In his words. He said there was no release necessary, but he authorized Justice Department to do the release ultimately. And once, once the judges started holding it back, then Congress put a bill through that gave an opportunity for the president to say, okay, it's legal now. Judges can't stop us from doing it. Go ahead and do it. That was just a couple minutes of the conversation we had a short time ago. (03:10–03:17)
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Asserts that Congress passed a bill allowing the release of the Epstein files.
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