Jay O'Brien
@jayobtv
Capitol Hill Correspondent @ABC News • Tweets frequently about Florida • Has a lot of questions
Comedian Tim Dillion says he had dinner with VP JD Vance last week and they discussed the Epstein files Dillion says Vance told him Trump admin does not have videos of “any powerful person in a comprising position”
Jones: Trump admin’s heavily implicated. Dillon: I had dinner last week with @VP. He told me it was just commercial porn and no videos of powerful ppl in compromising positions. But if that’s true, why would Bondi say it’s evidence? It just feels like they’re covering something.…
The House overnight narrowly passed a bill that will claw back $9 billion from the budget, including cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasters like NPR and PBS. @jayobtv reports. abcnews.link/ji6mrGx
A look at what DOJ said they didn’t release from the Epstein files by @JamesHillABC & @PCCharalambous abcnews.go.com/US/unreleased-…
Shouting match in House Rules Committee over resolution to release Epstein files. Between @RepMcGovern and @AustinScottGA08
I second!
Things you can't make up: Fmr. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi today suggested I would be "a good candidate" to move to Alcatraz 😂🤣 WATCH:
Many Hill Republicans don’t feel “stupid” or “foolish” — as President Trump said — for their lingering questions about Jeffrey Epstein. “He probably has more information than I do, but if he does, then at least get that information out,” Rep Eric Burlison told me.
President Trump to @marykbruce just now about those in his party clamoring for more Jeffrey Epstein records releases: “Some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net… I call it the Epstein hoax.”
Am I missing the part where Johnson says he'd support Maxwell testifying?
🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson says he supports Ghislaine Maxwell testifying to Congress and demands the DOJ release everything they have on Epstein: "I’m for transparency. We should put everything out there and let the people decide. Pam Bondi needs to come forward…
A dozen hardline House Republicans just shut down a key procedural vote to advance a slate of Trump-backed crypto bills. Speaker Johnson says there will be another vote at 5p. The hardliners are concerned the bill doesn’t prohibit a central bank digital currency.
ABC: Do you still have personal questions about the Epstein case? JIM JORDAN: I don’t know how many times I can say it. I’ve got total confidence in President Trump and his team.
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Replies to Trump’s Truth post defending AG Bondi: “This is going to cost you so many supporters. I being one of them. I have been to multiple rallies and even was there on J6” “You are losing too many in your base. Have an aide collect what we are saying all over Social Media.”
( @realDonaldTrump - Truth Social Post ) ( Donald J. Trump - Jul 12, 2025, 5:21 PM ET ) What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s…
Netanyahu addressing reporters on Capitol Hill. Said a second meeting with Trump during this visit “may be very likely.”

Jason Riddle, a Navy Veteran from Keene, who was one of the 1,500 people who marched to the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 tells @WMUR in an exclusive interview that he does not want President Trump's pardon, and is looking to formally refuse in. #nhpolitics wmur.com/article/jan-6-…
“If winning is caving, than I guess we caved” Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris and other hardline holdouts say they got concessions out of WH on how Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” will be implemented and other actions going forward. But they won’t say what they are.
Buried in the so-called “big, beautiful bill” — and even I missed this — is a provision that likely requires Space Shuttle Discovery be removed from its current home at the Smithsonian to be sent to Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s estimated to cost hundreds of millions

A massive THANK YOU to the intrepid @ABC Hill Team. Hours of votes & stakeouts. Hundreds of pages of legislation. Very little sleep. I’m privileged to know them. @MKhan47 @AllisonMPecorin @ibellamurray @jparkABC @lauren_peller @arthurjonesii And the incomparable…