We think obviously that's where there's a lot more evidence on how far and wide this goes. And clearly now that we're seeing stuff about the president that was taken out of the documents, hard to say now that there's not a cover up going on.
I want you to talk about these. So when you go to the DOJ to look at the documents, what like the law is written in such a way that it is Pambondi or whoever at the DOJ is supposed to explain the reactions. So what happens when you go to the DOJ and you say, like where?
Like sure? So, first of all, so you walk into this building, which is more heavily guarded than the Capitol. Okay, you eventually get in. They first allowed us to bring a staff member. Okay. Then they said no more staff. You can't bring a staff member. So we go in by ourselves. We go all the way up to the tenth floor. Okay. On the tenth floor is nobody. There is nobody working on this floor. Everyone I guess is either it was fired or they're working mobile, but there's
nobody there. They bring you into a room the three or four people that are working the files. There are four computers set up okay on a system that you've never used before. There's a twenty five page manual next to you, okay on how to use the system. Even though you only have forty five minutes to go through the documents, you have to disregard to the manual and you have to learn in real time on how to
go through the system. The people there can't answer any questions on why it was redacted, not because they can't because they don't know. They are strictly technical people on the system. If you want to know how to search for something, you accidentally logged out, they'll log you back in. By the way, every member has their own special login. That's how they're tracking us. That's how I knew I was being tracked before it was even I'm like, why do I have my own login? Why do I have
my own password? What's the point of that? And so it's a very cumbersome system. It's just a huge data dump into this thing. You don't have enough time in the world just to start opening things. You have to be searching. So you have to have an EFTA number from a document that was made public that was redacted, and then you can go search for the unredacted version of that document.
Wild Now, I'd love it if you would talk us through Is there some recourse now? Because the administration has technically broken this law.
Oh yeah, like multiple times. First of all, they didn't give us the documents on time. Then they redacted stuff they shouldn't have redacted. They unredacted names of victims that were supposed to be redacted, They redacted co conspirators. Okay, I mean so yeah, No, there's all sorts of things
that they've broken in the law. Although, because you know this administration and they're so great to work with, they then if you saw it, they released the name of new people that are in the Epstein files, and they put a bunch of people on the Judiciary Committee in the files. Because now if there's like an email, you know because you went and research that your name is now in the file. So I'm apparently in the files.
So we're like, all the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee are now in the files.
Is there anything you can do at this moment? Like can you hold these people in contempt? Is there like, is there any protocol for like a lawless administration like this?
Or Now, well, I think you're gonna continue to se information come out slowly, right, and then we're going to continue to follow that. So we're gonna ask questions, we're gonna have hearings. But Maley, obviously the real stuff's gonna happen in January of next year. We can win the win midterms of November, and how came Jeffries gets the gavel mid January.
We're going to immediately.
Come out of the gate with these investigations, the subpoenas are going to be written. Okay, on November tenth, all of this stuff is going to be written and will immediately be filed in the middle of January when I as soon as I came holds that gavel up stuff goes out the door, and it's gonna be all sorts of investigations. Clearly, it's gonna be Epstein. Clearly, it's gonna be the Katari plane, It's gonna be the crypto money, right, It's gonna be the watches. Why is Donald Trump selling watches?
You don't have a ten thousand dollars Trump watch mom.
Now yet I'm waiting for a gift from the admin.
Oh yeah, start with the Trump Bible and then upgrade to the watch.
We've seen some Maga women do incredible things. I want to talk about Lauren Bobert, who ultimately sort of more Christian than Mike Johnson saying.
That, wa wait, are you really gonna ask me, Jared moscoits to talk about Lauren Bobert's Christianity? Is that really?
I am?
We're just appreciate about Christ. This is gonna go over great with the wife. Let's go ahead.
Yeah, yeah, I just want to talk about like it does seem like there are maga women in the House of Representatives who are standing up for other women.
Well, here's what I would say. I would say Lauren Bobert, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor, Green, Anna, Pauline a Luna. You have seen the four of them now on multiple occasions. When it's come to colleagues that are a colleagues of mine that are involved in sexual harassment or sexual assault, they've gone after their own Republican colleagues on that. And when it's come to the Epstein victims, they have been opposite Trump and the administration when it's come to the victims.
And so they've been doing that as a block. Even when the administration, by the way, brought them into the Situation Room in the White House, you know the place you know that you know we've launched wars from and the President goes for like national security briefings. They brought these women members of Congress to the Situation Room to scare them. First tried to buy them off with appropriations and projects, and then threatened primaries against them to pull
their name off of the Massy Discharge petition. And they held strong and told the White House they weren't going to do that, and that's how we were able to get to the two eighteen. We don't get to the two eighteen without those women.
I've been really impressed by that.
I mean, if you like Lauren so much, you should go to a play with her.
Anyway, Moving on, hilarious, hilarious, Sorry, let's talk about what it looks like right now. So Republicans have a one vote majority in the House. We're in a sort of partial government shutdown at this very moment. Do you think there's a world in which this appropriation is dhs? I mean, is there negotiation happening? And what does it look like?
There's no negotiation happening neither side obviously rightfully so on our side, we're not going to give in on a lot of these changes we want to see. By the way, not only do I want policy changes, Molly, I want Christy Noman to be fired. The idea that we're going to agree to policy changes and expect Christy Nome Okay to implement this makes absolutely no sense to me. So she needs to go. She's the absolute weakest link to the president's administration. If this was the show Apprentice, he
would have fired her long ago. I mean she took his immigration issue, okay, which to help get him elected. In August, he had a sixty percent approval rating on immigration. It's now thirty nine percent. That's it's rarely because of how Christinome has executed these immigration policies, what she's done with Ice, the fact that American people being shot in the streets of America, masked men just going around barging
into people's houses without warrants. Okay, this is all on her and she should have already been fired, you know. So you know, and then obviously as far as you know where we're at. You know, look, I feel terrible for the people who work at Homeland, whether they're in FEMA or TSA or the Coastguard. I feel terrible for them. They're caught in the middle of this. It's why I support legislation that they should get paid while this is going on. I support legislation at the FEMA emergency aid
should still go out while this is going on. They're not willing to negotiate on any of this, Molly, So right now it's going to stay partially shut down, and instead, you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna try to play games, okay, and they're gonna be like, oh, there'll be no fast tsa line at the airport. They're gonna try to make people's lives miserable, not because they can't pay for it, because they're just going to do it on purpose to try to put pressure on Congress to
make a deal. We sometimes because the security reason and have to get escorts. Well, they've suspended all the escorts, you know, exposing members of Congress to security risks. They try to put pressure on us. That's not going to work. Okay, none of this is going to work. The American people watched this with their own eyes on TV.
ICE has billions of dollars, hundreds of billions.
They got one hundred and seventy billion dollars in the big, beautiful bullshit of a bill. Yeah.
So is there any world in which that money goes to Homeland while this negotiation is happening. I mean, that's like the interest.
Well, look, I don't know what Russ vought over at Omb is cooking up over there. You know, he did cook up Project twenty twenty five, which, of course the presidence that he heard nothing about and then made the author of the head of the O and B. Don't worry. We haven't forgotten. But obviously, look, they're trying to move money around, they're trying to do stuff, but they they want to get this reopen, right, there are things that
are constraining their efforts. This is how we know. If they could do whatever they wanted with ICE, even with all that money, they would just say leave it closed, right, leave it closed, and they would still do it. But they're not. They're not. They're trying to get it open. And look, they're going to have to move out of their corner. I mean, the idea that masks people are going to be allowed to roam the streets. I wouldn't vote for something that allows that to still happen as
one of the most Unamerican things ever. And look, they are criminals and there are gang members in this country. They should be rounded up and they should be deported. American people voted for that. I support that, but that's not what this is. But that's not what they're doing. And we have police officers that go into tough neighborhoods every single solitary day in this country. They don't get to put masks on their face neither should this division
of law enforcement. As my Republicans friends like to say, there should be no masks.
Republicans have made some big bets on redistricting. I'm seeing some polls that show that they they may have tipped themselves into a dummy mander. Do you think that's right? And looking at Florida, which is a state that has seemed so red for so long, and then now you have a Democratic mayor in Miami and it looks like that Ice may have really alienated Latino voters. Are you hopeful, do you see anything or do you think it's just too optimistic?
Well, look, I think in some areas, right, because they use old numbers and the ground is shifted beneath them, right, I think there'll be some areas that they thought they would pick up seats that they're then they're now going to lose. And then of course they for forced democratic states to have to play the game. It's not a game we wanted to play. But if you don't play, you lose. So we had to play, and we played,
and we played hard. And look, in some instances we've either made sure that their efforts have been neutralized or maybe even we can gain a seat or two. Can I be honest, I don't know if any of this is gonna matter, because I think you're going to see a huge victory in November anyway. I don't think we're gonna win the House by one or two or three seats. I think we're gonna win the House in a much larger number. We're a plus six on the generic ballot.
I think Democrats are in a good spot. The President is upside down on his two strongest issues, immigration and the economy. Those are the two things that propelled him into office, the two things he ran on, and he's upside down on both of those issues as far as Florida's concerned. Obviously, Look, the President lied about t PS for Venezuelan's. He told them that they were fine, then he got rid of TPS. He lied about TPS for Haitians. He told them they when we fine, then he got
rid of TPS. And yeah, the Cuban community is watching all of this, thinking to themselves, this is ridiculous. This is part of what they escape from Cuba and other areas in Latin Americas. The Latin American community watches some of this, and so yes, a we now have a democratic mayor in Miami, and I think you're going to see major changes in the voting block in both the Puerto Rican community and in which is in like Orlando, Orange County area, and in the Cuban community in Dade County.
As far as Florida's concerned, Look, Florida is the Maga capital of the world. Okay, you know that's where we have all the boat parades. If you've never been, Molly, I highly recommend you go to one. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, but get some son.
Yeah, oh son, I love son son.
Yeah. I could see that. But DeSantis and Trump are going to try to do something there. I think they're really waiting to see what happens with the Voting Rights Act of the Supreme Court. They want to get these black voting districts struck down. So really, if the Supreme Court does that, then there are a lot of seats around the country that could get redrawn. The question is really going to be about timing if the Supreme Court
does historically what they do voting rights cases. Voting cases things that can affect an election, are usually the last decision of the session, so that would be in June. So if that happens, you're not gonna be able to do anything with the twenty six election. But Republicans in Florida set a special session to deal with redistricting at the end of April, so there's some belief that maybe
they could get that decision earlier. If they do get that decision earlier, they will try to redraw three four of us out of our seats in Florida. I think that's what the governor has said, even though, by the way, we have a constitutional amendment that the voters voted for in Florida that forbids that exact sort of behavior. So whatever they do, it's going to go to the state Supreme Court, and we want to see how that works.
Jesus Congressman, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. No no moment, jesse Caannon.
Biy let me set the stage for you. So we saw blockbuster reporting in The New York occur, previous reporting from BBC that Elon Musk. When you're on his X for You page, what you see if you are interacting with far leftist content is a ton of right wing content too. But if you're a right winger, you see barely any leftist content. So to get to that Byared has a really really great piece of journalism that the
White House is running. One of the main accounts that is boosted by this an account that I, as a leftist get all the time Johnny Maga.
Yes, Johnny Maga, by the way, I thought Johnny Maga, who I have blocked. Of course, I was sure Johnny Maga was just like some guy in India, you know, some kind of bought farm in another country. But it turns out that actually it's run by a White House staffer. And that's important because and this is by the way, good reporting on the part of Wired, is that Johnny Maga is run by a White House staffer. And this is the account that tweeted out the video depicting Barack
and Michelle Obama's apes. That means that the Trump white House is involved in you know, when Trump said he didn't even watch it, it turns out his people made it. And I think, like that's really important. We often like let Trump kind of dismiss things, weasel out of them, and this it's a really big deal. So you know, it's just like what we saw with homeland security. It's just really really bad and worrying, and it's also the way in which Elon's X is trying to shape the narrative.
It's funny because it's like you just think about it. Johnny Maga an account created in September twenty twenty one. It was originally had a different handle, which referenced Wade's birth. Here the guy who works in the Trump White House. By the way, normal in white houses would be like everyone who knew about this would get fired.
Yeah. This reminds me of when the White House Briefing Grouper they had the inside plant who was also a mail scorch. Because it's like the modern day version.
Yeah, but Garrett Wade, it is just yet another day in the.
Trump woind astroturfing to pretend he has real support.
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