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Epstein Investigations Abroad Move Forward as U.S. Accountability Freezes (Part 1) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Lawmakers from the Oversight Committee were able to
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  take a look at some of the unredacted files that
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  have been redacted by the DOJ before being released to
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  the public, and as you can imagine, they found some
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  issues right away. And that's because the DOJ is not
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  in compliance, and honestly, I doubt they even plan on
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  ever being in compliance at this point. They've had ample
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  opportunity to do the right thing, and time and time
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  again they've refused to do so. And even when there's
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  a law passed, they find ways around it, you know,
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  the loopholes and technicality strategy. That's certainly the strategy that's
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  being used by the DOJ. And if there's nothing to hide,
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  there is nothing to cover up, then why are they
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  going to these lengths to make sure nobody sees these documents,
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  especially considering they tell us all the time how President
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  Trump is some kind of crusader here and how he
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  was working with the authorities. Cool, then he should want
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  to release all this stuff and get it out there
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  right and clear his name. But of course the exact
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  opposite continues to happen. So why If there is nothing
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  damaging in those files, then why this whole song and dance.
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  Why did we need a law to get the president
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  to do what he said he was going to do
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  anyway while he was on the campaign trail. Do you
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  really think that there is nothing in those files, nothing
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  that the current administration or especially their donors, are worried about.
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  And if there's nothing to worry about, this has been
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  one of the biggest blunders in the history of any administration.
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  Imagine burning this kind of political capital and there's nothing
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  to hide. That would have to go down as one
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  of the biggest blunders of all time. And while there's
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  no doubt that I find this administration to be incompetent,
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  I also don't believe that they'd be fighting toothaneil the
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  way they are if there was nothing to see inside
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  of the documents, and if the Jeffrey Epstein story was over,
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  they would come clean and they would end this shit tomorrow.
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  The problem is they can't because the only way to
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  end the story now is to come completely clean and
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  be transparent, and we know that's not going to happen,
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  So their only other option is to dig in and
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  try and make the cover up as airtight as possible.
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  But I don't think that's going to work out for
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  them the way they think it will. This article was
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  published by CNN and the headline new roadblocks slow US
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  reckoning over Epstein as Europe races ahead. This article was
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  authored by Steven Collinson. And there's no doubt that Europe
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  is holding people accountable. I would think that America would
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  want to do the same thing. But then again, when
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  you have the people in charge who are in charge,
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  I'll bet off who the fuck knows what they're gonna
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  do next. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pledged last month
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  that the Justice Department was not protecting anyone, least of
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  all Donald Trump. Those assurances by the president's former personal
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  lawyer are facing new scrutiny following remarkable developments in the
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  Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Come on, does anyone believe Todd Blanche?
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  All you have to do is take a listen to
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  what he said to Glene Maxwell and what he let
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  Glaine Maxwell say, and you know that Todd Blanche isn't
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  a serious lawman. What he is is a mouthpiece for
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  the administration. That's all he is. Intrigue deepened after lawmakers
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  emerged perplexed after being given the chance to read unredacted
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  versions of blacked out investigative files previously released to the
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  public in massive document dumps compelled by Congress. And it's
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  wild to me that the most transparent administration in history
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  had to be drag kicking and screaming to release the files.
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  Let's not forget that part of it. We didn't want
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  there to be a cover up, and yet what I
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  saw today was that there were lots of examples of
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  people's names being redacted when they were not victims. Maryland
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  Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin said the lawmakers started inspecting the
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  documents at the DOJ on a day of broadening fallout
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  from a scandal that has blown the lid off the
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  late sex offenders, stunning global network of billionaires and power brokers.
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  Well not for nothing. If y'all would have been paying
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  attention seven years ago, you would have known. But the
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  same powers that are now trying to muddy the waters
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  did the same thing back then. They were able to
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  change the narrative, they were able to steal the narrative,
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  and we ended up with no justice and nobody being
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  held accountable and now they're trying to do the same
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  thing here. It was one guy, just a loan predator.
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  There's nothing to see here, folks, Come on, move on,
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  Oh what do you have? TDS so dumb like, at
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  least come with some kind of facts or something right.
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  And look, I'm not even talking about the human trafficking
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  portion of this. I'm talking about the obvious financial crimes
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  that were taking place, the obvious passing of information that
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  was confidential by multiple parties to Jeffrey Epstein. That's what
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  I'm talking about. So even if you don't believe the
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  portion of this about there being this huge human trafficking network,
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  how could you possibly deny the rest of it? How
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  could you deny that there is a group of people
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  behind the scenes that are truly in charge of everything.
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  And I don't say that lightly. I'm not talking about
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  a group of reptilians. I'm talking about a group of
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  ultra rich people. And the vast majority of those people
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  are in the financial sector. And that's why I've been
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  driving that point home for seven years now. All the pain,
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  all the suffering, all the bullshit can be traced directly
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  right back to the financial sector and if you're looking
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  for villains, they're right there. The whole ass financial sector
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  basically is corrupt, and that fact has been illuminated by
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  the emails that we see between Jeffrey Epstein and the
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  so called masters of the universe and what That's not
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  a problem that deserves more analysis. That's not a problem
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  that should be dealt with. I most certainly think it is.
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  And make no mistake, that's why they want you on
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  the salacious side quest. They don't want you digging into this.
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  They don't want you thinking about this from this point
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  of view, because, like I've said a million times, if
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  you really want justice and you really want to take
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  these people down, there's one surefire way to do it,
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  dig directly into their finances. While new concern surfaced over
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  the DOJ's handling of the files and the case, more generally,
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  the push for accountability eras to head in Europe, where
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  the political careers and reputations of powerful people are in shreds. YO,
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  say what you want about Europe, but at least they're
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  not wasting any time cleaning house of Jeffrey Epstein's buddies.
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  We should take a page out of their book here
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  in America. But unfortunately we won't because all these billionaires
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  and power brokers, they're the ones who really run the country,
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  not your president. While that people still think that the
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  president really wields that power, you know, wields the power
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  the people who hold the purse strings, they willed the power,
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  and breaking news that's not the president, and suspicions among
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  survivors that their long quest for justice is being impeded
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  yet again were reinforced by an extraordinary offer made to
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  Trump by a lawyer for Epstein's jail associate, Klanne Maxwell.
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  The gist was this, grant clemency to Maxwell, are convicted
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  six trafficker, and she'll put the president in the clear.
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  Well in that case, why does an al chapo just
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  come out and say that he can clear President Trump too? Oh? Yeah,
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  I can clear Trump. He had nothing to do with Epstein.
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  Can I get my pardon now? As well? Like? What
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  are we even doing here? Do they really think everybody's
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  stupid enough to fall for this shit? Listen? Not everybody
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  tuned into kid Rock for the halftime show. Lawmakers who
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  were able to see some unredacted copies of the Epstein
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  files did not directly accuse the DOJ of a cover up,
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  but there are findings only fuel mistrust among many of
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  their colleagues and the public about its handling of the case.
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  This is especially so since the names of many people
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  linked to Epstein were redacted in public disclosures, while the
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  names of some victims were visible. And that was the
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  beginning of them trying to shift the narrative to blame
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  the victims. And we're already seeing it. Look at the
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  tweet by Anna Paulina Luna. I mean talk about being
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  out to lunch and if you acall, this is a
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  woman who told us, Oh yeah, I'm coming for transparency,
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  I'm coming for justice. I'm coming to find out what
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  really happened with Epstein, with JFK, with UFOs. Well with
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  the bullshit this lady pumps. She should probably just stick
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  to UFOs and Bigfoot probably more speed because she has
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  no idea what she's talking about when it comes to
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  Jeffrey Epstein, and just you watch, keep an eye on it.
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  That's going to be the narrative shift over the coming weeks.
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  After pressure from lawmakers, the Justice Department unredacted some more
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  names in the Epstein files on Monday, with Republican Representative
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  Thomas Massey of Kentucky telling CNNs Caitlyn Collins that they
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  redacted the identities of several people named in a twenty
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  nineteen document that listed Epstein's edge co conspirators. Blanche, in
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  an online exchange with Massey on Monday night, said that
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  the Justice Department is hiding nothing. Oh no, nothing at
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  all except three million more documents. Is this guy for real?
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  Imagine actually thinking that Todd Blanche was trustworthy? I mean,
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  holy shit, this guy makes fucking Merrick Garland look like
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  elliot Ness. Democratic Representative James Wilkinshaw demanded answers. I can
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  say that I saw many names, including names and emails
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  to and from Jeffrey Epstein that suggests these individuals were
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  involved in crimes or at least knew about crimes, the
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  Virginia lawmaker told CNN's Aaron Burnett. And again, I'm not
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  able to explain why they were redacted in a way
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  that's consistent with the law. Well me either, the redactions
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  are terrible, and the Justice Department they need to explain
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  why they were redacted the names they did. Raskin said
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  the department hadn't explained why certain redactions were made, but
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  what he saw was a whole bunch of them that
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  seemed very suspicious and baffling to me. Democratic Representative Jared
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  Moskovitz total reporters, he'd seen lots of names, lots of
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  co conspirators, and they're trafficking girls all across the world,
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  and I think people need to understand that this wasn't
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  just something that was happening in America. And a lot
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  of these victims, a lot of these unnamed girls as
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  I call them, are from Central Eastern Europe, South America,
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  Central America, and everywhere else in between. And after Epstein's
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  first arrest, he wised up. He knew that he could
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  bring in girls from places like South America, he knew
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  he could bring in girls from Eastern Europe and war
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  torn countries, and he knew that the likelihood of him
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  ever being caught or anyone believing them was zero to none.
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  So they exploited that, and that was one of the
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  hunting grounds that Jean Luke Brunel used almost extent. The
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  DOJ was supposed to limit redactions to the personal information
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  of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active criminal investigation,
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  and Congress has not yet received privilege from the DOJ
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  explaining why certain redactions were made, which DOJ is compelled
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  to provide fifteen days after its January thirtieth release of documents.
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  The experience of lawmakers means an even tougher reception for
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  Attorney General Pam Bondy when she testifies to the House
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  Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Oh, you better believe on watching
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  that one. I hope they grill the shit out of
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  Pam Bondy because she certainly deserves it. She's done nothing
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  but flub this from the very start. Many Democrats already
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  believe that our department, whether by design or omission, is
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  failing to honor the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed after
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  a GOP revolt against Trump last year. The laws authors,
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  California Democratic Representative Rocanna and Representative Massey, express disappointment with
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  the DOJ. I think that's an understatement. I think we
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  all have disappointment with the way the DJ has handled this,
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  and it's caused a collapse of trust when it comes
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  to the DOJ and the investigations that they're engaging in.
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  This lack of trust is certainly going to bleed over
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  into other things. I mean, if they lie to us
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  about this, what else are they lying about? That's really
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  where we're at right Well, you think this is the
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  only thing they're lying about, the only thing they've been
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  dishonest about. Come on, we all know better than that.
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  And the sad part is, instead of trying to regain
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  our trust, the DOJ just continues to double down on
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  the lives in the deceit. But they refuse to self correct,
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  They refuse to do anything to help rebuild that trust,
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  and the impact that's going to have on our society
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  in general cannot be understated. All right, folks, we're gonna
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  wrap up episode one right here, and in the next episode,
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  we're gonna pick up where we left off. All of
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  the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  in the description box.