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Welcome back to the Tower Palmieri show. It has been quite a whirlwind of a day. On Tuesday night, I went to bed hearing from a House Republican source telling me, hey, Tara, we're starting to break ranks. I don't know how we won't vote to release the Epstein files if this discharge petition is signed. And it was, you know, expected to get the 218th Signature today at 4pm and it did. Adelita Gralva, a Democrat from Arizona, was sworn in and the first thing she did was sign those that discharge petition to put the bill to release the Epstein files on the House floor. This would obviously be a very difficult position for Republicans to be in to vote against this bill. It just, it's just too difficult of a vote to take. And yet the president all summer has been whipping against this. And in the final hours before this discharge petition could be filed, he tried to get Lauren Boebert, a congresswoman from Colorado, and Nancy Mace, a congresswoman from South Carolina, both Republicans. Nancy Mace, by the way, wants to run for governor in South Carolina and, and could really use Trump's endorsement in the primary to withdraw their names from the petition. And he tried. He used all of his mob boss tactics, but they didn't cave. Nancy Mates is a survivor of sexual assault. And it's her thing, kind of like she talks about it a lot. She is an advocate for sexual assault survivors. When she met with the Epstein survivors back in September, she was visibly shaken and she left the meeting crying. And President Trump still tried because he really doesn't want what's in the Epstein files out. This morning we got a taste of it. I woke up to a leak from the House Oversight Committee. Emails from Epstein's estate that show him and Glenn Maxwell talking about the fact that President Trump was in his house for a while with a victim and that they're surprised that it hasn't come out through the chief of police, or however they're wondering why this hasn't come out. And then you have an email exchange between Michael Wolf, a journalist, and Jeffrey Epstein, in which Michael Wolf is giving Jeffrey Epstein advice for how to manipulate President Trump, how to be able to get him to condone his pedophile ring. You could say, maybe say he's a victim of, I don't know, culture, cancellation, whatever you want to call it. And by reminding Trump that he knows that he was on the plane, that he was everywhere, that he knows all about the pedophile ring. So, yeah, this is shocking. And then House Republicans say that it was Virginia Giuffre who was the victim. And the White House puts out a statement about it saying she's never said that she was with President Trump. So it's all moot. It's really upsetting because they are talking about a woman who is not alive today to talk about it, who's not alive today to explain exactly what happened. Who knows exactly what happened. I know from reporting alongside Virginia Giuffre for Broken Jeffrey Epstein, I spent a lot of time with her. There are a lot of men that she was trafficked to that she didn't write about in her book, that she never mentions, that she never talks about for a lot of reasons. It's scary. They're in power. They could come after her for defamation, like Alan Dershowitz did. And it was really stressful, tense time in her life. This is all to say that the White House was imploding today over all of this scrambling, calling these two congresswomen, trying to get them to reverse their signature. And it just shows you the state that President Trump is in his presidency. I mean, he's heading towards lame duck. You know, the midterms are your way. If the Democrats win, what more can he really do? And he's really in the final years of his last term. And also with inflation, cost of living, diving, poll numbers, I don't know how long the Republicans are going to stick with him, especially if he's tied to a global pedophile network. There is so much to break down, so much to think about today. The stonewalling, the drip, drip, drip is just not the way to handle it. We'll see what happens in a few weeks when the House votes on whether to release the Epstein files. It'll have to go to the Senate and then to President Trump's desk, and he can ultimately veto it. He is the president. But it's just going to be more news and already Republican Tim Burchett from Tennessee. He said, why don't we just vote on it now? And it was shot down from the speaker. And as we know, President Trump likes to brag, though New York Times reported this, that he likes to brag that he's both the president and the speaker. Here's another interview with Piers Morgan. I did a number of them today. I was on Piers Morgan Show. I did Don Lemon earlier. I was on Katie Ter show on MSNBC and Nicole Wallace. And I'll be on Anderson Cooper tonight talking about this story. As you all know, I've been reporting on it for many years. I knew Virginia really well and I'm also a longtime political reporter. But I'm now an independent journalist. And if you want to support my independent journalism where I report without fear or favorite, please go to tarapaulmeri.com that's T A R A P A L m e r I.com and you can sign up for my newsletter, the Red Letter, where you can get all of my exclusive reporting straight to your inbox first. And it's a great way to support my independent journalism. Take a listen here.