Nov 14, 2025 Latest Videos from Bloomberg Radio
Newly sworn-in Representative Adelita Grijalva (D) Arizona discusses her first day in Congress and what Speaker Johnson and herself spoke about as she was being sworn-in. She talks about signing the discharge petition on the Jeffrey Epstein files and what she believes is the next process & if these files will be made public. She also shares her thoughts on how her Congressional colleagues are feeling now that the government has reopened. Representative Grijalva speaks with Joe Mathieu and Tyler Kendall on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power."

Donald Trump said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, onetime Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. after new emails prompted questions about the current president’s own relationship with the disgraced financier.
Trump, in a social media post on Friday, accused Democrats of using Epstein “to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures.”
“Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island,’” he continued, saying he would ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to “determine what was going on with them, and him.”
The move comes as Trump once again finds himself mired in questions about his history with Epstein — and as a renewed debate over how much information the government should release on the investigation into the convicted sex trafficker divides the president’s allies in Congress.
A congressional committee on Wednesday released some 20,000 pages of documents related to Epstein, and Democrats highlighted a selection of emails in which the late financier suggested the president knew of his activities. The documents included emails in which Epstein — who died in 2019 while facing sex-trafficking charges — appeared to allege that Trump spent hours in a house with one of Epstein’s victims.
That information came the same day that a new House lawmaker was officially sworn into office. Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, immediately signed a petition to force a vote on legislation to compel the Justice Department to release files on Epstein. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he will bring the legislation to a vote next week.
The White House dismissed the revelations as a selective leak intended to smear Trump, who has denied wrongdoing related to Epstein.