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Doug Band Gives His Epstein Related Testimony To Congress · 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. Yesterday, Doug Band had his time before Congress
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  Speaker 1: where he was talking about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And according to sources that were in that meeting, Doug
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  Speaker 1: Band came down with a case of amnesia. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that's going to shock you, right? Considering that so
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  Speaker 1: many people that have been in Epstein's orbit have been
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  Speaker 1: afflicted by the same malady. I'm not shocked to hear
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  Speaker 1: that Doug Band just couldn't remember his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And also, shockingly enough, he walked back his claim that
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton went to the island. Now, I don't buy
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  Speaker 1: that for a second, considering what Virginia has said and
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  Speaker 1: what Mr. Scully said. I'm going to go with what
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  Speaker 1: they had to say about Bill Clinton on the island.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, that doesn't mean that Bill Clinton was abusing
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  Speaker 1: people on the island. I think there's a misnomer where
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  Speaker 1: people think that if you went to the island, you
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  Speaker 1: were engaging in abuse. That's not how it worked. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody who went there was engaging in that. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: certainly not saying that Bill Clinton was part of the
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  Speaker 1: abuse machine. But I'm going to have to go with
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  Speaker 1: what my friend Virginia told me. And she said that
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was on this island. So, let's dive into
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  Speaker 1: this article from ABC News and let's see what they
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  Speaker 1: had to say about Doug Band and his conversation, voluntarily,
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  Speaker 1: with Congress. And the headline. Doug Band, former aide to
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, repeatedly tells panel he can't recall interactions with Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's convenient, huh? Who would have thought? That's the defense
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  Speaker 1: strategy of everybody who's involved. and Congress just lets him
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  Speaker 1: get away with it. This article was authored by John Parkinson,
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Peller, and James Hill. Doug Band, the former close
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  Speaker 1: advisor to President Bill Clinton, repeatedly told lawmakers that he
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  Speaker 1: could not recall his involvement on several topics related to
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  Speaker 1: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Multiple sources said following Band's
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  Speaker 1: appearance on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee. Such a joke.
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  Speaker 1: What an absolute waste of time. And that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through all the transcripts with you, so you can
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  Speaker 1: get a full view of what these people say and
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  Speaker 1: how ludicrous it all is. Because without the transcripts, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they could pitch us whatever bullshit they wanted to. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing that they hate the most is losing control
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  Speaker 1: of the narrative. Band, who began his tenure with Clinton
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  Speaker 1: as an intern in the mid-90s, was questioned for four
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  Speaker 1: hours by the panel as part of its ongoing probe
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  Speaker 1: of the government's handling of the investigation's into Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple sources familiar with his testimony said Band had no
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  Speaker 1: evidence or information that President Clinton ever went to Epstein's island,
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  Speaker 1: Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, despite telling
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  Speaker 1: Vanity Fair on the record in 2020 that Clinton had
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  Speaker 1: visited the island. Band told the committee that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: remember why he had made that claim to Vanity Fair.
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  Speaker 1: So just another guy that's a liar. Let's just come
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  Speaker 1: out and say it. Doug Band, not exactly a reliable narrator.
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  Speaker 1: This dude's out here saying whatever he wants because he
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  Speaker 1: knows there's no consequences. Oh yeah, Bill Clinton never went
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  Speaker 1: to the island. Bill Clinton never met him. I've never
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  Speaker 1: even talked to Bill Clinton. That's the kind of ludicrous
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  Speaker 1: bullshit that I would expect Doug Band to say. Often
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  Speaker 1: described as the architect of Clinton's post-presidential endeavors, including the
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  Speaker 1: Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, Band was pressed
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  Speaker 1: about his own communications with Epstein's convicted co-conspirator, Glenn Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: which were made public earlier this year by the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department as part of the release of files mandated by
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And all these people that
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  Speaker 1: were friendly with Maxwell, who act like it was no
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  Speaker 1: big deal, you're wrong. We're talking about a convicted sex trafficker.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about somebody that was targeting the most vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: girls in society. So when they try to fall back
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  Speaker 1: on the excuse, oh, well, I was a friend of Maxwell's.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly the optics you're looking for. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: many times have survivors told us that Maxwell was just
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  Speaker 1: as bad, if not worse, than Jeffrey Epstein? Emails between
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  Speaker 1: Band and Maxwell included talk of meetings with Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: numerous exchanges containing suggestive innuendo and cheeky nicknames for each
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  Speaker 1: other like Baby Cakes and Boo Boo, according to the
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  Speaker 1: files released by the DOJ. Yo, you ever call anyone
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  Speaker 1: Baby Cakes in an email? How about Boo Boo? And
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  Speaker 1: then Doug Band goes on to say that he had
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  Speaker 1: no intimate relations with Glenn Maxwell. I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: You know why? Because Ghislaine Maxwell is a skafooza. She
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  Speaker 1: was having relations with everybody. Remember the story about George Clooney?
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  Speaker 1: Went to the bathroom with George, gave him a little
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  Speaker 1: dome piece, and then bounced back to the table? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that story. So if anybody is a prostitute,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody is a slut, I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell. The bulk of the messages were exchanged between
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  Speaker 1: 2001 and 2004. before Epstein first faced criminal charges in
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  Speaker 1: Florida in 2006. Yeah, nobody knew. Come on. Everybody had
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  Speaker 1: their eyes wide shut. That was the problem. Band, according
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  Speaker 1: to sources, told committee members that he didn't recall sending
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  Speaker 1: individual emails to Maxwell, but he confirmed that an email
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  Speaker 1: address associated with Clinton that was found in the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: files was Band's and that no one else had access
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  Speaker 1: to it. Oh yeah, so it wasn't you, right? It
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  Speaker 1: was the dog. Your dog ate your homework, and then
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  Speaker 1: he sent emails to Glenn Maxwell. Ban stated that he
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  Speaker 1: took steps to insulate Clinton from Maxwell, as Ban became
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  Speaker 1: aware of allegations, according to the sources. Don't you love
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  Speaker 1: how all these people try to set themselves up as heroes? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I stepped in because I knew that there were allegations.
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  Speaker 1: So Doug Ban knew, but not Bill Clinton? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what you really want me to believe? Because I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you right now, I don't believe that because it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Band stated that he never had sexual contact of any
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  Speaker 1: kind with Maxwell and didn't recall ever being introduced to
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  Speaker 1: any woman or girl associated with Maxwell. Sources said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have any evidence one way
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  Speaker 1: or the other. But is it out of the realm
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  Speaker 1: of possibility? No. Considering who we're talking about. And considering
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  Speaker 1: the way she was moving, Band also said he didn't
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  Speaker 1: recall ever engaging with Epstein on any of the flights
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  Speaker 1: he took with Clinton on Epstein's private jet and didn't
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  Speaker 1: recall having conversations with Epstein, said sources. Like, who believes that?
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  Speaker 1: You're on this dude's private jet. You didn't have a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't go up to him and say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Doug Band. I'm Bill Clinton's, you know, go-to guy.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to talk to Bill Clinton, you got
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  Speaker 1: to go through me. None of that happened, huh? Okay. Okay. guess.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Mr. Band set up several meetings between
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  Speaker 1: Clinton and Epstein, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, poll
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  Speaker 1: reporters prior to Band's appearance. We know Mr. Band accompanied Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Clinton on several flights on Epstein's jet. We know that Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Band also had a lot of communication with Ms. Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be a topic of several questions. And it
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  Speaker 1: should have been. But look, Doug Band, very small player
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  Speaker 1: in all of this. He was never going to have
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  Speaker 1: the keys to the kingdom. He wasn't going to provide
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  Speaker 1: information that was going to be groundbreaking or shocking. But
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  Speaker 1: what he does is adds a little clarity, right? And
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  Speaker 1: it gets him on the record. So I guess, if anything,
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  Speaker 1: at least we have that. Ban 54 has not been
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  Speaker 1: accused of any wrongdoing. His appearance before the oversight committee
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  Speaker 1: was voluntary and was not recorded. The committee has typically
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  Speaker 1: released transcripts of interviews and after they're reviewed for accuracy
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  Speaker 1: and redacted to remove any potential references to alleged victims.
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  Speaker 1: So it's usually been a few days to a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how quickly this Banned one comes out.
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  Speaker 1: And now that we're done with Bill Gates, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be diving into Leslie Groff. So we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: Banned after that. Earlier this year, Banned told the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times that his message with Maxwell occurred when he
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  Speaker 1: was in his 20s and unmarried. and he denied any
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  Speaker 1: romantic involvement with Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year
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  Speaker 1: sentence for sex trafficking and other offenses. Well, how do
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  Speaker 1: you prove it? I don't think that Glenn Maxwell is
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  Speaker 1: going to spill the beans and say, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was getting cracked by Doug Band. Bro had me
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  Speaker 1: in the Monica Lewinsky dress and had me hollering. Highly
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  Speaker 1: doubt that's going to happen. There was absolutely no physical
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  Speaker 1: relationship that occurred between us ever, Band said in a
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  Speaker 1: statement to the Times. in which he referred to Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: as a monster. Records created by Epstein's pilots made public
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  Speaker 1: through civil litigation show Clinton and an entourage that typically
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  Speaker 1: included Band aboard Epstein's plane on more than two dozen
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  Speaker 1: flight legs in 2002 and 2003. But none of those
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  Speaker 1: flights went to the island according to the pilots' logs. Clinton, Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and Maxwell have all denied that the former president had
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  Speaker 1: ever been to Little St. James. And again, I believe Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: People can believe whatever they want, right? We don't have
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  Speaker 1: hard proof one way or the other. So it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to who you find more believable. He never, absolutely never,
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  Speaker 1: went and I can be sure of that because there's
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  Speaker 1: no way he would have gone Maxwell told then Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Todd Blanche in a recorded interview last summer
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  Speaker 1: but how would she know I thought Maxwell wasn't around
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  Speaker 1: Epstein anymore what happened to that remember she said well
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  Speaker 1: I took a step back I was dating Ted Waite
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  Speaker 1: so it can't be both things She can't know everything
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  Speaker 1: and not know nothing. I've never been to that island,
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  Speaker 1: Clinton said in his own interview with the Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 1: in February. The former president has not been accused of
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  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing in connection to his association with Epstein. He
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  Speaker 1: has said he stopped interacting with Epstein before any criminal
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  Speaker 1: allegations surfaced and denied knowledge of any of Epstein's crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Why did he have a picture of you in a
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  Speaker 1: blue dress? That's one for the ages. Imagine being somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Bill Clinton and knowing that picture exists, that painting.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a Tony Soprano moment for me. Remember
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  Speaker 1: how pissed off Tony gets when Pauly takes the fucking
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  Speaker 1: picture out of the dumpster and has it touched up?
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  Speaker 1: And then Tony goes to his house and sees it?
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  Speaker 1: That would be me. I would have ripped that shit
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  Speaker 1: off the wall and punched Epstein directly in his face.
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  Speaker 1: Clinton told the committee that he and Band were once
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  Speaker 1: close and that Band had been one of the people
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  Speaker 1: he tasked to operationalize plans to develop the Clinton Global
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  Speaker 1: Initiative in his early post-presidency years. He worked for me
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  Speaker 1: for years, Clinton said. He arranged airplane flights and things
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  Speaker 1: like that and was doing work on the first Clinton
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  Speaker 1: Global Initiative in 2005. And I know that he both
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and he knew Maxwell. I don't know to what
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  Speaker 1: extent he was in contact with him. In her interview
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  Speaker 1: with Blanche, Maxwell said she began spending time with Clinton
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  Speaker 1: after he left the White House in 2001, as he
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  Speaker 1: was forging his post-presidential path through the establishment of the
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  Speaker 1: Clinton Foundation and later the Clinton Global Initiative, which is
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  Speaker 1: a lie. They were at the White House 17 times.
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  Speaker 1: So let's not act like Glenn Maxwell and Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 1: didn't know each other. They most certainly did. I was
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  Speaker 1: part of the beginning process of the Clinton Global Initiative,
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  Speaker 1: and that was something that I helped with, and that
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  Speaker 1: was me. And Epstein may have helped me help them,
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  Speaker 1: she said, according to the transcript of July 2025 interview.
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  Speaker 1: I started spending time with the former president and with
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  Speaker 1: Doug and his team. Maxwell said I had no purpose, really,
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  Speaker 1: other than obviously offered something. I don't know, ideas. In
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  Speaker 1: recent weeks, the committee has heard from Microsoft co-founder Bill
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  Speaker 1: Gates and two of Epstein's former assistants, Sarah Kellen and
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  Speaker 1: Leslie Groff. Later this summer, interviews were scheduled with former
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  Speaker 1: Obama White House counsel, Catherine Rumler, former Epstein attorney, Alan Dershowitz,
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  Speaker 1: and Epstein's former private banker at JPMorgan Chase, Jess Daly. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: No Philippe, huh? Okay, I guess the guy that signed
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  Speaker 1: the NPA, we don't need to talk to him, huh?
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  Speaker 1: No Marie Villafana? That's interesting. What about Barry Krischer? Notice
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  Speaker 1: they want nothing to do with the NPA? Ask yourself why.
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  Speaker 1: Comer has indicated that a report on the investigation's findings
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  Speaker 1: will be issued by the end of the year. And
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  Speaker 1: I bet you that shit's going to read like a comedy.
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  Speaker 1: Considering Comer has no stones and considering he has no teeth,
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  Speaker 1: does anyone really think that the end report's going to
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  Speaker 1: be scathing? I doubt it. Maybe for some of the
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  Speaker 1: administration's enemies, but not overall. Now look, I hope to
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  Speaker 1: come back after the report's released and have a different
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  Speaker 1: tune to sing. But as of right now, I'll remain skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see where it all goes. And once we
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  Speaker 1: get that transcript, we'll get to see what Doug Band
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  Speaker 1: actually said. So until then, that's going to do it
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