Outrunning Epstein

Sen. Bernie Moreno
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Today’s notice: How the Epstein drama is playing out back home. An opportunity for Mitch McConnell’s donors. NOTUS talks to Sen. Bill Cassidy. And: What actually matters?

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Hope springs eternal: Sen. Bernie Moreno brought word from the hinterlands Friday when he returned to D.C. for the pro forma session: the Jeffrey Epstein story is over.

“I was talking about that last night with some friends at dinners and they kept bringing it up and I said, ‘That is 100% an inside baseball D.C. story,’” he told NOTUS’ Samuel Larreal. “We must’ve talked to thousands of people literally, I gotta tell you, nobody even remotely brought it up.”

This is not what we’ve heard. NOTUS’ Riley Rogerson reports on how often Epstein questions are popping up at town hall(esque) events.