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Hillary Clinton And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Talk With Congress (Part 7) (9/15/26) · 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. In this episode we're going to pick up
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  Speaker 1: where we left off with the Hillary Clinton transcript from
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  Speaker 1: her trip to Congress. Question, thank you Madam Secretary. I
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  Speaker 1: know that a couple of the minority members have just
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  Speaker 1: a couple questions as part of this hour as well.
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  Speaker 1: And so I have a few and then I'll turn
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  Speaker 1: it over to a couple in the minority members as well.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear me okay from there? Answer, yes I can,
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  Speaker 1: I can. but it would help if the minority members
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  Speaker 1: would move across. Question, yeah, actually they're going to sit
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  Speaker 1: right across. Clinton, okay, perfect, perfect, thank you. Question, great,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I just want to begin by asking you
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  Speaker 1: a few questions, which I believe you've already clarified in
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  Speaker 1: your opening statement. But just to be very clear on
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  Speaker 1: the record one more time, as best as you can recall,
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  Speaker 1: you've never met Jeffrey Epstein? Answer, that's true, that's correct. Question,
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  Speaker 1: as best as you can recall, and you've said this,
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  Speaker 1: You've never went to the island? Answer, never went to
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  Speaker 1: the island. Question, you never flew with him on a plane? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: never flew with him on a plane. Question, and you
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  Speaker 1: were never aware of his horrific crimes prior to those
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  Speaker 1: becoming public knowledge, is that correct? Answer, that is correct. Question, okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I also wanted to just know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the questions that we've been receiving a lot has been
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  Speaker 1: speculation amongst the public that Jeffrey Epstein was somehow affiliated
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  Speaker 1: with foreign intelligence agencies or other intelligence services. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that we have received numerous questions of that type. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you served as Secretary of State. Thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: service in your role as Secretary of State. Were you
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  Speaker 1: ever made aware of Jeffrey Epstein having any type of
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  Speaker 1: relationship with foreign intelligence agencies? Obviously, of course, of a
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  Speaker 1: foreign country. Answer, I was not. And ranking member Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware of the speculation around this, and that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the files being released and questions being raised. And
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  Speaker 1: I do think that is a fruitful area for the
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  Speaker 1: committee to investigate. Question, no, I appreciate that because I'll
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  Speaker 1: say of the type of questions that we're receiving, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of conversations around whether Jeffrey Epstein had ties to
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  Speaker 1: foreign intelligence or was working with foreign governments continues to
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  Speaker 1: come up. And so obviously, as Secretary of State, that
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  Speaker 1: would be something I would imagine you may or may
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  Speaker 1: not have information for. So I appreciate the response. Question,
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  Speaker 1: Madam Secretary, just lastly, I also want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your testimony. And broadly speaking, you've probably been following
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  Speaker 1: just recently and this week, And we've seen, and there's
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  Speaker 1: been reports that numerous files are missing from the group
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  Speaker 1: of files that have been released. For the record, only
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  Speaker 1: about approximately 50% of the total files have likely been released,
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  Speaker 1: and other percentages have been withheld for whatever reason we're
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  Speaker 1: not really sure of and don't really understand. It's also
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  Speaker 1: been reported by numerous outlets this week that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: has removed files that are supposed to be made available
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  Speaker 1: to Congress that include serious allegations of alleged abuse by
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, sexual abuse of a minor. Now, these are
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  Speaker 1: allegations that we know have been corroborated in other ways,
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  Speaker 1: and the media have reported on these, but these files
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  Speaker 1: themselves have been removed. Now, we view this as a
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  Speaker 1: very serious matter. I've personally looked for these files in
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  Speaker 1: the archive, Manifest, that lists which files should be placed there.
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  Speaker 1: Those files are no longer there, and we have been
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  Speaker 1: calling on the DOJ and the Attorney General to release
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  Speaker 1: all the files. I'm wondering if in your experience, obviously
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S. Senate as Secretary of State, if you've
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  Speaker 1: entered responses to the behavior of the DOJ and their
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  Speaker 1: withholding of critical information and the apparent removal of files
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  Speaker 1: that could suggest serious crimes by folks in the administration. Answer, Congressman,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your raising this issue, and I appreciated the
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  Speaker 1: statement that you put out when this became public knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to investigative reporting, which revealed it. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that this behavior by the Justice Department deserves the most
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  Speaker 1: thorough investigation that Congress could carry out. As I understand
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  Speaker 1: the sequence of events, the committee subpoenaed the Justice Department,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the Epstein estate, as well as law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement officials from prior administrations, as well as my husband
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  Speaker 1: and me. the Justice Department refused to comply, which is
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  Speaker 1: what led to the passage by Congress of the Transparency Act,
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  Speaker 1: which was then signed into law. And I think from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, the behavior of the Attorney General and
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  Speaker 1: her staff has demonstrated either a gross incompetence, which is
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  Speaker 1: bothersome because they're the keepers of information and should be
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  Speaker 1: evaluated for law enforcement purposes, or a clear cover-up because
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  Speaker 1: they're protecting the President and others. Either one of those
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  Speaker 1: should be the focus of this committee to try to
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  Speaker 1: get to the bottom. If they're incompetent and they're incapable
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  Speaker 1: of complying with the law that Congress passed, we need
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  Speaker 1: to know because they are falling down on the job.
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  Speaker 1: They have an FBI director who's more interested in drinking
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  Speaker 1: beer in a hockey dressing room after our team won
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics rather than being responsive and complying with the
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  Speaker 1: law as it's been promulgated. So I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: unfair to say that given the sequencing of events, starting
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  Speaker 1: with what the way President Trump made the release of
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  Speaker 1: the files a key element, of his 2024 campaign, the
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  Speaker 1: promise that he and then his Attorney General made that
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  Speaker 1: all files would be released, then a walking back of
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  Speaker 1: that as they began to look at the files. And
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  Speaker 1: ignoring of what they promised, including that they had a
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  Speaker 1: client list on the desk of the Attorney General, reasonable
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  Speaker 1: people would have to assume that they're engaged in a
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  Speaker 1: massive cover-up, which is infuriating as an American, as a citizen.
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  Speaker 1: All of us should be, regardless of party, wondering what
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  Speaker 1: they're hiding. And that's why I said in my opening
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  Speaker 1: statement the President of the United States is not above
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  Speaker 1: the law and should be in a setting like this
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  Speaker 1: answering questions under oath, as should others who are prominently
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  Speaker 1: featured in the files, and especially the group that is
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  Speaker 1: featured after 2008. Because prior to 2008, when Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: pled guilty to watered-down charges that Alex Acosta negotiated and
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  Speaker 1: then was rewarded for it in the first Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: with a cabinet position, there are so many unanswered questions.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked at the transcript of Alex Acosta's testimony
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  Speaker 1: that was taken before this committee, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: any Republican members asked him a question. So you have
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  Speaker 1: to conclude that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark,
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  Speaker 1: or clearly the Justice Department, starting in the White House
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  Speaker 1: and at the top of the Attorney General. And this
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  Speaker 1: latest example of the missing files about the allegations, and
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  Speaker 1: they are absolutely nothing more than allegations, but the FBI
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  Speaker 1: interviewed that witness four times. You don't interview a non-credible
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  Speaker 1: witness four times. You don't put it into FBI reporting,
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  Speaker 1: protecting this source, if you think there's nothing to it. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I would like to know, like every other
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  Speaker 1: American deserves to know, what's in those files? And who's
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  Speaker 1: going to hold people accountable? Because the Justice Department seems
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  Speaker 1: to be either unwilling or incapable of doing it. Question,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Madam Secretary. Let me also just add one thing.
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  Speaker 1: You've probably also read reporting that Secretary Lutnick was pretty
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  Speaker 1: open in an interview about not having spoken to Epstein
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  Speaker 1: or interacted with him after 2005. And then we go
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  Speaker 1: on to learn that Secretary Lutnick not only went to
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  Speaker 1: the island, there were visits, they went into possible business together,
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  Speaker 1: communicated with his wife, so there were numerous interactions that
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  Speaker 1: happened after that interview. We believe that Secretary Lutnick should
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  Speaker 1: be in front of this committee answering questions, especially when
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  Speaker 1: he's choosing to essentially lie about his interactions with Mr. Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Would you agree Secretary Lutnick should come and testify? Answer.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone that the committee sees playing a prominent
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  Speaker 1: role in the file should be deposed. That's your job.
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  Speaker 1: Your job is to try and get to the truth
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  Speaker 1: as best as you can determine it. And that should
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  Speaker 1: be the guiding principle, it seems to me, as to
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  Speaker 1: who you ask to come before you. Question. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Next person asking questions, another congressman, unnamed. Question, hello, thank you, Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: for being here today. I'm going to ask you a
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  Speaker 1: few questions that might be a little redundant. Answer, that's okay. Question,
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  Speaker 1: but just for the record. So I'm correct that you
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  Speaker 1: did not know at any point before Jeffrey Epstein's crimes
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  Speaker 1: became public that Epstein committed or facilitated sexual abuse of
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  Speaker 1: minors and young women? Answer, that is correct. Question, and
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  Speaker 1: prior to Epstein's crimes becoming public, were you ever warned
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  Speaker 1: not to associate with him? Answer, not that I recall. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and you did not know at any point before Maxwell's
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  Speaker 1: crimes became public that she committed or facilitated sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: of minors or young women? Answer, that is correct. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and did anyone ever raise concerns to you about Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell or warn you not to associate with her at
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  Speaker 1: any point? Answer, not that I recall. Question, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And you served as First Lady and U.S. Senator and
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, and so you met a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other heads of state foreign dignitaries. And so at any point,
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  Speaker 1: did Jeffrey Epstein or Glenn Maxwell's names come up? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: not that I recall. Question, and you mentioned you did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work on human trafficking. Could you talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about that? And then also, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to know if Jeffrey Epstein or Glenn Maxwell's
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  Speaker 1: names ever came up. Answer, no. I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: that those names never came up. As I said prior
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  Speaker 1: to their crimes becoming public, I don't think people knew.
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  Speaker 1: Or if they did know, they were not sharing that.
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  Speaker 1: Or if they did share it with the FBI or
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department, the investigations never went anywhere. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that anybody would have ever raised those names.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know that anybody knew to even look
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  Speaker 1: into it. As I said, the whole question of human trafficking,
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  Speaker 1: sexual slavery, forced labor, domestic violence, for the longest time,
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  Speaker 1: were not even considered crimes. And it took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of effort on the part of many, many courageous people
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  Speaker 1: around the world to raise the visibility of these crimes
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  Speaker 1: and to actually charge criminal law in many countries. When
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  Speaker 1: I spoke in 95 at the UN World Conference on
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  Speaker 1: Women in Beijing, that was one of the issues everyone
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  Speaker 1: was struggling with. Domestic violence. was considered cultural, not criminal.
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  Speaker 1: Sexual slavery was just something that happened. Young women were
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  Speaker 1: forced into prostitution. All of this certainly known and was
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  Speaker 1: something that had gone on for centuries, thousands of years.
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  Speaker 1: But there were finally enough outrage and organization, impetus, to
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  Speaker 1: begin to try and change that. And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: worked on. when I was First Lady, because I really
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  Speaker 1: became aware as I traveled to Asia and Africa, even
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Europe, particularly after the fall of the Soviet Union,
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  Speaker 1: what a big criminal network was operating around the world
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  Speaker 1: to traffic people. And obviously, we're here focusing on what
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  Speaker 1: happened to girls and women with being sexually abused. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also true that people were forced into labor and
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  Speaker 1: mines and fishing boats. I mean, this was a phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: that finally was getting attention, and we worked very hard
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  Speaker 1: to raise visibility. I mentioned the law, that was finally
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  Speaker 1: passed in our country in 2000, there was also something
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  Speaker 1: called the Palermo Protocol, where nations came together to pledge
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  Speaker 1: themselves to change laws to implement enforcement against trafficking. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been a long struggle. But we've tried to focus
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  Speaker 1: on preventing it, prosecuting it, and protecting the survivors. And
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  Speaker 1: we've made progress. But obviously, we're here today talking about
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  Speaker 1: crimes that are still happening, even in our own country.
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  Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're going to wrap up right here.
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  Speaker 1: And in the next episode dealing with the topic, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to pick up where we left off. All the
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