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Trump Signs Epstein Bill, MBS and Elon Visit White House, Comey Case in Jeopardy: AM Update 11/20
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Attorney General Pam Bondi fields questions about the next steps in disclosures on the Epstein files, which could come within the next month. President Trump courts massive Saudi investment during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first White House visit in seven years. The criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey teeters after a dramatic courtroom revelation about irregularities in how the indictment was approved. A sympathetic media profile of a 79-year-old man caught up in the immigration crackdown omits key details of his criminal past, including a rape conviction. Lean: Visit https://BrickhouseSale.com for 30% off Walmart: Learn how Walmart is fueling the future of U.S. manufacturing at https://Walmart.com/America-at-work
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Emily Jasinsky
Good morning everyone. I'm Emily Jasinsky, host of Afterparty and the Megyn Kelly Wrap Up show on Sirius XM channel 111. It's Thursday, November 20, 2025 and this is your AM update.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi
We will continue to follow the law again while protecting victims, but also providing maximum transparency.
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Emily Jasinsky
With the passage of the Jeffrey Epstein Files bill in Congress, new questions over whether a fresh DOJ probe could limit what's revealed. Elon Musk returns to the White House as President Trump throws a ritzy dinner for the Saudi crown prince.
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Courtroom Observer/Reporter
This was gobsmacking. It was absolute silence.
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Emily Jasinsky
The criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey hangs in the balance following a dramatic moment in court and a story about an elderly man swept up in the illegal immigration crackdowns is not as the media would like you to think. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Emily Jasinsky
Yesterday morning, the Senate officially sending the Epstein Files Transparency act to the White House for President Trump's signature. Mr. Trump signing the bill into law on Wednesday after months of resistance. Epstein President Trump changing his mind last weekend, calling on Congress to pass the bill in an effort to move on from the case he calls a, quote, Democrat hoax and an attempt to deflect from the White House's success. Whether the passage of the bill will have that effect remains to be seen. With the president's signature, the DOJ will have 30 days to turn over all Jeffrey Epstein related materials with the exception of classified information, child sex abuse material and information identifying victims and anything tied to an ongoing investigation. Earlier this month, President Trump ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein's connections to Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton and tech billionaire Reid Hoffman. AG Bondi in turn assigning the probe to U.S. attorney Jay Clayton. In the Southern District of New York. Yesterday, at a press conference, AG Bondi questioned on whether the DOJ will withhold any materials the Epstein files. Does the new investigation by the Southern.
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Courtroom Observer/Reporter
District of New York U.S. attorney prevent the department from releasing all of the remaining files?
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Attorney General Pam Bondi
So we have released 33,000, over 33,000 Epstein documents to the Hill and we'll continue to follow the law and to have maximum transparency. Also, we will always encourage all victims to come forward.
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Press Conference Questioner
When you say follow the law, Attorney General, do you mean that you will provide all the files by 30 days?
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Attorney General Pam Bondi
We will follow the law. The law passed both chambers last evening. It has not yet been signed, but we will continue to follow the law again while protecting victims but but also providing maximum transparency.
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Emily Jasinsky
The bill requiring the DOJ to explain any redactions or withheld materials in a report within 15 days of the files being released, barring the exclusion of any materials, quote, on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure or foreign dignitary. President Trump yesterday speaking at the U.S. saudi Investment Forum in D.C. one day after hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House, part of a broader effort to redefine U.S. relations with the Middle East. The prince visiting the White House for the first time in seven years, his last visit coming before the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. President Trump's strategy in the region underscored during a diplomatic swing through the Middle east earlier this year, mending fraught relationships through business deals and investments. At the White House yesterday, MBS announcing Saudi investment into the US will rise to $1 trillion. President Trump yesterday at the Kennedy center touting a global wave of investment into.
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President Donald Trump
The US My message to all of the leaders and investors with us today, and they are the best in the world, is very simple. Under the Trump administration, America is back and America is open for business. In four long years, Joe Biden secured less than $1 trillion in nine short months. I've secured $18 trillion to rebuild our factories, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and bring back those beautiful words made in America. So think of that. He did less than a trillion in four years and in nine months we've done more than $18 trillion. Okay, that's called success.
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Emily Jasinsky
On Tuesday, President Trump and MBS signing several major agreements including the sale of tanks and F35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Mr. Trump also Elevating the Saudis to major non NATO ally status, a designation streamlining arms transfers and deepening security cooperation. Later that evening, President Trump hosting a formal dinner in honor of MBS attended by dozens of high profile guests including Elon Musk, marking Musk's first visit back to the White House since his public split with Mr. Trump earlier this year. Also in attendance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, and Wall street heavyweights including Bill Ackman and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwartzman. And of all the power players in the room, the biggest burst of attention landing on global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronald, who plays professionally in Saudi Arabia and is the most followed person on Instagram with 668 million followers. President Trump giving him a special shout out.
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President Donald Trump
This room is loaded up with the biggest leaders in the world, business, sports. You know, my son is a big fan of Ronaldo. Wherever Ronaldo is here Ronaldo and Barron got to meet him and I think he respects his father a little bit more now. Just the fact that I so I just want to thank you both for being here. Thank you very much.
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Emily Jasinsky
MBS Closing out the remarks with this tribute to Mr. Trump today.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
It's special day. We think the horizon of the economical cooperation between Saudi Arabia and South America, it's bigger and wider than many in many areas. We've been signing a lot of agreement that going to open the door to develop the relation deeper in many areas and we're going to work on it. We believe the opportunities is huge. So we're gonna focus on implementation and keep increasing the opportunities between our both countries. So thank you again, Mr. President.
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Emily Jasinsky
Coming up, the fate of former FBI Director James Comey's criminal case in question following a dramatic day in court and a story about an elderly man caught up in the immigrant crackdown is not what the headlines make it seem.
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Emily Jasinsky
The criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey hanging in the balance as a federal judge questions whether Comey was properly indicted. The case brought by U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey's legal team back in court yesterday pursuing one of its multiple legal theories to get the case tossed. Earlier this month, Comey's team challenging Halligan's appointment and sought access to secret grand jury proceeding materials for evidence of potential prosecutorial misconduct. Yesterday, Comey's team arguing this case amounts to vindictive prosecution, a high legal bar, as explained here by CNN legal analyst Ellie Hoenig.
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CNN Legal Analyst Ellie Hoenig
You essentially have to show that you've been chosen, singled out for prosecution either because of your political views or because somebody in the government, in this case, the president, hates you. Now, I've seen plenty of motions brought along these lines that are almost always rejected by judges. However, the case that Jim Comey has here is really the strongest one that I've seen in recent history for dismissal based on selective or vindictive prosecution. You can never predict that somebody's going to win on these motions, John, because they're always long shots. But Comey's got as good or better chance as anyone I've ever seen.
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Emily Jasinsky
Comey's attorney Michael Dreeben telling us Judge Michael Nachmanoff the case against Comey stems from protected speech and President Trump's animosity toward him. Dreeben accusing President Trump of crossing a line using the, quote, full weight of the criminal d justice system against Comey. Comey's team submitting more than 50 pages of comments made by President Trump about the former FBI director over the years as evidence of vindictive prosecution, including a September Truth social post addressing Attorney General Pam Bondi. Quote, pam, I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that essentially same old story as last time. All talk, no action, nothing is being done. What about Comey? Adam Shifty, Schiff, Letecia, they're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done. Justice must be served now. DOJ prosecutor Tyler Lemons arguing there is no proof Halligan acted because of President Trump's truth. Social Post and the case was indeed brought because Comey lied to Congress. Judge Nachmanoff also pressing the DOJ on whether career officials initially recommended against prosecuting Comey. Lemons declining to answer, saying that information is privileged and could not be shared without permission from the higher ups, although he acknowledged he had seen drafts of memos arguing for and against prosecuting Comey. Judge Nachmanoff pressing the DOJ on an emerging irregularity on how the indictment itself was secured. In September, Halligan presenting the case to a grand jury, initially seeking three charges against Comey, the panel rejecting one of the charges and approving two. But today we learned that Halligan then revised the indictment to reflect the two approved charges, but she never brought it to the full grand jury for reapproval. Instead, Halligan had the revised charging document signed by the foreperson in the presence of just one other grand juror. Halligan confirming to the judge that the revised indictment had not been seen by the full grand jury. CNN reporter Kaitlin Polantz, who was in the courtroom describing the significance of that moment.
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Courtroom Observer/Reporter
I've been in a lot of these hearings in politically charged cases over the years. This was gobsmacking. It was absolute silence. I've said before in this case that there have been moments where people gasped, but this was, you could see the entire room shift. And from then on, this was the only thing that was, that was mattering in that case. This is the only thing that the judge and that others were talking about.
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Emily Jasinsky
The DOJ's lemons arguing the revised indictment was necessary because of the declined charge on the initial document. Quote, they really had no other way to return it. Comey's attorney pouncing on the moment, telling the court, quote, there is no indictment and pointing out the statute of limitations is now expired. Judge Nachmanoff ending the hearing without a ruling, requesting more information from the DOJ about Halligan's handling of the indictment. The DOJ responding in a Wednesday evening filing, quote, the grand jury foreperson as the representative of the grand jury, endorsed the revised two count indictment by signing it and explaining on the record in open court that the indictment reflected the vote of the grand jury, the constitutional function and purpose of the grand jury in all possible respects was achieved and respected in this indictment. The trial is set for January. For now, a sympathetic news report out of Florida drawing scrutiny the Orlando Sentinel publishing a lengthy feature portraying a 79 year old man as an innocent victim of President Trump's illegal immigration crackdown while downplaying a criminal history including a rape conviction. The piece begins with Paul John Bojerski, born in a German refugee camp to Polish parents one year after the end of World War II, legally moving to the US with his family when he was five. Quote More than seven decades later, the 79 year old Sanford, Florida grandfather, still a man without a country, found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades. Picked up on a decades old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce. Boersky later transferred from Alligator Alcatraz to another holding facility in Miami. The Sentinel highlighting Bierski's health struggles, complaints about treatment from guards and lack of hot meals. The toll of Barski's family also featured prominently his stepdaughter moving back in with her elderly mother to help her through the ordeal. The piece carefully documents Bojerski's long record of check ins with immigration officials, according to the Sentinel in July, ICE telling Bojarsky that if he did not voluntarily leave the country he would be deported, quote, but he could not make such plans as he has no passport and no country to return to. It is true that Barski's birth circumstances are unusual, but the Sentinel does not describe any steps taken by him or or his attorney to comply with ICE's explicit instruction to self deport. But why is Barski, who came here legally under a deportation order to begin with? By scrolling all the way down, the reader learns in paragraph 28 that Bierski was arrested in 1966 for larceny and again in 1967 for receiving stolen goods leading to a deportation order. In 1968, Barski was released from prison and permitted to apply for work authorization because West Germany, where he was born and Poland, where his parents are from, refused to take him. Just a few Years later, in 1972, Bujerski was convicted of rape, sentenced to three years in prison, his wife telling the Sentinel he was innocent and swept up in a case involving other young men. The Sentinel offering no independent corroboration and does not address the conviction beyond her claim. Boyarski's lawyer now challenging the detention, requesting his client's release on bond while pursuing additional avenues to secure legal status. Judge Romy Lerner on Tuesday declining to make a decision, saying she needed more time to consider the complex case. Barski remains in the Miami detention facility for now. The timeline on the judge's decision is unclear, a DHS official telling the court, if Burjerski's current deportation is declared no longer valid, the government will issue a new one seeking deportation to a third country. That'll do it. For your AM Update, I'm Emily Jasinsky, host of After Party. Catch the Megyn Kelly show live on SiriusXM's the Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on YouTube.com Megyn Kelly and all podcast platforms. Forms.
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