Trump's renewed Epstein problems, plus takeaways from the shutdown

特朗普重提爱泼斯坦问题,以及政府关门带来的启示

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2025-11-15

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The House Oversight Committee released a tranche of emails from the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that give us more information about his relationship to President Donald Trump. Today on the politics roundtable, we’ll unpack what these emails say and how the White House has responded. And, after 43 days, the federal government is back open for business. As the dust settles on the longest shutdown in history, we’ll talk about what lawmakers learned – and whether another shutdown could be right around the corner. Colby speaks with Dan Merica and Matthew Choi, who are co-anchors of our politics newsletter The Early Brief.  Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff and Josh Carroll. It was edited by Peter Bresnan and mixed by Sean Carter.  Subscribe to The Washington Post here. And watch us on YouTube here.
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  • President Trump himself campaigned on releasing a lot of these files, right?

  • It's not just something from the Republican base.

  • And so a lot of the kind of anger and frustration on the Republican base to get these files out is

  • because they're saying,

  • Tartuffe, why did you not do what you said you were gonna do?

  • So this is kind of almost a sense of accountability on the president from his own base.

  • Is that the first mission of Tartuffe?

  • I mean, 100%.

  • Did you make a deal with someone where you were like, I'm going to get this word in somehow?

  • Yeah, I'm getting $50 after this now.

  • No, I'm just kidding.

  • From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Report's weekly Politics Roundtable.

  • I'm Colby Egowitz.

  • It's Friday, November 14th.

  • Newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein suggest that President Donald Trump may have known about his conduct with underage girls.

  • We're going to dig into what those emails say and how the White House has responded.

  • And then we'll discuss the end of the longest-ever federal government shutdown.

  • We'll talk about what both political parties learned from it and why Trump seemed to take a hands-off approach.

  • Back with me at the table is Dan Merica, co-anchor of our Politics newsletter, The Early Brief.

  • And we are thrilled to be joined by Dan's colleague and co-anchor, Matthew Choi.