Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Doug Band And His Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 8) (7/25/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
- 0:06Speaker 1: left off with Doug Band and his interview with Congress.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Question and mister Band, just to follow up on that
- 0:14Speaker 1: answer sure question, Who's Alan Dershowitz? Answer? Alan Dershowitz is
- 0:19Speaker 1: a who is he today? I don't know how he
- 0:21Speaker 1: would describe himself. I mean he's a lawyer. He's a
- 0:24Speaker 1: friend of President Clinton's from Martha's Vineyard from the nineties
- 0:27Speaker 1: when I was staffing the President I met Allen. Question
- 0:30Speaker 1: and what's your relationship Dlan Dershowitz. Answer? I don't recall
- 0:34Speaker 1: talking Dlan Dershowitz in the last ten to fifteen years,
- 0:37Speaker 1: or maybe even well beyond that. I don't know. I
- 0:39Speaker 1: don't have any relationship with mister Dershowitz. Question what was
- 0:43Speaker 1: your understanding of mister Dershowitz's relationship to Epstein? Answer? I
- 0:47Speaker 1: have no idea or knowledge of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 0:52Speaker 1: I mean, I've read things and heard things again in
- 0:54Speaker 1: recent years, but I don't think I remember or no.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Question have you ever discussed allegations of sexual abuse against
- 1:01Speaker 1: mister Dershowitz with mister Dershowitz answer no, mister Lynch, mister band,
- 1:07Speaker 1: how many times did you fly on mister Epstein's aircraft? Band?
- 1:10Speaker 1: I don't recall. I think again, from in preparation for
- 1:13Speaker 1: today seeing the flight logs, I flew on the plane
- 1:16Speaker 1: stabbing President Clinton several times, mister Lynch several, meaning more
- 1:20Speaker 1: than five band. I believe, so, Lynch, more than ten band.
- 1:24Speaker 1: I don't know the exact number, but yeah, I think so,
- 1:27Speaker 1: mister Lynch, more than ten band, I think so, yeah, Lynch, okay,
- 1:31Speaker 1: more than fifteen band? I believe so. The logs well, again,
- 1:34Speaker 1: the logs were written by someone else, but I believe
- 1:36Speaker 1: I was staffing the President on various trips, and those
- 1:40Speaker 1: had different legs of them. So yes, mister Lynch, more
- 1:43Speaker 1: than twenty band. I don't know, Lynch. You said a
- 1:46Speaker 1: few and were over fifteen already band, I said several. Yeah,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Lynch, you said several were over fifteen band. Yeah,
- 1:54Speaker 1: I don't know the exact number, Lynch, Okay, band, this
- 1:57Speaker 1: is a long time ago, Lynch. In any of those
- 2:00Speaker 1: flights fifteen flights, were there young women on the plane? Band?
- 2:04Speaker 1: Not that I recall, Lynch, do you have any firsthand
- 2:06Speaker 1: knowledge of Epstein's relationship with any of the following individuals,
- 2:10Speaker 1: and if yes, what was your understanding of that relationship.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Sultan Ahmed bin Suliman ban no, Howard Lutnik ban no.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Paulo zan Polli ban no. Do you know him? Band
- 2:24Speaker 1: I met him many many years ago. I don't have
- 2:26Speaker 1: a relationship with him. And again subsequently read about the
- 2:29Speaker 1: things in recent times, mister Lynch, but you don't know
- 2:32Speaker 1: what the nature of his relationship with Epstein would be.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Band No, Sir, I do not, Lynch. Robert F. Kennedy
- 2:38Speaker 1: currently the Secretary of HHS. Band I don't know. Question
- 2:42Speaker 1: you have to answer yes or no. Band I'm sorry, No,
- 2:45Speaker 1: I'm sorry Lynch. Kathy Rumler ban no. Question. Was she
- 2:52Speaker 1: employed with the president at the same time you were there?
- 2:55Speaker 1: Band I'm sorry, Lynch. Was she employed with the president
- 2:59Speaker 1: at the same time you were there? Band Kathy Rumler Lynch, Yeah,
- 3:03Speaker 1: band I don't know her. I don't think she ever
- 3:04Speaker 1: worked for President Clinton. Lynch. She was a White House counsel.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Ban not for the president Lynch. Steve Vannon band no,
- 3:12Speaker 1: Leo Botstein No, No. M Chomsky. No, the journalist Michael Wolfe. No.
- 3:17Speaker 1: How about Sarah Ferguson No, former Duchess of York. No.
- 3:21Speaker 1: How about Peter Mandelson, a British politician. No. Kimball Musk,
- 3:25Speaker 1: no question, So you don't know any connection between him
- 3:29Speaker 1: and Epstein? Band? I'm sorry, I don't know who that is.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Lynch Elon Musk's brother. Band. No, mister Lynch Martin Noak
- 3:37Speaker 1: Harvard Professor of Mathematics and Biology band. No. How about
- 3:42Speaker 1: Richard Branson of Virgin Group Virgin Atlantic. No. How about
- 3:46Speaker 1: the magician David Copperfield. No, how about David Blaine. No?
- 3:50Speaker 1: How about Frederick Fokai No, Henry Drecki no, Stephen Hansen no,
- 3:55Speaker 1: Jean of Brunel No, mister Lynch, have you ever been
- 3:59Speaker 1: on an aircraft with them? Brunel? I know he's a
- 4:01Speaker 1: frequent flyer as well. Band. I don't recall ever being
- 4:05Speaker 1: on an aircraft with them. I don't know who that is,
- 4:08Speaker 1: mister Lynch Okay, Alan Dershowitz band no, Glenn Dubin no,
- 4:13Speaker 1: edwud Barock No, mister Lynch. That's all I have redacted.
- 4:18Speaker 1: We'll stop there and go off the record. Mister Harness.
- 4:21Speaker 1: We'll go back on the record, mister Grant. Before we begin,
- 4:24Speaker 1: I just want to know for the record that mister
- 4:26Speaker 1: Conna and mister Perry were both present in the last
- 4:29Speaker 1: hour and did not ask any questions. Question mister Band
- 4:34Speaker 1: by mister Harness, I would like to enter into the
- 4:37Speaker 1: record majority exhibit too. This is a message Shain on
- 4:40Speaker 1: April twenty first, two thousand and two, from the WJC
- 4:44Speaker 1: email address to Miss Maxwell's email address. It's marked with
- 4:47Speaker 1: Bates number EFTA zero two three three five six oh seven.
- 4:52Speaker 1: I'll give you a minute to look that over, mister Band.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Looking at the bottom message from the WJC email address,
- 4:58Speaker 1: it reads, By the way, the social matchmaker part is
- 5:01Speaker 1: pretty right on. I would have told them that you
- 5:04Speaker 1: are my pimp, but that at the same time you
- 5:06Speaker 1: are my lover. Mister Band, did you write this message? Answer?
- 5:10Speaker 1: I don't recall that message. Question, but it's from the
- 5:13Speaker 1: WJC email address. So did you write the message? Answer? Well,
- 5:17Speaker 1: as I said, I don't recall sending it, and TIRA
- 5:19Speaker 1: just like looks like it says you wrote, I don't
- 5:22Speaker 1: know who you is. I'm not trying to be argumentative,
- 5:25Speaker 1: Miss Mace. Is it that you don't recall or that
- 5:28Speaker 1: it didn't happen? Band I don't recall whether it happened
- 5:31Speaker 1: or not, Mace. Did your lawyers advise you to say
- 5:33Speaker 1: you don't recall anything you didn't want to discuss today, Shapiro,
- 5:37Speaker 1: don't discuss the legal advice your lawyers give you, Miss Mace.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Do you have a law degree? Band? Yes, ma'am Mace.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Is that what they teach you in law school that
- 5:45Speaker 1: you don't recall? Mister Green, I'm sorry, what was the question,
- 5:49Speaker 1: Miss Mace? Is that what they teach you in law school?
- 5:52Speaker 1: Tell your clients you don't recall when you don't want
- 5:54Speaker 1: to talk about something. Is that what they teach you
- 5:56Speaker 1: in law school? Where did you go to law school?
- 6:00Speaker 1: I went to Georgetown, man, Miss Mace. Okay, do dumb
- 6:03Speaker 1: people go to Georgetown? Mister Band, I don't know, Nancy Mace.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Do you have to be smart to get into Georgetown? Band?
- 6:11Speaker 1: I'm not the Georgetown in Mission's office. I don't know,
- 6:14Speaker 1: Miss Mace. What was your LSAT score to get into Georgetown? Band?
- 6:18Speaker 1: I did not do well on my LSAT as? Are recall?
- 6:21Speaker 1: Miss Mace? What did you graduate? You graduated right, so
- 6:24Speaker 1: you had passing scores? What were your grades? A's, bc'sf's, band,
- 6:29Speaker 1: I don't remember. I went part time at law school.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I wasn't a very president student because I was working
- 6:34Speaker 1: full time, Miss Mace. Are you saying that you're dumb? Band? No, ma'am,
- 6:38Speaker 1: I'm just answering your questions, Miss Mace. Do you have
- 6:41Speaker 1: memory issues? Have you been diagnosed with any memory recall
- 6:44Speaker 1: issues by a health practitioner? Mister Band No? Mace okay?
- 6:48Speaker 1: Do you have any memory issues? Band? Not that I
- 6:50Speaker 1: know of, Miss Mace. How old are you? Mister Band
- 6:53Speaker 1: fifty three? Miss Mace? Okay? Question by mister Harness. Did
- 6:59Speaker 1: you ever refer to Maxwell as your pimp? Answer? I
- 7:02Speaker 1: don't recall ever referring to her as such. Question, But again,
- 7:06Speaker 1: this is from the WJC email address that you wrote
- 7:08Speaker 1: to Miss Maxwell. Outside of this email did you ever
- 7:11Speaker 1: refer to miss Maxwell as your pimp? Answer? I don't
- 7:14Speaker 1: ever recall referring to her as that question? Did you
- 7:17Speaker 1: ever refer to her as your lover? Answer? I don't
- 7:20Speaker 1: recall referring to her as that question. I would like
- 7:24Speaker 1: to introduce majority Exhibit three. This is two separate email
- 7:27Speaker 1: chains that have been compiled by the committee. The first
- 7:30Speaker 1: chain with the bates number EFTA zero zero zero one
- 7:34Speaker 1: one four to three four, and the second with the
- 7:36Speaker 1: bates number EFTA zero zero five eight one eight two nine.
- 7:40Speaker 1: First email, ending in fourteen thirty four, is between you
- 7:44Speaker 1: and miss Maxwell, but does not include a date. However,
- 7:47Speaker 1: the second email, which is just the same message as
- 7:49Speaker 1: the first email that's forwarded by Miss Maxwell to Philip Levine,
- 7:53Speaker 1: was sent on September seventeenth, two thousand and one. I'll
- 7:56Speaker 1: give you a minute to review that question. Just look
- 8:00Speaker 1: at the second sentence again from the first email ending
- 8:03Speaker 1: fourteen thirty four. The second sentence reads from Miss Maxwell
- 8:06Speaker 1: to your personal GSA dot gov account. When we're all
- 8:10Speaker 1: back in New York, the plan is to do dinner.
- 8:13Speaker 1: We'll have the slutty Spanish girl, which will be nicely
- 8:15Speaker 1: counterbalanced by the cool pois Swedish type mister band. Did
- 8:19Speaker 1: you receive this message from Miss Maxwell? Answer? I don't
- 8:23Speaker 1: recall this message at all. Question did you receive it
- 8:26Speaker 1: from Miss Maxwell? Answer? As I said, I didn't recall.
- 8:29Speaker 1: I don't recall this message or ever receiving it. Miss
- 8:32Speaker 1: Mace jumps in again. Do you believe you have any
- 8:35Speaker 1: reason to think that this document's not accurate? Band? I
- 8:39Speaker 1: don't have any reason to believe it is or isn't.
- 8:41Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I don't recall it, Miss Mace.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Is it that you don't recall it or it didn't happen? Band?
- 8:46Speaker 1: I'm sorry, as you said, I don't recall receiving it,
- 8:50Speaker 1: Miss Mace. So you're gonna sit here today and you
- 8:53Speaker 1: can't tell the committee if it occurred or it didn't occur. Band.
- 8:56Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I don't recall receiving this email
- 8:59Speaker 1: from twenty five years Mace, Okay, all right. Question that
- 9:04Speaker 1: is your email address? Correct answer? I believe that is.
- 9:07Speaker 1: I had a GSA email address shortly after leaving the
- 9:10Speaker 1: White House. Yeah. Question do you know who miss Maxwell
- 9:13Speaker 1: is referring to in the terms of Spanish girl? Answer?
- 9:16Speaker 1: I have no idea. Question did you ever meet anyone
- 9:18Speaker 1: that fits that description that was associated or connected with
- 9:22Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell and Epstein? Answer? I don't recall meeting anybody
- 9:26Speaker 1: with that description. Question did you ever meet a Swedish
- 9:29Speaker 1: woman or young girl that was associated to or connected
- 9:32Speaker 1: with Miss Maxwell or mister Epstein? Answer, I don't recall
- 9:36Speaker 1: ever meeting that person. Question. She goes on to say,
- 9:40Speaker 1: let me know when you next go to Europe, as
- 9:42Speaker 1: I do have some interesting and fun friends that could
- 9:45Speaker 1: hook you up. Mister band, did you ever meet up
- 9:48Speaker 1: with any person or people that had any association to
- 9:51Speaker 1: Glean Maxwell or mister Epstein in Europe? Answer not that
- 9:55Speaker 1: I recall. Mister Emmer, did you ever travel to Europe
- 9:58Speaker 1: with Maxwell or Epstein band? While I think you asked
- 10:01Speaker 1: earlier about Morocco trip and other trips, I don't ever
- 10:05Speaker 1: recall traveling with them to Europe, but possible sure. Question
- 10:08Speaker 1: by mister Harneice. Question, so the email that you received
- 10:11Speaker 1: from miss Maxwell was around the time of nine to eleven.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Do you still not recall the email? This is the
- 10:16Speaker 1: week of nine to eleven. You don't recall ever receiving
- 10:19Speaker 1: the email. Answer? I don't ever recall receiving the email.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Question did you ever reply to that email? Answer? I
- 10:25Speaker 1: don't ever recall receiving it, So I have no idea. Question.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I would like to introduce majority Exhibit four, which is
- 10:32Speaker 1: a message shine between the WJC email address and Glaine
- 10:35Speaker 1: Maxwell occurring on November two, two thousand and two. This
- 10:39Speaker 1: is marked with debates number EFTA zero zero five A
- 10:43Speaker 1: two one nine three. I'll give you a moment to
- 10:45Speaker 1: read that. Answer. Thanks. Question the bottom message from WJC
- 10:51Speaker 1: at five twenty one pm. You're right, what's your deal tonight?
- 10:55Speaker 1: Did you just want to ascertain what Miss Maxwell was
- 10:57Speaker 1: up to around this time? Answer again, I'm sorry, I
- 11:03Speaker 1: don't remember this email at all, and I don't see
- 11:06Speaker 1: who it's from. At the bottom you said you wrote,
- 11:08Speaker 1: I don't know that I wrote that, but I don't remember.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Question that message, Shane, whatever the bottom is is from
- 11:15Speaker 1: the WJC going to Glenn Maxwell, So then the top
- 11:18Speaker 1: message would be from miss Maxwell. Miss Maxwell then writes,
- 11:22Speaker 1: We're going to the movies and then we will meet you.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Two questions where plus there is a crew here redacted
- 11:29Speaker 1: plus two Brazilians? Can they come to if we come Thoughts?
- 11:33Speaker 1: Did you ever meet up with Miss Maxwell around this date? Answer? No,
- 11:36Speaker 1: not that I recall. I don't know. Question did miss
- 11:39Speaker 1: Maxwell ever introduce you to two Brazilians? Answer not that
- 11:43Speaker 1: I can recall. Question what was miss Maxwell referring to
- 11:47Speaker 1: in the two Brazilians? Were they young women or girls? Answer?
- 11:50Speaker 1: I have no idea. I think you should ask miss Maxwell.
- 11:53Speaker 1: I don't know. Question, this is an email that you received.
- 11:56Speaker 1: You're on this chain, mister Bann correct answer. Well, I'm
- 11:59Speaker 1: not disputing that, but I don't know where it says
- 12:02Speaker 1: that this is from me. You're saying it's to me,
- 12:04Speaker 1: but I don't see unless I'm missing something where it
- 12:07Speaker 1: says at the bottom. It just says five twenty one
- 12:09Speaker 1: PM eleven to two, two thousand and two. Question. Yeah,
- 12:13Speaker 1: like I just said, but the bottom message, the earlier
- 12:16Speaker 1: message at five twenty one, that is your you writing
- 12:19Speaker 1: from the WJC. What you see above is Maxwell writing
- 12:22Speaker 1: back to you. Correct? Do you agree? Answer? I don't know.
- 12:25Speaker 1: I mean, I don't remember the email, so I'm not
- 12:27Speaker 1: going to say that this is from me because it
- 12:30Speaker 1: doesn't say WJC on it. I mean, it doesn't say
- 12:33Speaker 1: an email address on the bottom. I'm not trying to
- 12:35Speaker 1: be combative. I'm just saying I don't remember it, but
- 12:38Speaker 1: I don't see it. I have no idea. Question regardless
- 12:42Speaker 1: where you ever introduced twenty group of women around Maxwell
- 12:44Speaker 1: that were associated with or connected to Maxwell? Answer not
- 12:48Speaker 1: that I recall. Question do you know what's underneath a
- 12:52Speaker 1: redacted message. Answer, I don't remember the email in the
- 12:54Speaker 1: first place, so no. Question. Did you ever meet any
- 12:58Speaker 1: woman associated with or connected to Miss Maxwell named Sarah? Answer?
- 13:03Speaker 1: I vaguely remember she had someone that worked for named Sarah. Oh, Sarah,
- 13:07Speaker 1: I don't know which one. Question do you recall when
- 13:09Speaker 1: you met Sarah? Answer? I recall she several years ago
- 13:13Speaker 1: was married to someone that was a friend of a friend,
- 13:15Speaker 1: and I saw her out a few times with them.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Question and who was that? Answer Brian Vickers. Question do
- 13:21Speaker 1: you recall the nature of your conversations with Sarah? Answer?
- 13:24Speaker 1: I do not. Question do you recall anybody else when
- 13:28Speaker 1: you had met Sarah? Answer? I don't. All right, folks,
- 13:32Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here, and in the
- 13:33Speaker 1: next episode dealing with the topic, we're gonna pick up
- 13:35Speaker 1: where we left off. All the information that goes with
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