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Breaking: Trump backs vote to release Epstein files · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm christinami it with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. US President Donald Trump has thrown
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  Speaker 1: his weight behind a Republican vote to make the so
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  Speaker 1: called Epstein Files public. The trove of documents relates to
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  Speaker 1: the crimes of the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: who died in a Manhattan prison while awaiting trial in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He previously denied knowing anything about the underage
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  Speaker 1: girls allegedly sex trafficked by Epstein and claimed the files
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  Speaker 1: are a hoax concocted by his rivals in the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Trump was vocally opposed to the release of the files
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  Speaker 1: until Monday, when he changed his tune in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: We've used an AI voice to read Trump's truth Social.
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  Speaker 2: Post House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files
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  Speaker 2: because we have nothing to hide and it's time to
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  Speaker 2: move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical left
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  Speaker 2: lunatics in order to deflect from the great success of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 1: The House of Representatives will vote on the Epstein measure
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. In the UK, the BBC rejected the legal
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  Speaker 1: grounds of a multi billion dollar lawsuit threatened by the
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  Speaker 1: US president over its editing of one of his speeches.
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  Speaker 1: Trump threatened to sue the BBC for almost eight million
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  Speaker 1: dollars over the edit, which appeared in its Panorama Current
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  Speaker 1: Affairs program, but lawyers for the broadcaster say Trump's reputation
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  Speaker 1: wasn't damaged and they don't have a case to answer.
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  Speaker 1: Britain will stop people from Angola, Namibia and the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Republic of Congo if their governments refuse to take back
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  Speaker 1: illegal migrants. The UK's Home Secretary, Shavanna macmood will announce
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  Speaker 1: the full list of countries affected by the new rules
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. She wants to curb the surging number of
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  Speaker 1: migrants entering the UK in small boats via the English Channel,
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  Speaker 1: and she'll also propose an overhaul of human rights laws
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  Speaker 1: to get it done. Check out those stories live right
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  Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au and come
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