<div>Joe Rogan presses JD Vance on whether people involved in Epstein's crimes had "undue influence" over the release of the files.</div> <div> </div> <div>Rogan just lays out why millions of people stopped trusting the process, and makes the Vice President respond to it directly:</div> <div> </div> <div>VANCE: "The idea that Donald Trump is being blackmailed is crazy to me because, again, I see the way that he makes decisions. I see the way that he processes this stuff. The idea that he picks up the phone with anybody and says, 'Hey, I'm gonna take orders from you.' No, that's just not how Donald Trump operates."</div> <div> </div> <div>ROGAN: "Can you understand, though, why people would come to that conclusion, especially because of the Epstein files?"</div> <div> </div> <div>VANCE: "What do you mean?"</div> <div> </div> <div>ROGAN: "Well, the Epstein files were supposed to be released, and there was a tremendous amount of resistance to those files being released. And that concerned a lot of people, because if you're talking about very wealthy, powerful people that were engaged in crimes."</div> <div> </div> <div>VANCE: "I see. You're basically saying the fear is that whatever's in the Epstein files was used to blackmail the administration into doing the Iran thing."</div> <div> </div> <div>ROGAN: "Or at the very least, the people that were involved in the Epstein files that didn't want them coming out had undue influence."</div> <div> </div> <div>VANCE: "Well, again, I say this with all candor. We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. We just did. But do I think the reason we screwed