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Heinrich presses Trump nominee Jay Clayton on the release of personal information of Epstein victims · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: It is alleged, and I would add quite credibly that
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein committed some very serious crimes at his Zora
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  Speaker 1: Ranch property in my home state of New Mexico. Yet
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  Speaker 1: there has never been a federal search of that property,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact, in twenty nineteen, the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: directed the New directed New Mexico to pause its own
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  Speaker 1: investigation and has most recently refused to provide the unredacted
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  Speaker 1: evidence needed for our Attorney General to effectively carry out
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  Speaker 1: his investigation, despite federal and state loss requiring disclosure. I
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  Speaker 1: understand that as US Attorney for the Southern District of
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  Speaker 1: New York, you led the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Can
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  Speaker 1: you commit to providing any relevant information to the New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico Attorney General and the documents unredacted documents that he
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  Speaker 1: has requested.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke to my team about this last night. That
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  Speaker 2: request is for unredacted documents. Those documents are subject to
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  Speaker 2: several protections for those redactions, including a protective order of
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  Speaker 2: the court. My folks, I think as we speak, are
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  Speaker 2: seeking dialogue with the Attorney General to see if we
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  Speaker 2: can reach an accommodation that is consistent with those protective orders.
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  Speaker 1: I would seriously encourage that cooperation and that spirit of
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  Speaker 1: working in cooperation between federal and state law enforcement. I
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  Speaker 1: think it is quite clear that it is likely that
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  Speaker 1: there are survivors, witnesses, and coke conspirators whose names have
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  Speaker 1: been redacted that are necessary for him to effectively complete
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  Speaker 1: that investigation. And mister Chairman, I would also ask unanimous
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  Speaker 1: consent to enter into the record the letter from the
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico Attorney General to the Department of Justice without objection.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, mister Clayton, in your role as US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: for the Southern District of New York, you were tasked
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  Speaker 1: to personally certify that the unsealed grand jury material related
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein did not disclose victim's personal information. The
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  Speaker 1: judge in that case stated that he added this protective
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  Speaker 1: order to ensure that an identifiable official within DJ takes
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  Speaker 1: ownership of the sensitive and vitally important process of reviewing discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Due to what the Department of Justice later called technical
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  Speaker 1: or human error, the January twenty sixth release of material
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  Speaker 1: included email addresses and even nude photos of potential Epstein victims.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyers for those victims said that this flawed process retraumatized
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  Speaker 1: the survivors and quote turned their lives upside down. You
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  Speaker 1: were in charge of this process during which highly sensitive
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  Speaker 1: personal data was made public. Did you personally certify the
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  Speaker 1: material as a judge ordered?
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  Speaker 2: The judge ordered a certification of a subset of the materials,
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  Speaker 2: the materials that were in the Southern District.
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  Speaker 1: So who takes responsibility for what I think was an
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  Speaker 1: conscionable release of an unnecessary release of personal information for
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  Speaker 1: these victims?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think the Department of Justice has has
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  Speaker 2: addressed that from the overall perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Harry Truman used to have a sign on
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  Speaker 1: this desk that said the buck stops here. Who has
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  Speaker 1: a sign on their desk in this case for.
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  Speaker 2: The Southern District documents? It was me.
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  Speaker 1: In a media interview a couple of months ago. You
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  Speaker 1: were asked your position on the President's one point eight
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar fund for victims of weaponization, and you replied,
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  Speaker 1: when we are investigating people and bringing charges against them,
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  Speaker 1: criminal charges against people from a financial point of view,
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  Speaker 1: you can be they can be absolutely devastating if people
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  Speaker 1: have been pursued inappropriately. I'm supportive of their being relief
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  Speaker 1: for that financial cost. That's it. End quote. Do you
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  Speaker 1: believe that people convicted of violent crimes related to the
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  Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty one, twenty twenty one attack on the
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  Speaker 1: US Capital and on US Capitol police were pursued inappropriately
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  Speaker 1: in any way?
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  Speaker 2: Let me say this, Any physical violence against law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: is completely objectionable.
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  Speaker 1: Would it be appropriate for that fund to be used
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  Speaker 1: in cases where people were duly convicted of violent crimes?
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  Speaker 1: In that case?
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  Speaker 2: Let me go back to my comment very quickly. I
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  Speaker 2: was not speaking of the fund. I was speaking generally.
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  Speaker 2: If I think this is a CNBC clip, and I
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  Speaker 2: stand by what I said was is if people have
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  Speaker 2: been inappropriately and intentionally subject to prosecution, they should have
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  Speaker 2: every course.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, mister chairman.