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Scotland Yard’s Mandelson Probe Hits an Epstein Files Roadblock (8/24/26) · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. A few months ago, Peter Mandelsson was arrested
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  Speaker 1: over in the UK and according to authorities, he was
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  Speaker 1: passing confidential information to his buddy Jeffrey Epstein. Now Peter Mandelsson,
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  Speaker 1: for his part, has denied that he ever passed any
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  Speaker 1: kind of confidential information to anyone, including Jeffrey Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the UK authorities were hoping that they'd be able to
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  Speaker 1: get some of the redacted Epstein files from the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice, but in typical Todd Blanche Department of Justice fashion,
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  Speaker 1: they're not helping out and they're refusing to turn over
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  Speaker 1: the documentation that's being requested by the UK. And instead
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  Speaker 1: of just handing over the information that has to do
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  Speaker 1: with Peter Mandelsson, the DOJ instead is putting up a
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  Speaker 1: brick wall because they don't don't care about justice. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's not about justice. It never has been. It's always
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  Speaker 1: been about the blast radius. And every time you see
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  Speaker 1: a ruling like this or a decision like this, you
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  Speaker 1: know that the fix is in on what planet? Don't
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  Speaker 1: we want to get to the bottom of what Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was up to. And if he was passing confidential
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  Speaker 1: information to anybody from any country and that country is
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  Speaker 1: requesting your help, the DOJ should offer that help. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: can bring more light to what Epstein was up to.
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  Speaker 1: That's what should be done. But instead they continue to
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  Speaker 1: do the opposite. Today's article is from The Independent and
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  Speaker 1: the headline fears for Mandelssohn investigation as MET still doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have unredacted Epstein files. This article was authored by Amy
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  Speaker 1: Claire Martin. Fears are growing for the police investigation and
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  Speaker 1: to whether Lord Mandelssohn shared confidential information with pedophile billionaire
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. And look, birds of a feather, right, we
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  Speaker 1: know that Peter Mandelssohn was well liked. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Peter Mandelson has friends in the Trump administration, and we
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  Speaker 1: know that they're going to try and help their buddy out.
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  Speaker 1: That's how these people roll. Power protects power. And if
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  Speaker 1: the maskets yanked off of Mandelssh, then the maskets yanked
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  Speaker 1: off of all of them and they can't have it.
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  Speaker 1: So instead they'll continue with this theater where they pretend
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  Speaker 1: they care, pretend that they're actually you know, investigating what happened.
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  Speaker 1: But that's all just part of the hustle. They're not
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  Speaker 1: really investigating anything. How many investigations have been opened up?
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  Speaker 1: How many people have been referred for prosecution? That's right,
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  Speaker 1: just the two mister Levigne and Frederick Foukai and on
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  Speaker 1: the word of Sarah Kell and Vickers. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: only people that you've referred to the Justice Department for investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Seems a bit weird. No reports claim that the probe
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  Speaker 1: into the former Foreign secretary is stalled without the US
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  Speaker 1: authorities granting access to the unredacted Epstein files. Well, of
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  Speaker 1: course they have to have the information. They have to
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  Speaker 1: have the evidence if they're going to prosecute somebody. And
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  Speaker 1: if the United States doesn't want to play ball, well
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  Speaker 1: what are they supposed to do? I mean, you would
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  Speaker 1: think that the most transparent administration in the history of
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  Speaker 1: administrations here in America would want to be transparent. But
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  Speaker 1: I guess not. I guess it's only transparency when we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Amelia Earhart. According to The Telegraph, neither the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice nor the FBI has yet agreed to
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  Speaker 1: request from the Metro Police for the documents. Scotland Yard
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  Speaker 1: Detectives initially made the request under an informal agreement to
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  Speaker 1: share information between the law enforcement agencies. This was later
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  Speaker 1: escalated to a formal request for Mutual Legal Assistance MLA.
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  Speaker 1: But it could take up to two years to act
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  Speaker 1: the documents, and there's no guarantee that the DJ will
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  Speaker 1: release them. You need to tell me. They can't make
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  Speaker 1: an exception, call a special counsel or whatever the fuck
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  Speaker 1: you do. Of course they can, but it's just like
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  Speaker 1: the NPA. They have no desire to get rid of it,
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  Speaker 1: and they have no desire to help anybody else investiget
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  Speaker 1: Epstein because all heroads lead home. Everybody needs to understand
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  Speaker 1: all the people that have been pitching you on Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's this big massage spy, they're wrong. They're the same
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  Speaker 1: people that think they know about the Tyler Robinson case
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  Speaker 1: because of dreams and vibes. You have been horribly misled, folks,
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  Speaker 1: horribly misled. Jeffrey Epstein is was, and always will be
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  Speaker 1: made and protected by intelligence in America. And those are
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  Speaker 1: just the facts. I know that it doesn't line up
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  Speaker 1: with all the neat little narratives that want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you something different, but it's just not the truth. And
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  Speaker 1: if those people are lying to you about that? What
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  Speaker 1: else are they lying to you about? And listen when
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  Speaker 1: I say lying, that's what I mean, not about being wrong.
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  Speaker 1: People are wrong all the time. People can evaluate a
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  Speaker 1: situation with the facts that are available and then change
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  Speaker 1: their mind later on. That's what thoughtful, intelligent people do.
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  Speaker 1: They follow the evidence. What these grifters do is they
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  Speaker 1: show up with the evidence and make the evidence fit
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  Speaker 1: whatever narrative they're trying to build. And isn't it funny
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  Speaker 1: that the people that are always yelling about everybody else
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  Speaker 1: being caught up in a siop are actually caught up
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  Speaker 1: in a siop. The men investigating the claims the Labor
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  Speaker 1: Grandee passed on market sensitive information to Epstein during his
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  Speaker 1: time as Business Secretary. The seventy two year old was
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  Speaker 1: sacked from his post as ambassador to the US last
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  Speaker 1: year and resigned from the House of Lords in February.
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  Speaker 1: Has previously denied any wrongdoing. Oh well, in that case,
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  Speaker 1: close the investigation. Peter Mandelson says he's innocent. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what, The sad truth is that the DOJ probably
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  Speaker 1: has access to everything that the English need to send
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  Speaker 1: this son of a bitch to prison. But they know
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  Speaker 1: that Peter Mandelsson has matches. And if you think a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Peter Mandelsson is scared to burn the house
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  Speaker 1: down around him, you got another thing coming. I bet you.
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  Speaker 1: He's told people and reached out behind the scenes and
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  Speaker 1: told them listen, if I go down, you go down too.
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  Speaker 1: He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct and public office
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  Speaker 1: on the twenty third of February, and his properties were searched.
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  Speaker 1: It came several weeks after the DOJ released three million
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  Speaker 1: documents relating to the late billionaire on January thirtieth. However,
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  Speaker 1: some information in the exchanges had been redacted to protect
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  Speaker 1: victims and avoid jeopardizing ongoing investigations. Oh yeah, ongoing investigations.
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  Speaker 1: That's fed speak for leave us alone. That's fedspeak for
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  Speaker 1: you can't get this foyer. That's fed speak for a
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  Speaker 1: fuck you. The arrest followed a tip off from Sir
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Hoyle, the Common Speaker, that he could flee to
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  Speaker 1: the British Virgin Islands. Scotland Yard previously confirmed it was
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  Speaker 1: seeking further details from law enforcement partners and including the US,
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  Speaker 1: with reports in March claiming that met Commissioner Sir Mark
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  Speaker 1: Rowley was due to press the US authorities on the
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  Speaker 1: issue during a visit to Washington. Well, we know that
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  Speaker 1: Trump is a quid pro quo kind of dude, So
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  Speaker 1: the UK is going to have to offer something up
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  Speaker 1: in return. What that is I have no idea who
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  Speaker 1: the fuck knows with Donald Trump. But if you think
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to give something up that might lead
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  Speaker 1: back to him, you got another thing coming. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about. Remember, they're worried where this trail leads,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why they're willing to burn all the boats
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  Speaker 1: on the shore to make sure that you don't get
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  Speaker 1: the full story. It's now feared that the investigation could
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  Speaker 1: eventually collapse without access to the unredacted documents, according to
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  Speaker 1: reports in The Times and The Telegraphs. Although there's hope
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  Speaker 1: a sufficient case can be built by interviewing former politicians
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  Speaker 1: and officials, the files are understood to be crucial to
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  Speaker 1: the probe. You know, the cynic in me wants to
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  Speaker 1: say that the UK and the United States government are
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  Speaker 1: colluding to not release the files. That's what the cynic
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  Speaker 1: in me says. Is that true? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. But when we're talking about this case
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about the people that we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: we're forced to think that, you know, we're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: sinister people because we are right. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: been proved time and time again. Pretty much every time
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  Speaker 1: you turn around, there's somebody else playing a game. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: we can't have that. Oh we can have this, but
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  Speaker 1: we're going to redact that. Oh we messed up here,
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  Speaker 1: on and on and on and on. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: never say, oh, well, we indicted this person, because there's
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  Speaker 1: a ton of evidence and we're going to see it
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  Speaker 1: all the way through. Reports have suggested that the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is hesitant to hand over any files that could
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  Speaker 1: cause damage to the president's reputation or risk future scandals. However,
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  Speaker 1: US officials have insisted they're simply following established legal procedure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, established legal procedure. Is it loopholes and technicalities?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the DOJ and the American government
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a workaround for that? What if it was
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist, do you think they'd wait two years or
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  Speaker 1: do you think they'd bypass whatever MLA safeguards there are
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  Speaker 1: and get the information they need, but when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein, hell no, you're not getting that. A DOJ
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  Speaker 1: spokesman told The Telegraph, the Department of Justice has not
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  Speaker 1: refused to assist any jurisdiction investigating potential criminal conduct related
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein. Well that's a lie. They just got
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  Speaker 1: sued by the State of New Mexico for Fox's sake
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  Speaker 1: for not handing over information. But sure, the DOJ is complying.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing ball, they're following the rules. Both US and
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  Speaker 1: UK authorities follow established and legally required procedures for sharing
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  Speaker 1: information and evidence, and those processes ensure that any cooperation
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  Speaker 1: adheres to applicable laws that govern international evidence sharing and
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  Speaker 1: protects the integrity of ongoing matters. The Metropolitan Police declined
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  Speaker 1: the comment, so translation, we're not giving you anything and
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do about it. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: the question is is the UK just going to accept
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  Speaker 1: that or are they going to push and push some
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  Speaker 1: more to try and get the documents, And like usual,
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  Speaker 1: will be following along every step of the way. All
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