Joan Walsh on the Epstein Files: Republicans Are Angry That They’ve Been ‘Forced to Side with Pedophiles’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MELBER: “Political Obama veteran che komanduri. Welcome to both of you, joan. This is one of those defeats that it takes a few days to absorb. And as we follow reporting, we really see the president had no friends in the Republican Party, in the Senate. And some even though we all know about dancing and spin, some are publicly warning bondi. We want to get through this and passed it. We don’t want you delaying and dragging out. We’ll make it harder.”

Walsh: “Well, and they’re right. I mean she has, with Trump’s blessing and order, delayed and dragged it out. This is a problem entirely of his own making in the first place. He campaigned on releasing them. So did she. So did Kash Patel, so did Dan Bongino. And now and then they said, no, there’s nothing there. And then they stonewalled. And so now we wind up on the eve of Thanksgiving, we’ll be going into Christmas, and we’ve got Republicans who seem really, genuinely angry about this, that they that they have been forced to suffer, that they have been forced to side with pedophiles. I mean, it’s kind of pathetic, ari, when you think about it. Anybody could have joined that discharge petition before they signed in representative grijalva, and they did not.”

MELBER: “Just say, you’re making the point that these 200 some Republicans who now claim they’re for this weren’t really for it.”

Walsh: “They weren’t really for it. They could have done this any time since that. That petition was, was brought to them and they did not. And then suddenly, immediately, they’re all they’re all falling for it. But I think it’s also significant in terms of the way the house relates to the Senate, because John Thune stuck his thumb in the eye of sad little Mike Johnson, who was like, I’m sure the Senate’s going to do what I want. Well, no, big boy, they aren’t. they didn’t they aren’t. And they don’t answer to you. And that’s the beginning, I think, of potentially a healthier relationship between the house and the Senate, and maybe the Congress taking back a little bit of its power from the president.”