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DOJ Refuses to Release More Epstein Files After Court Order · 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. Over the past couple of months, there has
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  Speaker 1: been a lawsuit brewing behind the scenes between journalist Katie
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  Speaker 1: Fang and the Department of Justice. Well, on Thursday, the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ was supposed to turn over files according to an
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  Speaker 1: order from a judge. Well, I know this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the most shocking news of the day, but
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ is not in compliance once again. And they're
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  Speaker 1: refusing to turn over these documents. And they're now asking
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  Speaker 1: for a delay of 60 days. Because they haven't had
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  Speaker 1: long enough. Meanwhile, these imbeciles have had over four decades.
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  Speaker 1: But sure, not enough time to get our story straight.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche is managing an ongoing cover-up. And he needs
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  Speaker 1: to be held accountable. Congress needs to do their job
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that Todd Blanche is never the Attorney General. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he might be the sitting Attorney General, but he should
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  Speaker 1: never be confirmed. And anybody that votes to confirm him
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  Speaker 1: is basically giving the stamp of approval to the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: and their handling of what happened with Epstein. So if
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  Speaker 1: that's what these congressmen and senators want to do, cool,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. But I hope that everybody remembers that
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  Speaker 1: when it comes time to vote. Because really, that's the
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  Speaker 1: only power we have. All these incumbents that are in
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  Speaker 1: office that are making all these terrible decisions, the only
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  Speaker 1: thing they fear is losing their seat. So we should
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  Speaker 1: make that a reality. Every person who's made light of this,
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  Speaker 1: every person who's called it a hoax, every person who's
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  Speaker 1: tried to ignore it, every last one of those people
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  Speaker 1: should be voted out. Unfortunately, we know that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And that's because nobody wants to hold their
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  Speaker 1: quote-unquote favorite politicians accountable. It's always the other team, the
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  Speaker 1: other side. Well, what about... No, not what about... Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about right now. Let's talk about who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: right now. Let's talk about who's making the decisions right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just like four years ago, I was saying the same
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  Speaker 1: shit about Merrick Garland and Uncle Junior Soprano Biden. And
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  Speaker 1: if you recall, I was telling you that he had
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  Speaker 1: cognitive decline years ago. And I was taking pushback for it.
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  Speaker 1: What are you, defending Donald Trump? And then the next email...
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  Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with left or right. It
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  Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that the leader of
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  Speaker 1: the country, the leader of the free world, doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: know what time it is. That was a pretty big problem.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, Merrick Garland, another person that I
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  Speaker 1: criticized on a regular basis for not going after Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's empire, But that's in the past. That's all happened previously.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening now is what I'm concerned with. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the cover-up that's being led by Todd Blanche. So today,
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from ABC News and the headline,
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  Speaker 1: The DOJ declines to turn over additional Epstein files, says redactions,
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  Speaker 1: where appropriate. This article was authored by Peter Charlembeau and
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  Speaker 1: James Hill. Don't you think that if there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: there to hide, they'd just turn them all over and
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  Speaker 1: get this Behind them? What are they so scared of?
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  Speaker 1: What are they so worried about? The Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday declined to turn over additional information from the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files as ordered by a judge, arguing that the
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  Speaker 1: materials include sensitive victim information or were appropriately redacted as
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  Speaker 1: required by law. Well, that's not up to you at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Nobody believes you. Nobody trusts you. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: still wondering why nobody's calling for a special counsel. I
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  Speaker 1: guess everybody's too worried about their salacious engagement. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: the story's waning. Interest is falling off. I better talk
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  Speaker 1: about the most wild shit I possibly can. Who gives
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  Speaker 1: a shit if there's any truth to it? Yet the
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  Speaker 1: story's living right here. In this decision being made by
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ. And don't you find it disturbing that the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ can just ignore a court order like this and
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  Speaker 1: do whatever they want? I guarantee you that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be given the same kind of leeway. Hours ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the deadline to turn over the material or explain why
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  Speaker 1: they were properly withheld, Associate U.S. Attorney General Stanley Woodward
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  Speaker 1: asked the judge to delay the deadline by 60 days
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  Speaker 1: or disregard it entirely by accepting the DOJ's reasons for
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  Speaker 1: withholding the material. And this is how our circular system works.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the judge is going to give them what
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  Speaker 1: they want because that's how it always works. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: the court still wants to give these people over at
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ the benefit of the doubt when they've been
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  Speaker 1: in non-compliance of this law from the very beginning. Although
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  Speaker 1: the government strongly disagrees with the court's ruling that the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein-Files Transparency Act is enforceable by private parties through the
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  Speaker 1: Administrative Procedure Act, the government welcomes this opportunity to resolve
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  Speaker 1: any confusion regarding the records at issue in this case,
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  Speaker 1: Woodward wrote. Oh, well, in that case, the government can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to explain themselves. So do it. What are you
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  Speaker 1: waiting for? Why don't you just explain yourself right now?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you just come clean, turn over all the
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  Speaker 1: files you have, and explain why things were redacted? That
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  Speaker 1: might be a good idea. Or you can just continue
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  Speaker 1: with your bullshit and keep digging that hole deeper. According
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  Speaker 1: to Woodward, some emails in question, which had their senders
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  Speaker 1: and recipients concealed, were redacted to protect the names of victims. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: now they care about that, huh? All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: they care about protecting the names of victims. Meanwhile, back
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  Speaker 1: in reality, for one of the emails, Woodward claimed that
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  Speaker 1: some of the information was withheld because many communications written
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  Speaker 1: by victims without context can appear disturbing on their face. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not up to you to decide. The American people
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  Speaker 1: should have a look at it. We should be able
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  Speaker 1: to take a look at all the information in its
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  Speaker 1: entirety as the law demands. But instead, they're cherry picking.
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  Speaker 1: They're gatekeeping. Woodward also claimed that the redactions to a
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  Speaker 1: draft 2007 indictment from the Southern District of Florida were
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  Speaker 1: present in the original file obtained by the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice and that they have been unable to locate an
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  Speaker 1: unredacted version of this specific photocopy. They refused to put
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  Speaker 1: that out. That was the original indictment. That they were
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  Speaker 1: going to hit Epstein with. And then they pulled back.
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  Speaker 1: And went with the state. Prosecution. And all of that
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  Speaker 1: was controlled by main justice. And that's why they don't
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  Speaker 1: want this to come out. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest things they're hiding. The fact that the United States government.
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice. Knowingly. And in coordination with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And his people. Decided that they were going to kick
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  Speaker 1: this down to state. So that Epstein can continue to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever he was doing. For the federal government. It's
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  Speaker 1: really not that difficult once you start putting the pieces together.
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  Speaker 1: Regarding the interview notes from a woman who made unsubstantiated
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  Speaker 1: assault claims about President Donald Trump, Woodward claimed that the
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  Speaker 1: material were deemed duplicative of the typewritten reports memorializing the interviews.
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  Speaker 1: So release it. What's the big deal? If it's duplicative,
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  Speaker 1: that should be very simple. All right, look, I told
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  Speaker 1: you that this was duplicative. Here it is. Take a
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  Speaker 1: look at it. But no, we're going to keep it hidden.
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  Speaker 1: You don't deserve to see that. Who cares what the
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  Speaker 1: law says? Don't you know that I'm Todd Blanche? Their
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  Speaker 1: handwritten nature further complicates the redaction process and increases the
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  Speaker 1: risk of inadvertent disclosure of victim personal identifiable information, including
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  Speaker 1: because of technical limitations on the department's ability to run
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  Speaker 1: meaningful quality control checks for victim PII across handwritten materials,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote. It's always an excuse. It's always something. And
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  Speaker 1: that something is never good for the American people. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they have no problem talking about other folks, right? But
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  Speaker 1: this case? Forget it. The last thing they want to
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  Speaker 1: do is let anyone know the truth. Woodward also pushed
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  Speaker 1: back on the U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan's conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice effectively conceded that they violated the
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  Speaker 1: law passed by Congress to force the release of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files. Well, they did. and they're doing it brazenly.
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  Speaker 1: They do not care. Are you paying attention yet? While
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  Speaker 1: you're fighting with your cousin Steve, these motherfuckers are robbing
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  Speaker 1: you blind. But cool, keep arguing about dumb shit. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: the department has not knowingly violated, nor has it ever
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged violating the AFTA, as it continues working to comply
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  Speaker 1: with statutory requirements, he wrote. Well, Todd Blanche said he did.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you even mean, Mr. Woodward? In his
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  Speaker 1: order last week, Sullivan rejected the DOJ's argument against releasing
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  Speaker 1: the material and concluded that the Public Integrity Project, a
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  Speaker 1: public interest law firm, demonstrated that independent journalist Katie Fang
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  Speaker 1: was harmed by the material that was being withheld. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we all are. Katie Fang's just taking, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: forefront here. She's the vanguard. But we're all harmed by
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  Speaker 1: this shit. every single one of us and it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: how many people still don't understand that until we deal
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  Speaker 1: with this issue none of the other issues matter I
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  Speaker 1: mean how are you going to sit there and be
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  Speaker 1: confident that things are fine things are great when these
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  Speaker 1: same people are still at the sticks still running the
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  Speaker 1: show The DOJ began releasing thousands of pages of documents
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  Speaker 1: related to Epstein late last year, following the release of
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein Files Transparency Act. However, the department faced criticism
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  Speaker 1: from some lawmakers, who questioned whether the department violated the
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  Speaker 1: act by withholding some material and missing the deadline, to
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  Speaker 1: release the files. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has stated
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly that the DOJ has complied with the law. Well,
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  Speaker 1: since Todd Blanche told us so, we should all just
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  Speaker 1: believe him. Hell of a guy, that Todd Blanche. Never
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  Speaker 1: scared us wrong. Never told us anything that was incorrect.
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  Speaker 1: And he's never given us any reason to not believe him, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, could it be any more absurd? The narrative
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  Speaker 1: that they're trying to run, the gaslighting they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: engage in, and the fact that some people are still
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  Speaker 1: buying it, it might be some of the most absurd
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  Speaker 1: shit I've ever seen. Then again, we're only three days
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  Speaker 1: into the month. So, like usual, we'll keep following along,
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  Speaker 1: and when we have something else to add, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: it added to the catalog. All the information that goes
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