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Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein and the Middle East Briefing · The Epstein Chronicles

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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. Over in the UK, we've talked about Peter
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  Speaker 1: Mandelson and we've talked about Prince Andrew and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they, allegedly, were passing Jeffrey Epstein confidential information. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think that same question should be asked about Larry Summers.
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  Speaker 1: What did he give Jeffrey Epstein as far as confidential information?
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  Speaker 1: How many secrets of America did Larry Summers spill? And
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  Speaker 1: I think all of that's relevant. And I think all
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  Speaker 1: those questions need to be asked under oath, not voluntarily,
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  Speaker 1: not at his convenience, but under oath. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't think that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to utilize his
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  Speaker 1: friendship with Larry Summers to enrich himself somehow, you have
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  Speaker 1: not been paying attention. That is the only reason that
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein engaged in these relationships. It wasn't out of
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  Speaker 1: the kindness of his heart. He wasn't altruistic. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: trying to save the world. He was trying to consolidate
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  Speaker 1: his power. So the question is, just how much help
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  Speaker 1: did he get from Larry Summers to do that? Today's
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  Speaker 1: article is from the Eastern Herald and the headline, Larry
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  Speaker 1: Summers' 2013 Middle East Briefing Surfaces in the Epstein Files.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Newsroom. A two-page Middle East
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  Speaker 1: policy briefing bearing Larry Summers' name and House Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 1: document numbers have surfaced in the Epstein files, providing a
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  Speaker 1: window into the kind of material that flowed through the
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  Speaker 1: former Treasury Secretary's connection to Jeffrey Epstein during the Arab Spring.
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  Speaker 1: And if you remember, a lot of that Arab Spring
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  Speaker 1: was astroturfed by the CIA. Let's just call it what
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  Speaker 1: it is, right? The document cataloged as House Oversight Pages
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  Speaker 1: 029689 and 029690 states, covers political and security conditions across
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  Speaker 1: 10 countries, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 1: and Yemen, from late January to mid-February of 2013. The
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  Speaker 1: name Larry Summers appears at the top. The scope of
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  Speaker 1: the analysis covering everything from Tunisia's political assassination crisis to
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  Speaker 1: nuclear negotiations between Iran and P5 +, 1, And it
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  Speaker 1: reflects the kind of synthesis typically prepared for heads of
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  Speaker 1: state or senior policy officials, not casual correspondence. And that's
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  Speaker 1: because Jeffrey Epstein was looped in. And at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd be crazy to think that Larry Summers
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  Speaker 1: didn't pass on confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein. Now look,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have evidence of that. That's available to us.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, it's not looking good for Mr. Summers.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the same kind of investigation that we
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  Speaker 1: see with Mandelson... or with Prince Andrew, should happen here.
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  Speaker 1: How many officials were giving Jeffrey Epstein information in America? What,
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  Speaker 1: he was only getting information from people in the English government?
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  Speaker 1: What the document cannot establish by itself is whether Summers
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  Speaker 1: wrote the briefing for Epstein directly, forwarded an existing analysis,
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  Speaker 1: or whether it reached Epstein through another route. Summers has
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  Speaker 1: not addressed this document specifically. What the White House oversight
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  Speaker 1: material as a whole have established is that Summers-Epstein relationship
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  Speaker 1: was substantive, long-running, and extended well beyond the social introduction
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  Speaker 1: that first drew scrutiny. Oh, there is no doubt. They
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  Speaker 1: were super close. Larry Summers spent his fucking honeymoon on
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's island. I would say they're pretty close. And if
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  Speaker 1: Ted Waite had to give a deposition, then Larry Summers'
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  Speaker 1: bitch ass should too. Summers introduced former President Clinton to
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  Speaker 1: Epstein in the early 2000s. Uh, what? How's that possible?
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  Speaker 1: Because Jeffrey Epstein was already at the White House before then,
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  Speaker 1: 17 times. But okay. Clinton testified before the House Oversight
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  Speaker 1: Committee in March. He lied. I told you during the
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  Speaker 1: testimony that Bill Clinton was lying. And real talk, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think one single person that has been before Congress
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  Speaker 1: has told us the whole truth. Summers said that he
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  Speaker 1: described Epstein as an information-hungry person who had contributed several
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to brain research. When the committee released emails
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  Speaker 1: between Summers and Epstein from around 2019, exchanges in which
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  Speaker 1: Summers sought personal advice from Epstein, Summers publicly stated he
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  Speaker 1: was deeply ashamed of his actions and resigned from the
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  Speaker 1: board of OpenAI days later. Well, he should have never
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  Speaker 1: been on the board. People act like they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: about this. They did. We've been talking about Larry Summers
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  Speaker 1: for how long and the role that he played? All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden it's a big surprise, a big shock?
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  Speaker 1: The 2013 briefing adds a different dimension to that record.
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  Speaker 1: The 2019 emails show the personal register of the relationship
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  Speaker 1: the briefing prepared six years earlier shows its intellectual one.
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  Speaker 1: A former Treasury Secretary's country-by-country foreign policy survey? requiring access
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  Speaker 1: to senior diplomatic reporting or to officials who had it,
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  Speaker 1: was in Epstein's possession and bears Epstein's congressional document numbers.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a big deal. This man should not have
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  Speaker 1: had this information, but he did. And it sure looks
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  Speaker 1: like Larry Summers was the source of that information making
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  Speaker 1: its way to Epstein's hands. So, what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to do about it? Was any crime committed? We have
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  Speaker 1: no idea, because the DOJ... refuses to investigate. But I
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  Speaker 1: think the truth is overwhelming at this point, and the
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  Speaker 1: more they refuse, the more they show us their hand.
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  Speaker 1: Its contents reflect the urgency of a moment when the
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  Speaker 1: Arab Spring was destabilizing governments across North Africa and the
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  Speaker 1: Levant simultaneously. On Tunisia, the document describes the assassination of
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  Speaker 1: Chokri Balad, the leftist opposition leader shot dead outside his
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  Speaker 1: home in Tunis on February 6, 2013. an event Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Hamadi Jabali called the assassination of the Tunisian Revolution.
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  Speaker 1: On Egypt, it describes the army's public warning of a
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  Speaker 1: collapse of the state following a week of violence, marking
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  Speaker 1: the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution, which left more
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  Speaker 1: than 50 dead and triggered curfews and a state emergency
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  Speaker 1: across three cities. And if you remember, the Arab Spring
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  Speaker 1: was most certainly not organic. That shit was astroturfed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the people... didn't have a grievance,
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  Speaker 1: they did. But Western intelligence services stoked the fire. And
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  Speaker 1: we have to be honest about that, right? We have
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. Because that's what happened. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, but I don't think the results of
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  Speaker 1: the Arab Spring turned out to be too beneficial. Ever
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  Speaker 1: hear of a group called ISIS? And not only that,
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  Speaker 1: it gave a lot of these governments a reason to
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  Speaker 1: crack down on the people. On Syria, the briefing describes
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  Speaker 1: what it calls the general belief that Israeli warplanes struck
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  Speaker 1: a convoy carrying sophisticated anti-aircraft weaponry to Hezbollah on January 30th.
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  Speaker 1: Noting the attack drew a sharp threat of retaliation from
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  Speaker 1: both the Syrian and Iranian governments. On Israel, it records
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  Speaker 1: Yair Lapid's centrist Yesh Atid party winning 19 Nesset seats
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  Speaker 1: and notes that the party maintained an ambiguous stance on
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  Speaker 1: the peace process. Israel's January 29th boycott of a UN
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  Speaker 1: review of its human rights practices is described as a
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  Speaker 1: breach of an established practice of cooperation. That leaves a
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  Speaker 1: question of human rights in occupied Palestinian territories outside the
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  Speaker 1: jurisdiction of the international community. So look, why did Epstein
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  Speaker 1: have access to any of this? That's the real question.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to get down into the details about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Palestinian territories, etc., etc., What we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about is why Epstein had that information in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. Is anybody going to ask that question?
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  Speaker 1: And why would Larry Summers send it to him if
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  Speaker 1: it was Summers that he got it from? And if
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't Summers, where did he get it from? On Iran,
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  Speaker 1: the briefing covers Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's February 5, 2013 visit to Cairo,
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  Speaker 1: the first by an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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  Speaker 1: and a February 26 round of nuclear talks between Iran
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  Speaker 1: and the P5-plus-1, the first at political director's level since
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  Speaker 1: Moscow in June of 2012. The document also records a
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  Speaker 1: then-unusual public rupture between Ahmadinejad and parliamentary speaker Ali Larajani
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  Speaker 1: over mutual recriminations about corrupt family members and associates. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's rich. The mullahs over in Iran calling each other corrupt?
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  Speaker 1: Breaking news, the whole lot of them are corrupt. The
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  Speaker 1: coverage extends to Libya, where EU foreign policy chief Catherine
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  Speaker 1: Ashton had announced a two-year civil mission to secure the
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  Speaker 1: country's 4,000-kilometer border following the Algeria terrorist incident and the
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  Speaker 1: Mali crisis, Jordan, where the Muslim Brotherhood boycotted parliamentary elections,
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  Speaker 1: and King Abdullah was making visits to Buran, the UAE,
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  Speaker 1: and Kuwait and Yemen, where a UN Secretary-Council delegation visited
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  Speaker 1: President Hadi amid large demonstrations over the treatment of former
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  Speaker 1: President Ali Abdullah Salah under the Gulf Cooperation Council immunity arrangement.
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  Speaker 1: And Epstein was in the middle of all of this. Why?
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  Speaker 1: If he was just a lone predator, a guy that
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  Speaker 1: was out here, you know, just diddling people and watching
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  Speaker 1: disgusting videos, how is he in the middle of all
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  Speaker 1: of this? Is anybody going to answer that question? The
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  Speaker 1: intelligence dimension of Epstein's network has grown as a distinct
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  Speaker 1: thread of the House Oversight Investigation. With Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance saying Epstein had connections to the highest levels of
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  Speaker 1: Israeli and U.S. intelligence, the first such claim by a
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  Speaker 1: sitting American official. Well, it's true, he did. Does that
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  Speaker 1: mean he was a special agent for the Mossad or
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  Speaker 1: the CIA? No, he was an asset. The 2013 Summers
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  Speaker 1: briefing does not bear on those intelligence connections directly. What
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  Speaker 1: it does bear on is the category of materials Epstein assembled,
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  Speaker 1: the kind that, in different hands, would be restricted to
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  Speaker 1: official channels. And that's the real issue. Where did he
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  Speaker 1: get this stuff? Who was giving it to him? And
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  Speaker 1: why was he involved? House lawmakers called in June for
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  Speaker 1: Summers and Alan Dershowitz to testify before the committee about
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  Speaker 1: their ties to Epstein. Dershowitz later backed out of a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary interview, prompting committee chairman James Comer to threaten a subpoena.
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  Speaker 1: Whether Summers will appear in a closed session or what
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  Speaker 1: questions the committee will direct at documents like this briefing
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  Speaker 1: has not been made public. Summers has also announced he's
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  Speaker 1: resigning from Harvard. The Summers-Epstein record as documented so far
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  Speaker 1: shows a former Treasury Secretary who introduced the U.S. President
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  Speaker 1: to the financier, maintained correspondence with him in 2019 in
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  Speaker 1: which he sought personal advice, and whose name appears at
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  Speaker 1: the top of a high-grade foreign policy briefing covering 10
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  Speaker 1: governments at one of the most volatile moments in recent
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  Speaker 1: Middle East history. What Epstein did with any of it
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  Speaker 1: is not something the available materials answer. What they show
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  Speaker 1: is the architecture of access that he assembled and what
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  Speaker 1: that access produced in document form. And it's only the
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  Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. Can you imagine the kind of
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  Speaker 1: information this dude was getting? It's going to be staggering.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think this is the only email address
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  Speaker 1: he had, you're crazy. And as this continues to move forward,
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  Speaker 1: there might be a chance that Larry Summers gets caught
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  Speaker 1: up in a situation like we see Mandelson and Andrew
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  Speaker 1: dealing with over in the UK. And considering what we know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that would be a good idea. So, like usual,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. And when we have some more developments,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get those added to the catalog as well. All
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box.