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Bill Clinton Testifies Under Subpoena in The Congreessional Epstein Probe · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. So Slick Willie gave his deposition yesterday, and
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everybody seems to have a big opinion about what was
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said or what wasn't said. Meanwhile, we haven't even seen
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the transcripts or the video yet, so how do we know.
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All we have are sound bites from elected officials who
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obviously have skin in the game both ways, and who
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both have motivation to spin the truth into a narrative
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that fits what they want us to believe. So I'm
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not taking too much from the Hillary Clinton or Bill
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Clinton deposition yet until I can see the transcripts and
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the video for myself. I'm not going to be dog
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walked by a bunch of people in the legacy media
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that really have no idea what they're talking about anyway,
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So I'm going to wait until we get the transcripts
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before I have a heavy opinion one way or the other.
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Now that said, let's do a brief overview of what
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went and some of the things that are coming out.
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And to do that, we're going to use an article
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from the AP headline Bill Clinton says he did nothing
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wrong with Epstein as he faced grilling over their relationship.
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This article was authored by Stephen Groves. Former President Bill
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Clinton told members of Congress on Friday he did nothing
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wrong in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no
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signs of Epstein's sexual abuse, as he faced hours of
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grilling from lawmakers over his connections to the disgraced financier
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from more than two decades ago. Okay, I don't believe him,
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but that's what he says. He had no idea what
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Jeffrey Epstein was up to at all. Huh, no clue,
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Former President of the United States, You mean to tell me.
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Nobody in his security detail ran a report on who
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Jeffrey Epstein was. I mean, of course, he can say that,
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but if you believe him, that's up to you personally.
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I do not believe him. Now. I'm not saying Bill
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Clinton saw Jeffrey Epstein abusing girls, but he knew that
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Jeffrey Epstein was a criminal. Come on, everybody knew that.
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Everybody knew he was running money, everybody knew who he
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was bundling, everybody knew about his ties to gun runners.
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So please stop the nonsense. I saw nothing and I
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did nothing wrong. The former Democratic president said in an
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opening statement he shared on social media. The closed door
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deposition ended after more than six hours of questioning from lawmakers,
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who said he answered every question posed to him. Well,
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that's good, and look, props for Bill Clinton for finally
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sitting down for this deposition. But why did it have
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to take this long. Why couldn't he have just come
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forward years ago and laid it all out. Look, this
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is what was happening. I did nothing wrong and I
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have nothing to hide. But instead he sent out that
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angel Urina dude to tell us a bunch of bullshit
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and lies, and they're still lying about the depths of
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their relationship. I can tell you right now that the Clintons,
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including Hillary Clinton, vacation that Zoro ranch, and this is
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from sources that were at the ranch at the time,
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so they can say whatever they want, but we know
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the truth now. Of course, again, that does not mean
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that Bill Clinton was sitting in some room with Jeffrey
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Epstein and abusing girls. And I've been very consistent saying
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that as much as I don't like Bill Clinton, balls
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are balls and strikes or strikes. The deposition in the
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Clinton's hometown of Chappaqua New York marked the first time
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a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress.
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It came a day after Clinton's wife, former Secretary of
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State Hillary Clinton, sat with lawmakers for her own deposition.
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And again, same with that deposition. We don't really know
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what's what yet, So I'm going to reserve having a
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heavy opinion until I get those transcripts, because it seems
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like right now people are just talking about the things
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that they want to be true and ignoring anything else.
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But that's not how it works, right. We have to
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look at the whole thing, the whole deposition for what
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it is, a whole deposition. That way, we have context
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and we know exactly what we're talking about. Bill Clinton
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has also not been accused of any wrongdoing, and Republican
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members of the House Oversight Committee did not immediately level
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any accusations against the Clintons as they departed Chappaqua. They
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planned to review the depositions, but said their attention was
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mostly shifting to other individuals, well not Less Wexner. Huh,
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that's convenient. Somebody should ask James Comer about that. And
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you see all these Republicans that showed up in New
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York why weren't they down in Ohio? No representative Luna
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down in Ohio? Was she too busy with interdimensional beings
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and falsely painting Epstein survivors as traffickers. I mean, it's
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awesome that she made some time to get away from
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her influencerr life on the internet to get to New York.
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But it would have been nice if these GOP committee
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members would have went down to Ohio as well. So
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anything that Luna says I would take with a grand assault.
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She's not a serious person, not at all. In fact,
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she's caused a lot of damage by lobbing a grenade
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and trying to act like all these survivors were traffickers.
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You need to be very clear when you're talking like that.
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I mean, we've already seen that commentary be twisted and
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turned and weaponized against the survivors. But nobody's calling Luna out.
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I guess I will. This lady is reckless and she
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doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this story. She should
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work on other things because this is way above her head.
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Lawmakers are grappling with what accountability in the United States
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looks like at a time when men around the world
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have been toppled from their high power posts for maintaining
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their connections with Epstein after he pleaded guilty in two
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thousand and eight to stay charges in Florida for soliciting
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prostitution from an underage girl, raping an underage girl. Let's
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just call it what it is, holy shit. So if
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it was your daughter, would you say that Jeffrey Epstein
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solicited prostitution from an underage girl? Or would you say
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that he raped your daughter. We have questions about anyone
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who spent time with Epstein post conviction, said Republican James Comer,
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the chair of the House Oversight Committee. Once you knew
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Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender, why did you continue
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the relationship? Well, that's a good question. Why don't you
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ask Howard Lutnik? Stupid? I don't think these guys understand
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that they're lighting whatever little legacy they have on fire.
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When historians come back and look at this time period,
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it's not going to end well for these dudes. Bill Clinton,
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in his opening statement, said that he had long stopped
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associating with Epstein by the time of his two thousand
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and eight guilty plea. He also said it would be
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difficult to recall the specifics of events from more than
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twenty years ago, but expressed certainty that he had not
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witnessed signs of Epstein's bit. No, not at all. I
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saw nothing. Ah, I was an Arkansas. I had no
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idea what was going on as he's getting a massage
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from a traffic girl. I mean, come on, dude, It's
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one thing to say you didn't you know partake. It's
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a whole other thing to try and lie to me
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and say you didn't know what was going on, or
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at least suspect, because there's no way that anybody that
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was around Epstein thought that Jeffrey Epstein had all these
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beautiful women around him because he was some kind of casanova. Okay.
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Bill Clinton, in his opening statement, said that he had
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long stopped associating with Epstein by the time of his
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two thousand and eight guilty plea. He also said it
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would be difficult to recall the specifics of events from
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more than twenty years ago, but express certainty that he
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had not witnessed signs of Epstein's abuse. Republican John Maguire
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accused Bill Clinton of having selective memory during the questioning,
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but other GOP members departed, acknowledging that he had handled
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the deposition with skill and candor. Comer called Bill Clinton charming.
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During the questioning, Clinton was quite candid, perhaps more candid
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than his attorneys were comfortable Seed Republican Representative Nick Langworthy, Well,
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that's good to hear, and he should be, especially since
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he says he has nothing to hide. Republicans have wanted
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to question Bill Clinton about Epstein for years, especially as
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conspiracy theories arose following Epstein's twenty nineteen suicide allegedly in
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a New York jail cell while he faced sex trafficking charges.
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Those calls reached a fever pitch late last year when
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several photos of the former president surfaced in the Department
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of Justice first release of the case on Epstein and Maxwell.
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A British socialite. You mean, child abuser, all around scusbag,
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bipedal serpent, that's what you mean, who was convicted of
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sex trafficking in December of twenty twenty one, but maintains
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that she's innocent. Bill Clinton was photographed on a plane
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seated along i woman whose faces redacted, his arm around her.
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Another photo showed Clinton and Maxwell in a pool with
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another person whose face was redacted. Epstein also visited the
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White House several times during President Clinton's presidency, and the
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pair later made several international trips together for their humanitarian work.
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Comer claimed the committee has collected evidence that Epstein visited
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the White House seventeen times and that Bill Clinton flew
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on Epstein's airplane twenty seven times. Democratic lawmakers said they
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also pose tough questions to Bill Clinton about his relationship
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with Epstein and Maxwell. I bet you none of them
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asked if Bill Clinton was romantically involved with Glenn Maxwell,
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because that's one of the rumors we heard, and again
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that was brought to us by the Daily Beast. Not
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exactly a bastion of conservatism. We were only here because
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he hid it from everyone so well, for so long,
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Bill Bill Clinton said in his opening statement, And by
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the time it came to light with this two thousand
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and eight guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.
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Bill Clinton also went after Comer for calling his wife
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before the committee, telling him that including her was simply
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not right. Comer said the committee was working to quickly
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publish a transcript and video recording of both days of depositions. Well,
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that's what I want. I'm not going to sit here
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and tell you guys one way or the other what
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went down, because we just don't know yet. We have
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an idea, but we don't know the nuance, we don't
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know the back and forth. So I'm going to reserve
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heavy criticism one way or the other until we have
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the facts. I know. That's shocking to hear. Democrats who
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have supported the push to get answers from Bill Clinton
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are arguing that it sets precedent that should apply to
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President Trump, a Republican who had his own relationship with Epstein.
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I think that President Trump needs to man up, get
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in front of this committee and answer the questions and
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stop calling this investigation a hoax, said Representative Robert Garcia,
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the top Democrat on the committee, on Friday. Comer has
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pushed back on that idea, saying that Trump has answered
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questions on Epstein from the press. No, he hasn't, absolutely not.
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And if you think the right is gonna wiggle out
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of having Trump get deposed at some point over this,
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you're wrong. They opened that door and now they're gonna
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have to walk through it. Trump on Friday expressed remorse
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at Bill Clinton being forced to testify. I like Bill Clinton,
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and I don't like seeing him deposed, he told reporters
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as he departed the White House and route the Corpus Christi.
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Texas Democrats are also calling for the resignation of Trump's
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Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. Lutnick was a longtime neighbor of
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Epstein in New York City, but said on a podcast
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that he severed ties with Epstein following a two thousand
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and five tour of Epstein's home that disturbed Lutnick and
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his wife. Well, that's a lie. Just about everything Lutnick
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has told us about Epstein and his relationship is a lie.
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So if anybody should be testifying right now, certainly Lutnick.
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The public release of the case files showed that Lutnick
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actually had two engagements with Epstein. Years later, he attended
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a twenty eleven event at Epstein's home, and in twenty
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twelve his family had lunch with Epstein on his private island,
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and they were also involved in a business together. Adfinn, Well,
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you don't want to add that here, not part of
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the story. He should be removed from office, and at
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a minimum, should come before the committee, Garcia said of Lutnik.
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Republican Representative Nancy Mace questioned Tillary Clinton about Lutnick's relationship
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to Epstein during the deposition on Thursday. On Friday morning,
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Mace joined in calling for the Commerce Secretary to come
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before the committee. I believe we will have the votes
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to subpoena him. Democratic Representative ro Kanna said, and they should.
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Howard Lutnik has obviously lied, so he needs to be
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called before the committee, put under oath, and let's get
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to the bottom of it. So I think we're going
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to wrap up right here, and once we get the
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deposition transcripts in hand, we'll go through the deposition transcripts
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right here on air, every single word, and then of
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course we'll break it down afterwards like we always do
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when we have all the information available to us. But
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from the initial view here, from the initial reporting, it
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doesn't look like they got much, doesn't look like much
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was accomplished. So we'll see what the transcripts say when
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they come out, but until then, that's going to do
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it for this one. All the information that goes with
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