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| We want to talk with Iri Sentner. | ||
| He is a White House reporter for Politico about the week ahead there at the White House, where he is right now. | ||
| Irie, thank you so much for joining us this morning. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| We'll start. | ||
| We just heard from a caller. | ||
| They mentioned the Epstein files. | ||
| President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to ask a court to make public some records about Epstein. | ||
| What and when could we see something released? | ||
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So this is not a satisfying answer, but the answer is we don't know. | |
| We don't know what is in those sealed files. | ||
| We know that basically the Trump administration has put it in the hands of a federal judge, likely in New York, to choose whether or not to release them. | ||
| That process could take months. | ||
| And we also know that once they are released, the DOJ is prepared to black out a lot of it if necessary. | ||
| And so it's unlikely that even if the files are released, they'll be satisfying to the people who want to see them. | ||
| However, this is a move by the Trump administration to basically put it in the hands of a judge. | ||
| And President Trump has essentially said that same thing that it may not satisfy people even once it's released. | ||
| How is the rest of the Trump administration responding to the backlash? | ||
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I mean, if you ask the White House anything about the Epstein files, their stock answer is basically, why do you care about this? | |
| Why is the media covering this more than any of the president's other actions, more than all of what they're framing as the president's wins, right? | ||
| And so they basically say, nobody cares about this other than the media and the people in Washington. | ||
| Now, that's not necessarily true. | ||
| Polling shows that a majority of Americans do want the Epstein files to be released. | ||
| But if you ask the White House, they say no one cares. | ||
| This is not a story. | ||
| And on other issues happening this week at the White House, they are expected to announce an executive order targeting, quote, woke IA models. | ||
| What do we know about that and who will be impacted by a potential executive order? | ||
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I mean, we don't know much about it other than it's targeting woke AI models. | |
| We do know that President Trump and also the people in the White House who have been driving a lot of his AI policy have long spoken about the fact that AI models are woke, specifically Google Gemini, for example. | ||
| There was this whole scandal last year when it was making images that were not historically accurate, which the White House basically said. | ||
| This is another example of DEI. | ||
| We do know that on Wednesday the President is expected to speak at an AI summit in Washington where he's expected to lay out further actions for combating China in the AI race. | ||
| So we can expect to learn more then. | ||
| Also this week President Trump will be traveling to Scotland. | ||
| What is he going to be doing there? | ||
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Yep, so he'll be visiting two of his golf clubs there, but also he's expected to visit the Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, where they'll talk about trade. | |
| The White House says that it has come to a trade agreement with the UK. | ||
| We consider that more of a framework. | ||
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| The Speaker's Rooms, Washington, D.C., July 21st, 2025. |