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Judge Orders DOJ to Hand Over More Unredacted Epstein Files (6/26/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Over the past twenty four hours, we have
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  an order from a judge demanding that Todd Blanche and
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  the DOJ release more Epstein files that by law, should
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  have been released previously. And now the DOJ has until
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  July second to either release the files or explain why
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  those redactions have been made, and up until now they
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  have refused to do that. That's been one of the
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  sticking points for Todd Blanche and the DOJ. They don't
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  want to explain anything because the more information we have,
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  the more we know, and the less they can lie
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  to us. And God forbid that happens, right, God forbid,
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  they have to tell us the truth. So today we
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  have an article from ABC News and the headline judge
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  orders DOJ to turn over some redacted Epstein files. This
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  article was authored by James Hill and Peter Charlembeau. A
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  federal judge is ordering the Department of Justice to turn
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  over unredacted versions of some of the files related to
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  the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why
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  the materials were withheld. And I mean, you would think
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  that the most transparent administration in history wouldn't need a
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  judge to tell them to be transparent. You would think
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  that they would just, you know, release the documentation, and
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  if you had nothing to hide, nothing to fear, you
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  would do it. And in my opinion, it's a gigantic
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  tell that they won't release the files even when they've
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  been ordered by the court, and you know that Todd
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  Blanche and the DOJ is going to come up with
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  some kind of counter to this, some kind of loophole,
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  some kind of technicality that keeps all the files hidden.
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  US District Judge Emmitt Sullivan sided with the Independent journalist
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  who sued over the withheld materials, concluding that the Trump
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  administration likely violated the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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  They not likely, they did. The law calls for one thing,
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  they did another. And not only that, but they've been
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  brazen about it. They've decided that they're going to do
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  whatever they want to do, whatever helps protect their narrative,
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  as opposed to what the law tells them to do.
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  And of course that's a big problem, right, or it
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  should be if we had a functioning country, but unfortunately
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  that is not the case. The Department of Justice has
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  until July second to either turn over the documents with
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  less redactions, namely identifying the sender and recipient of some
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  emails and the names of co conspirators included in a
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  draft indictment, or explain why their redactions should not be removed.
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  And that's what the law says. Why is that so
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  difficult for them to do. If they're doing everything correctly
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  and they're doing their level best to make sure that
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  there's no slip ups people names aren't released, that shouldn't
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  be released, etc. Then they should have no problem just
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  releasing all the files. You see. The thing is, they're
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  not worried about privacy. They're not worried about people's reputations.
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  They're worried about the reputation of the institutions, the institutions
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  that allowed this to occur for decades. That's what they're
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  worried about. He also ordered the Department of Justice to
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  publish a log detailing all their redactions. Among the documents
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  included in the ruling, Judge Sullivan ordered the DOJ to
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  hand over the underlying notes from the FBI's interview with
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  a woman who accused President Donald Trump of assault. Those
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  claims were uncorroborated, and Trump has denied the allegations. The
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  DOJ has released the interview reports from some of those interviews,
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  but not the underlying notes. And why wouldn't they release
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  it all? If you're going to release that statement and
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  that report, don't you think you'd want some context, especially
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  if you're a Trump, if you did nothing wrong and
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  there's context that'll prove that, wouldn't you want the public
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  to see that side of the story. The Trump administration
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  was also ordered to reveal the sender and recipients of
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  a series of emails that reference the recruiting of young women.
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  The key are the fourteen to fifteen year old girls.
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  I am a sexual pervert because I say they are
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  now of reproductive age, said one email send to Epstein
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  in twenty fifteen. My heart goes out to you brother.
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  Being called a sexual pervert is no fun. Well here's
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  an idea, you demented sick fuck whoever sent that email.
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  If you don't want to be a pervert, don't be one.
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  Find women of age. And if you want to get
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  kinky and freaky, and you can't find somebody that's willing
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  to do that without being paid, plenty of people that
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  are willing to do whatever you want if you have
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  the right amount of money. So what this comes down to,
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  like usual, is not just about the sexual gratification, if
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  you will. It's about the domination. It's about the control.
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  It's about these rich people doing whatever they want to
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  whoever they want, with no repercussions. She is like Lolita
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  from the Bakhov Feme miniature. So now I should send
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  you her type of candidates only. Another email sent to
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  Epstein in twenty seventeen, said Judge Sullivan rejected the DOJ's
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  argument against releasing the material and concluded that the Public
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  Integrity Project, a public interest law firm, demonstrated that independent
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  journalist Katy Fang was harmed by the materials being withheld.
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  And that's a big w for Katy Fang and for
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  independent journalists, and I definitely salute her for doing that.
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  It's not easy to take on the federal government, and
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  if you don't have the right kind of you know though,
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  the right kind of funding, very difficult. But thankfully Katie
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  was successful here and Judge sel Been decided that enough
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  is enough. I mean, how long are we going to
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  just sit back and watch the DOJ break the law.
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  I assure you, if you were breaking the law, it
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  wouldn't be the same story, right. They'd be kicking in
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  your door, pulling you out of the house, throwing you
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  in jail, whatever the fuck. They certainly wouldn't be defending
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  you the way they're defending Jeffrey Epstein's friends. The court
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  concludes that Miss Fang satisfies the second part of the test.
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  She's suffering the type of harm lack of transparency that
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  Congress ought to prevent by requiring disclosure of the information,
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  and the disclosure of the information that Missfang seeks would
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  help her in her work. The ruling said, yes, it would.
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  All of this stuff needs to be public. That's what
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  the law says. And if anybody is disagreeing with that,
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  I don't really care. Disagree all you want. That's what
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  the law says. And if the DOJ doesn't follow the law,
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  then they're in violation of it. Unfortunately, there's no remedy
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  to hold them accountable. The Public Integrity Projects said that
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  the ruling will ensure the public will finally get transparency
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  around Jeffrey Epstein and his network. The government ignored a
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  law passed by Congress, and then refused to defend its
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  own conduct in court, all for the sake of protecting
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  the rich and powerful Brendan Ballou with the Public Integrity Project, Yo,
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  that's for sure. The DOJ would rather protect the donors,
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  Trump's buddies, you know, the big time bankers, the academics,
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  the people in intelligence world, leaders, all those people. They're
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  the ones being protected. Not you, not the survivors, not
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  the country, Nope, just people like the guy that sent
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  that email talking about fifteen year old girls and Lolita
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  and the dude that sent the torture email. That's who
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  they're protecting. Certainly not us, Certainly not society. The DOJ
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  began releasing thousands of pages the documents related to Epstein
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  last year, following the release of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However,
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  the Department faced criticism from some lawmakers who questioned whether
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  the Department violated the Act by withholding some material and
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  missing the deadline to release the files. Well, yeah, if
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  the law calls for you to release the files by
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  December nineteenth, then what are we doing on June twenty
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  sixth with no files in our hands at least not
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  all of them, and no explanation right at the very least,
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  give us an explanation about the redactions, like the law says,
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  were you guys too busy for that? I thought you
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  had five hundred lawyers from everywhere in the world. In addition,
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  some Democratic lawmakers criticized what they called completely unnecessary redactions
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  in some of the files and said the DOJ had
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  failed to redact the name of some victims. They did.
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  It was a piss poor job all the way around.
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  Everybody that was involved in it, from the bosses on
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  down to the people that were supposedly going through the documentation.
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  Everybody screwed up. And of course they'll tell you that
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  it was because they were overworked and they were spending
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  so much time doing this as well as their other duties.
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  But that's not a good enough excuse. We're talking about
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  people who had their whole entire lives blown up by this.
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  And I'm not talking about Jeffrey Epstein's buddies, fuck them.
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  I'm talking about the people who were harmed. If you
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  went to dinner with Jeffrey Epstein fifteen times and then
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  you lied about it and then you got outed by
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  the files, I don't really care about your reputation. I
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  care about the fact that the Department of Justice is
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  in violation of a law that was passed by Congress
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  and signed by the President. And not only that, we
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  have the DOJ coming out and saying that that's it.
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  We're not getting anything else, as if they make the law,
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  as if they're the ones that can just decide what
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  law they're going to follow and which law they're going
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  to break. That's not how this works. Acting Attorney General
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  Todd Blanche has stated repeatedly that the DOJ has complied
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  with the law, even as he's acknowledged that the Department
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  continues to withhold millions of more pages that he says
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  aren't relevant to the law's demands, either because they're duplicates
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  or contain explicit material. In April, the DOJ's internal watchdog
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  announced it was launching an audit into DOJ's compliance with
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  the law. Oh, I'm sure that's going to work out. Well.
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  Nothing like a good old internal audit to get things going.
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  I'm sure it's going to be fine work, just like
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  the OIG reports into the NPA and into Jeffrey Epstein's death. Look,
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  there's only one body or one group of people if
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  you will that can look at this with a sober
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  eye and do the right thing. And that's a independent
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  special counsel. And if you notice, nobody's even talking about it.
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  But if you want real justice and you want to
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  have a shot to get to the bottom of what happened,
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  that's the way to do it. So the question is
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  what are they waiting for. All the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box.