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New Mexico Investigators Still Waiting for Epstein Records (7/14/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to head back
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down to New Mexico and get an update on the
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battle between the state of New Mexico and the federal
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government over Epstein files that are in the possession of
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the DOJ that New Mexico has subpoenaed, and Attorney General
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Rabul Torres is saying that the DOJ doesn't want to
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play ball. And now this is building on what we
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talked about previously about how the DOJ didn't want to
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turn these documents over and how they were dragging their feet.
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And I think it's also worthy to note that Pam
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Bondi was fired two days roughly two days after the
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DOJ agreed to turn over this documentation to New Mexico.
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So is that part of why Pam Bondi was fired.
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I don't know, maybe, but one thing's for damn sure.
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The DOJ is not interested in turning this information over
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to New Mexico. So today we have an article from
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the International Business Times and the headline Trump administration accused
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by New Mexico of blocking crucial Jeffrey Epstein ranch files.
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This article was authored by Christelle May not Pisa, New
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Mexico's top prosecutor says the Trump administration is running out
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the clock on justice for Jeffrey Epstein's victims. Attorney General
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Rabul Torres published a letter on July ninth accusing the
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US Department of Justice of stonewalling Estate's criminal investigation into
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Epstein's or O Ranch. The letter, sent to Acting Attorney
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General Todd Blanche and date of June thirtieth, twenty twenty six,
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says more than one hundred and thirty days have passed
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since New Mexico first requested on redactive records. The Justice
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Department disputes the characterization, saying it's ready to help, then
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what are you waiting for? If you're so ready to help,
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why don't you just help everything they say, the messaging
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that comes out of the DOJ, it doesn't match with
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the reality on the ground. They talk all this nonsense
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and none of it lines up, none of it pans out,
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and it turns into nothing more than another hustle. Torres
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letter states plainly that access to the requested records has
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not been granted, no substantive response has been provided, and
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more than one hundred and thirty days have now elapsed
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since the NM DOJ's initial request. He calls that delay
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unreasonable under any rule of reason. And I agree. If
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the DOJ is so transparent and they're so interested in transparency,
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well here's an idea start being transparent. But that seems
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to be a little bit too difficult for them, so
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much so that we had to have a frickin' law
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put on the books to make them comply. Does that
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sound like the most transparent administration or DOJ in history.
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His office reopened the Zoro Ranch investigation in February twenty
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twenty six after federal authorities released a batch of Epstein
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related files. Some of those documents concerned the ranch, which
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Epstein owned in Santa Fe County from nineteen ninety three
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until his death in twenty nineteen, and where he is
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alleged to have hosted trafficking victims. Yeah, there's no allegations
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that's what happened. It's not if it happened. It's to
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what extent and how many people were abused and how
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many people in New Mexico knew. That's really the question
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at this point. If we want to bring people to account,
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and we want people to be held responsible for whatever
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roles they may have played. Then that's what you go after,
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who knew, who enabled it, and who looked the other
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way for personal gain. According to Torre's letter, published and
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full by the New Mexico Department of Justice, heavily redacted
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open source records already established that multiple survivors were brought
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to Zoro Ranch on numerous occasions where they were subjected
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to sexual abuse and exploitation. He says the unredacted versions
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in federal custody hold the names of survivors, witnesses, co conspirators,
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and other individuals that New Mexico investigators need to build
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a case and not all fits. I just have a
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hard time believing that the DOJ would be a roadblocker
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unless they have something to hide or unless they're protecting somebody.
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But that would never happen, right, That's just a big
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old conspiracy theory. New Mexico's probe is not new. Then
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Attorney General Hector of Balderis attempted to investigate Zoro Ranch
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in twenty nineteen, only for federal prosecutors in the Southern
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District of New York to ask the state to stand
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down while they pursued their own case against Epstein, which
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is just bs. There should have been concurrent investigations going
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on in these states, people like mister Baldaris. He owed
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that to the residence of New Mexico. Right, I'm gonna
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punt and let the Feds take care of this. What
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there's allegations of a trafficking ring down in Stanley, New Mexico,
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and you're punting to the feds. Here's an idea. Why
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don't you treat those accusations and those rumors the same
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way you would if somebody was selling drugs, you know,
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show up to their house with the tank and rip
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the wall off. Yeah, same kind of shit. Epstein died
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in federal custody weeks later, and the case against him
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was never completed. Torres letter argues that the outcome left
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New Mexico survivors without accountability, stating that the investigation was
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effectively suspended by a federal request into the thought nineteen,
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Its files were released to federal authorities, and its survivors
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were left without an accounting of what occurred in New Mexico.
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All by design. Unfortunately, that's why they focus so much
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on the island. They don't want you talking about what
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happened in Zoro Ranch. They don't want you talking about
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New Mexico. So focus on the island, focus on Manhattan,
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because if people focused on what happened to New Mexico,
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I'm not sure that these people could survive that as
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far as you know, politically speaking or professionally. Now, as
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far as justice goes, we'd have to have a DOJ
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that actually gave a damn. But I think there's plenty
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of evidence of what was going on in New Mexico.
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He warns that the current delay is compounding that original harm.
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Every day that the USDJ withholds these records, the foundation
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upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built, e
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Roades Torresroote, adding that witnesses relocate and become unreachable, and
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physical and documentary evidence to grades is lost or is
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rendered more difficult to authenticate with the passage of time.
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And those are always the fears when you're dealing with
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an investigation that sprawls for years, right, an expansive investigation
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that has been going on for decades. A lot of
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the players, a lot of the people, they're going to
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get older, they're going to pass away, documents are going
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to be lost, whether on purpose or quote unquote an accident,
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and that's always been the goal to exhaust this case
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into oblivion. The stakes were sharpened by a twenty nineteen
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FBI tip described in the released Epstein Files, in which
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an informant offered a conservative talk show host what he
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described as video evidence of abuse and the location of
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remains believed buried on the property for the price of
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one bitcoin. And look, like I've told you from the beginning,
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be very very cautious about what you believe. Now, I'm
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not saying discount anything, but there's a difference between evidence
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and proof, and there's a difference with what we can
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prove and what we know. So I would suggest being
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very very cautious of disinformation because the Epstein Files was
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seated with it. And the whole entire idea was to
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get people saying that, oh, look, this is so ridiculous.
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Everything else has to be ridiculous too. That was the point,
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and unfortunately it was pretty damn effective. I mean, how
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many people clung onto the most salacious parts right away,
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trying to you know, drive those points home with no evidence,
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and when you're talking about the things we're talking about here.
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You better have some evidence, right because if not, forget it.
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At least as far as I'm concerned, the days of
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trust me bro are long over. The Justice Department disputes
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Torres's account. A Department spokesperson told CNN the agency substantively
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responded last month to requests from New Mexico Attorney General's office,
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adding that the Department welcomes New Mexico undertaking additional investigation
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of the Zoro Ranch and stands ready to provide necessary
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assistance with New Mexico's investigation. The spokesperson said that should
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that investigation uncover potential federal crimes, the DOJ will work
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closely with our law enforcement partners to investigate and, as appropriate, prosecute.
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Oh yeah, we're all very confident in that the DOJ
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is going to investigate itself. Boys and girls, everybody can
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rest easy. Torres letter documents ex separate outreach attempts to
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federal officials, including a formal records request filed on February thirteenth,
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and an effort to arrange an in person meeting during
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a visit to Washington. According to CNN's review of the correspondence,
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Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee,
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has separately complained that lawmakers permitted to view unredacted files
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were made to do so on Department owned computers inside
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of a doj NX while staff looked on. Well, look,
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there's a lot of classified material. But I think that
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these congressmen and senators they should have some kind of
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privacy while they're looking at this stuff. You mean to
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tell me we need a dj goon hanging over their shoulder.
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The dispute unfolds against the backdrop of the Epstein Files
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Transparency Act, which Trump signed after initially opposing the release
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of the files, and which require the Department to publish
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its Epstein records within thirty days with minimal reactions. Legislators
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have since questioned whether the Department fully complied, given that
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the bulk of the files were not published until late
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January and many arrived heavily redacted. Torres letter states his
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office will treat the Record's request as denied if it
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goes unanswered by the end of July, raising the prospect
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of a state court subpoena. Whether the records arrive on
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time or not. New Mexico says the survivors of Zoro
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Ranch cannot afford to wait much longer. Look, I agree, man,
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enough is enough, and at some point the DOJ has
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to get called out on their bullshit. Now. I don't
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know when that's gonna happen, obviously, considering who's in charge,
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but at some point the bill's gonna come due, and
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the only question is who's gonna pay it. All right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this one, But I have
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no fear. Plenty more is certainly on the way, including
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a recap of what went down at the Tyler Robinson
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preliminary hearing and where things currently stand in the state's
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case against Tyler Robinson. All the information that goes with
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this episode can be found in the description box.