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No End In Sight For Congress’ Epstein Probe (7/9/26) · 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. About a year ago, Congress set up a
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committee that was tasked with overseeing the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein,
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Glene Maxwell and their crimes. However, after a year, we
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still don't have much to go on. Nobody has been
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held accountable, nobody is under investigation that we know about,
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and shockingly, the only two people that we know have
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been referred are two people that were accused by Sarah
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Kellen Vickers. Do you mean to tell me that all
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the other accusations that have been made are not up
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to snuff, that they don't have enough behind them for
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them to be pursued, Because if you're trying to tell
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me that, I'm going to tell you it's a bunch
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of bs. Because there's plenty of information about plenty of
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people who should be referred for criminal indictment to the
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Justice depart But we haven't seen much of that, have we,
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And unfortunately I'm not confident that we will. And again
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it's all by design. In my opinion, I don't think
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this committee was ever enacted to get anything done, and
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if it wasn't for the discharge petition, forget it. So
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today we have an article from Politico and here's the headline.
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This is just the beginning when you're in there's no
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end in sight for Congress's Epstein probe. This article was
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authored by Haley Fuchs. The House Oversight Committee Jeffrey Epstein
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investigation will hit the one year mark later this month,
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and the saga isn't ending anytime soon. Well, it's certainly
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not ending around these parts anytime soon. Now, we're definitely
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going to be talking about other things. And over the
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past few weeks we've already started talking a little bit
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more about Alec Murda. Well, we're gonna start talking about
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the Tyler Robinson trial as well, because there there's been
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a lot of bs talked about Charlie Kirk's murder. And
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now that we're getting to a point where we're getting
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some actual evidence, I think it's time to have the
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conversation right follow along with the trial, look at the evidence,
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see what's what. And I'm coming into that with a
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very sober eye. I have no preconceived notions about anything,
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and we're just gonna follow the evidence wherever it takes us.
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But one thing I was always skeptical of was Candace
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Owens and her bullshit. She tried the same thing with
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Brian Cooleberger. She tried to insert herself into that case
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and tried to turn it into this gigantic conspiracy and
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thankfully her bullshit didn't take But here in the Charlie
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Kirk case, when you have something that explosive, something that
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politically sensitive, you're gonna find an audience for you're crazy,
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and Candace Owens has certainly capitalized on that. And when
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she tried it with Brian Kolberger, I knew she was
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talking out of the side of her neck. And my
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guess has always been that's the same story when it
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comes to Charlie Kirk. So we're diving into that for ourselves.
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And now that the preliminary hearing started this week, I've
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been able to get more of a handle on what
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the prosecution actually has because remember, that's what matters, what's
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the evidence, Because for me, that's all that really matters,
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not my opinion, not what I think, not what my
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bias tells me, but where does the evidence take us.
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So that's what we're going to be doing when we're
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covering the Tyler Robinson trial and the first series that
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I have planned is just diving into the official narrative
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and what the official story is and what evidence the
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government says it has. And look, as you all know,
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I'm not exactly somebody who trusts the government. But that
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doesn't mean that every case is a gigantic conspiracy. So
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we're going to get to that in a little bit,
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but first let's finish this article. No matter which party
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ends up in control in the next Congress, the Oversight
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Panel will remain under pressure to continue to investigate the
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late convicted sex offender and the web of power players
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who may have been complicit in his crimes. May have
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been complicit, may have been complicit. All these fools were
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complicit one way or the other. Doesn't mean everybody was diddling,
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but everybody was around, everybody knew, and anybody who says
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any different, they're bullshitting you. Democrats are making clear that
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they view the committee's work under Republican leadership as incomplete
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and that the Epstein case will be central to their
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oversight of President Donald Trump's administration if they win the
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majority in the midterms, and I think that's a likely possibility, right,
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I mean, the midterms historically fade to the side that's
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not in power. So I would think that the Democrats,
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with everything that's going on, are going to make some
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inroads and at least take the House. Is that going
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to be enough? I don't know. And to tell you
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the truth, I'm not exactly confident in the Democrats' leadership either.
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Just take a look at how they dealt with Graham Platner.
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This is just the beginning. Representative Melanie Stansbury of New
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Mexico and Oversight Democrats said in an interview, I believe
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this is the administration's watergate. I think that it's clear
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that they're complicit in covering crimes and shielding the president
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from accountability and evating the law. And so I'd like
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to see all of them in front of the committee
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under oath. Well, I'd like to see that too. And
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they're certainly a cover up, and I think it would
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be good if we focused more on that cover up.
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But people like Melanie Stansbury, they're only interested in salacious nonsense.
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She hasn't had down on the real facts of the case.
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Every single one of these Congress people that get up there,
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the first question is Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
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and that's not how we're going to get to the
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victory line. I keep telling you guys that, and if
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that makes people mad, I don't care. I don't know
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how many times I have to say it. I'm not
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in this for the clicks. I don't even do any
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marketing for my podcast. If you found my podcast, either
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somebody told you about it or you stumbled upon it.
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So if you think I care about winning any popularity
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contests or doing what the masses want me to do,
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you've come to the wrong place. I really just don't care.
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I don't have any kind of social media profile to
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worry about. I don't have sponsors, I don't have crowdfunding,
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none of it. So I'm able to say whatever I
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want whenever I want to say it, and at times
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it costs me listeners, and hey, that's cool, I get it.
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But I'm not going to change who I am, and
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I'm certainly not going to plan any games to try
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and you know, get people to listen to my podcast.
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What I'm saying to you is the same shit I'd
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be saying in the backyard to the homies. And if
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you don't believe me, you can ask them. Do you
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know how many times these people, my friends, have told
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me to shut my aap. They didn't care. They don't
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want to hear it for five more seconds. Yeah, just
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about every barbecue. Finally, one of them said to me, Hey, Bobby,
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why don't you just start a podcast and then you
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could run your app all day and you can say
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what you want to say and we won't have to
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listen to your nonsense anymore. It works out great for everybody.
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So my point is, even if nobody was listening, I'd
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still be saying the same stuff. And you know why,
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because this is what I believe. This isn't some larp,
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this isn't some gag, This isn't me just make and
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pretend the shit I tell you on this podcast, That's
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what I believe. Republicans meanwhile, say the public's appetite for
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answers in the Epstein case won't be satiated no matter
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what new details the panel on Earth. Oh give me
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a break. Before it was the Republicans crying and crying
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and crying NonStop about the Epstein issue. But now all
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of a sudden, Oh, there's never going to be enough. Well,
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how about you give us something worthwhile? How about we
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start there people are never going to be satisfied with
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the Congressional Investigation throughout history. Set Oversight Chair James Comer
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of Kentucky, who, due to GOP term limits, will no
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longer be the panel's top Republican in the next Congress. Well,
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thank god, because James Comer is an absolute tool, an
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absolute buffoon. Him and his robber barons have caused a
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lot of damage here and they've destroyed a lot of credibility. Well,
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he had hoped to wrap up the interviews by the
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August recess. Comer added, it's probably going to be hard
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because it seems like after every deposition we get another
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name or two that we need to talk to. Imagine
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if they would have just done their jobs from the
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very beginning. I know novel idea that means the Congressional
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Epstein Probe could continue for the foreseeable future, not only
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out of hope of finding a smoking gun, but also
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because of the political incentives to keep investigating. For Democrats
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as well as Republicans are impossible to resist. And I
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have to tell you the way that this topic has
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been politicized recently is a big time turnoff. That's never
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what this was supposed to be. I can't tell you
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how many people back in twenty nineteen I worked with
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to try and get justice here that I didn't agree
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with politically, but I was able to shelve my personal
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bias for the greater good, and the greater good was
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getting rid of these scumbags. But unfortunately that didn't work,
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and it becoming more and more are clear to me
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that there's never going to be unity on any topic.
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If we can't come to the center here and come
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to some kind of truce while we get rid of
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these people, forget it. It's over. America is effectively broken
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into different groups. Now there's no single America. There's no
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heartbeat of America. There's only what's good politically, and I
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find it disgusting. These are real people, people whose lives
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were fucking ruined, and the same people that ignored them
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the first time around. Well now they're just politicizing everything
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and not making any ground and not bringing anyone to justice.
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I mean, they won't even go after the banking records.
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What does that tell you? You don't want to follow the
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money of one of the biggest launderers in the history
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of America. Okay, cool, So you're just not serious about
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what's going on. The panel interviewed more than a dozen people,
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and none so far have shared any new information culminating
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in criminal charges. But the panel has made history by
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making a host of powerful people answer for their willful
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association with a convicted sex offender, Among them commerce secretary
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Howard Lutnick, the billionaire investor Leon Black, and tech mogul
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and philanthropist Bill Gates. Blacking Gates both admitted to knowing
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about Epstein's criminal history, at least in part, while continuing
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to associate with them. Oh, they knew. They didn't care,
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Like I told you, Unlike the rest of these people,
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I don't hide from what I've said in the past.
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All those reposted episodes, they're from twenty twenty one, twenty nineteen,
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all the way back, and as you can see, the
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record has been consistent, at least around these parts. There
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have been some other revelations too. Sarah Kellen, a former assistant,
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gave lawmakers the names of two men potentially implicated in
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Epstein's misdeeds, hair stylists Frederick Foquai and former Miami Beach
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mayor Philip Levine, who both have denied wrongdoing well. Frederick
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Forrakai is not a new name to us. We've been
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talking about him for a while. But I will say
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I never heard anything about mister Levine, mister Levine, whatever
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you want to call him, up until Sarah Kellen told
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us what she told us. So that is the new name.
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One thing I'll give the committee is that is the
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new name Black in the middle of his transcribed interview
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with slab with subpoenas that'll force him to reappear and
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hand over non disclosure agreements that could be tied to
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Epstein and ousted. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi underscored the
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extent to which her then deputy Todd Blanche led the
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Justice Department's haphazard release of the Epstein files after Congress
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forced the department's hand last fall. Blanche, now the acting
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Attorney General vying to lead the DOJ permanently, is expected
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to be heavily questioned about the matter at his Senate
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confirmation hearing next week, and House Oversight could separately call
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him to speak with the panel in the coming weeks. Look,
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if Todd Blanche actually gets confirmed, that's gonna tell us
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everything we need to know, because if they confirm him,
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that means they're all in on it. A yes vote
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is a vote for Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit, and that's just
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the way it is. Representative Robert Garcia California, who is
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poised to become Oversight chair next year if Democrats sweep
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the fall elections, noted that the ongoing investigation has also
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set a new precedent. The panel's decision earlier this year
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to compel the sweign testimony of former President Bill Clinton,
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he said, could pave the way for other former presidents
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to be hit with subpoenas, and that includes Trump, who
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is on scrutiny from his own relationship with Epstein. And
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it was very transparent at the time. What the Democrats
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were trying to do. The whole entire goal with getting
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Bill Clinton up there and the Democrats going along with it,
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was to eventually get Trump in the crosshairs. That's what
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they were trying to do. They want Trump up there
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to give a deposition. And now that Bill Clinton did it, well,
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how can Trump deny them. He'll try, but it gives
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them political ammunition and at the end of the day,
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that's what Robert Garcia is looking for. I have a
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lot of doubts about Robert Garcia and his real motivations. Sorry,
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but I do. That includes Trump, who has drawn scrutiny
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for his own relationship with Epstein. Democrats have argued the
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administration has concealed the extent of that relationship, but Trump
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has maintained that he and Epstein had a falling out
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long before Epstein's death by suicide allegedly behind bars in
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twenty nineteen. The President has not been charged with wrongdoing.
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There are, however, limits to what Congress can do to
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bring people to account. Already, Committee Republicans have recommended that
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the Justice Department investigate allegations against Frederick Vicai and Levigne.
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In a statement, a DOJ official confirmed the Department had
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to receive the recommendation from the Committee and the FBI
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was looking into it. Oh, I'm sure they are. The
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allegations Kellen made in her interview to Oversight included names
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of reported perpetrators that she apparently did not raise in
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her FBI interviews during the course of the investigation into
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Epstein and Maxwell. The official said, the FBI is in
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the process of confirming that if during the course of
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their review, FBI encounters of evidence of a federal crime,
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they will investigate the matter. Wow, well we can all
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rest easy. The FBI is on the job, folks. Comer
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hinted that the House Oversight Committee would pursue criminal referrals
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to the deal. We believe there are people that deserve
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to be prosecuted, and we're going to do everything in
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our ability to see that happen. I promise the survivors that. Yeah, well,
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pretty words, let's see some action. Garcia said some witnesses
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who came to testify voluntarily and were not toworn in
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under oath would in a Democratic majority be called back
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again to give formal depositions, such as BONDI well, that's good.
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They should all be formal voluntarily. Committee Democrats have also
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expressed an interest in getting testimony via subpoena from FBI
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Director Cash Betel as a explorer not just Epstein's network
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of associates, but the federal governments on even handling of
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the matter. That's what we have to focus on. I
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know people don't want to hear it. Everybody wants the salacious,
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big time caller, and I'm here to tell you that's
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not going to happen. That ship is heeld. If you
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want justice here, focus on the cover up. If you
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want to fuck around and cause distractions and whatever, cool
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talk about the other shit. But if you're looking for justice,
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and you're looking the whole people accountable, one way to
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do with folks. The Epstein probe will not be over
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GARCIA pledged until they release all the files and until
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ideally criminal convictions out of the DOJ. But any referral
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would be merely advisory. Only the Trump administration can decide
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who to target with federal charges. It's also highly unlikely
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that a sitting president could be compelled to participate in
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the committee's Epstein probe through a subpoena. That wasn't the point.
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It's for when he's out of office. They're going to
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try and hit him with that subpoena when he's out
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of office, to get them to testify. That was the goal.
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Representative Thomas Massey suggested that the House effort was only
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serving to provide cover for the Justice Department to avoid accountability. Frankly,
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bringing all these people in is still part of the
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charade and the diversion from what should happen, which is
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that the DOJ should bring charges against people for whom
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there's credible evidence. Massey, who lost his re election primary
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to a Trump backed challenger, said in an interview everything
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that happens in oversight is just part of trying to
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slack over the whole thing. Bingo. That's all it is.
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That's all it ever will be. Massy teamed up last
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year with Representative Rocana to force a vote on legislation
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requiring the Justice Department to make public all the Epstein
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material in its possession. The Trump White House ought to
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block the measure, and with Republicans not wanting to disobey
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their president or alienate their base clamoring for transparency, Speaker
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Mike Johnson sent the House home rather than keep the
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members in town to rive amid the uproar. But before
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lawmakers departed, Democrats forced a surprise bipartisan vote vote during
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an oversight subcommittee hearing, compelling the Justice Department to turn
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over the Epstein files to Congress. That vote launched the
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Epstein probe at a time when the DOJ was still
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refusing to cooperate fully on its own, a shift that
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took place in November when Trump finally relented and allowed
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Congress to pass Massey and Conna's Epstein File Transparency Act
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with near unanimous support. And remember he couldn't veto it,
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so that's the only reason he got behind it. Since
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that time, the rollout of the files has been full
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of mistakes, including botch disclosures of victim information and excessive redactions.
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Lawmakers of both parties argue the DOJ has not fully
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complied with the law. Well, that's because they haven't. Is
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there any real argument against that statement. Representative Tim Burchett,
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another Oversight Committee member, said he didn't know how the
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Epstein investigation would end, but was an optimist that there
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would be a satisfying conclusion. This town moves, I mean,
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glaciers run past us, Burchett said, We've been studying the
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Kennedy assassination and we're still getting information on it. I
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don't have a lot of faith in the system. I
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don't care who's in charge. I think that the sewer
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is too deep. What are you doing about it? Congressman?
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Riding your skateboard, posting on Twitter, being a social media influencer,
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you ain't done shit. Oh you say some cool stuff
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and people like it, and they think you're some kind
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of rebel but when it comes down to it, you're
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just another yes man. All of you highly disappointing. And
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you know what else has been disappointing. The whole entire committee,
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This whole entire process has been disappointing. And I don't
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think that's going to change, because I think this committee
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had one goal and one purpose, and that purpose was
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to control of the blast radius. And if it wasn't
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for that discharge petition, that's exactly what they would have done.
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All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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