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The Ghost Meeting, the Fortified Prison, and the Protected Power Players · 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. When I first started covering Jeffrey Epstein about
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  Speaker 1: six years ago, the news was coming in so hot
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  Speaker 1: and heavy that it was hard to keep up. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what led me to creating the morning updates where
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  Speaker 1: we talked about all the headlines from overnight and bleeding
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  Speaker 1: into the morning. And now that the news is coming
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  Speaker 1: so hot and heavy again, we're going to kick that
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  Speaker 1: back into gear. So here's what it is. Every morning,
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  Speaker 1: before the narratives are sculpted and the talking points distributed,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be right here breaking down the headlines that surfaced overnight,
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  Speaker 1: tracking what moved in the dark, and laying out exactly
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  Speaker 1: what matters heading into the day. Because when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein and Maxwell, silence isn't stillness, the story never sleeps.
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  Speaker 1: Deals are struck at midnight, documents get quietly unsealed at 6am,
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  Speaker 1: new names surface when no one's looking, And while the
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  Speaker 1: media tries to decide what's worth covering, we already know
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  Speaker 1: it all is. The Morning Update's about catching what they
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  Speaker 1: hope that you miss. It's about starting the day with clarity,
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  Speaker 1: because in a case this deep, timing is everything, and
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  Speaker 1: misdirection is baked into the playbook. So if you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for the full picture, unfiltered and unafraid, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is The Morning Update. So, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: The first article we're going to talk about is one
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  Speaker 1: from Reuters and it has to do with Vice President
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  Speaker 1: Vance and the meeting that he allegedly was putting together
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the Epstein fallout and how that meeting
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  Speaker 1: was allegedly cancelled. And according to Vice President Vance, there
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  Speaker 1: was no meeting on the books and it was all
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  Speaker 1: just made up by the media. And look, while there's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that the media does play games, that the
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  Speaker 1: media does make shit up, I'm not sure if I
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  Speaker 1: believe that there wasn't some kind of crisis meeting planned
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the fallout, considering the damage it's
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  Speaker 1: done to Trump's base. You would think that they'd want
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  Speaker 1: to get together and get their minds around it and
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  Speaker 1: figure out a plan on how to tackle this and
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  Speaker 1: deal with it. But according to Vice President Vance, the
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  Speaker 1: meeting was never planned and obviously didn't happen. This article
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  Speaker 1: was authored by Nandita Bose. a dinner for senior administration
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  Speaker 1: officials at Vice President J.D. Vance residence to discuss topics
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  Speaker 1: including the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case
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  Speaker 1: has been canceled after news of it leaked, a source
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the matter said. So what it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to is, was the meeting ever even planned? Or was
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  Speaker 1: it something that was cooked up by the media? And
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  Speaker 1: usually I give them the benefit of the doubt, meaning
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  Speaker 1: the administration, but the way they've handled this, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they've earned the benefit of the doubt. So my
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  Speaker 1: guess is they probably had this meeting planned and then
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  Speaker 1: once it leaked, they decided to change things up because
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  Speaker 1: they knew the optics would be bad. I mean, why
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  Speaker 1: are you having high-level crisis meetings about a topic that
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  Speaker 1: is a hoax? About a topic that doesn't matter? About
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  Speaker 1: a topic that we should all just move on from?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what the administration told us. So why
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  Speaker 1: bother with all this other stuff? Ghislaine Maxwell getting moved.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting down with her, talking, trying to get the grand
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  Speaker 1: jury documents. Seems like a whole lot of extra work
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  Speaker 1: for a case that's closed with no evidence, right? And again,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they told us. A spokesman for Vance said
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  Speaker 1: the dinner first reported by CNN had not been planned.
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  Speaker 1: There was never a supposed meeting scheduled at Vice President's
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  Speaker 1: residence to discuss Epstein's strategy, said Vance spokesman William Martin. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if there wasn't, maybe there should have been. Considering how
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  Speaker 1: terribly they're handling this, maybe they need to have some
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  Speaker 1: kind of meeting where they come together and figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Because what they're doing right now? Not working out very
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  Speaker 1: well for anybody involved. Unless, of course, you're Epstein's co-conspirators.
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  Speaker 1: Or Glenn Maxwell. The Trump administration has struggled for weeks
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  Speaker 1: to mitigate the political fallout from the Epstein investigation amid
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  Speaker 1: public pressure for more transparency over its handling of files
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  Speaker 1: related to convicted sex offenders' case. President Donald Trump had
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  Speaker 1: promised to make public files related to the disgraced financier's
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  Speaker 1: case if re-elected in July. However, the Justice Department said
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  Speaker 1: a previously touted Epstein client list did not exist, angering
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporters who have called for additional details to be released.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's so funny about the way they frame it?
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  Speaker 1: They act like it's just Trump supporters. But from what
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing, a lot of people on the left and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of independents, they're pissed off too. So why
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  Speaker 1: just try and frame it like it's Trump supporters who
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  Speaker 1: are mad? I think this is anger across the board.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because no matter what your political lean is,
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  Speaker 1: you should be disgusted by what went on here. You
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  Speaker 1: should be disgusted by everything that's happened since. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to move on to the next article. And
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  Speaker 1: this article is from NBC News. Headline, Congress doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Alex Acosta, Epstein's sweetheart dealmaker. Well, no
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  Speaker 1: shit they don't want to talk to Acosta. They're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to the bottom of this. If they
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  Speaker 1: were talking about the NPA like they say they are,
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  Speaker 1: then they'd be bringing in Mukasey. They'd be bringing in Philippe.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be bringing in Villafana. They'd be bringing in Lily Sanchez.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be bringing in Menchel. Instead, you're calling in Robert Mueller?
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  Speaker 1: For what? What it seems like is petty political retribution.
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  Speaker 1: And even if it's not, that's what the optics tell us.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're talking about politics at this level, the
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  Speaker 1: optics mean everything. But if you're serious about an investigation,
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  Speaker 1: as far as the NPA goes, don't you think that
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  Speaker 1: Alex Acosta is somebody you'd want to talk to? Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think the other people that I just mentioned should
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  Speaker 1: be called in front of this committee? Probably a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Tom Winter, Laura Strickler, Ryan Nobles,
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea Damberg, and Lexi Rudolph. The House Committee on Oversight
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  Speaker 1: and Government Reform on Tuesday listed former Attorney Generals, a
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  Speaker 1: former FBI Director, former President Bill Clinton, and former Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State Hillary Clinton as people all subject to subpoenas
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  Speaker 1: for matters tied to Jeffrey Epstein. However, not named in
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  Speaker 1: the news release was Alex Acosta, who was the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, whose secret, non-prosecution
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Epstein created a spark that has turned into
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  Speaker 1: an inferno of controversy nearly 20 years later. They're still
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  Speaker 1: trying to set it up like Alex Acosta is the
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  Speaker 1: one who made the deal. And they're wrong. Acosta didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the deal. He facilitated it. He was the one
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  Speaker 1: that was on the ground. He was the one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe directing things. But if you think that the directive
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  Speaker 1: came from him, you are absolutely insane. There's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that have no idea how the bureaucracy
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  Speaker 1: of government works, obviously, because a decision like that isn't
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  Speaker 1: being made by some middleman prosecutor. down in Florida. Not
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  Speaker 1: when Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers are good friends with the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General and the other brass at the DOJ. And like
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  Speaker 1: I've said before, if they really want to get down
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of what happened, all they have to
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  Speaker 1: do is release the full and unredacted OIG report. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it. Let's see what's what.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's no way in hell that the people involved
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  Speaker 1: in that NPA becoming a reality shouldn't be punished for it.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, the OIG report just said they were negligent,
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  Speaker 1: just said they made some bad decisions. Imagine being in
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  Speaker 1: a position like these people were in, and you fuck
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  Speaker 1: up this bad, and your boss is like, ah, no
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  Speaker 1: big deal, you just made a mistake. In the real world,
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  Speaker 1: that costs you your job, right? That costs you your life.
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  Speaker 1: But when you work for the government, you just get
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  Speaker 1: a little slap on the wrist, and you end up
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  Speaker 1: getting promoted. Either that, or you leave the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice right in the middle of the Epstein case, to
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  Speaker 1: go and work for Epstein, like Lillian Sanchez did. So look,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that Acosta played his part. The dude's
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  Speaker 1: a coward, has no spine, and refused to stand up
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  Speaker 1: for what was right. But to try and pin the
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  Speaker 1: whole last thing on him, that's giving the brass at
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ an out. That's giving them cover, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't deserve that. Acosta also was President Donald Trump's Labor
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  Speaker 1: Secretary during his first term. Acosta left the role in
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  Speaker 1: 2019 after he faced scrutiny over the Epstein plea agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Survivors of Epstein's sexual abuse are unhappy that Acosta was
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  Speaker 1: not among those subpoenaed. How can any genuine investigation into
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  Speaker 1: the federal government's sweetheart deal with Epstein, including the extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: grant of blanket immunity to all of his named and
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  Speaker 1: unnamed co-conspirators, omit Alex Acosta? Epstein victim attorney Jack Scarola
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  Speaker 1: asked in a statement to NBC News, Brittany Henderson, another
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  Speaker 1: Epstein survivor attorney said, anyone familiar with the history of
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  Speaker 1: litigation related to Jeffrey Epstein knows that from our decade-long
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  Speaker 1: fight to enforce the Crimes Victims Rights Act, that Alex
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  Speaker 1: Acosta is an important person to subpoena in any quest
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  Speaker 1: for the truth. And like I said in the previous episode,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that Alex Acosta should be brought in
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  Speaker 1: and talked to. But he was just a foot soldier
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  Speaker 1: following directions. People need to understand that. This wasn't some
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  Speaker 1: localized situation. We're talking about a guy with so much
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  Speaker 1: power that his lawyers were able to reach out to
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ, the brass at the DOJ, and get this
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  Speaker 1: kicked down to a state charge. That's really what it
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  Speaker 1: comes down to. Once you get around all the bullshit,
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  Speaker 1: all the gaslighting, all the narratives, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The federal government punted the ball to the state of
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  Speaker 1: Florida when they could have put Epstein behind bars forever.
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  Speaker 1: And the people who chose not to do that were
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  Speaker 1: Alex Acosta's bosses. Relatives of Virginia Roberts, one of the
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  Speaker 1: survivors of Epstein's abuse who died by suicide this year,
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  Speaker 1: reiterated Wednesday that the victims should be consulted and heard first.
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  Speaker 1: Asked by NBC News why Acosta was not subpoenaed, a
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  Speaker 1: committee spokesman said by text message, in a voice vote,
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  Speaker 1: both Republicans and Democrats on the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee
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  Speaker 1: in July approved a motion offered by Representative Scott Perry
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  Speaker 1: by unanimous consent directing the chairman to issue targeted subpoenas
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  Speaker 1: to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Erica Holder,
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  Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, and Alberto Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 1: Chairman Comer has now issued the subpoenas. What do they
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  Speaker 1: think they're going to accomplish with that, though? It's just
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  Speaker 1: more BS. It looks like political targeting. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: you're picking people out because you want to go after
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  Speaker 1: them for whatever political reason. A lot of these people
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to do with the story, at least not
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  Speaker 1: in a capacity where it's going to move the needle.
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  Speaker 1: Why not call on Tova Noel? Why not call on
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  Speaker 1: Michael Thomas? You know, the two guards that were in
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  Speaker 1: the jail when Jeffrey Epstein died? Probably a good idea, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How about Nicholas D'Artaglione? Let's talk to him. Call him
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  Speaker 1: in front of Congress, since we're calling convicts down now.
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  Speaker 1: Might as well have him come and talk. Representative James
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  Speaker 1: Comer is the committee's chairman. Public records show that Gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: was Acosta's boss at the time the agreement was reached.
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  Speaker 1: Records also show it was Acosta who first made the
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  Speaker 1: decision to pursue what many legal analysts have called a
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  Speaker 1: sweetheart deal to agree not to prosecute Epstein. That is
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  Speaker 1: just incorrect. 100% incorrect. And that's the narrative they've been
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  Speaker 1: pushing for a very long time, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: A Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility investigation into the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein non-prosecution agreement, which led to a 348-page report in
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  Speaker 1: November of 2020, says it was Acosta who made the
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  Speaker 1: pivotal decision to resolve the federal investigation of Epstein through
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  Speaker 1: a state-based plea. and either developed or approved the terms
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  Speaker 1: of the initial offer to the defense that set the
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  Speaker 1: beginning point for the subsequent negotiations that led to the NPA.
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  Speaker 1: That led to the NPA. That led to the NPA.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Acosta wasn't the one who signed off
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  Speaker 1: on it. He was the middleman who facilitated the deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like the dude who hooks you up with
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  Speaker 1: a bag of blow? Yeah, that guy. Same kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: He's the middleman. He's the one that you talk to, right?
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  Speaker 1: But he's not the one making the final decision on
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  Speaker 1: the price of the bag. The report says Acosta's top
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  Speaker 1: lieutenants went around the federal prosecutor investigating the case, the FBI,
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  Speaker 1: and the victims by making an offer to abstain the
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  Speaker 1: plea to state charges. The prosecutor at the time, Marie Villafana,
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  Speaker 1: was denied a meeting with Acosta by her immediate supervisors
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  Speaker 1: to explain her position and the strength of the case.
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  Speaker 1: She expressed her concerns and frustrations in an email to
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  Speaker 1: her supervisor at the time, Matt Menchel, who was dating
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  Speaker 1: Lillian Sanchez, by the way, who left the DOJ and
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  Speaker 1: went to work for Jeffrey Epstein. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: all of this, by the way. Yeah, nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 1: Probably something you might want to talk about in your
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  Speaker 1: article though, right? NBC News. About why the indictment was
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  Speaker 1: brought and why decisions were being made about a plea deal,
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  Speaker 1: even after she says the U.S. Attorney's Office reassured her
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  Speaker 1: It would not cave into Epstein's attorneys, the report says.
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  Speaker 1: Acosta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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  Speaker 1: Not one mention of Mukasey. Not one mention of Philippe.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, you want to talk about Alberto Gonzalez? Alberto
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez had nothing to do with the plea deal. He
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  Speaker 1: came in after the plea deal was already set in motion.
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  Speaker 1: The plea deal was set in motion by Mukasey and Philippe.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, that's not even debatable. So it's pretty interesting
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  Speaker 1: that a committee that supposedly cares about the truth is
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  Speaker 1: not even going to hear from the people who are
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  Speaker 1: really making the decisions. Instead, we're going to hear from
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people that don't have any idea what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about. Now, don't get me wrong. The Clintons,
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  Speaker 1: they definitely know a lot about Epstein, but not about
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  Speaker 1: the non-prosecution agreement. And if that's what this is about,
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  Speaker 1: like they say it is, then I would think that
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  Speaker 1: it would be targeted, right? To focus on what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with the NPA. So what do the Clintons have
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  Speaker 1: to do with the NPA? I have no idea. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what comes of it and we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: they add anybody else to the roster. But as of now,
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  Speaker 1: it sure does look like political theater. All right, moving
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  Speaker 1: on to our third and final article for the morning update. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Maxwell's Texas club fed prison. Up security after taking
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  Speaker 1: in the Epstein sex trafficker. Oh yeah, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of death threats to Glenn Maxwell now. So
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  Speaker 1: let's beef up security and spend a bunch of tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a great idea. This article was published by
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  Speaker 1: The Independent. The author of this article, Rachel Dobkin. Ghislaine
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's Texas prison, Dub Club Fed, has reportedly upped security
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  Speaker 1: after taking in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficker. Maxwell, a
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  Speaker 1: disgraced British socialite who was a close associate of Epstein
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  Speaker 1: for years, co-conspirator, fellow child abuser, all-around scumbag, and Bipedal Serpent,
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  Speaker 1: is serving a 20-year sentence for her part in a
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  Speaker 1: scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls with a
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  Speaker 1: wealthy financier. You mean pedophile. Epstein, who pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 1: state sex offenses in 2008, died in jail in 2019
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  Speaker 1: while facing federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was recently moved
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  Speaker 1: from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida to a minimum
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  Speaker 1: security prison in Southeast Texas in call federal prison Camp Brian.
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  Speaker 1: FPC Brian has increased security measures in response to Maxwell's transfer,
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  Speaker 1: NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing senior law enforcement officials.
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  Speaker 1: Two prison employees told the outlet, members of the Federal
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  Speaker 1: Bureau of Prison Special Operations response team have been positioned
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  Speaker 1: outside FPC's Brian front entrance since the weekend. The special
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  Speaker 1: ops crew is there to check people's IDs and wave
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  Speaker 1: them through. the employees reportedly said, all because Ghislaine Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: had to be moved. She was already in a secure facility,
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  Speaker 1: but sure, let's waste more tax dollars by having extra
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  Speaker 1: security at the front gate of this little posh prison
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  Speaker 1: camp that your buddy Ghislaine's in. But don't worry everyone,
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  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell's not getting any kind of special accommodation. This
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  Speaker 1: is all standard procedure, at least according to the DOJ. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us feel like we're on a mescaline trip.
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  Speaker 1: How could this even be possible, right? How do you
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  Speaker 1: move a violent, serial child molester to Camp Brian? It
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  Speaker 1: honestly boggles the mind. Whoever came up with that decision,
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  Speaker 1: whoever's signature is on that piece of paper, that person
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  Speaker 1: should be held accountable and they should lose their job.
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  Speaker 1: It's unclear if Maxwell has received any direct threats since
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  Speaker 1: her move. I don't believe any of it, sorry. Not
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  Speaker 1: a word. Oh, now all of a sudden she's being
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  Speaker 1: threatened when she's already snitched on people at the jail?
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  Speaker 1: Save the bullshit. The Independent has reached out to Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Prisons to confirm the reporting and Maxwell's lawyer, David
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Oscar Marcus, to ask about her security at the new prison.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and Maxwell's names have once again made headlines after
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the Justice Department and FBI released a memo in early
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  Speaker 1: July stating there was no so-called client list of powerful
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  Speaker 1: people who may have partaken in Epstein's crimes. Epstein did
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  Speaker 1: in fact die by suicide, and no further disclosure of
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  Speaker 1: information regarding Epstein would be appropriate or warranted. Meanwhile, we
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  Speaker 1: have all this other shit going on. So why would
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ even put that memo out? Oh, we know.
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  Speaker 1: Because Trump was told that his name was in the files.
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  Speaker 1: Not that he was doing anything illegal, just that his
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  Speaker 1: name was in the files. And that's what initiated all
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  Speaker 1: of this. all of this bullshit because Trump didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to release the files and be as transparent as he
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  Speaker 1: said he would be. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch met
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  Speaker 1: with Maxwell in Florida last month for two days, during which,
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  Speaker 1: according to Marcus, she was asked about maybe 100 different people.
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  Speaker 1: She answered questions about everybody and she didn't hold anything back.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's transfer to FPC Bryan came shortly after she met
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  Speaker 1: with the Justice Department. Experts said she got special preference
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  Speaker 1: information With the move. Yeah, no shit. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be an expert to know that. Someone gave special
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  Speaker 1: preference to Maxwell that, to my knowledge, no other inmate
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  Speaker 1: currently in the Federal Bureau of Prisons has received, Robert Hood,
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  Speaker 1: a former warden of the Florence Supermax prison in Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: told the Washington Post in an article published Tuesday. When
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  Speaker 1: asked if he'd personally approve the transfer, Trump said Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about it at all. I read about
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  Speaker 1: it like you did. Yeah, sure. We believe that. We
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  Speaker 1: believe that, Mr. President. You had nothing to do with this.
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows Donald Trump would never micromanage anything. Right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: All right. So that's going to do it for the
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  Speaker 1: morning update. And obviously, we have plenty more on the way.
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  Speaker 1: So until then, all of the information that goes with
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