Sean Duffy: I've asked people to dress more respectfully. Maybe when you travel home, no pajamas or slippers on the airplane

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: I'm feeling strangely validated. Because in plain sight, and with even with an act of Congress, we're seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we've seen consistently and have been advocating about. They've actually proved our point.

Epstein Survivor Liz Stein:The American people have resoundingly responded in putting pressure on their legislators for the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The best way that the American public can support us is by continuing to demand accountability to release all of this information

Reporter: In the text of the bill, it says the documents had to be delivered in a searchable and publicly accessible format. Right now, the full Epstein library on the DOJ's website doesn't have search functionality. If you're a survivor, that doesn't help you a whole lot.

Guest: A responsible DOJ would have had a press conference, and they would have talked through the measures they took. You know that there is a problem when they do this through a short-form announcement on Fox News that doesn't answer any of that.

Reporter: When I opened it, I gasped because I thought we were going to see something. What I saw instead was a 100 page document that says 'Grand Jury of New York' at the top of it, and that's the only text that you can see. It goes on for 119 pages where every single page of it is 100% blacked out

Trump's Department of Justice has released heavily redacted versions of the Epstein files.

Rep. Khanna: The law clearly required all unclassified information being released today. They obviously have not complied with that law. At the very least, we need the AG to have a press conference and say, 'here is the timeline of what we're going to release to be in full compliance of the law.'

Fox: Americans are still feeling the pinch. Our latest poll shows more Americans feel like they're falling behind compared to the middle of this year. 86% of voters are concerned with the cost of health care. That concern level, by the way, is going up.

Fox: Living expenses like rent, electricity, and the cost of everyday items like beef, coffee, and seafood are still up substantially from a year ago.

Trump on why he is refusing to take questions at his event: "I really don't want to soil it up by asking questions"

On the day the Epstein files must be released to the public, Trump refuses to take questions at his afternoon event.

Trump: That's the number one blood thinner. I don't wanna know about that. I take an aspirin.

Trump: The world is bigger than the United States in terms of people

Trump: But I do want to say, and some people say, 'oh, you shouldn't say it. It sounds negative.' I think it sounds positive. The only reason our unemployment ticked up to 4.5%—it went up to 4.5%, which is quite a low number, but still—is because we are reducing the government workforce

Reporter: I was going to ask my questions in Calibri, but since you do not communicate in that anymore— Rubio: I speak Times New Roman Reporter: I'm going to ask in Times New Roman instead.

DC resident on Trump putting his name on the Kennedy Center: "We should all be shocked that a convicted felon, a thug, and by all means a grifter has just stuck his name on top of a national monument."

Host: Trump has announced the first ever Patriot Games, which will pit top high school athletes from around the country against each other. The competition is already being mocked, drawing wide comparisons to the popular book and movie The Hunger Games.

Q: Do you feel like the country's in a recession right now? North Carolina woman: Oh, I absolutely do. The layoffs, the massive layoffs are happening top tier down. It's affecting everybody.

Q: What is the US willing to commit if Maduro is ousted from power to ensure that the country doesn't plunge further into instability? Rubio: I don't have any announcements on that

Turning Point USA conference attendees grades Trump's economy: "Probably a C+, nothing higher, nothing lower... He keeps saying the golden age. I don't see a golden age.... I see lots of room for improvement... The economy right now makes it really difficult for young people to start a life."

Rubio on the Russia/Ukraine war: "I think the one thing people should have is an expression of gratitude that President Trump is willing to continue to engage in this"

Rep. Ansari: I don't trust this White House because they have not proven to be trustworthy all year. Donald Trump himself has blatantly lied about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Anyone who was involved in either perpetrating abuse or enabling the cover up should be held accountable.

Host: We were just given a joint statement by Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin. They wrote, 'We are now examining all legal options in the face of this violation of federal law. The survivors deserve justice. The co-conspirators must be held accountable, and the American people deserve transparency'

Q: Do you think that the United States does need to go to Congress in order to conduct land strikes in Venezuela? Rubio: I'm not going to speculate on that. All I'm going to tell you is that no administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as being constitutional.

Rubio: It is clear that the current status quo with the Venezuelan regime is intolerable for the United States. So yes, our goal is to change that dynamic.

Host: As Americans voice their concerns over the state of the economy, a potential war with Venezuela, and skyrocketing health care premiums, this is happening this morning. Less than 24 hours after a vote, the Kennedy Center became the Trump Kennedy Center, at least according to the signage outside

Reporter: The DOJ appears to be interpreting that as long as they start today, they can continue to produce for a couple of weeks. That's not what the text of the bill says. It says not later than 30 days after the enactment of this act, the AG must produce, in a public format, all of the documents

New photo reveals Trump's name being added to the Kennedy Center facade.

The Trump administration will not be complying with today's deadline to release all unclassified Epstein documents. Trump's Deputy AG says he 'expects' the files to be released 'over the next couple of weeks.'

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky: I just read Todd Blanche's statement saying that we're going to see more in the coming weeks. That makes me really nervous. We had hoped that we would see everything today, and the fact that we still haven't seen anything feels nerve-wracking.

Rep. Min: The smoking gun, as the lead prosecutor described it, is the computer records. We know that Epstein liked to record everything, who was coming in and out of his estates. He apparently had cameras in every room in his homes. That has a lot of potentially incriminating evidence.

Trump's Labor Secretary: With more people searching for jobs, the unemployment rate can tick up because that means more people are getting off the sideline. Fox: That was an interesting diplomatic move, to say a 4-year high for unemployment is actually good news.

Fox: The latest jobs report showed the unemployment rate going up to 4.6%. That's a 4-year high. You must be disappointed by that. Do you trust the numbers? Trump's Labor Secretary: When I look at the numbers, what I think about is that we saw a solid jobs report

New data reveals the average price of a gaming device is up 11% year-over-year. 2025 had the lowest number of gaming devices sold since 1995.

Sean Strickland says he is not interested in participating in the UFC White House event: "Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."

Host: Trump hand wrote some of those plaques himself. It reads like a Truth Social post. Andrew Jackson's, when you look at his, it talks about how unfairly he was treated by the press and says 'maybe more so than any president, except until President Trump came into office.'

Q: Why are only House Democrats releasing these photos? Why is this not a bipartisan process? Rep. Krishnamoorthi: I think Republicans are trying to hold a lot of these documents. Democrats are trying to release these documents on a more expedited basis.

Trump's Deputy Attorney General claims Trump 'has said for years that he wants full transparency' on the Epstein files

New reporting reveals what Trump's ex-wife allegedly told the mother of a 14-year-old girl: "Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her."

Host: Anytime anyone, even Trump's supporters, questions any of this aberrant behavior, they're accused of having 'Trump derangement syndrome.' So just ask yourself, being offended by the most powerful man in the world mocking the victim of a gruesome murder, is being offended what's deranged?

Host: Do you think Trump would be giving this random, primetime, pre-Christmas rambling hype speech if the White House actually believed he was winning politically when it came to the economy? It's hard to see how voters are going to walk away feeling any more confident in him after that speech.

Trump's labor secretary claims the high unemployment rate is "exciting" because it means "more people are getting off the sidelines" and looking for jobs

Host: ICE agents deployed to a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles. In another Somali neighborhood, ICE agents kneeled on a pregnant woman. ICE said agents conducted themselves with 'the utmost professionalism.'

HHS has abruptly terminated 7 grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics for initiatives such as reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome, and early detection of autism.

Reporter: The Department of Health and Human Services is essentially going to eliminate 7 different grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics. They will be eliminating aid to prevent infant mortality, aid to prevent birth defects, an elimination of help for young adults, early detection of autism

Fox: Some of the things that Trump said last night were just mathematically impossible. If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you. How much of last night's speech was hyperbole and how much is fact?

Reporter: One woman said that she was brought to Mar-a-Lago by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14, and Epstein kind of nudged Trump and said, 'this is a nice one, right?' If two grown men are staying there with a 14-year-old, what message can you take from that? That's a question for Trump to answer.

Iowa woman on rising ACA premiums: "It's so frustrating that we're in this position when it could easily be solved... I feel like we're being held hostage because of this... It's not fair. It's just putting too many people at risk."

Rep. Castro: I think it's absolutely crazy that a president, after the Iraq war, would come out and say that we're doing this because of oil. But that's the reason. It's corruption, it's power, it's oil and it's land.