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Seymour Hersh Claims Epstein Intelligence Material Is Still Being Withheld (8/28/26) · 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. According to the Trump administration, they've released all
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files that are involved in the EFTA. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they've also told us that that doesn't include
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  Speaker 1: over three and a half million files that they've held back.
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  Speaker 1: And according to them, the reason that they're holding them
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  Speaker 1: back is because they're duplicative or they don't fit the
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  Speaker 1: parameters of what the EFTA calls for. Well, Seymour Hersh,
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  Speaker 1: who is one of the most famed investigative journalists of
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  Speaker 1: all time, has a few interesting things to say as
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  Speaker 1: to why those documents are being held back. So today
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from Raw Story, and the headline,
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  Speaker 1: Distressing Discussion on Withheld Epstein Files Reveals Problems for Trump.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Alexander Willis. Veteran journalist Seymour
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  Speaker 1: Hersh says he and a well-informed international source had a
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  Speaker 1: distressing discussion about a trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related files currently
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  Speaker 1: being withheld by the Justice Department whose release could cause
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  Speaker 1: problems for the past and present members of some in
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Well, that's not a shock. We know
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  Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people in the administration that
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  Speaker 1: had ties to Epstein at one point or another. So
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  Speaker 1: are those the files that are being held back To
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  Speaker 1: save people from embarrassment. Or worse. And if so. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the cover up. This is exactly what I've been
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  Speaker 1: telling you. And I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 1: tell you. I know why it's being covered up. As
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  Speaker 1: far as you know. Down to the granular level. We
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  Speaker 1: have a basic idea. But the more they do shit
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  Speaker 1: like this. The more they hold things back. When they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: The more obvious it becomes. And then the natural question is. Why? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Who are they protecting? What kind of secrets? Is it
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  Speaker 1: an institution? Is it a person, a group of people?
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Epstein transparency law was supposed to figure out.
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  Speaker 1: But the administration, they just refuse to do what they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do. Hirsch wrote in a Substack on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: about that conversation. I've been told that specific evidence about
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's connections to foreign and domestic intelligence services particularly the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, and the FBI, though they
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  Speaker 1: do exist in government files, have yet to be the
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  Speaker 1: subject of materials made public by the Trump administration's Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department and have not come under scrutiny by the Congress
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  Speaker 1: and the media, he wrote. And there is zero doubt
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  Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the Mossad. Anybody saying
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  Speaker 1: different is telling you a story. Now, that said, he
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  Speaker 1: was not created by the Mossad. Unfortunately, Jeffrey Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: built right here in America. And not only that, but
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  Speaker 1: protected right here in America. Now, does that mean that
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli government has no responsibility for the shit Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was up to? Of course not. They used his services,
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  Speaker 1: and they knew exactly what he was. I had a
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  Speaker 1: distressing discussion of the Epstein affair with a well-informed international
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  Speaker 1: source that I've known for a long time. He suddenly
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  Speaker 1: volunteered last fall to talk about what he knew about Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's nice. It would be nice if more people would
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  Speaker 1: come forward and tell the real story, what they saw,
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  Speaker 1: when they saw it, who they saw with him, what
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  Speaker 1: kind of people he was working with behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of information we need. Evidence exists to
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  Speaker 1: suggest that Epstein had worked on behalf of a number
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  Speaker 1: of different foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia, and Israel.
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  Speaker 1: with Representative Jamie Raskin launching a House Judiciary Committee probe
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  Speaker 1: into the matter last month. And this is what I've
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  Speaker 1: told you from the jump. This guy was the quintessential middleman.
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  Speaker 1: An information broker like we've never seen. One that's trusted
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  Speaker 1: by Saudi Arabia and Israel. By America and Russia. So
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  Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of an idea of
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  Speaker 1: how useful he was. and how useful the information that
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  Speaker 1: he was providing was. And once you understand that, then
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  Speaker 1: you understand why he was being protected to the level
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  Speaker 1: that he was being protected to. Regarding Epstein's ties to Israel,
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  Speaker 1: leaked emails reported on Dropsite News have revealed that the
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  Speaker 1: disgraced financier, pedophile, had deep ties to the Israeli government,
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  Speaker 1: having helped broker a defense agreement between Israel and the
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  Speaker 1: West African nation of the Ivory Coast, established a backchannel
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  Speaker 1: for Israel-Russia communications, during the Syrian Civil War, and helped
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  Speaker 1: broker a security cooperation agreement between Israel and Mongolia. All
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff we've talked about, and it's all true.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein played his role. And
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, he was also involved with the Promise software.
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  Speaker 1: But there's zero doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was only loyal
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  Speaker 1: to himself. This man had a loyalty to one, and
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  Speaker 1: that one was Epstein. There was nothing this man wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: do to keep himself whole. And when you're that useful
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  Speaker 1: as a, you know, asset for the government or governments,
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  Speaker 1: you know they're going to protect you. You know that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to look the other way if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a degenerate. If you want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: molest high school girls. They're just going to look the
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  Speaker 1: other way. And not only that, they're going to put
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  Speaker 1: their finger on the scale if you ever get caught. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's too important of an asset to hold accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Whitey Bulger, right? Evidence also exists that Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: home in New York City was fitted with surveillance cameras
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  Speaker 1: per a 2019 FBI email documenting the agency's raid on
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  Speaker 1: the townhouse conducted shortly after Epstein's death. According to Hirsch,
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  Speaker 1: a Mossad agent may have not only played a role
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  Speaker 1: in the installation of said surveillance cameras, but was caught
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  Speaker 1: by the FBI. Does not shock me one bit. Not
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  Speaker 1: at all. He was explicitly told to purchase off-the-shelf camera
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  Speaker 1: equipment in New York for the risky mission, but as
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  Speaker 1: he sadly related to his friends, he didn't follow those
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  Speaker 1: instructions and instead relied on the high-end equipment on which
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  Speaker 1: he had trained for Mossad, Hirsch wrote. The young Israeli
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  Speaker 1: told his boyhood friends that his operation had been compromised
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  Speaker 1: and the FBI caught him and immediately realized, given his
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  Speaker 1: nationality and the use of expensive Israeli gear, that Israel
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  Speaker 1: was aware of Epstein's client list and its obvious blackmail.
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  Speaker 1: and extortion potential in a world of international trade and
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  Speaker 1: intelligence collection. Of course they were aware. They knew. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI clued them in. The CIA clued them in. Hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: we got this guy Epstein, Jewish. Maybe we could use him.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you could use him. And then for Epstein, bro
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  Speaker 1: just had to spread his wings, right? Plenty of people
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  Speaker 1: that needed his service, as we can see from the
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  Speaker 1: contemporaneous emails. Not only was Jeffrey Epstein's time and demand
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  Speaker 1: but his services were as well and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many stories need to be told about Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: working in that kind of gray area for people to
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  Speaker 1: understand exactly what this man is or was he certainly
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just a guy that was running a human trafficking
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  Speaker 1: network that was part of it but that was for
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  Speaker 1: his own proclivities for his own enjoyment if you will
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff that's how he got rich that's where
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  Speaker 1: he got his money And of course, the whole entire
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  Speaker 1: template was transferred over from the gun running. And once
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  Speaker 1: that template was built in, all they had to do
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  Speaker 1: was change up the product, right? Instead of guns, they
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  Speaker 1: can run models. And I don't mean for a wholesale
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  Speaker 1: trafficking ring, like some people talk about. I've never said that.
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  Speaker 1: I've always thought that the abuse part of this, giving girls,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, to people, was part of an exclusive
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  Speaker 1: group of people that were around Epstein. that Epstein wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have more control over. There was no like phone
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  Speaker 1: number where you could call up and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you got some girls for me? It wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: Heidi Fleiss. And I see people talk about this like
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was running, you know, some kind of cat house.
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  Speaker 1: And that couldn't be further from the truth. That was
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  Speaker 1: not what he was up to. Now, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: that people in his circle, people in his atmosphere were
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  Speaker 1: abusing these girls too. Not everybody. but certainly some people.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have Jess Staley just admitting that he
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  Speaker 1: had relations with one of Epstein's assistants. We know what
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  Speaker 1: Virginia has said about multiple people, and we know what
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  Speaker 1: other girls have said too. So if you want to
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  Speaker 1: believe that nobody else was involved in the abuse, cool,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. Now, I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 1: and tell you that it was as widespread as some
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  Speaker 1: people might, but for that core group of people and
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  Speaker 1: the people that Epstein was really looking to get his
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  Speaker 1: hooks into, Oh, without a doubt. Without a doubt. People
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  Speaker 1: like Prince Andrew, Bill Richardson, George Mitchell, Glenn Dubin, Jess Staley.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the kind of people that he really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get his hooks into. And then, of course, you
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  Speaker 1: have Leon Black and some of the allegations that have
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  Speaker 1: been made by people that were supposedly abused by Leon
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  Speaker 1: Black that were in Epstein's orbit. So you have these
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  Speaker 1: very powerful people, a handful of them, who have really
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  Speaker 1: been caught up in Epstein's web. And how does he
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  Speaker 1: slam the door shut on those people? Well, look, you
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  Speaker 1: know that woman you slept with? She's a underage girl
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  Speaker 1: or she's a trafficking victim. You better play ball now.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for you to give me the information that
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Now, does that sound that far out
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  Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility to anybody out there? Or
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  Speaker 1: does that sound like a logical conclusion to what this
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  Speaker 1: dude was up to? And I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and tell you that there's no room for argument
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  Speaker 1: or debate. There is. When we're talking about how expansive
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  Speaker 1: this all was, no doubt about it. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: the full depths yet. But from what we do know,
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  Speaker 1: this shit spanned continents. And it lasted for decades. And
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  Speaker 1: if the government has information that placed Jeffrey Epstein directly
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  Speaker 1: in the center of some kind of intelligence apparatus, that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of information the American people should be made
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  Speaker 1: aware of. And I think at some point the dam
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  Speaker 1: is going to break because there's a lot of information
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his former role
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  Speaker 1: as an information broker. And once you start to understand
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  Speaker 1: Epstein in that light, everything else starts making sense. All
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