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Judge Berman Denies The DOJ's Request To Unseal Maxwell Grand Jury Documents · 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. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let's not
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  Speaker 1: kid ourselves. What we just witnessed was not some bold
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  Speaker 1: attempt by the Trump administration to unlock the secrets of
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein grand jury. This was political theater dressed up
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  Speaker 1: as reform. For the third time, a judge has slammed
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  Speaker 1: the door shut on their request, and yet you almost
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  Speaker 1: get the sense that the denial was the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone in that orbit knows full well how grand jury
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  Speaker 1: law works. Those documents are sealed by design, protected by
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  Speaker 1: rules that go back over a century. The judges weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to break precedent for Trump or anyone else. And
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly why the administration leaned into it. They were
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  Speaker 1: never going to get those files, but they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say that they tried. Because here's the thing, when you
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  Speaker 1: know the outcome in advance, you control the narrative either way.
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  Speaker 1: The administration knew that the courts would deny them, and
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  Speaker 1: with that denial, they could step back and say, see,
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  Speaker 1: we're the victims of a cover-up. We wanted transparency, but
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  Speaker 1: the establishment shut us down. That was the strategy from
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  Speaker 1: day one. And now, predictably, the chorus of allies is
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  Speaker 1: singing the same tune, TV appearances, social media rants, op-eds,
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  Speaker 1: in sympathetic outlets, all hammering the point that the system
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  Speaker 1: has tied their hands. It's not about truth, it's about
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  Speaker 1: building a ready-made excuse. And what makes it worse is
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  Speaker 1: how deliberate the playbook is. By engineering a loss they
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  Speaker 1: knew they'd take, the administration gives itself political insulation. They
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  Speaker 1: can throw up their hands and declare themselves powerless while
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  Speaker 1: pretending to have been the champions of disclosure. And the
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  Speaker 1: public is supposed to swallow it whole. That their effort
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  Speaker 1: was genuine. That their frustration is authentic. And that the
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  Speaker 1: fault lies not with them, but with the courts, the
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  Speaker 1: deep state, the nameless machine that always seems to be
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  Speaker 1: working against them. It's convenient scapegoating, and it's being rolled
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  Speaker 1: out like a campaign slogan. But let's be blunt. If
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  Speaker 1: they really wanted the Epstein truth to come out, there
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  Speaker 1: were other ways to push, other levers of power they
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  Speaker 1: could have pulled. They could have declassified records, compelled cooperation,
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  Speaker 1: leaned on agencies with a full force of executive authority.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't. Instead, they staged a move they knew would
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  Speaker 1: collapse under its own weight, and then turned around and
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  Speaker 1: weaponized the denial as proof of the very corruption they
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  Speaker 1: claimed to be fighting. It's a shell game, a sleight
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  Speaker 1: of hand designed not to deliver justice, but to protect
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  Speaker 1: themselves from having to do anything meaningful in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we're living in the aftermath of that performance.
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  Speaker 1: Three denials later, the administration and its allies are parading around,
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  Speaker 1: not embarrassed by the losses, but energized by them. They've
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  Speaker 1: spun failure and ammunition, weakness, into a talking point. And
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  Speaker 1: in that spin cycle, the survivors are forgotten once again,
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  Speaker 1: the evidence stays hidden, and the truth slips further out
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  Speaker 1: of reach. This was never about unlocking Epstein's secrets. This
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  Speaker 1: was about creating a shield, a ready-made excuse for inaction,
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  Speaker 1: and laying the blame anywhere but where it belongs. And
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  Speaker 1: the worst part? That's the narrative being pumped right now,
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  Speaker 1: on cue, exactly as it was scripted. Today's article is
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  Speaker 1: from CBS News, and the headline, Judge declines to unseal
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  Speaker 1: grand jury materials in the Jeffrey Epstein case. This article
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  Speaker 1: was authored by Stephan Beckel, Jacob Rosen, and Caitlin Watson.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge in New York on Wednesday declined the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury material in the
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  Speaker 1: case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying that prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: had failed to demonstrate that special circumstances warranted the disclosure.
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  Speaker 1: And like I just said in the opening there, all
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  Speaker 1: by design. They knew this wasn't going to happen. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm certainly not some legal mind, right? And I told
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  Speaker 1: you from the jump that this was the whole entire point.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the
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  Speaker 1: Southern District of New York issued his ruling in a
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  Speaker 1: 14-page decision denying the government's motion to unseal the documents.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we had to hear right after this
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  Speaker 1: that the judge isn't on the cover-up. That Judge Berman
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  Speaker 1: is the one who is to blame here, not the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice. You want to talk about a master
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  Speaker 1: class in gaslighting? And they knew that people would suck
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  Speaker 1: it up. You have people out there that are willing
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  Speaker 1: to buy anything that's being pitched by the administration. It's
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  Speaker 1: no different than the last administration who tried to gaslight
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  Speaker 1: you about Joe Biden's mental acuity. We all knew that
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  Speaker 1: that dude was cooked. But no, they had to run
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  Speaker 1: their narrative, had to run their bullshit. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that's happening right now with this whole entire
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  Speaker 1: grand jury document situation. The DOJ knows just how hard
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  Speaker 1: it is to get grand jury documents, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they asked for them. Notice they didn't say anything about
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  Speaker 1: the NPA, right? Or anything else they have in their possession.
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  Speaker 1: Berman wrote that the grand jury material in question includes
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  Speaker 1: the testimony of just a single witness, an FBI agent,
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  Speaker 1: who had no direct knowledge of the facts of the case,
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  Speaker 1: and whose testimony was mostly hearsay. The documents the government
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  Speaker 1: was seeking to unseal included roughly 70 pages of transcripts
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  Speaker 1: of the agents' two presentations to the grand jury, a
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  Speaker 1: PowerPoint exhibit, and a call log. Berman noted that the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department files on Epstein dwarfed those stemming from the
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  Speaker 1: grand jury, proceeding before grand juries are typically kept secret.
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  Speaker 1: A significant and compelling reason to reject the government's position
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  Speaker 1: in this litigation is is that the government has already
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  Speaker 1: undertaken a comprehensive investigation into Epstein's case and not, surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: has assembled a trove of Epstein documents, interviews, and exhibits.
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  Speaker 1: And the government committed that it would share its Epstein
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  Speaker 1: investigation materials with the public, Berman wrote. But somehow it's
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  Speaker 1: the judge's fault. Somehow it's Judge Berman's fault that the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration doesn't want to be transparent. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration knew that people would bite and that this
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  Speaker 1: narrative would gain some traction with their base. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's their base that they have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about at this point. I think it's all those independents
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  Speaker 1: that they folded into their coalition to help them win
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  Speaker 1: the White House. Those are the people they need to
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  Speaker 1: worry about, and I have bad news for you. If
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  Speaker 1: Alex Jones is on the fence about you, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're in big trouble. The government's the logical party to
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  Speaker 1: make comprehensive disclosure to the public about By comparison, the
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  Speaker 1: instant grand jury motion appears to be a diversion from
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  Speaker 1: the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the
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  Speaker 1: government's possession, Berman wrote, quoting a decision by another New
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  Speaker 1: York judge who denied the government's move to unseal material
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's co-conspirator, who was
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  Speaker 1: serving a 20-year sentence on sex trafficking charges. The information
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  Speaker 1: contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison
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  Speaker 1: to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice, he concluded. Well, yeah, no shit.
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  Speaker 1: Grand jury documentation is sparse at best. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: bring to get the indictment. And they don't even bring
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  Speaker 1: all the information they have. They just bring enough. So
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  Speaker 1: if you think the grand jury documents tell the whole story,
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  Speaker 1: you have no idea what you're talking about. And anybody
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  Speaker 1: trying to tell you that these grand jury documents are
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  Speaker 1: some kind of key to what's going on here, they're
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  Speaker 1: lying to you. The information contained in the Epstein grand
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  Speaker 1: jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information
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  Speaker 1: and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 1: he concluded. Berman wrote that the grand jury material is
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  Speaker 1: merely a hearsay snippet of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged conduct. He
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  Speaker 1: cited possible threats. to victim safety and privacy as one
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  Speaker 1: of the factors that weighed in favor of not releasing
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  Speaker 1: the documents. The Justice Department declined to comment on Berman's ruling.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they did. They don't need to comment. They'll
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  Speaker 1: have all of their allies hit social media and talk
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  Speaker 1: about how this decision is nothing more than part of
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  Speaker 1: the cover-up. And then they'll point to this and say, see,
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  Speaker 1: the administration wants transparency, but it's the courts and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else who is standing in the way. And look, there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly some truth to the courts having their own issues
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. I'm talking specifically about
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  Speaker 1: the grand jury documents. Anybody who knows anything knew that
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  Speaker 1: these things weren't going to be released. The family of
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's most well-known accusers who died
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  Speaker 1: by suicide earlier this year, said in a statement, we
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  Speaker 1: applaud Judge Richard Berman's decision not to release the grand
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  Speaker 1: jury testimony in the Glenn Maxwell case. We wholeheartedly agree
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  Speaker 1: with his assessment that the Department of Justice is creating
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  Speaker 1: a diversion with its actions regarding the grand jury motion,
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  Speaker 1: which distracts from the vast scope of the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: in the government's possession. Well, yeah, that's exactly what it
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  Speaker 1: comes down to. And that's exactly what we've been saying
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  Speaker 1: from the jump. And when I say we, not just me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about anybody with a brain in their head.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be fucking Johnny Cochran to realize
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  Speaker 1: that the fix is in. We recognize the critical importance
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  Speaker 1: of protecting survivors. It's essential that we redact any information
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  Speaker 1: that could jeopardize their safety or privacy. Their well-being must
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  Speaker 1: always be our priority, the family said. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we demand accountability for all individuals implicated in these heinous acts.
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  Speaker 1: Those responsible must be held to the fullest extent of
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  Speaker 1: the law. We will not accept anything less than justice
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  Speaker 1: for Virginia and all the survivors. In July, the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department asked judges overseeing the Maxwell and Epstein cases to
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  Speaker 1: release the grand jury material that formed the basis for
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  Speaker 1: the federal charges against them, a move that came amid
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  Speaker 1: uproar over the department's review. of the so-called Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: and decision not to release additional documents in the government's possession,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after they told us they were going to,
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  Speaker 1: after they gave us the whole rundown about how transparent
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be, we're going to have day one releases,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, only for them to spit directly in
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  Speaker 1: our face. But go ahead, go off about the judges
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  Speaker 1: and about how the fix is in. Epstein was investigated
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  Speaker 1: by federal authorities in Florida in the 2000s, a probe
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  Speaker 1: that ended in a non-prosecution agreement and a guilty plea
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  Speaker 1: on state prostitution charges. He was arrested again on federal
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking charges in 2019 and died in a Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: jail weeks later. Several investigations determined he died by suicide. Well,
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  Speaker 1: considering the track record when it comes to truth, And
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and what's happened here? Does anyone believe that narrative?
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  Speaker 1: There has been increasing pressure on the Trump administration from
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  Speaker 1: Democrats and many Republicans to disclose more information about the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein case. The Justice Department issued findings of a review
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  Speaker 1: of the Epstein investigation in July, saying it had found
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  Speaker 1: no evidence of a client list or indication that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: blackmailed prominent figures, an announcement that spurred more questions from skeptics. Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: With everything that we know, how can you get up
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  Speaker 1: there with a straight face and try and pitch that
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  Speaker 1: bullshit to us? I mean, that is a bold move.
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  Speaker 1: That's like Baghdad Bob standing on that building and telling
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  Speaker 1: the Iraqis that there was no Americans in Baghdad. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: in Congress have pushed for more transparency since the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department's review. The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to
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  Speaker 1: the department for documents related to Epstein earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: The committee said Tuesday that it expects to receive documents
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  Speaker 1: later this week, and intends to begin releasing them, pending
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  Speaker 1: a review, to redact victims' information. Shouldn't that victims' information
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  Speaker 1: be redacted already by the time they get it? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that what the FBI supposedly was doing? So what they
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  Speaker 1: mean by review is to make sure that none of
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  Speaker 1: their friends are involved, right? And then they'll release it
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  Speaker 1: to us. You want transparency? You want us to believe you?
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  Speaker 1: You want us to believe in what's going on? Here's
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  Speaker 1: an idea. How about you have these meetings, these depositions...
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  Speaker 1: in public. That way we can see for ourselves what
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  Speaker 1: everybody has to say, what everybody looks like while they're
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  Speaker 1: saying it, and the kind of questions that are being
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  Speaker 1: asked from the members of the committee. But no, we
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  Speaker 1: can't even have that. So it once again comes down to,
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  Speaker 1: trust us, bro. And I don't know about you, but
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  Speaker 1: the days of trusting the institutions in this country, for
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  Speaker 1: me anyway, are long over. And considering the way things
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  Speaker 1: are going, I doubt that trust is ever coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Alright folks, that's going to do it for this one.
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