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The Russian Intelligence Allegations Now Haunting Peter Mandelson · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. When Peter Mandelson was first arrested, I told
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  Speaker 1: you that it was going to be big trouble for
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  Speaker 1: him if he had anything else to hide. Well, here
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  Speaker 1: we are. And now it's coming out that Peter Mandelson
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  Speaker 1: was considered a privileged Russian contact. So not only was
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  Speaker 1: he passing sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein, he was also
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  Speaker 1: a privileged Russian contact. Whatever that means. Now he'll say
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  Speaker 1: that it's no big deal, right? Ah, that just means
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, friendly with some people over in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the spin's gonna be. But it's obviously a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than that. And the question becomes, was Peter Mandelson
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  Speaker 1: selling state secrets to get rich? And I know it's
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable to ask that question, but it sure looks like
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  Speaker 1: Peter Mandelson was engaging in espionage. And that, of course,
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  Speaker 1: means he committed treason. And if all of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: pans out, I really wonder where the UK government goes.
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  Speaker 1: Does Mandelson get the death penalty? When's the last time
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  Speaker 1: that happened over in the UK? So shit just got
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  Speaker 1: real serious for Peter Mandelson. And today we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from the International Business Times digging a bit deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the topic. Headline, Lord Peter Mandelson is Russia's privileged contact,
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  Speaker 1: according to a leaked dossier. This article was authored by
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  Speaker 1: Jujime Owit. Did former MP Lord Peter Mandelson work for Russia?
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  Speaker 1: According to leaked intelligence dossier, Lord Mandelson, a former U.S. ambassador,
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  Speaker 1: was a privileged contact by Russian intelligence agencies for more
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  Speaker 1: than 30 years. Yo, this is crazy. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: one of the most prolific English politicians over the last
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  Speaker 1: few decades possibly being compromised? That is a serious, serious allegation.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes you wonder just how much information, how
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  Speaker 1: many secrets, if all of this is true, have been
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  Speaker 1: passed on by Lord Mandelson. And I think the answer
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  Speaker 1: is very disconcerting, especially considering who we're dealing with. The
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  Speaker 1: leak report reportedly considers Mandelson as the most significant Russian
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  Speaker 1: intelligence services achievement in manipulating UK politics over the last
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  Speaker 1: three decades. The report was shared by a UK broadsheet,
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  Speaker 1: which clarified there is no concrete evidence that backs the claim. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where there's smoke, there's fire. And if he was giving
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  Speaker 1: that information to Epstein, do you really think that's where
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  Speaker 1: it stopped and started? Or is it more likely that
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  Speaker 1: that's what he was doing? Gotta supplement that income somehow, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Gotta make sure you get an extra few million. And
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  Speaker 1: what better way to do that than sell secrets to Russia?
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're in the business of paying for that shit.
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  Speaker 1: And don't get it twisted. I don't think Mandelson has
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  Speaker 1: any loyalty to Russia. I think Mandelson has loyalty to self.
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  Speaker 1: Just like his buddy Jeffrey Epstein. However, Mandelson's involvement is
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  Speaker 1: still worth looking into as the disgraced former Labor Party
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  Speaker 1: politician also had links to the late Jeffrey Epstein, a
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  Speaker 1: notorious pedophile. This link was examined in the leaked documents
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  Speaker 1: through a report known as Project Fish. Yo, Mandelson's cooked.
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  Speaker 1: This dude's in big trouble. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's going to end up getting nailed on treason or espionage,
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  Speaker 1: but his life as he knows it is certainly over.
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  Speaker 1: The days of being some big shot British politician, that's done.
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  Speaker 1: and he'll be lucky if he doesn't end up in prison. So,
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  Speaker 1: what is Project Fish? Project Fish is the codename for
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  Speaker 1: a previously confidential dossier on how Russia influenced some British operations.
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  Speaker 1: The report was compiled by a former British spy who
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  Speaker 1: has knowledge about Russian intelligence. While the former MI6 was
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  Speaker 1: not named, all fingers point to Christopher Steele, who ran
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  Speaker 1: the Russia desk between 2006 and 2009. Steele currently runs
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  Speaker 1: Orbis Business Intelligence, a global private investigation consultancy. Okay, hit
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  Speaker 1: the brakes. Christopher Steele? That guy's notoriously a liar. He
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  Speaker 1: embellishes and makes up a bunch of bullshit. So, take
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  Speaker 1: this all with a grain of salt, because you have
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  Speaker 1: to keep in mind, our information is only as good
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  Speaker 1: as our sources. And I really don't find Christopher Steele
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  Speaker 1: to be a reliable source. Mandelson was not the only
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  Speaker 1: UK politician named in the report. Project Fish also examined
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  Speaker 1: British leaders and their possible importance to Russia. It mentioned
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  Speaker 1: former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was described as likable,
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  Speaker 1: but not trustworthy, with startling flashes of instability. So is
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  Speaker 1: this report just going one way? Just one party or whatever?
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  Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, then it's going to be suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Project Fish also noted that Russian intelligence believed that Johnson's
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  Speaker 1: former chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, was secretly working for MI6. Further,
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence dossier stated that MP Nigel Farage was not
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  Speaker 1: worth investing time in. Well, I don't doubt that. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: exactly seem like the kind of guy that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be jumping in bed with Russia. But when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to money, unfortunately, you just never know. Only Mandelson's link
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  Speaker 1: to Russia had substantial weight But those close to the
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  Speaker 1: former politician called the allegations nonsense and said that Mandelson
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  Speaker 1: never acted improperly against his country to favor Russia. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to see the evidence, right? We're just supposed
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  Speaker 1: to believe Lord Peter Mandelson? Mr. Stiff Upper Lip himself?
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  Speaker 1: Zero chance. According to Project Fish, KGB first took interest
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  Speaker 1: in Mandelson when he became the Labor Party's Director of
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  Speaker 1: Communications from 1985 to 1990. He was contacted by the
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  Speaker 1: KGB for the first time in about 1990, and since
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  Speaker 1: then has become privileged contact for Russian intelligence. The report read, So,
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  Speaker 1: is there evidence to back that up? Or just another
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  Speaker 1: fanciful creation of Christopher Steele? And considering that he's involved
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  Speaker 1: in this, I think we need to have corroborating evidence
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  Speaker 1: that backs up whatever he says. He is an unreliable
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  Speaker 1: narrator as far as I'm concerned. The Russian group continuously
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  Speaker 1: spied on Mandelson until they hit the jackpot with his
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  Speaker 1: ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The relationship was
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  Speaker 1: an important link to manipulate Mandelson to do Russian bidding.
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  Speaker 1: That seems likely. Don't think for a minute that the FSB,
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  Speaker 1: the GRU, and Russian intelligence isn't keeping an eye on things.
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  Speaker 1: And don't think for a minute they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: try and manipulate the Epstein situation to benefit them. Just
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  Speaker 1: like they manipulated the situation while he was alive to
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  Speaker 1: benefit them. You don't think Russia benefited from any of
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence, from any of the information that Jeffrey Epstein had?
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  Speaker 1: But how credible is Project Fish? A Russian-based journalist cast
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  Speaker 1: doubt on the veracity of the report. I'll be shocked
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  Speaker 1: if the source isn't Christopher Steele, Brian McDonald said on
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  Speaker 1: social media. The Trump-Russia dossier guy. It sounds exactly like
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  Speaker 1: his news cycle, Adjacent Fantasies. I don't like Mandelson, but
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  Speaker 1: this claim is nuts. Russia in the early 90s was
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  Speaker 1: broke and chaotic. Could barely run Russia, let alone a
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  Speaker 1: minor UK opposition MP, McDonald also said. There is some
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  Speaker 1: validity to that. And look, I'm not jumping to any
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  Speaker 1: conclusions yet. Let's see the evidence, right? But this is
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  Speaker 1: what's being reported. And considering we know for a fact
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  Speaker 1: that he passed information on to Epstein, I don't find
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  Speaker 1: it to be completely out of the realm of possibility.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it's all about the sources, right? And considering
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Steele has been involved in some BS, then I
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  Speaker 1: think that it's a good idea to take it with
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  Speaker 1: a grain of salt. McDonald, an Irishman, was sanctioned by
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  Speaker 1: the UK in 2022 because of his work for a
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  Speaker 1: Russian network. He referred to Steele as the Trump dossier
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  Speaker 1: guy because Steele authored the controversial Trump-Russia dossier in 2017,
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  Speaker 1: detailing the relationship between U.S. President Trump and Russian President
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. And that dossier, I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to hear this shit, but here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That dossier has led to Trump being able to get
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  Speaker 1: away with this cover-up with Epstein. It's given him that
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  Speaker 1: political cover because now he can point to everything. as
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  Speaker 1: a gigantic hoax, and as a scam to try and
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  Speaker 1: get him. And all he has to do is point
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  Speaker 1: back to the dossier that was obviously a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: bullshit from the very beginning. And I remember when I
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  Speaker 1: was pointing that out, there was a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: out there that were like, well, what are you, defending Trump? Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not defending anybody, but this is obviously BS. And
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  Speaker 1: if something's BS, it's BS. I don't care what political
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  Speaker 1: party it favors. If you want that kind of nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of commentary, go listen to Hassan. Or go
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  Speaker 1: listen to one of those idiot political commentators. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: calling balls and strikes and I told you all those
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  Speaker 1: years ago that the whole entire Russia thing smelled like
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  Speaker 1: an operation and the truth is a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't even understand what the FISA court is they didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand it back then and they don't understand it now
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  Speaker 1: But one thing's for sure, that whole entire fiasco that
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  Speaker 1: ended up going nowhere, it gave Donald Trump a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of cover for all the bullshit that's come in
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath. And that was my warning then. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: That shit has come to fruition. That's exactly what he's doing. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like the Russia hoax. This Jeffrey Epstein stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They're out to get me. Meanwhile, there's an obvious cover-up
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  Speaker 1: going on. But when it comes to Mandelson, look, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I don't take any of this as fact, right?
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  Speaker 1: We have to do more investigating. We have to have
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  Speaker 1: a deeper look. But it's certainly concerning. And it certainly
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  Speaker 1: fits with the pattern of Peter Mandelson giving out state secrets.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see where it all goes. And we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what the UK government ends up doing with it. And
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  Speaker 1: as far as today goes, relatively slow day in news.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to get some of those Leslie Groff
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  Speaker 1: episodes posted. As far as her transcripts. And also, we
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  Speaker 1: have some Alec Murdoch news that we have to get
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  Speaker 1: to as well. And we're certainly going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But until then, that's going to do it for this one.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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