Episode Details

Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a prison sentence for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to abuse young women, pleads the Fifth Amendment and refuses to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee about who else might have been involved. Democrats say she is holding out for a pardon from President Donald Trump; Today is the first day Members of Congress can view the unredacted versions of Epstein files the Justice Department has released; Homeland Security Department funding runs out in five days, but no word yet if Republicans and Democrats can reach agreement on immigration enforcement reforms to avoid another partial government shutdown; House passes a housing affordability bill; Vice President JD Vance visits Armenia, while a bipartisan Senate delegation lands in Greenland; FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez warns about media ownership consolidation; President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission meets on confronting antisemitism; as NASA prepares to launch a new crew to the International Space Station, questions about the agency's readiness to handle emergencies like one that led to the first ever medical evacuation recently.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices