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The Pam Bondi Congressional Oversight Committee Epstein Related Transcript (Part 3) (6/6/26) · 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. In this episode, we're diving right back in
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  to the transcript from Pam Bondi and her visit to Congress.
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  Question Emmer. The joint statement also said neither the DOJ
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  nor the FBI uncovered evidence that could predicate an investigation
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  against uncharged third parties. What process did the Department of
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  Justice undergo to determine there was no evidence to investigate
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  any third parties? Bondi. I believe the FBI thoroughly reviewed
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  all the documents in its possession to make that determination.
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  They are the investigative agency. Emmer. Uh huh. During the
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  time when this statement was issued, you've mentioned that Blanche
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  was heavily involved. Were you ever briefed on individuals of
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  concern related to Epstein or Maxwell? Bondi. I don't recall
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  other than they were scouring through the documents, and I
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  believe there were multiple videos as well. Question, as far
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  as is this initial review, did the Department of Justice
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  conduct any interview or meeting with any individual in its
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  efforts to determine whether further investigation was necessary? Bondi? Can
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  you repeat that, Emmer? As part of its review that
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  informed the July seventh joint statement. Did the Department of
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  Justice interview any individuals outside the DOJ to inform its conclusion? Bondi.
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  I believe the FBI did, but that's a question for
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  Director Bettel Emmer. On July twenty fourth and July twenty
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  fifth of twenty twenty five, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
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  interviewed Glenn Maxwell, and the DOJ released the transcript a
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  month later. Attorney General BONDI, why did the Department of
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  Justice conduct this interview? Bondy. I believe Deputy Attorney General
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  now Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has set on several
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  occasions at Epstein by that time was dead and no
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  one had taken had made an effort to interview Glenn
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  Maxwell to see if she had evidence of co conspirators
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  and other crimes, and that's why he interviewed her. Question
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  are you aware of whether Maxwell reached out to the
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  Department of Justice to request this interview? Answer by Bondie,
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  I don't recall how it was initiated, Emmer, So would
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  it be safe to assume that you had no role
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  in the determination that then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
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  would perform the interview. Answer, Oh, I knew that Todd
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  was going to interview or yes, I believe. I don't
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  believe who initiated it if she reached out to us,
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  I believe. I don't want to speculate, but I believe
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  that Deputy Attorney General Blanche at the time reached out
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  to them because there was someone still living in prison
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  who had potential information about other co conspirators and crimes.
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  Question by Emmer. Were there any concerns at the DOJ
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  about conducting the interview with Glenn Maxwell BONDI no, not
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  to my knowledge, Emmer. And based on Maxwell's testimony to
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  Todd Blanche, did the Department of Justice take any subsequent
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  action that were informed by the testimony? Answer by BONDI
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  I don't believe so. Now, mister Grant jumps in and
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  do you know why or how it became that the
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  Deputy Attorney General Blanche would be the one to take
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  the interview of miss Maxwell Bondie he was leading the
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  Epstein matter and the release of everything from the beginning.
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  Deputy Attorney General now acting you as attorney Blanche was Emmer.
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  Maxwell's attorney stated publicly that Maxwell had provided the names
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  of one hundred different people connected to Jeffrey Epstein in
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  the course of a two day interview. Did the Department
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  of Justice investigate any of the individuals named in Maxwell's testimony?
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  Bondi and I believe that entire transcript has been released
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  and the FBI would have looked into that. That was
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  the purpose of taking the statement. Question as far as
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  the transcript itself and what has been released publicly, how
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  did the Department of Justice determine which individuals would be
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  redacted from the transcript? Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche made
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  that determination based on the law and what privileges would apply.
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  Question do you know what type of individual names were
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  redacted in the Maxwell transcript? Answer by Bondi, I don't recall.
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  Question are you aware of whether there were any redaction
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  errors in the transcript? Answer? I don't recall. Ultimately, of course,
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  there were millions of documents released, so I don't recall
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  regarding the transcript, but if there were, I do believe
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  Deputy Attorney General Blanche now acting AG Blanche did everything
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  to be sure we had complete transparency under the law.
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  Question following the interview, Glenn Maxwell was moved by the
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  Bureau of Prisons from a maximum security prison in Florida
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  to a low security federal prison in Texas on August first,
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  twenty twenty five. Why was that, Bondie, I read about
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  that in the newspaper or online after it happened. I
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  had nothing to do with that. I don't want to speculate,
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  but I believe it was for security reasons. You'd have
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  to ask the Bureau of Prisons that question. Question. Would
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  then Deputy Attorney General Blanche know the answer to that question, Bondy,
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  he may, and I'm not sure if he's addressed it publicly. Probably,
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  but transferring a prisoner is the decision of the Bureau
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  of Prisons. Question to be clear, and to your knowledge,
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  do you know if her transfer had anything to do
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  with her participating in the interview with Todd Blanche? Bondy,
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  I have no knowledge of that. Again, I found out
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  about it after the transfer, when it became public. Question
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  Attorney General BONDI, do you believe that Glenn Maxwell should
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  receive a pardon? Bondy? No, I believe that she should
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  die in prison. Question why answer? She was a monster,
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  just like Jeffrey Epstein. She recruited these young women to
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  a life of prostitution and abuse, and I often think
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  that the women that do that are just as bad,
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  if not worse, than the men, because she participated in it.
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  Mister Grant's asking questions again. On August twenty second, twenty
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  twenty five, this committee issued a subpoena to the Department
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  of Justice for documents pertaining to the Epstein matter. The
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  DOJ subsequently produced approximately thirty three thousand documents to the committee.
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  In this production, the DOJ indicated that multiple responsive records
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  must also be withheld or redacted as required by applicable law,
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  including certain grand jury material and documents containing personally identifiable information.
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  Are you aware, Attorney General Bondi, how the DOJ initially
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  gathered or collected necessary documents under this committee subpoena? Answer no,
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  And that task I believe was thirty three thousand pages
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  was delegated to Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. He handled
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  that bachelor releases. Excuse me question, and so it would
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  be mister Woodward that would know more about the process
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  to determine which documents fell under that subpoena. Answer yes, question,
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  were you ever briefed on the doctors documents underneath that subpoena. Answer,
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  maybe briefly after they were released. Our goal was to
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  get as much out publicly that was legally permissible as
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  fast as we could. Question And would that redaction process
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  for those documents be similar to what the Department of
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  Justice was already doing as far as making sure no
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  personal information was getting out there because it was required
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  by law. Answer yeah, and I believe that Stanley Woodward
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  was the one again who supervised that release. Question and
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  in this matter, who at the Department of Justice would
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  have been actually doing those redactions? Staff attorneys, other attorneys
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  at Main Justice, someone else? Answer? I believe it was attorneys,
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  multiple attorneys at the Department of Justice, even some again
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  from the National Security Division. And again, ultimately attorneys from
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  all over the country were pulled in to help once
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  we received the millions of pages of documents, But initially
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  we did have attorneys from within the Department of Justice
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  and the FBI, I believe working on those redactions. Question
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  And are you aware of attorneys at the Department of
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  Justice having to undergo any type of training as far
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  as redactions go? Answer? I believe they did, And that
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  would have been supervised by Todd Blanche. Question, was there
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  any criteria for which attorneys get selected to do redactions
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  that you're aware of? Bondie. I recall we used attorneys
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  from the National Security Division as much as we could
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  because they have top security clearance and the goal was
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  to protect the victim's identities. Question and are you aware
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  of why the DOJ only produced thirty three thousand documents
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  pursuant to the committee subpoena. Answer? I believe because that
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  was all they had at the time, and we would
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  have had to ask Associate Attorney General Stanley wood Word
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  that question. Now, mister Emmer is asking questions once again.
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  Let's talk about the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And for
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  the record, the EFTA was signed into law November nineteenth
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  of twenty twenty five, require you, the Attorney General at
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  the time, to release all documents related to the prosecution
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  of Jeffrey Epstein within thirty days and making them publicly
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  available in a searchable format. What was your role in
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  carrying out the Epstein Files Transparency Act? Answer? Todd Blanche
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  supervised that entire process. To back up for a minute,
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  though the office did ask for those files prior to
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  the Transparency Act be unsealed by the courts in multiple jurisdictions.
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  I believe it was SDFL and SDNY, and those requests
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  were denied and it was not until the Transparency Act
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  that we were able to receive those documents. Questions, So
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  there were existing efforts to release documents prior to the
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  Epstein Files Transparency Act. Answer yes, question, So what was
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  your response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act being passed? Bondie.
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  We were able to receive many more documents based on
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  the Act. We were able to unseal the grand jury.
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  We made a motion to unsealed the grand jury documents
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  in Epstein and Maxwell, and that also included the Epstein
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  when he died excuse me. That also included when Epstein
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  died in prison. It included I believe a prison guard
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  case somewhere, Epstein cases and both jurisdictions and Maxwell's cases.
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  Question and you said the effort was directed by Todd Blanche.
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  Is that correct? Answer? Yes? Question How frequently did you
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  meet with Todd Blanche after the Epstein Files Transparency Act
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  was passed? Answer? I spoke with Deputy Attorney General practically
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  every day about countless issues around not only the country,
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  but the world that we were dealing with. As to
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  details on it, I don't know. I don't recall how
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  often question in relation to EFTA and the Department's obligation
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  they're under. What concern was or did Todd Blanche expressed
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  concerns as far as releasing documents? What was he saying?
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  And to this Harme Dillon jumps in, I'm just going
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  to point out that you can answer that to the
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  extent that it doesn't really protected communication, Bondie, I can
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  say I believe everyone was concerned about protecting victim identity
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  given the six million pages of documents that was received
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  and only a thirty day timeline to comply with the process.
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  Mister Emmer and we're going to talk more in detail
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  about what was produced. But to start, had a Department
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  of Justice initially gather or collect necessary documents or material
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  that complied with the Epstein File Transparency Act? Bondie, can
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  you repeat that question? How did the Department of Justice
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  initially gather or collect the necessary documents or material that
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  complied with the Epstein File Transparency Act? Answer? Well, as
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  I stated earlier, the Department made motions to unsealed things
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  that were previously withheld from the US by the courts,
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  and requested everything we possibly could, which is why there
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  was an over collection in documents as well as from
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  the jurisdictions. And again that included the death of Epstein,
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  Gleann Maxwell's case, both of all of Epstein's cases in
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  the multiple jurisdictions. Question, to the best of your knowledge,
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  what was the process to determine which documents a material
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  fell under the Epstein File Transparency Act. Answer? I believe
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  we collected everything possible out there related to Epstein, which
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  is why there was such an over collection as well.
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  Question and again, then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was
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  overseeing the efforts. Is that right? Answer? Yes, Todd Blanche
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  oversaw the entire investigation, and he has made multiple statements
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  and done multiple interviews regarding that. All right, folks, we're
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  going to wrap up right here and in the next episode,
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  we're gonna pick up where we left off. All the
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