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JD Vance Admits the White House “Screwed Up” the Epstein Files Release (7/16/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. So jd. Vance went onto the Joe Rogan
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  Speaker 1: Show recently and he had a lot to say about
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. Obviously, we're going to focus on
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  Speaker 1: what he had to say about Epstein, but as you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, jd Vance had a lot to say about
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, including what's going on in Iran
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  Speaker 1: and that Israel, or at least some people in Israel
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  Speaker 1: want to keep the hostilities going. And look, I don't
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  Speaker 1: doubt that for a minute. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: war is big business and a lot of these people
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  Speaker 1: are getting rich because of these wars. Now over in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of other things to consider, right, You're
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  Speaker 1: talking about ancient arch enemies here with blood feuds and
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy shit. So of course there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be people on both sides that don't want to
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  Speaker 1: come to the table. The idea is to find the
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  Speaker 1: people that do want to come to the table, because
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  Speaker 1: guess what, that's what Detante is right. You don't negotiate
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  Speaker 1: with your allies. You negotiate with your enemies, and you
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  Speaker 1: try and come to a resolution that works for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately we just can't get to that place when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Israel and the Palestinians. But that, of
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  Speaker 1: course is a conversation for a different time. Instead, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about what j. D Vance had to
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  Speaker 1: say about Jeffrey Epstein and how J. D Vance also
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  Speaker 1: believes that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to intelligence. So today
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from the New York Post and
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  Speaker 1: the headline jd Vance tells Joe Rogan Israel wants to
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  Speaker 1: keep Iran war going indefinitely and the Trump administration screwed
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  Speaker 1: up on the Epstein files. Well, I disagree with him
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  Speaker 1: saying they screwed up, because that would mean it was
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  Speaker 1: an accident. This was not an accident. This was all
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  Speaker 1: by design, the whole, entire, disgusting ordeal. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Victor Nava. Vice President. Jay d Vance asserted
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  Speaker 1: in a bombshell interview with Joe Rogan that some in
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli government want to derail US negotiations with Iran
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  Speaker 1: to keep the war going indefinitely. And he acknowledged that
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration screwed up the release of the Epstein files. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he they sure did. But like I said, screwed up
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  Speaker 1: means that they made a mistake. This was not a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: All of it was done by design. And now Jay
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  Speaker 1: d Vance is out here trying to run a narrative.
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  Speaker 1: I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that there
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  Speaker 1: have been people within the Israeli government who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to like actually shift us away from negotiations because they
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  Speaker 1: want to continue the military campaign, Vance told the popular
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  Speaker 1: podcaster during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience released
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. And look, we're not going to get too
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  Speaker 1: deep into that because that leads us into a side
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  Speaker 1: quest and I'm not going to fall for that trap. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to focus on the real problem, And the
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  Speaker 1: real problem is Jeffrey Epstein's friends. There are some people
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  Speaker 1: within their system, we know, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion
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  Speaker 1: to keep the war going indefinitely. The Vice President later added, again,
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  Speaker 1: not towards any objective, but just indefinitely. And just to
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  Speaker 1: be clear, I'm not a big fan of any of
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  Speaker 1: these foreign excursions, if you will now look, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a pacifist and I'm not against military operations, but military
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  Speaker 1: operations that make sense, military operations that help the American people,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't find this excursion in Iran to be
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  Speaker 1: doing that. At the same time, I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to take that from me saying that I'm not happy
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  Speaker 1: that the Ayatola got blasted into oblivion. I am. I'm
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  Speaker 1: old enough to remember who the Ayatola is and was,
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  Speaker 1: So two things can be true at once, right. I
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  Speaker 1: just wish America wasn't involved. We have plenty of problems domestically.
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  Speaker 1: Why we have to be making excursions back to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East without naming is real. Advance further alleged that
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  Speaker 1: there is a very discreet, extremely well funded, literal foreign
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  Speaker 1: influence campaign being funded to tank the Iran deal, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's true too. Make no mistake. When there's
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  Speaker 1: money on the line, and the amount of money we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about when it comes to war, these people don't
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  Speaker 1: give a fuck. Do you think that they care that
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  Speaker 1: soldiers in the idea for having drones rain down on
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  Speaker 1: top of them in Lebanon, not if it keeps their
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  Speaker 1: war going, not if it keeps them, you know, rolling
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  Speaker 1: in the dough. And believe me, the same goes for
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  Speaker 1: the other side. What you think the Palestinians are being
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  Speaker 1: looked after by Hamas? Give me a break, dude. People
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  Speaker 1: that go that far the other way, they're a big
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem, because I assure you Hamas doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give one single fuck about the people of Palestine. I
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  Speaker 1: think that the president completely separate from any influence from Israel,
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  Speaker 1: believes very strongly and again I agree with this that
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  Speaker 1: Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. Vance described himself
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  Speaker 1: as a reasonable moderate in the massive pro Israel anti
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  Speaker 1: Israel Israel debate taking place in the US. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: find myself somewhere in the middle. Like, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: our entanglements with Israel, and I certainly don't like any
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  Speaker 1: kind of involvement in any of their nonsense. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, I'm a realist and I understand how
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy works. And I also understand that America is
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  Speaker 1: certainly an empire and Israel is just a vassal state
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  Speaker 1: of that empire, no different than rome same kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I get both sides of this argument. What I
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  Speaker 1: don't like is when people are disingenuous about what's really
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  Speaker 1: going on. He also noted that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: elements within the Israeli government that actually do like our
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  Speaker 1: peace process and recognize that an indefinite campaign is not
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  Speaker 1: good for them either. Vance argue that bombing e On
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  Speaker 1: to oblivion wouldn't make it any easier to secure the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Horror moves. Yo, wasn't the Straight of Horror
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  Speaker 1: moves open before all of this started. It didn't become
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  Speaker 1: an issue until we start a bombing people. You would
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  Speaker 1: think that if they're going to have some kind of
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  Speaker 1: military campaign, they'd have a plan for the Strait of
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  Speaker 1: Horror moves, But I guess not. And this is another problem.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not willing to go to war unless America is
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  Speaker 1: willing to go all the way, and the American people
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  Speaker 1: don't have the heart for that. Because when I say
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  Speaker 1: all the way, I mean all the way. War should
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  Speaker 1: be hell. And if you're going to get involved in
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  Speaker 1: one of these conflicts, there should be no doubt who
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  Speaker 1: the winner is when all is said and done. And
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  Speaker 1: if you can't do that, then my advice is don't
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  Speaker 1: even bother because it's not going to end well for you.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen it time and time again. Iraq, Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 1: all these different countries in the Middle East. Their way
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  Speaker 1: of life is not compatible with the Western style democracy,
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  Speaker 1: and we just need to accept that. You can bomb them,
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  Speaker 1: you can take away their radar, you can take away
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  Speaker 1: some of their drones and some of their missiles. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just too easy to fire at ships in the straits,
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  Speaker 1: he said, So you've got to actually be willing to
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  Speaker 1: talk and try to figure out the problem. Well, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that have been the thing to do before attacking. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I'm just stupid, but I would
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  Speaker 1: think that the detent would come before attacking. And I
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  Speaker 1: would also think if you're going to attack, you'd have
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  Speaker 1: a plan to deal with the straight of war moves.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like a pretty significant part of the train no.
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  Speaker 1: Vance refused to say if you would have launched the
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  Speaker 1: Iran War if you were president. I'm not a public commentator,
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  Speaker 1: he argued, while noting Trump described him as being less
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  Speaker 1: than enthusiastic about the Iran War than others in his administration.
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  Speaker 1: My approach to this is to not Monday Morning quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: a decision that was made three months ago, Vance explained.
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  Speaker 1: My approach is to try to make it as successful
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  Speaker 1: as possible, which is why I've poured my heart and
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  Speaker 1: soul into these negotiations. Look, I'm not a gigantic fan
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  Speaker 1: of JD. Vance to say the least, but anyone working
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  Speaker 1: for peace you gotta think that's a good thing, right
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, what is this accomplished?
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  Speaker 1: What did we get done? What did America achieve? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everything that we heard about, what Iran was up to,
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  Speaker 1: they're still doing. So if all that money spent, all
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  Speaker 1: those resources gone, what did we get for it? That's right?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. Once again, midway through the nearly three hour
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  Speaker 1: long interview, Rogan asked Vance about the Trump administration's resistance
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  Speaker 1: to releasing government files related to a notorious sex criminal,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. The Vice President acknowledged missteps, but insisted there
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  Speaker 1: was no cover up. Oh yeah, no cover up. Huh sure, Jadvance,
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  Speaker 1: Sure there's no cover up. Anyone who believes that is
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  Speaker 1: dumber than Todd Blanche. We absolutely screwed up the coms
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  Speaker 1: of the Epstein files, like we just did. Van said,
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  Speaker 1: But do I think the reason we screwed up the
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  Speaker 1: coms is because we were trying to hide something? No? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. How about that? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: won't even turn the information over to New Mexico. So
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  Speaker 1: what are you even talking about. How can you look
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  Speaker 1: at anybody square in the face and tell them that
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  Speaker 1: you're not hiding anything when you most certainly are. A
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  Speaker 1: month into Trump's second term, former Attorney General Pam Bondy
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  Speaker 1: infamously teased during a Fox News interview that Epstein's client
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  Speaker 1: list was sitting on my desk right now to review
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  Speaker 1: and would be released, which I told you at the
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  Speaker 1: time was absolute nonsense, and that's because breaking news. There's
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  Speaker 1: never been a list. Days later, Bondi gave binders labeled
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein Files Phase one to a group of conservative
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  Speaker 1: influencers who had been invited to the White House. However,
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  Speaker 1: the binders contained no no new information, but were merely
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  Speaker 1: extracts from the notorious Pedophiles phone book, all stuff we
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  Speaker 1: had seen previously. And then those influencers or whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call them, just went on with their merry lives,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them even went on to start talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Epstein Files. You want to talk about drifting,
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about being a tourist here it is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the purpose of it was, but
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  Speaker 1: I know that the effect of it was to make
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  Speaker 1: people mistrust the entire effort. Van said, well, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you know admitting that you guys fucked it up,
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  Speaker 1: and not only fucked it up, but that people have
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  Speaker 1: a reason to not trust you. I know, Pam, I
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  Speaker 1: like Pam, he said of the fired former attorney general.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there was anything malicious going on. I
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  Speaker 1: think Pam was trying to respond to the political moment.
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  Speaker 1: I think that she overstated what we had and what
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have, and I think that she, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got roasted for it publicly by a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: voting me oh yeah. JD. Vance the hero and defender
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  Speaker 1: of the Epstein truth. I wonder if Peter Thiel gave
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  Speaker 1: him the okay to talk about Epstein. Vance described himself
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  Speaker 1: as an og Epstein conspiracy theorist who has gone down
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  Speaker 1: every single rabbit hole related to the well connected, disgraced financier.
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  Speaker 1: He clearly had connections to the upper the highest levels
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  Speaker 1: of American intelligence, Van said of Epstein. However, the Vice
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  Speaker 1: President noted the government does not possess any documentation connecting
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  Speaker 1: him to the US and foreign intelligence agencies, and he
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  Speaker 1: suggests that if that evidence ever existed, it may have
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  Speaker 1: been destroyed around the time of Epstein's two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: eight criminal case in Florida. That's what we're doing here, jd.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we're here. And if people would just stop
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  Speaker 1: focusing on the bullshit and focus on the obvious cover up,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'd have some results. But hey, that doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: the engagement, right, that doesn't drive the viewers. I've asked
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  Speaker 1: where the documents connecting Epstein directly to our intelligence agencies
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  Speaker 1: or anybody else, and the answer is no, Vance said,
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  Speaker 1: but if that shit existed, it wouldn't exist. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, the White House did not immediately respond to
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  Speaker 1: The Post's requests for comment. Yeah, it exists at Langley.
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  Speaker 1: I told you that the FBI has the crumbs, but
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  Speaker 1: the CIA they have the cake, and I think JD.
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  Speaker 1: Vance is confirming that without confirming it. What he's doing
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  Speaker 1: right here is telling us that Epstein was an intelligence construct,
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  Speaker 1: and for once JD. Vance is actually telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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