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The Bill Gates Epstein Related Congressional Transcripts (Part 8) (6/29/26) · 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. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off with the Bill Gates interview with
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  Congress Specter. We can go on the record, mister Gates.
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  During the Majority's first hour, we discussed one draft email
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  that was sent by mister Epstein himself. There is a second,
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  somewhat similar email. I'll enter that into the record as
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  Majority Exhibit three. It's an email, also from July eighteenth,
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  twenty thirteen, this time at one thirty three pm. It's
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  Bates marked as the FTA zero one nine six seven
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  five two eight. I'll give you a second to look
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  at it. Have you seen this email before? Answer only
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  as part of the release of the Epstein Files. Question,
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  So you had not seen this email until it was
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  released publicly by the Department of Justice. Is that right? Answer?
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  That's right. Question. Had you seen any email that was
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  similar to it or close to it or you'd seen
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  nothing like this before? Answer? Nothing like this. Question. What
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  was your reaction when you saw this in the Epstein Files?
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  Answer it looked like it looks like Epstein is suggesting, Well,
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  it's an email to himself. So who knows if he
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  ever sent it to doctor Nikolch, but it looks like
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  he's musing on using a mixture of facts and falsities
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  as an effort, almost like a blackmail to advance some
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  goal in improving doctor Nicolch negotiating position as part of
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  his exit from my employ Question. I'll read parts of
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  the email into the records, starting with near the top.
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  It's at the third sentence, you've decided to discharge me
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  from my job. Had Larry, you're a PR person tell
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  me that I engaged in morally inappropriate behavior and then
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  asked me to be a major actor in a cover
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  up so that you can maintain the reputation that you've
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  worked so hard to achieve. End quote for the record,
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  is it fair to say that the person being referenced
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  here Larry you're a PR person, is Larry Cohen? Answer? Well,
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  Larry was not my PR person. But in a word,
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  speculating who a person who, particularly in the email to himself,
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  you know, generated literally dozens of false things. That sentence
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  may refer to Larry Cohen, but he was not my
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  PR person. Question fair enough, but was mister Cohen involved
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  in any way in the discussions about mister Nikolch doctor
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  Nikolicch departure. Answer yes, question thank you. Did you direct
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  Larry Cohen to tell mister Nikolch that he had engaged
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  in morally inappropriate behavior? Answer no. Question. Did Larry Cohen,
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  to your knowledge, ever tell doctor Nikolch that he had
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  engaged in morally inappropriate behavior? Answer I don't believe so.
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  Question have you talked to mister Cohen about that? Answer no. Question.
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  Have you ever had any discussion with mister Cohen about
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  this email since seeing it in the Epstein files? Answer no.
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  Question do you believe that doctor Nikolch had engaged in
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  a morally inappropriate behavior? Answer well, depending on how you
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  characterize his not telling my wife about affairs I'd had,
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  that's the extent of it. Question Did you ever tell
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  doctor Nikolch explicitly to keep these affairs his knowledge of
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  these affairs private, Answer no, I did not. In fact,
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  you'll see an email from me where I say during
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  the exit negotiations that if they're trying to change the
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  terms away from what was agreed upon before Epstein's involvement,
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  that we won't reach agreement, and that involves I mean,
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  you can pull all the exact email. But I say,
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  if that involves things being disclosed about me, I'll just
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  bear the pain. But I'm not going to change my
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  offer to doctor Nikolch as part of the exit agreement.
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  Question I understand. Let's go back a little bit further though,
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  when doctor Nikolch first became aware of these two affairs.
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  At that point in time, I think I asked you
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  earlier if you had ever discussed the affairs with doctor Nikolch.
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  But did you ever initially tell doctor Nikolch that you
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  expected him to keep this as a secret for you? Answer?
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  I did not question, So you just assumed that he
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  wouldn't share it. Answer We never discussed. Question how long
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  from the start of the first affair to when you
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  told Milinda? How long? Was that? Answer? Probably several years?
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  Question several years or seven? Sorry? Answer, I said several years.
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  Question several years. So over the course of those several years,
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  you never had a conversation with doctor Nikolch asking him
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  to kind of keep this a secret. Answer I did
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  not question. I'll continue reading. It's a little bit further down,
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  still near the top, It says Larry has now asked
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  me to recommit to a confidentiality agreement and have categorically
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  told me that you were of firm mind that we
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  should no longer have any direct, ongoing business relationship with
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  a total disregard for its impact on the public perception
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  of my reputation. You've requested that I diligently avoid the truth,
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  tell people that Bill will not invest with me, and
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  craft answers that suits yours and Melinda's needs. I think
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  you've already answered part of my questions about this, but
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  I guess I'll ask in a different way. Did you
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  have any as part of his position or otherwise Did
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  you have any confidentiality agreement with doctor Nikolach about anything? Answer?
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  I'm not sure. Question you're not aware of whether you
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  had any legal non disclosure agreement or anything of the
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  sort with doctor Nikeolch. Answer I'm not question, And let
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  me just be clear. You with him or the Gates
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  Foundation or any of the other ventures. Do you know
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  if those entities had non disclosure agreements with doctor Nicolich.
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  Answer you know, doctor Nikolich. I assume when he worked
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  for the foundation, which had ended, you know, a long
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  time before this, there may be a standard non disclosure
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  as part of that I don't know. Likewise, when he
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  joins Gates Ventures, there may be some standard non disclosure,
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  but I was never part of any discussion about that
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  with anyone, including doctor Nikolich. Question and if there was
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  a non disclosure agreement with doctor Nikolich that you were
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  not aware of, that wouldn't have anything to do with
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  the affairs. Is that fair to say? Answer no. As
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  I told you, I sent an email that if they
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  were trying to ask for a change in the exit package,
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  then I said I would just bear the pain of
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  whatever disclosures resulted. Thereafter, question by mister Grant. Question, and,
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  since the topic of non disclosure agreements have been brought up,
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  at any point did you or any of your representatives
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  or agents ask anyone to sign a non disclosure agreement
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  or other agreement in connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Glean Maxwell
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  or any of their crimes? Answer no question. And have
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  you or any of your representatives or agents had conversations
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  about non disclosure agreements with victims or their lawyers related
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  to Jeffrey Epstein or gawayn Maxwell? Answer no question. And
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  at any point did you or any of your representatives
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  secure settlement in connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Glain Maxwell, or
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  any of their victims answer no question. Thank you, mister spector.
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  Doing the questioning again now, and I'll continue reading. I'll
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  read just a portion in this one. It starts with
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  I can assure you that if the shoe was on
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  the other foot, I would have said, Boris, this is
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  not your fault. Mister Gates. Can you point out where
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  he is? Mister morn yep Gates, Okay, there you are question.
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  I can assure you that if the shoe was on
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  the other foot, I would have said, Boris, this is
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  not your fault. I confess to Melinda you didn't. It
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  was in a moment of weakness, and I promise that
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  we'll do anything within my power to make it right
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  for you. I have more money than anyone needs, and
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  I do my utmost to structure something that you will
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  not be penalized for my error. I'll end reading the
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  quote there, but he goes on to kind of describe
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  what it is that you should have done for doctor Nikolch. Again.
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  I think I asked you about this a little bit earlier,
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  but it seems to be characterizing the nature of doctor
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  Nikolitch's departure as being about you know, your confession to
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  your ex wife to your then wife. Did your wife
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  ever meet with doctor Nikolitch directly to discuss this answer?
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  Not to my knowledge. Question the next portion that I'll read.
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  It's a little bit further down near the bottom. What
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  I did receive, however, question Okay, let's track that. Okay,
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  here we are question. What I did receive, however, was
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  an unfriendly, strongly worded email telling me how employable I
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  am and that I should not look for you for
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  any significant financial help in the future. Ted insulted the injury.
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  You then subsequently, with tears in your eyes, implore me
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  to please delete the emails regarding your std, your requests
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  that I provide you, antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give
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  to Melinda, and the description of your penis. You also
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  made clear to me that I'm not to refer to redacted,
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  as that is another topic that must remain between the
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  two of us. In return for all these requests, which
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  I would have done without a second thought, I am
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  not to attend meetings with Melinda. I should continue to
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  provide the same level of service and dedication that I
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  have so diligently until you were ready to discard me
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  and our friendship sometime after the first of the year.
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  So there's a lot going on here, just initially, doctor Nikolich.
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  Or again, mister Epstein seems to be referring to a
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  strongly worded email, and it seems you may have sent
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  that to doctor Nikolicch. Do you recall what that might
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  have been? Answer no, I mean at some point I
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  told him that would he have talked to me about
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  leaving and go do venture capital That would have to
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  happen fairly quickly, because Melinda and I agreed that he
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  should leave my employee. Question your discussion in person or
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  over email with doctor Nikolich about his departure, were they,
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  in your view, generally cordial or was it a contentious interaction? Answer? Well,
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  there's two times. There's the time before he involves Epstein,
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  where I would say there were cordial, then he sort
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  of seedes to Epstein and Epstein. You know, none of
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  the stuff of this came up an email, but at
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  most he made vel threats like we should have remained friends.
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  But I chose not to change the exit offer that
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  I made, and I made it clear that I would
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  bear whatever disclosures came out of our failure to reach
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  a fair exit agreement. Question. So, over the course of
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  you not being willing to change your position, things may
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  have gotten a little bit more contentious between gets caught
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  off by Bill Gates, not with doctor Nikolch. But you know,
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  Epstein actually came out to Seattle one time during these discussions,
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  and you know, it was weird because I said, you know,
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  I got an offer that treats them fairly, and if
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  you here to ask for more than that, I'm not
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  changing it. And in fact I did not change it.
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  We reached the agreement and Nikolitch left my employee question.
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  We'll get into that meeting in Seattle in a little while. However,
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  I'll note for you now that it seems to have
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  occurred on August eighth, twenty thirteen. This email is from
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  July eighteenth, twenty thirteen, so this email seems to pre
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  date whatever that meeting was. I'm just trying to understand,
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  you know, maybe it was strongly worded an email, maybe
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  it was something in person, But when did the contentious
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  nature of the interactions with doctor Nikolch or mister Epstein arise? Answer?
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  There was never any contentious nature with doctor nikolic And
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  it's hard to characterize the Epstein stuff because there was
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  never a direct threat of any kind. There was always
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  this veld language like we should remain friends, you know,
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  which made me wonder what doctor Nikolach had shared with them.
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  But as I said, I responded to all of that
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  with a great deal of clarity. You can introduce that
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  email or not. Question. So the portion that I just
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  read it also makes reference to the fact that you
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  The email says that you implored me to please delete
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  the emails regarding your STD, and your request that I
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  provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give Melinda, and
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  the description of your penis. Did you ever tell doctor
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  Nikolicch to delete emails? In general? Answer? I did not.
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  Question did you ever send doctor Nikolch an email that
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  included the three things I just described? Answer? I never
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  had an STD. I'd never described my penis to doctor Nikolch.
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  What's the one I've said? I may have indicated some
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  concern about whether I had an STD. I don't recall that,
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  but I never had an STD. I never gave medicine
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  to anyone covertly. Question and just for the record, during
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  the time you were concerned that you might have an infection,
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  did you ever discuss or consider surreptitiously giving antibiotics to
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  your then wife? Answer? I did not. All right, folks,
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  we're going to wrap up right here, and then the
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  next episode dealing with the topic, we're going to pick
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  up where we left off. All the information that goes
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