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Pam Bondi Agrees to Testify in the Epstein Files Probe · The Epstein Chronicles

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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. Just when Pam Bondi thought she was out,
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Speaker 1: they pull her back in. And honestly, it's a shock.
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Speaker 1: I thought Pam Bondy was gonna find a way to
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Speaker 1: weasel out of ever appearing before Congress. But now we're
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Speaker 1: learning that the Oversight Committee and their threats to contempt
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Speaker 1: worked and Pam Bondy is going to appear before the
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Speaker 1: committee next month May, and the date, at least as
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Speaker 1: of now, is May twenty ninth. And I'll tell you what,
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Speaker 1: she better come prepared. I don't want to hear anything
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Speaker 1: about the doo the doo the doo. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: hear it. And Congress they need to come armed with
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Speaker 1: the facts, don't show up and try and score political points,
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Speaker 1: hammer home on the cover up. And that's certainly Pam
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Speaker 1: Bondy's part in all of this. So that's what you
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Speaker 1: be focused on. And they should come prepared, will they,
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Speaker 1: Well that's a whole last other question. They should, But
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Speaker 1: the fact that Pam Bondy is going to be up
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Speaker 1: there and answering questions in the first place is kind
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Speaker 1: of a shock to me. Usually people find a way
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Speaker 1: to waezsel out. But I'm guessing because Bill Clinton, an
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Speaker 1: ex president, and his wife who happened to be ex
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State got deposed, then Pam Bondy is certainly
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Speaker 1: somebody that shouldn't be able to avoid the subpoena. Look
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Speaker 1: her predecessor, Bill Barr, he wasn't able to avoid it,
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Speaker 1: and neither was alex Acosta, and neither should Paumbondy. And
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Speaker 1: if we want to go even further Merrick Garland should
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Speaker 1: be called up. What role did he play in the
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Speaker 1: cover up? Why didn't they push further? Why didn't they
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Speaker 1: ever try and get rid of the non prosecution agreement?
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Speaker 1: And look, these are all questions I asked during the
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Speaker 1: last administration. These aren't new questions for me. I've been
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Speaker 1: asking the same damn questions for years and I've been
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Speaker 1: met with the same silence. So as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 1: everybody that's played a part should stand tall before the man.
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Speaker 1: And if they prove to lie, here's an idea, charge
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Speaker 1: them with perjury, you know, like you're supposed to. That
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Speaker 1: would be nice. This procedure needs some teeth, that's what
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Speaker 1: it's missing. Nobody fears the repercussions of bullshitting around. What's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, Jamie Raskin's gonna write you a harshly worded letter.
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what kind of teeth does this
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Speaker 1: even have? It has no teeth. And not only does
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Speaker 1: Pambondy know it, she's exploited it now. I wonder if
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Speaker 1: they're gonna let her get away with it again. This
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Speaker 1: article is from CNN and the headline Pam Bondi will
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Speaker 1: sit for a deposition and House Oversight Committees jeff Epstein Probe.
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Speaker 1: This article was authored by Annie Grayer. Former Attorney General
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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi is set to appear next month for a
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Speaker 1: deposition in the House Oversight Committees Jeffrey Epstein Probe. Bondi's
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Speaker 1: appearance now set for May twenty ninth, according to a
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Speaker 1: committee spokeswoman, comes as the panel has pushed in recent
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Speaker 1: months to hear from the former top Trump administration official
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Speaker 1: about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein case files
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Speaker 1: under her leadership. Is that too big of an ask?
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Speaker 1: And I mean that sincerely. I'm not trying to be
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Speaker 1: a wise guy here. You would think that if you're
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Speaker 1: the Attorney general. Or ex attorney general, and you oversaw
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Speaker 1: something like this that there'd probably be some questions come
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Speaker 1: in your way at some point, and I would think
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Speaker 1: that it would behove you to do the right thing,
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Speaker 1: show up prepared, show the process the respect it deserves,
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Speaker 1: and answer the questions that are lobbed you. And look,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Pam Bondi has to be meek.
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Speaker 1: She can't defend herself, but she has to answer the questions,
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Speaker 1: and she can't turn it into a side show. That
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Speaker 1: should be unacceptable for everybody. A bipartisan group of lawmakers
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Speaker 1: initially subpoena the then Attorney General amid outrage over how
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Speaker 1: the department's failure to release all of the files as
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Speaker 1: compelled by law. Well, I think it was both sides.
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Speaker 1: But I'm shocked that the Republicans are playing ball here
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Speaker 1: and they're going to go along with the Democrats and
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Speaker 1: get this across the finish line. Because Pam Bondi is
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Speaker 1: not coming down to Congress to give this deposition of
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Speaker 1: her own free will. They probably have the votes behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, and I think that's pretty interesting when you
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Speaker 1: think about how the Comer Committee has conducted themselves. I
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Speaker 1: think it's pretty interesting that they have the votes to
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Speaker 1: get Bondi to come up here and give this deposition,
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Speaker 1: and I wonder if there's some cracks starting to form
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. But once Bondi was ousted, the Department
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Speaker 1: argued she could no longer appear in her official capacity
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Speaker 1: and would not sit for the previously scheduled deposition, even
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Speaker 1: though the subpoena named her directly. She tried to say,
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Speaker 1: or they tried to say, that she's no longer Attorney General,
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Speaker 1: so why should she have to sit for that deposition.
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Speaker 1: Of course, that's a cop out. The subpoena was for
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Speaker 1: Poum Bondy, who just happened to be in that position
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Speaker 1: of attorney general. It wasn't a subpoena for the position, right,
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Speaker 1: it was for her, and having some time to chew
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Speaker 1: on that the DOJ recognizes or the administration recognizes that
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Speaker 1: it's a losing battle that Poum Bondi is going to
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Speaker 1: have to get up there and give her deposition at
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Speaker 1: some point, so you might as well get it over
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Speaker 1: with as soon as possible. A number of Republicans had
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Speaker 1: waffled before Bondi's departure over whether she needed to testify
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Speaker 1: under oath after she met voluntarily with the panel to
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Speaker 1: answer questions. That meeting on Capitol Hill, also attended by
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Speaker 1: then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche who's now serving as
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Speaker 1: the Acting Attorney General, grew contentious with Democrats, ultimately storming
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Speaker 1: out of the room. And that's not cool either. I
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Speaker 1: get it, you're frustrated. Be the bigger person. Stop with
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Speaker 1: the theatrics. Stop feeding into the craziest people in your base.
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Speaker 1: I know the crazies are the loudest, but they're not
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Speaker 1: the majority. The vast majority of people, no matter what
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Speaker 1: their political leanings are, are pretty decent people and they
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Speaker 1: all want pretty much the same thing that you or
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Speaker 1: I want. The problem comes when people start sucking down propaganda.
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Speaker 1: And most of the people that do that never leave
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Speaker 1: their house. They don't know their neighbors. They're not going
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Speaker 1: to the local you know, bar, whatever, hanging out with people.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting on Reddit, or they're sitting on X or
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Speaker 1: whatever and they're doom scrolling. So yeah, they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: a skewed view, especially because the vast majority of them
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Speaker 1: are looking to feed their bias. Right, they're not leaving
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Speaker 1: their echo chamber. They're not trying to be uncomfortable, not
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Speaker 1: trying to grow. And look, that doesn't mean you have
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Speaker 1: to suck down every stupid opinion, of course not. But
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Speaker 1: sometimes it means being uncomfortable challenging your worldview and asking
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Speaker 1: yourself if maybe you've missed something. And I know that
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Speaker 1: over the years, I've challenged my own worldview, and I've
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Speaker 1: had a lot of blind spots. And as I've gotten
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Speaker 1: older and I've learned more, I've filled some of those
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Speaker 1: in and I'm still missing some. You know, you never
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Speaker 1: stop learning, right, and you never stop growing. But the
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Speaker 1: only way you can do that is if you leave
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Speaker 1: that echo chamber and get into the moshpit. And when
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Speaker 1: I say get into the mashpit, I mean the moshpit
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Speaker 1: of ideas. The date for a Bond's new appearance was
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Speaker 1: revealed as Democrats on the Oversight Committee announced they had
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Speaker 1: filed civil contempt charges against Bondi for not appearing. The
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Speaker 1: top Democrat on the panel, Robert Garcia, said he had
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Speaker 1: heard nothing from Bondi's personal attorney, Committee Republicans, nor the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration ahead of the deposition announcement. And my guess is,
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Speaker 1: like I was saying earlier that the Democrats knew that
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Speaker 1: they had the votes, and Pam Bondy knew that they
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Speaker 1: had the votes. So instead of making this a protractive fight,
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Speaker 1: might as well just acquiesce and come in, get it
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Speaker 1: over with and keep it moving. But there's no doubt
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Speaker 1: that Pam Bondi is walking in to a very contentious
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Speaker 1: hearing and they're going to be looking a tripper up
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Speaker 1: and they're going to be looking to catch her in
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Speaker 1: whatever kind of lie they might possibly find, whatever it
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Speaker 1: might be. So far as we're concerned, we've now spent
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Speaker 1: weeks with zero communication with somebody that was legally obligated
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Speaker 1: to appear, Garcia said ahead of the announcement. And look,
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Speaker 1: he's not wrong about that she was obligated to appear.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't an invitation. It wasn't a hey, you want
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Speaker 1: to come over for some wine, although I'm sure she
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Speaker 1: would have loved that. It was an order by Congress
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Speaker 1: who's in charge of accountability and oversight. And if you're
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Speaker 1: the Attorney general, those are your bosses. You know, the
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Speaker 1: American people, Well, we're the real boss allegedly, but when
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Speaker 1: it comes to oversight, you have to answer to Congress.
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Speaker 1: None of this is new. This is how it works, unless,
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Speaker 1: of course, you're dealing with the most transparent administration in
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Speaker 1: the history of the world. Upon learning of the new date,
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Speaker 1: Garcia praised the development as great news, saying, clearly, we're
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Speaker 1: being effective. It's interesting how it's only when we take
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Speaker 1: action and when we actually have to force Republicans to
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Speaker 1: do anything, to call subpoenas, to get in front of
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Speaker 1: our committee, that they actually ever do anything. He said, well, look,
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Speaker 1: I don't like Comer, as you all know. I think
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Speaker 1: he's a gatekeeper and I think his whole job is
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Speaker 1: to protect the administration. But that doesn't mean I like
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Speaker 1: Robert Garcia either. He has his own motivations and they
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Speaker 1: don't align with mine. Anyone who's making this purely political
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Speaker 1: is missing the bigger picture. It's deeper than all of that.
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Speaker 1: But House Oversight Chair James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, swiftly
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Speaker 1: pushed back, saying the announcement was made as quick as
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Speaker 1: we could get the day confirmed. I said we would
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Speaker 1: get a date. They have a history of being drama.
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Speaker 1: Queen's in the minority on that Oversight committee. Comber added,
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Speaker 1: Republicans on the panels separately criticize their colleagues civil contempt
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Speaker 1: push as all theater and completely unnecessary. They were happy
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Speaker 1: given the Clintons a free pass for months. The panel's
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Speaker 1: republicans posted on x referring to the six months it
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Speaker 1: took to secure appearances from former President Bill Clinton and
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Speaker 1: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Always the what about
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Speaker 1: is them? Right? Okay? That was shitty too, That's why
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Speaker 1: I called it out. You know what else is shitty?
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Speaker 1: What's going on right now? So what are we going
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Speaker 1: to do about it? Are we going to fix it?
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Speaker 1: Are we going to make it better? Or are we
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Speaker 1: going to point fingers and complain? And here's an even
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Speaker 1: better idea. This is your chance to set the bar. Look,
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Speaker 1: we'd demand that Pam Bondy go before Congress and answer
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Speaker 1: questions full stop. If they would just do that, they
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Speaker 1: would gain at least a little bit of respect. But
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Speaker 1: they can't even bring themselves to do that. And why
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Speaker 1: not because it was never their role, never their goal.
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Speaker 1: The whole entire point has been to protect the administration,
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Speaker 1: and up until now it's been pretty effective. The question
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Speaker 1: is will it remain so all the information that goes
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