WEBVTT - Breaking: Trump backs vote to release Epstein files

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<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm christinami it with

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<v Speaker 1>the Front's afternoon headlines. US President Donald Trump has thrown

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<v Speaker 1>his weight behind a Republican vote to make the so

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<v Speaker 1>called Epstein Files public. The trove of documents relates to

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<v Speaker 1>the crimes of the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

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<v Speaker 1>who died in a Manhattan prison while awaiting trial in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen. He previously denied knowing anything about the underage

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<v Speaker 1>girls allegedly sex trafficked by Epstein and claimed the files

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<v Speaker 1>are a hoax concocted by his rivals in the Democratic Party.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump was vocally opposed to the release of the files

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<v Speaker 1>until Monday, when he changed his tune in a big way.

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<v Speaker 1>We've used an AI voice to read Trump's truth Social.

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<v Speaker 2>Post House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files

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<v Speaker 2>because we have nothing to hide and it's time to

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<v Speaker 2>move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical left

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<v Speaker 2>lunatics in order to deflect from the great success of

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<v Speaker 2>the Republican Party.

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<v Speaker 1>The House of Representatives will vote on the Epstein measure

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<v Speaker 1>on Tuesday. In the UK, the BBC rejected the legal

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<v Speaker 1>grounds of a multi billion dollar lawsuit threatened by the

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<v Speaker 1>US president over its editing of one of his speeches.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump threatened to sue the BBC for almost eight million

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<v Speaker 1>dollars over the edit, which appeared in its Panorama Current

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<v Speaker 1>Affairs program, but lawyers for the broadcaster say Trump's reputation

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't damaged and they don't have a case to answer.

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<v Speaker 1>Britain will stop people from Angola, Namibia and the Democratic

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<v Speaker 1>Republic of Congo if their governments refuse to take back

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<v Speaker 1>illegal migrants. The UK's Home Secretary, Shavanna macmood will announce

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<v Speaker 1>the full list of countries affected by the new rules

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<v Speaker 1>on Monday. She wants to curb the surging number of

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<v Speaker 1>migrants entering the UK in small boats via the English Channel,

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<v Speaker 1>and she'll also propose an overhaul of human rights laws

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<v Speaker 1>to get it done. Check out those stories live right

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<v Speaker 1>now at the Australian dot com dot au and come

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