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Doug Band Set to Face House Oversight on Epstein Ties (6/30/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. As a Senate Oversight Committee continues their investigation,
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  they've now turned their sites to Doug Band. And Doug
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  Band is somebody that was considered probably the biggest insider
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  during the glory days of the Clintons and he was
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  directly involved when the Clintons were close with Epstein and Maxwell.
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  And Doug Band has come out and said already that
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  Bill Clinton was on the island. So Bill Clinton says
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  he was never on the island, Doug Band says he was.
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  I wonder if Doug Band's going to say that under oath,
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  and if he does, I wonder if that's going to
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  cause a problem for Bill Clinton considering that Billy Boy
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  told us he was never on that island. But we
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  already know that Virginia said he was, and so did
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  mister Scully. So that's three witnesses now saying that he
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  was on the island. How does that make him guilty
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  of any kind of abuse or anything like that. No,
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  but it does prove that he's a liar. And I
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  think that Doug Band is going to be happy to
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  throw him under the bus, because remember they had that
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  big falling out where Doug Band came out and attacked
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  Chelsea Clinton and her lifestyle and the way she conducts
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  herself and also attacked his former boss and buddy, Bill Clinton.
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  So now Congress is going to speak to him and
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  try and find out what he knows, if anything, about
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  Bill Clinton's time with Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. So
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  today we have an article from Fox News and the
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  headline Clinton confidant who called Maxwell's lover grilled by Congress
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  over Epstein ties. This article was authored by Adam Pack.
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  Former Clinton A Doug Band is set to face a
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  grilling by congressional investigators after his name was referenced dozens
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  of times in the Epstein files. And look, he's come
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  out and said already that Bill Clinton is lying. Now
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  I wonder if he's gonna have the stones to do
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  the same thing and say the same thing under oath
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  ban will testify voluntarily another voluntary fucking testimony, because that's
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  worked out so well before the House Committee on Tuesday,
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  and a transcribed interview as part of the bipartisans panel
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  probe into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and
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  his accomplice Glenn Maxwell, who's serving a twenty year sentence
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  after being convicted on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Well,
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  if you want to call it that, playing with dogs,
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  eating Chick fil A, doing whatever she wants, I guess
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  that's a twenty year bid. Certainly not the same kind
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  of twenty year bid you'd be facing or your friends
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  would be facing. But if you're Glenn Maxwell, then you
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  diddled little kids. You know, the sky's the limit. I guess.
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  House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer invited Ben to testify
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  about his interactions with Epstein and Maxwell while serving as
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  a top eight to Clinton during the early years of
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  his post presidency, and he was considered the key to
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  the kingdom. If you wanted to get close to Clinton,
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  you had to go through Doug Band. He was basically
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  Bill Clinton's body slave, right, you know, the guy that
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  would attend Bill Clinton all day every day, like in
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  the old days, had like a Roman emperor, and you
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  had somebody that took care of, you know, cleaning him up,
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  washing his face, whatever it might be. Basically Doug Band's job.
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  Whatever Bill Clinton needed, whatever Bill Clinton wanted, it was
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  Doug Band's job to make that happen, and of course
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  that brought him into communication and friendship with Glenn Maxwell
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  and Jeffrey Epstein. Band attended a two thousand and three
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  dinner at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse and corresponded with Maxwell between
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  two thousand and two and two thousand and six, according
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  to files release by the Justice Department, and Doug Band
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  did say that he was friendly with them as far
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  as Maxwell and Epstein go, but I've never really heard
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  that they had some kind of romantic entanglement. Not that
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  it really matters in the grand scheme, but it does
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  prove that Gallayne Maxwell was a skuffooza. How many people
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  have we talked about in this story that she's hooked
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  up with. I mean, this lady's seen more wiener than
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  a pair of Hanes. In a two thousand and six email, Band,
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  who is a University of Florida alumnus, asked to use
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  Maxwell's playing to attend the NCAA men's basketball final to
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  watch the Florida Gators play. In other correspondence published by
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  the DJ, he called Maxwell as lover and social matchmaker,
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  among other flirtatious messages. Isn't that cute Doug Band and
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  his good old girlfriend Gallaine Maxwell. The pair were photographed
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  together at a Valentine's Day tea party at a members
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  only club in New York City in two thousand and seven.
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  That tracks, that's exact factly when Glenn Maxwell and the
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  Clintons were real close. And it's wild to me that
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  there's people out there that actually think that the Clinton's
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  coming to testify put it all to bed. Do you
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  really think they were telling the truth, because they weren't.
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  They lied, just like every other person who's been called
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  to testify and provable lies. We're talking the kind of
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  lies that should be called out by the committee, but
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  of course they have no desire in doing that. Bend
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  has not been charged with any wrongdoing, and his interactions
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  with the couple appeared to largely predate Epstein's conviction of
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  soliciting a minor in two thousand and eight. Yeah, because
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  you know that wasn't happening until then. Nobody had any
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  idea what was happening, right, Well, that's what they'll all
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  tell you. Whether you believe them or not, Well, that's
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  a completely different story. The ex Clinton advisor is likely
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  to be peppered with questions about the former president's ties
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  to the disgraced financier. Band, who initially served as Clinton's
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  personal aid and ultimately became a member of his inner circle,
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  helped establish the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative
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  during Clinton's post presidency. He later cut ties with the
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  Clintons during a public falling out in the early twenty
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  tens and a remember, Jeffrey Epstein provided a grip of
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  seed money for the Clinton Initiative, and that was confirmed
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  by jeral Lefcourt, one of the lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein.
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  So that's not just scuttle, but that's not a rumor
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  that happened. In a twenty twenty tell All interview with
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  Vanity Fair, Band said that he grew to dislike Epstein
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  during a two thousand and two trip aboard Epstein's private
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  jet with Clinton to Africa, and advised the former president
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  and his relationship with him. Also in the interview, Band
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  said that Clinton in two thousand and three traveled to
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  Epstein's private Caribbean island Little Saint James. Band said he
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  declined to attend over his objections to Epstein. Band's account
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  conflicts with Clinton's repeated assertion that he never visited the island. Clinton,
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  who has denied any wrongdoing, has pointed to travel logs
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  that do not show such a trip. The travelogs could
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  be manipulated. We all know that those travel logs weren't canon,
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  they're not biblical. They can be changed, and they were,
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  and sometimes the logs weren't even filled out. So we
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  have Doug Band, we have mister Scully, and we have
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  Virginia Roberts telling us that Bill Clinton was on that island.
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  So who do you believe. Do you believe the three
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  witnesses or do you believe Bill Clinton? Band told Vanity
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  Fairy he sought to bar Maxwell from Clinton related events
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  amid his broader rupture with the Clinton family. Maxwell was
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  notably close to Chelsea Clinton and was invited to her
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  wedding in twenty ten. Still unexplained, that was just, you know,
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  a big goof up. We have no reason why Gilene
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  Maxwell was there in a place of prominence. We don't
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  recall she was there in a place of prominence because
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  she was very close to you. That's why she was there.
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  And now you're trying to gaslight everybody and act like
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  it never happened, like you guys weren't close, like there
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  was never a relationship whatsoever. The House Oversight interview will
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  take place behind closed doors, but a transcript is expected
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  to be published at a later date. Tuesday's testimony comes
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  after Bill and Hillary Clinton testified to congressional investigators in
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  March about their interactions with Epstein under the threat of
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  civil contemned charges. Lawmakers threatened to criminally refer the couple
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  to the Justice Department for contemn charges if they refused.
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  A bipartisan group of lawmakers is also interviewed former Attorney
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  General Pam Bondy, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and Microsoft
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  co founder Bill Gates as part of the committee's probe.
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  Comer's panel in July is expected to interview former Goldman
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  Sachs attorney and Obama council Katherine Rumler, Harvard law professor
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  Alan Dershowitz, and former JP Morgan Chase executive and ex
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  Barclay CEO Jess Staley. Jess Staley should be up here first.
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  If anybody has information about what Epstein was doing financially,
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  it's certainly just day and I think that that's going
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  to be a very very interesting interview. Now. Of course
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  it's not going to go far enough. It's not going
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  to be the kind of colonoscopy that it needs to be.
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  But at least we're going to get them on record, right,
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  at least we're gonna get them in the transcript telling
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  obvious lies, because you know that's coming. And I'm very
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  interested to see how aggressive the questions are, because if
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  you're to aggressively question anyone, I think that Jess Staley
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  is a perfect candidate. All three knew Epstein personally and
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  were among his high profile figures whose names appear in
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  recently released Epstein related files, though none of them have
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  been charged with wrongdoing. And look, I'm not saying that
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  any of them did anything wrong. Besides Jess Staley, we
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  know for a fact that he's admitted already to having
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  relations with one of Epstein's assistants. So which one was it?
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  Was it? Leslie Groff? Doubt it was it. Adriana Ross,
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  doubt it could be, but doubt it was it. Sarah
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  Kellen Vickers. Are we getting warmer? Here? Was it? Nadia Marsenkova?
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  Are we getting warmer? I think we are. And if
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  Jess Staley had relations with them, and they were trafficked.
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  That could be a pretty big problem for Jess Staley.
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  I know, breaking news, right, So I'm really curious to
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  see which way Congress goes, if they're going to softball
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  it or if they're going to come with that high
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  stinking cheddar. And that's what they should be doing, throwing
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  the pitches high and tight brush these people back from
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  the plate and let them know that this is not
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  a game and that if they don't come correct and
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  tell the truth, there's gonna be penalties. Now, I would
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  love to tell you that that's the way the committee
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  is going, but it's not. And so far they've proven
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  themselves to be toothless, no accountability. What two people refer
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  to the Justice Department, that's it. After everything we've heard,
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  those are the only two people. Now, I will say this,
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  our reserve complete judgment until we come to the end
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  of the committee and their investigation, and we'll see if
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  they have anybody getting referred to DOJ for a prosecution.
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  So we'll see what Doug Band has to say today,
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  and once we get the transcripts, like usual, we'll get
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  those added to the catalog as well. Until then, though,
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  that's going to do it for this one. All the
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