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Alan Dershowitz Lawyers Allegedly Advised Him Against Appearing In Front Of Congress · 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. A couple of days ago we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about Alan Dershowitz and his refusal to appear before Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Well today we're going to talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: about that refusal and why according to this Harvard Crimson
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  Speaker 1: article his lawyers told him he couldn't appear and answer questions.
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  Speaker 1: And I find that to be laughable at best, to
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  Speaker 1: tell you the truth, considering how much shit Alan Dershowitz
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  Speaker 1: has talked over the years. Come set the record straight, homie.
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  Speaker 1: Go put yourself under oath. Let's see what's what. You
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  Speaker 1: sure had a lot to say. Well, let's see it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, in typical Alan Dershowitz fashion, he did
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  Speaker 1: all that yappin'. And now, he's turn and tell. So today,
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from the Harvard Crimson talking about
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  Speaker 1: this topic. And the headline... Dershowitz told by attorneys he
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  Speaker 1: cannot legally testify on Epstein ties. I thought that Alan
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  Speaker 1: Dershowitz was the greatest attorney in the history of great attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that what he tells anyone who's listening? But he
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that. He had no idea. Sure, I'm buying that.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Hugo Kuyasin and Elise A. Spenner.
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  Speaker 1: Harvard Law Professor L & M Dershowitz was told by
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  Speaker 1: his attorneys that he cannot legally testify before the House
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  Speaker 1: Oversight Committee on Monday, he said. Dershowitz was scheduled to
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  Speaker 1: sit for an in-person transcribed interview on his ties to
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  Speaker 1: the convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein as part of a
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  Speaker 1: month-long investigation into Epstein and his associates. Dershowitz, a high-profile
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  Speaker 1: defense attorney, helped negotiate Epstein's controversial 2008 plea deal. And look,
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  Speaker 1: for me, I think that's the most critical... part of
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  Speaker 1: this now we know the allegations that have been made
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  Speaker 1: against Alan Dershowitz by Virginia however we also know that
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  Speaker 1: they came to a settlement so I think we should
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  Speaker 1: be focusing on Alan Dershowitz role in that 2008 NPA
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  Speaker 1: and in my opinion I think that NPA is illegal
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  Speaker 1: I think that there was a lot of backroom wrangling
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  Speaker 1: I think that there was a lot of reaching out
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  Speaker 1: to justice And I think that because of who Alan
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  Speaker 1: Dershowitz is, who Ken Starr is, and who the other
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  Speaker 1: lawyers were, they had those relationships already baked in with
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  Speaker 1: Mukasey and Philippe. So, of course, they just went over
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  Speaker 1: Acosta's head and got things done with Maine Justice. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the contemporaneous emails and the documentation proves that.
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  Speaker 1: But his attorney has now reversed course. A spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee confirmed Friday indicating to the committee
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  Speaker 1: that Dershowitz would not be present for the interview. The
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson said the committee had contacted Dershowitz's attorney to reschedule
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  Speaker 1: the testimony. The move came as an about-face for Dershowitz,
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  Speaker 1: who has for months publicly expressed interest in testifying before
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  Speaker 1: the House. Dershowitz even appealed directly to James Comer, who
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  Speaker 1: chairs the Oversight Committee. Dershowitz said he remained eager to testify.
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  Speaker 1: So eager that his lawyers jumped in, huh? Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: on the advice of my lawyers, it's always some bullshit, right?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody ever just wants to stand up and deal with
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  Speaker 1: the consequences of their actions. Nobody wants to answer the bell.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to talk like you're tough. It's a
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  Speaker 1: whole ass other thing to hop into the octagon. Comer
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  Speaker 1: formally requested Dershowitz sit for an interview last month after
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  Speaker 1: a meeting with several Epstein survivors and testimony from Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: longtime assistant, Leslie Groff. At the time, Dershowitz said he
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  Speaker 1: would offer documentation to the committee showing that individuals with
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  Speaker 1: ties to Epstein should be evaluated case by case. He
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  Speaker 1: said that the full story of Epstein's connections was more
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  Speaker 1: nuanced and complex than it's been presented. Oh yeah, Alan Dershowitz,
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  Speaker 1: come set the record straight. Because you're a reliable narrator,
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  Speaker 1: you have nothing to hide. You weren't involved with Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein as far as the legal team. And furthermore, you've
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  Speaker 1: already admitted you got a massage, right? And I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know you kept your underwear on, Mr. Tidy Whiting himself.
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  Speaker 1: But this whole entire false narrative that Dershowitz has been
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  Speaker 1: running when it comes to Epstein is just unbelievably stupid.
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  Speaker 1: And he thinks that his, I don't know, credibility, if
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  Speaker 1: you'll call it that, is going to get people to
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  Speaker 1: believe him. Look, the only people that are going to
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  Speaker 1: believe him are the people that already want to believe him.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Nobody that's nuanced, nobody that's looked into this,
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  Speaker 1: nobody that knows the real story believes that Dershowitz doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know more than he's saying. Now, there are some entanglements
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  Speaker 1: and there are some complications considering he was a lawyer
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  Speaker 1: and there's privilege, but everything's privileged? Every bit of information? Well, maybe. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: we won't know because his balls haven't dropped yet and
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  Speaker 1: he's scared to appear before Congress. It's unclear what legal
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  Speaker 1: obligations stand in the way of his testimony. Dershowitz attorneys
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  Speaker 1: did not immediately respond to a request for comment. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big tell for me. And it looks like they're
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  Speaker 1: running scared. Now, is that what's really happening? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't heard from Dershowitz or his team. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not looking good. The optics of it are pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to appear before Congress on Monday and on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: You're calling to say, ah, you know what? Maybe instead
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  Speaker 1: of appearing before Congress, I'll head back out to Martha's
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  Speaker 1: Vineyard and berate some pierogi vendors instead. Seems to be
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  Speaker 1: more your speed, Mr. Dershowitz. The Oversight Committee has heard
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  Speaker 1: testimony from several high-profile figures with ties to Epstein since
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  Speaker 1: launching its investigation last summer, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
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  Speaker 1: and former U.S. President Bill Clinton. And that all worked
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  Speaker 1: out well, huh? We got a lot of information from them,
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  Speaker 1: said nobody ever. And the morons on the GOP side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle, they fumbled the ball big time when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the Clinton interrogation. Nobody asked the right
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  Speaker 1: questions and in fact made the Clintons look better than
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  Speaker 1: even when they walked in. Now, those of us who
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  Speaker 1: know the story, well, we know that that's not the
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  Speaker 1: case and that the Clintons lied through their teeth. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is that the committee and Congress has no teeth.
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  Speaker 1: So they can't hold people accountable. And we've seen it
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  Speaker 1: time and time again. Dershowitz is not the only Harvard
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  Speaker 1: affiliate the committee has expressed interest in speaking with. Representative
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  Speaker 1: Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat, said he hoped to speak
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  Speaker 1: with former university president Lawrence H. Summers because of his
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  Speaker 1: decades-long friendship with Epstein. Mr. Summers is someone that we,
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  Speaker 1: as a committee, have not had the chance to speak with.
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  Speaker 1: That would be, or that's somebody we would like to
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  Speaker 1: speak with, Garcia said in June. It seems that his
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  Speaker 1: name continues to come up. Summers came up in Clinton's
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  Speaker 1: February testimony in which the former president said he was
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  Speaker 1: introduced to Epstein by the former treasury secretary after they
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  Speaker 1: had left office and described the convicted child predator as
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  Speaker 1: an information-hungry person. Oh, well, that explains it all. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Information-Hungry-Hungry Hippo over here, so I guess we'll just hang
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  Speaker 1: out with them, you know, in our pursuit of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we detest these people enough, and that's
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  Speaker 1: because they're just detestable. Everything about Alan Dershowitz and his
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is questionable. Now, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to sit here and tell you that we have evidence
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  Speaker 1: of him doing anything else with Epstein. There's been allegations,
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  Speaker 1: but those allegations have been walked back. So we have
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  Speaker 1: to be mindful of the record. But does that exonerate
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  Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz from all of the other allegations of ties
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein? I don't think it does. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything That is criminal, right? But
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  Speaker 1: I think reputationally, and I think morally, Alan Dershowitz was
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  Speaker 1: certainly in the wrong. And I think he knows that.
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  Speaker 1: And he just doesn't care. He's one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that is so smug, and he thinks he's smarter than
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  Speaker 1: everybody else around him. So he's going to just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: continue on this path of saying whatever the fuck he
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  Speaker 1: wants to say. when a lot of it just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have any basis in truth. Who asked Alan Dershowitz to
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  Speaker 1: run around talking about Epstein and the intelligence world? Did
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  Speaker 1: somebody ask him to be the spokesperson to go against
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  Speaker 1: that messaging? Nobody asked him. He just inserts himself into
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  Speaker 1: the conversation all the time, and then he gets mad
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  Speaker 1: when people criticize him. Well, here's an idea, Mr. I-kept-my-underpants-on.
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  Speaker 1: Man up, step up to the plate, and do what
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  Speaker 1: you said you were going to do. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: give this testimony. You're going to blow the doors off
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  Speaker 1: of it. You're going to set everything right. Meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 1: never showed up. You canceled. You backed out. And like
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  Speaker 1: the typical smarmy bastard you are, you're going to blame
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  Speaker 1: the process. You're going to blame everybody else. After you
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  Speaker 1: yourself stood on those mountaintops and screamed like a lunatic
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  Speaker 1: about how you want to set the record straight and
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  Speaker 1: about how everybody else is a liar. Well, Mr. Dershowitz,
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  Speaker 1: you had your chance. You had your platform. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Did your lawyers take a look at what was going
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  Speaker 1: on and tell you that you had exposure? Did they
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  Speaker 1: tell you that it's probably not a good idea to
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  Speaker 1: go and run your yap in front of Congress? Why'd
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  Speaker 1: you back out, Mr. Dershowitz? What happened? Because up until now,
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  Speaker 1: there was a whole lot of talk. I mean, Conor
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  Speaker 1: McGregor levels of talk. And then on the way to
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  Speaker 1: the cage, Dershowitz blows out his knee. Well, isn't that convenient?
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  Speaker 1: So look, I hope that Congress stops messing around with Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 1: and hits him with that subpoena. Because if anybody ever
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  Speaker 1: deserved one, it's Alan, I kept my underpants on, Dershowitz.
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