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The Pam Bondi Congressional Oversight Committee Epstein Related Transcript (Part 8) (6/8/26) · 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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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where he left off with the Pam Bondi discussion with
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  the OIG investigators. Now Miss Ansorry is asking the questions. Hi,
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  Miss Bondi, thank you all right. I would like to
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  focus questions on failure to comply with the Oversight Committee subpoena.
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  On August fifth of last year, Chairman Comer issued a
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  subpoena to the DOJ for all documents and communications from
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  DJs Epstein and Maxwell related cases. On August twenty second
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  of last year, DOJ produced approximately thirty three thousand pages
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  to the Committee. Almost all of those materials were already
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  publicly available, and that's all that we have received from
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  the DOJ in the ten months since the subpoena was issued.
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  Why was the first production in August made of mostly
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  and all publicly available material Bondy, as I said earlier,
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  Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward managed the release of those documents,
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  and since then the Department received and released approximately three
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  million documents, Miss Ansorry, But did anyone in the administration
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  direct you to release material that were already publicly available
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  pertaining specifically to the subpoena. Dylan, I think we're having
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  some difficulty hearing you. Bondy, Yeah and sorry. Okay. The
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  question in regards to our subpoena before prior to the
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  Epstein Files Transparency Act, Bondy, I have to turn. I
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  can't turn my neck, so I have to turn towards you.
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  If that's okay, Miss ansorry. So the question is, did
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  anyone in the administration direct you to release only public
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  available information in those thirty three thousand pages? Bondy, as
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  I said, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward handled that, Miss
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  an Sorry, I understand that, but Bondie cuts her off.
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  I had minimum involvement in that and sorry. Buddy works
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  for you. Bondy, Yes and sorry. Did someone direct you
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  to only release publicly of vallible information in regard to
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  our subpoena to the Department of Justice? Bondi, No and sorry. Okay, Bondie,
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  to my knowledge, no and sorry. Do you believe that
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  the Department is obligated to respond to the Overside Committee subpoena? Bondi,
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  Yes and sorry. In November of twenty twenty five, President
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  Trump posted on truth Social about the Committee subpoena, saying quote,
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  the House Overside Committee can have whatever they are legally
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  entitled to. Do you agree with President Trump? Bondie? Can
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  you repeat that? And sorry? In November of twenty twenty five,
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  President Trump posted on truth Social about the Committee subpoena,
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  saying quote, the House Overside Committee can have whatever they
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  are legally entitled to. Do you agree with the President, Bondie?
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  I agree that you're entitled to everything you're legally entitled to.
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  Yes and sorry? Okay? And then finally, does the committee
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  need to bring you in for a deposition instead of
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  a transcribed interview to get complete answers? Bondy, No, and sorry, Okay,
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  thank you we have, mister Submerannium. Thank you for coming
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  in today. I was just curious if you went through
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  any of the files yourself, Like, did you read through
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  any of the files yourself? BONDI some of them, probably, sure,
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  some of them. But there were three million pages, so
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  very little Submarennium, right, and you were looking for anything
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  in particular in the files, Bondy no, mister Submarannium. And
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  there's rumors of an effort potentially to look through the files,
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  for President Trump's name, in particular, are you aware of
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  any sort of effort at the Department of Justice anywhere
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  else in the administration of doing that, Bondy, I'm not
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  going to discuss anything with the Department or discussions that
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  did or did not take place. Question. I'm asking about
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  your knowledge of any sort of effort to do that,
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  not any sort of discussions that happened, Bondi. I'm not
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  going to discuss any conversations that did or did not happen.
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  Regarding that question, I'm not asking about conversations, just to
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  be clear, just your knowledge of any effort to look
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  for President Trump's name during the redaction process or during
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  the release of the files, BONDI. What I do know
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  is you can go online. That's why I'm hesitating, and
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  there are three million pages, and I believe you can
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  type in a name and it'll come up. So I'm
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  sure many people did that, with many individuals, and I
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  believe members of Congress names are also listed in there.
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  So to my knowledge, did that happen, Yes, but not
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  only with President Trump, with multiple people, by many of us,
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  as you will, that was done question. Absolutely, You're right.
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  But what I'm asking though, is before the release of
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  the files, during the process or releasing the files, was
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  there any effort to look through for President Trump's name
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  or any other administration officials name before the release of
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  the files? Bondy, I don't recall question. And are you
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  aware of any effort to do that? You don't recall, Bondi,
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  I don't recall question, okay, And you suggested he gets
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  cut off by BONDI again, there were three million pages. Question,
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  it's not about what's in the files. I'm asking any
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  effort to look for President Trump or any other administration
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  officials name in the files, up to the release of
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  the files and in the process of releasing the files, Bondy,
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  I don't recall, Submaranian, you don't recall, okay. And then
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  at various points you suggested that the DOJ holds a
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  significant volume of child sexual abuse material within the Epstein files.
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  Can you clarify what that means, what you meant by that, BONDI. Sure,
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  it's called c SAM and that is protected, as you
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  know under the law, highly protected child sexual abuse material.
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  And yes, I'm aware of that, and I'm aware that
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  there was much of that contained in the Epstein files.
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  Question and would you say that some of the files
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  that would have been withheld are those types of materials? Bondy,
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  to my knowledge yes, question okay. And last month, mister
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  Blanche set on a podcast that quote, the FBI did
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  not collect any video of mister Epstein or others participating
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  in sex acts. Would you agree with that statement? Answer?
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  I don't have direct knowledge of that, but I do
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  know that initially when all those videos were obtained, they
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  were scoured through by attorneys and probably agents to be
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  sure no victims were released, and much of it, if
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  not all, of it ended up being child sexual abuse
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  material that he downloaded. If that makes sense. Question, that
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  makes sense. Thank you. That's very helpful. And you have
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  spoken and have you spoken with any of the survivors, Dylan,
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  you can answer this, but you can answer it again, Bondy.
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  I spoke with one attorney, I believe. Question one of
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  their attorneys. Bondi, I spoke with one of their attorneys,
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  I believe. I know attorneys in my office have spoken
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  with multiple attorneys who represented or represent the survivors, And
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  as you know, it's not appropriate for us to talk
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  to someone who is represented directly without talking to their attorney.
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  I've spoke with one of the attorneys. Question, were they
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  or their attorneys at all consulted in the process or
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  release in the files? Bondy, I don't know. I don't recall. Question.
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  You don't recall. And at one point there was talk
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  about given the survivors access to their own files or
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  statements that they made. Was there any discussion about that
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  or sorry? Do you have any knowledge of any sort
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  of or understanding of any sort of effort to do that, Bondy?
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  Can you repeat that question? The survivors have asked for
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  their own files, meaning statements that they gave at the
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  time that they were interviewed. Do you have any awareness
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  of this request, Bondy, I would direct that to the
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  current attorney general. Question, but while you were attorney general, Bondi,
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  I don't recall question. I believe they made that request.
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  You don't recall them requesting that publicly or directly, Bondy
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  access to the files? Question? Yes, Bondi, meaning question, they
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  have asked for their own statements. There are three or
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  two statements, and so they have said that they requested this.
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  I believe it was a public letter too, And I'm
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  wondering if you would have any knowledge of that request. BONDI,
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  I don't recall. I would direct that to Deputy Attorney
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  General Blanche. Question, in your opinion, would you have been
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  willing to fulfill this request? We have asked multiple times
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  if any victim wants to meet with us, that we
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  would meet with them and that would include that information,
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  to give them that information to discuss it with them
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  in my mind. Question great, and then I believe you
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  answered this earlier. But based on everything you've seen, do
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  you believe that the Department should move forward with any
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  effort or prosecution related to the matter. Bondi, As I said,
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  we had Jay Clayton in the Southern District of New
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  York open an active case on the matter around Jeffrey
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  Epstein and other individuals when I left office. I believe
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  that was still a pending investigation, so I can't answer.
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  I would direct that to Todd Blanche or Jay Clayton. Question.
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  Thank you, mister Frost, thank you. I just have one
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  more question for clarification. In response to one of the
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  questions he just asked about people name searching Donald Trump,
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  you mentioned that maybe he was name searched or members
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  of Congress had been name searched. But then you looked
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  at us and said, y'all, which leads me to believe
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  I just want clarification. Are you saying that you know
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  that members of Congress search for President Trump's name or
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  search for people's names in the files? Miss BONDI can
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  you repeat that? Frost? So, when he asked you about
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  was there an effort to search for President Trump's names
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  in the file, you started talking about the fact that, well,
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  people can go online and look up anybody's name. You
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  can look up the President's name. There's members of Congress
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  names in it. Then you looked at us and said,
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  y'all have searched this as well. And I just when
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  you said that, did you mean members of Congress have
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  searched for President Trump's name in the files? BONDI, anyone
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  ken it's public, Frost. But by the thing you just
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  told us a little earlier, it seemed like you of
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  knowledge of members of Congress name searching President Trump's name. BONDY, oh, no,
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  that I don't have knowledge of. I don't recall that.
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  But anyone can go in and search for any name
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  on there, and hopefully the system's working where it will
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  pull it up, mister Frost. The reason I asked this
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  is because they were reporting of when you were testifying
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  to the Judiciary Committee that you had in information on
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  our search history from when we went to the Department
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  of Justice. Was that something that you were being told
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  to keep. Were you told to keep that information? The
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  spying on members of Congress as they were looking through
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  the Epstein files, Bondy, No one told me to spy
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  on members of Congress, Frost, So is that a decision
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  you made on your own, Bondie. Members of Congress were
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  not spied on. That system downloads anyone who looks at it,
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  because there are millions of pages of unredacted victims' names.
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  There faces names, information that's not public, that's built into
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  the program. In fact, when you go and review it,
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  if we also have had I don't know if it's
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  still happening. People in the room watching what was happening
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  to be sure no one was walking out with unredacted
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  victims' names on a list, and in fact they did
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  find someone doing that. Frost. I'm aware that's how the
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  system might work, but obviously you know, I'm trying to
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  ask if someone asked you to or why you had
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  printouts of it in your hearing at Judiciary Committee BONDI
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  oh a stafford gave me that lower level staffer gave
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  me a print out, and I intended to talk to
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  Representative Jayapel when she was questioning me about it. No
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  one was trying to hide it. I went and I
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  met with her for about an hour and a half
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  after the hearing as well in person in my office,
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  and I planned on discussing with that with her, but
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  I couldn't get a word in edgewise on that. And
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  the point of that was to show her that we
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  had been a lot of talk about our particular graphic.
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  I believed it was it was a circle. There had
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  been a lot of talk that we were trying to
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  hide men's names because the half a graphic showed a
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  man and the other half was redacted, when in fact,
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  once anyone went online and saw the unredacted version, you
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  could see that those were women and victims. That's why
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  they had been redacted. Mister Frost, uh huh. Thank you.
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  All right, folks, who are going to wrap up right
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  there and in the next episode dealing with the topic,
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  We're going to pick up where we left off. All
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