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Bill Gates Among Seven Asked to Testify in House Epstein Inquiry · 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. In this episode, we have some more news
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on the congressional subpoena front, as we're now adding Leslie Groff,
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Sarah Kellen, Leon Black, Doug Band, and Ted Waite, the
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former boyfriend of Glenn Maxwell to the list. And of
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course we talked about Katherine Rummler and Howard Lutnik previously,
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so these are added on to that. And again I
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don't expect much from Congress, but it'll be interesting at
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least to see people get put under oath. And as
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far as Sarah Kelln goes or Leslie Groff, I highly
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doubt that either of them are going to put themselves
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into legal jeopardy by incriminating themselves in front of Congress.
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So I doubt that Leslie Groff and Sarah Kellen are
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ever going to show up. Now, maybe if you subpoena
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them and you try and compel them to do so,
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but short of that asking them to come, okay, I guess,
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but if you know anything about the case, you know
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that both of them have a whole lot to lose,
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more to lose than just about anybody else in Jeffrey
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Epstein's whole circle. Considering the scope and the length of
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time that they were both with Epstein, and according to
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all the reports we've heard though, both of them were
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key components in his criminal enterprise. So it's not like
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those two were just you know, hanging around. They weren't
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just invited to a party. And there's a reason that
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the both of them were given protection under the NPA
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because Epstein and his lawyers knew that they were dead
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to rights. If the federal government pursued the case the
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way they should have pursued the case, then everybody would
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have been charged. So that's why you see them get
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the non prosecution agreement as basically a payoff to remain quiet. Now,
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of course there was a financial component all of that
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as well, and both of them received a ton of
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money from Jeffrey Epstein. So I have some doubts about
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either of them showing up willingly. And if you want
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to talk to the core of four, my guess is
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you're going to have to compel them to be there
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under subpoena. All right. So this article was published by
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CBS News and the headline Bill Gates among seven asked
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to testify before House Committee on possible Epstein ties. This
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article was authored by Faris Tanyos. Microsoft co founder Bill
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Gates is among seven people who on Tuesday were asked
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to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
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regarding its ongoing investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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The six others are Leslie Groff, a former longtime executive
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assistant to Epstein, Sarah Kellen, another former Epstein employee, Katherine
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Rumler for White House Council to former President Barack Obama,
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Leon Black, co founder of Apollo Global Management, Doug Band,
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a longtime personal aid and counselor to former President Bill Clinton, who,
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along with his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
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both testified separate lyon Epstein before the House Oversight Committee
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last week. And tech billionaire Ted Waite, a former boyfriend
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of Epstein, associate, co conspirator, all around scusbag, fellow child abuser,
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and bipeteral serpent. You mean Glenn Maxwell, who attended Chelsea
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Clinton's twenty ten wedding as a guest of Maxwell. And
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you notice they say here that Maxwell wasn't the plus one.
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Ted Waite was in the seven letters House Oversight Committee
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Chair James Comer writes that the committee believes the recipients
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have information that will assist in its investigation. Comer explains
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that the committee is reviewing the alleged mismanagement of the
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federal government's investigation into Epstein and mac ways, in which
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Epstein and Maxwell sought to curry favor an exercise influence
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to protect their legal activities and potential violations of ethics
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rules related to elected officials. Notice it doesn't talk about
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how the DOJ needs to be overseen or how there
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needs to be a look at the FBI. Right, No, no, no,
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can't have that. That's what they're trying to protect. They
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got to make sure the institutions keep on humming, even
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if the institutions are completely broke. The seven were given
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testimony dates ranging from April sixteenth to June ninth. A
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spokesperson for Gates indicated that he planned to testify before
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the committee. Gates welcomes the opportunity to appear before the committee,
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the spokesperson told CBS News in a statement. While he
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never witnessed or participated in any of Epstein's legal conduct,
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he's looking forward to answering all the committee's questions to
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support their important work. Oh what a hero, What a
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white knight, what a savior. Give yourself a round of applause,
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Bill Gates. Meanwhile, this idiot has been lying about his
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relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for all these years, but all
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of a sudden, he's just so sorry and he wants
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to come clean. Jennifer Connolly, a spokesperson for Rumler, told
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CBS News that Rumbler welcomes the opportunity to appear before
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the committee. At the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein,
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she was a practicing criminal defense attorney and shared a
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client with him. The spokesperson said she has done nothing
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wrong and had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal activity
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on his part. Well, we talked about her earlier, so
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we're just gonna keep it moving. It's very obvious that
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Rumler was very much closer to Jeffrey Epstein than she
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ever let on, and that she's been lying about her
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relationship to him for all these years. An attorney for
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Groff said she had no comment on the letter. Oh
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I bet not. Like I said, I highly doubt that
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Leslie Groff wants any to do with being under oath
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when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, considering how she benefited
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and how she grew her wealth on the back of
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pain and suffering. I'd be pretty scaredify with her too,
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And I think there are mountains of evidence, circumstantial and
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otherwise that would easily lead to a grand jury indicting
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Leslie Groff and Sarah Kelln. CBS News also reached out
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to black Band and wait for a comment and is
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attempting to contact Helen. None of the seven have been
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criminally charged with wrongdoing and connection with Epstein. Nice little qualifier,
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but do you really think that's the case. Do you
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really think that none of them have been targeted. If
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that's the case, then why is Leslie Groff and Sarah
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Kelln Vickers protected under the NPA? And why to Judge
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Nathan call Sarah Kelln Vickers a co conspirator an open
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court so you can save your qualifiers when you're talking
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about Sarah kell and Vickers. The House request comes after
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the Justice Department in December began the process of releasing
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millions of files related to its decades long investigation into Epstein,
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a wealthy financier pedophile who was accused of running an
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extensive sex trafficking operation with Maxwell's aid. The tour believed
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to have victimized dozens of underage girls and women, dozens
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the Justice Department itself set over a thousand. Where do
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they get these numbers from? YO? You don't have to
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be an expert in what's going on in the case,
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but you should at least have the very basics down right.
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The Justice Department only released the files after Congress passed
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a bill in November signed into law by President Trump
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compelling it to do so. In two thousand and eight,
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Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to stay charges of soliciting
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prostitution in exchange for having a federal case against him
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charges for soliciting prostitution, not soliciting prostitution from a child, right,
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not abusing a child, just soliciting prostitution. YO, what's going
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on with CBS? Is Barry Weiss writing all these articles?
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Sure seems like it. A New York federal grand jury
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indicted Epstein on child sex trafficking charges in July of
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twenty nineteen, but he was found dead weeks later in
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August twenty nineteen in a Manhattan jail. His cause of
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death was ruled to suicide, no questions about it, not alleged,
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not called, but ruled a suicide. So that's the end
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of it. Maxwell was convicted in twenty twenty one of
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federal sex trafficking charges and later sentenced to twenty years
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in prison. The release files, however, have revealed the wealthy
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financier's deep connection to the rich and powerful that persisted
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well after his Florida conviction. Last week, Gates apologized to
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the staff of his philanthrope Big Gates Foundation for his
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ties to Epstein, which he said began in twenty eleven
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and continued through twenty fourteen. Imagine knowing what Jeffrey Epstein
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was and showing up to his house asking for money. Hey,
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you know, hey, jeff, I was wondering if you wanted
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to help me save the world. I know you abuse
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kids and shit, but we're gonna overlook that you got
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a couple mill for your boy, Like what, you don't
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have anybody else you can go and get money from nobody,
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not one single person. I'm pretty sure there's some rich
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people out there that would love to help you out,
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even if it's only for tax purposes. But Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Gates, nobody believes you, buddy. According to audio of
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the apology obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Gates told
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staff he and Epstein shared a private jet together once
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and spent time in Germany, France, New York, and Washington. Yeah,
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you know, hardly knew each other. I fly on jets
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with people all the time who I don't know. I mean,
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I'm flying commercial. But that's not the point, I guess.
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Included in the trove of DOJ files where two emails
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Epstein sent to himself on July eighteenth, twenty thirteen, containing
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unverified allegations that Gates had extra marital sex with Russian
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girls that resulted in sexually transmitted disease requiring antibiotic treatment,
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and one email Epstein claimed Gates also sought surreptitiously to
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give antibiotics to his then wife, Melinda Gates. Well, that's
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weird because he did admit that he had those affairs, right,
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So what do you mean alleged? Pro tip, it's not
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alleged when it's proved to be a fact. The emails
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appeared to have been written by Epstein on behalf of
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an aggrieved employee of Gates who was resigning. Regarding those allegations,
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agates spokesman told CBS News in January that the claims
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are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these
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documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have
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an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengthy would go
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to entrap and to fame them. At last week's town hall,
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according to the Journal, Gates admitted that he did have affairs,
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one with a Russian bridge player who he met at
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bridge events and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who
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I met through business activities. So he was lying, okay,
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just like he's been lying about everything that has to
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do with Jeffrey Epstein. And if you want to believe them, cool,
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I don't care. Personally, I don't believe the guy at all.
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Catherine Rumler wrote that she adored Epstein. Rumler served as
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the White House counselor under Obama from twenty eleven to
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twenty fourteen, before joining the law firm Lathlam and Watkins
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in twenty fourteen and then Goleman Sachs in twenty twenty.
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Rumler appeared several times in the Justice Department's release files,
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including a December twenty fifteen email exchange in which he
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wrote that she adored Epstein. How cute, What a great
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cute couple helicopters volcanoes. In May of twenty fifteen, Epstein
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asked Rumler if she could get filmmaker Woody Allen and
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his wife sun Yee a tour of the White House,
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which took place in December twenty fifteen, according to White
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House records. Last month, Rumbler announced she would resign from
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her role as top lawyer for Goldman Sachs in the
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wake of the release files. Well, the least you could
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do imagine being one of her colleagues over at Goldman Sachs.
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Pretty awkward conversation at the coffee machine. So, uh, Kathy,
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get any chicken noodle soup from Uncle Jeffy Lately. The
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DJ's documents show that Black, co founder of investment from
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Apollo Global Management, received advice from Epps on how to
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keep a six year affair with a Russian woman from
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going public. In one September twenty fifteen email, Epstein suggested
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to Black that he hired former law enforcement officers to
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approach the woman about signing a non disclosure agreement. Choose
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met that a message delivery my choice too. Highly respected
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former law enforcement agents fill in the blank, Immigration Scotland
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Yard SFO, who may knock on the door and present
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the terms, Epstein wrote. In October of twenty fifteen, the
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woman signed a non disclosure agreement with Black in which
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he agreed to pay her one hundred thousand dollars monthly
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for fifteen years, forgive a one million dollar loan, and
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provide two million British pounds for her to obtain legal
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status in the UK. Senate Finance Committee. Documents also showed
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that Black paid Epstein one hundred and fifty eight million
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for tax and estate planning services. Black stepped down as
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chairman and CEO of Apollo in twenty twenty one. A
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law firm retained by Apollo's board to review Black's dealings
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with Epstein cleared Black of any possible wrongdoing. Well, he's
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been cleared Donald Trump's been cleared by Bill Clinton. Bill
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Clinton's been cleared by Donald Trump. I guess we could
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just pack it in. Huh, don need to have any subpoenas,
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no need for an investigation. I mean, I don't know
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why you're laughing. Have you checked the Dow? I mean
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it's under fifty thousand, so that means we can talk
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about Epstein again. Right, wasn't that the barometer that was
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set by Pam Bondy. Now, as far as the subpoenas look,
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it's a good step, right, But I have my doubts
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about what we're gonna learn. Have you learned anything new
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from any of these depositions yet? I know I haven't.
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But with that said, we'll keep an open mind and
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we'll see what happens. And when we have some concrete
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dates for all these people, we'll get those added to
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the catalog as well. All Right, everybody that's gonna do
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