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Democrats Demand Answers on Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer (6/15/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and Glayne Maxwell,
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  there are many unanswered questions, and one of the questions
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  that's burning hot right now is why Galaine Maxwell was transferred.
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  We have no answers. Nobody's come forward and told us
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  anything about it. And not only that, but they like
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  get offended if you have any questions about why Glaine
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  Maxwell was moved. There was no justification for it, and
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  there was no reason for it. So basically, they just
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  wasted your tax dollars to get Glainne Maxwell better treatment.
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  So she'd say a couple of nice things about Donald
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  Trump and imagine you have to rely on Glaine Maxwell
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  as some kind of character builder. Holy shit, how the
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  Mighty have fallen. Today's article is from ms now and
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  the Democrats demand answers over DOJ's prison policy tied to
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  Glene Maxwell. This article was authored by Kevin frey House.
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  Democrats want answers about a recent policy change at the
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  Federal Bureau of Prisons, arguing leaders at the Department of
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  Justice are trying to cover their attracts Following the August
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  transfer of Jeffrey Epstein associate Glene Maxwell to a lower
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  security facility. So you can't retroactively change the policy and
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  then say, oh, this is what we were doing. That's
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  not how it works and it's part of the cover up.
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  I hate to keep saying it, but that's what we're
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  looking at. That's what's happening right now in real time.
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  That new policy, which was published last month and has
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  not been previously reported, dictates that in certain circumstances, the
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  Attorney General may exercise authority to designate or redesignate the
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  place of a prisoner's imprisonment. So, like I told you
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  before the DOJ over theop so when you have Pambondi
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  telling us she has no idea, that's a lie. Either
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  that or she wasn't really in charge of the DOJ,
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  which is quite possible. She could have been in the
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  face with Todd Blanche really in charge. That one shocked me.
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  That new policy, which was published last month and has
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  not been previously reported, dictates that in certain circumstances, the
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  Attorney General may exercise authority to designate or redesignate the
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  place of a prisoner's imprisonment. Democrats argue the expansion of
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  federal authority over inmate placement is a major departure from
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  previous policy, which they said vested more authority in the
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  Bureau of Prisons and placed specific restrictions on where inmates
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  could be held, including taking into account whether the prisoner
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  is a sex offender. Oh, that doesn't matter anymore. That's
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  all a hoax. The only time it matters is if
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  they think they can score political points talking about it. Oh,
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  the FBI found so and so many kids. Oh the
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  FBI did this. Oh the FBI did that. Vafongul the FBI.
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  How about that? Because they haven't done shit here besides
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  protect Epstein and his friends and continue to light to
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  all of us. That's all they've done here, and now
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  with their new little policy change, they're trying to cover
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  it up. Representative Deborah Ross of North Carolina, a Democratic
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  member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the clear implication
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  is that under the old rules, the Department of Justice
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  violated the Bureau of Prison's own rules when it transferred
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  to Glenn Maxwell to Club fed where sex offenders are
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  not allowed to be. Since it violated the policy for
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  who can do prison transfers, they're trying to cover their
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  attracts retroactively. Ross alleged, well, you can't commit a crime
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  and then go back and change the law retroactively and say, hey, look,
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  we shouldn't go to jail now. Because if that's the case,
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  then every single person who's ever been busted for illegal
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  gamblings sports gambling should have their whole entire record cleaned off, right,
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  if we're retroactively going back and doing that. But that's
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  not how it works for most people. Then again, most
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  people aren't Glenne Maxwell. Last year, Maxwell was transferred from
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  a low security facility in Florida to a minimum security
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  camp in Texas, shortly after she met with then Deputy
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  Attorney General Todd Blanche, who said he wanted to talk
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  about what she knows about Epstein. And Blanche had the
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  audacity to say he wanted to get Maxwell's story, buddy,
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  she had a chance to tell her story. She didn't
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  take the stand, she didn't get up there and tell
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  the truth. In fact, she's done nothing but lie the
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  whole time. And I hate to break the news to you,
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  Todd Blanche, but she lied to you too. Maxwell serving
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  a twenty year sentence for her role in a scheme
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  to sexually exploit and abuse miners. She has appealed for
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  President Donald Trump to grant her clemency. It's a little
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  more than and that her role in his scheme to
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  sexually exploit and abuse miners. She took part in the
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  abuse herself. This woman is almost as evil, if not
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  as evil as Jeffrey Epstein. I don't think it takes
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  a rocket scientist to figure out what they're doing, Ross
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  said of the doj apping out pressure on the Trump
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  administration for answers, Ross sent a letter shared first with
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  ms NOW, to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Friday morning.
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  In it, Ross asked the agency to explain what prompted
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  the policy change and how it developed. She also asked
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  for the Bureau to detail how many times the Attorney
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  General has intervened regarding a prison designation or redesignation decision.
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  My guess is not very often. Not exactly what the
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  deputy Attorney General does. Usually they say on the phone
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  and they negotiate secret NPA deals, you know, from the
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  main Justice office. They don't go down to talk to
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  a criminal like Laane Maxwell. As Todd Blanche went and
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  talked to Madero. As Todd Blanche went and talked to
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  El Choppo as he went and talked to insert mafia
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  guy here. Of course he hasn't because those dudes don't
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  have any information on his boss. And I think that
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  this is the clearest example of the cover up and
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  quid pro quo that we have, And if a special
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  counsel took a look at this case, my guess is
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  a whole lot of people would end up indicted, and
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  a lot of them would end up convicted because this
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  cover up is obvious, and they're doing it in such
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  a blatant manner, in such a few kind of way
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  that it really makes me wonder what else they have
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  up their sleeve, because if this is it, I think
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  they miscalculated because people are sick of it, and people
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  know that there's obvious favoritism being played to Glenn Maxwell,
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  and there's no answer for it. There's no reason for it.
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  You're just told to accept it. Given congress responsibility to
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  oversee the federal correctional system and ensure that the BOP
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  policies are evidence based, transparent, and consistent with statutory requirements,
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  we require answers on how and why your bureau decided
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  to give Attorney General the authority to unilaterally transfer inmates
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  and disregard the BOP evaluation of an inmate safety classification.
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  Ross writes in the letter, So now when the prosecution
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  gets a conviction, are they just going to choose where
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  they send these people that have been convicted, because that's
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  not how it worked. Previously that was up to the GOP,
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  but now it's going to be up to the Attorney General.
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  The letter also says the new policy raises troubling questions
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  about the scope of the Attorney General's asserted authority, the
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  circumstances under which his authority may be exercised, and the
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  potential effects on institutional operationations, fairness, transparency, and consistency in
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  federal prisoner replacement decisions. Well, yeah, what it does is
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  it sets it up for people to get hooked up.
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  Everybody should be treated the same, and the Deputy Attorney
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  General shouldn't be going to see Glenn Maxwell, and then
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  Glenn Maxwell shouldn't be getting favorable treatment on the back
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  end of that, especially in the light of Maxwell's transfer.
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  The letter continues, any policy update warrants careful scrutiny by
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  Congress and the public. One thousand percent, did they really
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  think they were going to slide this by. Did they
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  really think that they were just going to retroactively change
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  this and all of us are going to be like, oh,
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  look that's what the law says. Now, there's going to
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  be a portion of people that say that, you know,
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  the hoax people, the people that will do whatever Donald
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  Trump tells them. Oh yeah, those people, they'll say it, Well, look,
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  this is a policy that's in place. There's nothing amiss here,
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  there's no cover up. Most transparent administration and history. The
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  letter is co signed by Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland,
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  who is poised to become the next chairman of the
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  House Judiciary Committee if Democrats win control of the Chamber
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  in November, and Representative Rocanna, who spearheaded the congressional effort
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  to force the release of the Epstein files. Ms NOW
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  separately reached out to the DOJ and the Federal Bureau
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  of Prisons to ask for an explanation of the policy change.
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  Neither agency responded. The demand for answers from House Democrats
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  comes as Blanche Trump's pick to serve as the next
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  Attorney General is staring down the Senate confirmation process. God,
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  I really hope they don't confirm them. I really hope,
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  I mean they will because way too many people are
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  willing to do whatever Donald Trump says. But they shouldn't.
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  You guys thought that fucking Merrick Garland was bad, wait
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  until you get a load of Todd. Blanche Ross told
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  ms Now that provided the Bureau of Prisons does not
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  respond to their House inquiry, Democrats will urge their Senate
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  colleagues to ask Blanche about the prison policy change when
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  it comes time for his confirmation hearing. We hope it
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  comes up, she said, and they should. Everything should be
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  on the table when you're having a confirmation hearing. Everything
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  should be on the table, and they need to bring
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  it up. Getting to the bottom of the policy revision,
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  she said, will also likely be part of the Democratic
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  efforts next year to conduct oversight of the Trump White
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  House and the tandling of the Epstein case. Should they
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  win control of the House and the Committee Gabbles in
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  November's midterms, you can be sure of it, she said.
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  And look, these Democrats have been talking a big game,
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  big game, and if they do win when the midterms
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  come rolling around, they're going to be held accountable for
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  what they have said. And if you think that I'm
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  giving them a pass, you're crazy. I'm not. They're going
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  to have to step up to the plate and they're
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  gonna have to do everything they said they were going
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  to do. And I wish I could tell you that
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  I'm confident that that's the case, but I'm not because
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  at this point I'm in show me mode. I don't
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  care what any of these people tell us. Let's see
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  the proof. Let's see the evidence, because when you chop
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  it all up, words are just wind. That's it. They
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  don't mean anything if there's no follow through. So if
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  the Democrats win the midterms, they'll have a chance to
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  put their money where their mouth is. The question is
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  well they have the courage to do it. All the
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