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'We'll be there' Epstein survivor's family vows to 'keep fighting' Blanche confirmation · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: I think Congress is at a very big turning point.
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  Speaker 1: I think America is at a turning point, and Congress
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  Speaker 1: has to decide. There are elections coming on and the
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  Speaker 1: American people. If you sit down with voters and you
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  Speaker 1: really do discussion. Of course we talk about affordability, those
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  Speaker 1: are big issues. But when you put the f Stein
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  Speaker 1: files in front of their faces and you directly connect
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  Speaker 1: their candidates with not supporting survivors, it moves the issue.
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  Speaker 1: It moves votes. People in America care about this because
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  Speaker 1: it's not singular abuse. It is whole corruption, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we need to get to. That is the point
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  Speaker 1: that our legislative elective officials need to see. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're done with the corruption, and I think they need
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  Speaker 1: to be done too, and it's time.
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  Speaker 2: To push back.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the first time i've heard it connected life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's such.
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  Speaker 4: An important connection to make, because I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of Americans aren't done with the corruption.
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  Speaker 2: They see it.
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  Speaker 4: Look, this started out we were Scott and I were
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  Speaker 4: talking a little bit before you know, those whole thing
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  Speaker 4: started out where the.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans thought, oh, we.
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  Speaker 4: Got the Democrats in the hook, going back to the little,
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  Speaker 4: a little pizza shop back in the day pizza gate, right,
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  Speaker 4: we got well, the biggest Democrats I like to remind
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  Speaker 4: all my Republican friends at that time was Donald Trump, right,
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  Speaker 4: if we're going to look at the record, because he
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  Speaker 4: was he was a Democrat at that time. So you
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  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden you start to take away
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  Speaker 4: the partisan piece of This is why I love what
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  Speaker 4: you're doing with the mobile library here, Miles, is you're
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  Speaker 4: just taking it right to the streets, so you don't
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  Speaker 4: need to sit back and think that this is something
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  Speaker 4: over there for in an out of touch and out
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  Speaker 4: of reach for you. They can just get online and
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  Speaker 4: note what it is and have it come to them.
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  Speaker 2: You you wrote in your sub stack.
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  Speaker 4: It's a truck built to carry all three point five
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  Speaker 4: million pages of the Epstein files digitally and physically from
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  Speaker 4: city to city across America, so that anyone who wants
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  Speaker 4: to see the record for themselves can walk right up
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  Speaker 4: and do that exactly. So that is an important feature
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  Speaker 4: because it reinforces what you and your family and other
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  Speaker 4: families of survivors, and the survivors themselves are saying. And
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  Speaker 4: a simone just noted our names are here in the paper, right,
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  Speaker 4: Can we now expose the names of the.
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  Speaker 2: Men who did this to the then fifteen year old,
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  Speaker 2: sixteen year old girl.
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  Speaker 4: Don't look at the woman in front of you, look
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  Speaker 4: at the little girl, the twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen year
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  Speaker 4: old who's who was a victim at that time.
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  Speaker 2: We always use.
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  Speaker 5: This phrase, courage is contagious. We've all been saying it.
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  Speaker 5: We've been seeing the defiance spread in this country. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't spread itself right, and that's why we felt like
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  Speaker 5: it was very important to put it on four wheels.
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  Speaker 5: What I saw today on Capitol Hill, And Michael, this
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  Speaker 5: will resonate with you. I've never seen anything like I
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  Speaker 5: saw today on Capitol Hill. You and I have given
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  Speaker 5: tours to people. We've seen folks go petition, go lobby.
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  Speaker 5: They're meek, they'll knock on the door, they'll leave a
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  Speaker 5: piece of paper, they're scared to do. Credit to the
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  Speaker 5: Sky and Amanda.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't rude. But I watched them.
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  Speaker 5: And Danny Benski and these survivors one after the other,
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  Speaker 5: going up to these senators, stopping them in the hallway
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  Speaker 5: and saying, listen, we need to talk to you about this,
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  Speaker 5: I mean carrying the files going up into their faces,
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  Speaker 5: John Fetterman and John Barrasso and John Cornyn and Tillis.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was propitious.
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  Speaker 5: It was like the hand of God was saying, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna make sure you run into all of these senators
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  Speaker 5: in the hallway. But they showed the courage when they
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  Speaker 5: did to confront them. We need other people to get
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  Speaker 5: that yes on the files. Yes for transparency here, but
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  Speaker 5: for all the corruption. As Amanda noted, this whole scandal,
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  Speaker 5: this cover up epitomizes the corruption from this administration. They
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  Speaker 5: break the law, they obstruct Congress, They used power to
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  Speaker 5: help their friends, that used power to hurt their adversaries.
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  Speaker 5: Go on down the list. This checks every single one
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  Speaker 5: of those boxes. It's why we've got to keep it
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  Speaker 5: in the four up until the midterms and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Just now, yes, please, yeah, just now.
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  Speaker 6: We just got in from some ms Now reporting that
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  Speaker 6: Tom Tillis told ms Now it's more likely than not
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  Speaker 6: that tomorrow's blanche vote is canceled. He says, quote with
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  Speaker 6: the passing time, it's going to be difficult for me
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  Speaker 6: to think that we can get all this language ironed
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  Speaker 6: out and then get everybody to be fair to dealj
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  Speaker 6: There are several parties that they have to work with
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  Speaker 6: the ones who get the language. So I think that's
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  Speaker 6: probably why I think it's unlikely we.
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  Speaker 2: Could have all of this settled.
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  Speaker 6: Tonight, Cornyn told me this is from one of our colleagues. Guy,
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  Speaker 6: you hearing that now that it actually maybe they do
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  Speaker 6: have some spines over there in Coppol Hill. Maybe the
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  Speaker 6: work that you guys have done actually matters and moves
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  Speaker 6: them and makes them stop and think sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts now? Well, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be there one way or the other.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, So if the vote happens, we'll be there. If
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  Speaker 7: the vote doesn't happen, we'll be there. So what the
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  Speaker 7: point being is that we will be here until the
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  Speaker 7: very end. This doesn't stop just because you either vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no.
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  Speaker 7: If Todd blanche is either voted yes or no, We're
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  Speaker 7: still going to fight until every name is released.
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  Speaker 2: This is not about.
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  Speaker 7: Politics to us in any way, shape or for I'm
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  Speaker 7: Republican or Democrat. We will keep fighting until every single
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  Speaker 7: document is unredacted for the predators, redacted for the survivors,
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  Speaker 7: and to be completely honest with you.
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  Speaker 5: Virginia named the names.
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  Speaker 2: The names are in there.
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  Speaker 7: We need to start digging into this and really start
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  Speaker 7: asking the serious questions, which is who are behind those redactions?
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  Speaker 7: Who are these men? Who are these predators? We have
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  Speaker 7: to start setting an example of our next sits.
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  Speaker 2: Out there who some of them are.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's also important to note that you know, yes,
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  Speaker 4: this language was very important in what was said here.
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  Speaker 4: To be fair to DJ, there are several parties that
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  Speaker 4: they have to work with once you get the language.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the problem, folks, You need both parties.
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  Speaker 2: To sign off. Donald Trump has to sign off on
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  Speaker 2: this language. Donald Trump is not signing off on this language. Period.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a bigger problem. You know, I have my step
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  Speaker 3: son is eleven years old, and you know, you want
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  Speaker 3: to teach your children boundaries and whatnot. And so when
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  Speaker 3: we say something, we set a goal, when we set
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  Speaker 3: a deadline. My husband always talks about being a man
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  Speaker 3: of your word, being a person of your word. When
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  Speaker 3: you say you're going to do something, you do it.
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  Speaker 3: The Senators set a goal on a deadline. They said
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  Speaker 3: this is our line, and now they're moving it. So
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  Speaker 3: what I'm concerned about is that they're just buying themselves
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  Speaker 3: more time to get around the very tough conversations they
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  Speaker 3: had to have with you all today.
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  Speaker 2: I am not convinced.
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  Speaker 3: I think people need to ask Tom tell Us at
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  Speaker 3: all more questions. But the point you just made that
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  Speaker 3: you will be there regardless what happens tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to show up. We're going to keep showing
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  Speaker 1: up like we've been showing up, like Virginia showed up,
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  Speaker 1: like every single survivor who showed up thirty years ago
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  Speaker 1: and first made that report. Because it's not just about
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  Speaker 1: this moment. It's not just about singular abuse. It's about
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  Speaker 1: every single survivor out there who had been silenced, who
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  Speaker 1: have been told no because the person who abused them
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  Speaker 1: was someone in power. We've had enough of it, The
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  Speaker 1: country has had enough of it, and we will keep
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  Speaker 1: showing up, and the American people will be behind us
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  Speaker 1: showing up in the same way. We got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to put the pressure. That's how we pass the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Files Transparency Act. That's how we're going to get things done.
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  Speaker 1: People have the power and they know it.