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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. Yesterday, Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche had a

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closed door meeting with the committee overseeing the Epstein scandal,

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and of course it evolved into an absolute shit show,

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just as expected. We don't have a serious person in

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the whole last room, Congress, Blanche, Bondie, none of these

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people are serious, and they're turning this whole entire thing

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into nothing more than a circus. All they care about

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sagatcha moment. And it's unfortunate, but that is the way

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our political structure is set up at this point. All

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these people want to be influencers. They spend more time

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on Twitter than they do writing bills, so we shouldn't

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be shocked to see that it evolved into an absolute circus.

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You have one side saying that there's a gigantic cover up,

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which I do agree with, and then of course you

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have Bondi and Blanche saying that this whole entire thing

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is nothing more than a hit job and that the

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whole motivation is to take down Donald Trump. That's the

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counter narrative, right, and it's effective. It has been an

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effective message to the base. And when you have the

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Democrats get up and walk out of one of these meetings,

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it looks like it's performative. Your job is to sit

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in there and listen and hold people accountable, not get

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up and walk out and protest. I'm so tired of it,

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and this is why I was against it being a

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closed door meeting in the first place. Why do we

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have a closed door meeting? This should be public so

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the American people held the world can see what's going on.

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That way, we can't be gas lit or lied to

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by either side, because that's what's going on. Both sides

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are trying to control the narrative. Both sides are trying

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to wield the narrative as a cudgel against their opponents. Meanwhile,

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the survivors are stuck in the middle, once again being

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forgotten about. But why should that matter as long as

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these politicians get the grandstand and act like they care.

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Today's article is from CBS News and the headline House

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Democrats walk out of tense briefing with Bondie over Epstein files,

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calling it a fake hearing. This article was authored by

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Joe Walsh. A group of House Democrats walked out of

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a closed door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi on

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the Jeffrey Epstein probe late Wednesday, as tensions over Justice

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departments handling of the Epstein case continue to simmer. The

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face off took place one day after the chair of

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the House Oversight Committee, Republican Representative James Comer of Kentucky,

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subpoenaed Bondi to testify about Epstein next month. Long time coming.

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But do you really think it's gonna matter? Do you

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think Pam Bondy is gonna tell us anything? Or do

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you think think she's going to play the same games

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that she played before. I think that she's going to

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play the same games, and that's because I don't think

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she can tell the truth at this point because it

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would out them and it would destroy their cover up.

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So you just have to keep doubling down. And I

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think for Paum Bondi that's gonna prove disastrous later on

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down the road. Do these people really think they're gonna

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get away with all of this, that they're gonna cover

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this all up and nobody's gonna dig deeper later on

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down the road, Because that's definitely gonna happen, And Honestly,

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at this point, I doubt any of the perpetrators, as

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far as the people that were with Epstein doing the

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most handeous crimes, are ever going to be held accountable.

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But the people that engaged in the cover up the

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paper trail people, well, you can't depend on the Statute

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of Limitations to protect you. You can't depend on the

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evidence going away, and you certainly can't count on the

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fact that we're gonna forget. We are not going to forget.

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This is the ultimate betrayal. What's happening with Jeffrey Epstein,

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as far as I'm concerned, is the ultimate betrayal. These

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people have one job to protect the most vulnerable amongst us,

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and they can't even do that. But sure, let's engage

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in some war halfway across the world. Sounds like a

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great idea. Bondie and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went

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to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with members of

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the panel. Less than an hour later, Democrats left the room. Look,

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that's not the right way to do it. Storming out

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of the room throwing a fit a tantruom not a

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good look. And I understand it's frustrating, right nobody wants

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to sit there and be lied to. But as a lawmaker,

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you have to push back against that shit. Could you

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imagine Benjamin Franklin walking out of a congressional meeting. Never happen.

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You have to push back. You have to be firm,

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pushback and and accountability. That's your job and if you're

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not capable of doing it, then you should be voted out.

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But for whatever crazy reason, we keep sending these incumbents

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back to DC and we keep getting the same results.

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What did you think they were gonna change because they

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told you that on the campaign trail. Oh, this time

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is going to be different. I'm a different guy. I

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heard you, I'm listening to you, and we're gonna do

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better get elected. That's the same shit. The committee's top Democrat, representative,

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Robert Garcia of California, told reporters that Bondi did not

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commit to honoring the panel subpoena. He called wednesday session

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a fake hearing, adding that Bondi wasn't under oath and

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did not give an opening statement. Wow, you know, I

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am inclined to believe them, as shocking as that may be,

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because Pam Bondi has shown us who she is in

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public already. So if she's not under oath and she's

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at this hearing, do you really think she's going to

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be forthcoming? She's going to all of a sudden be

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helpful and care about what's going on. Zero chance. So

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as far as it being a quote unquote fake hearing,

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I agree with that. If she's not under oath, forget it.

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She's not going to tell you the truth. Even when

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she was under oath, she was out here playing games.

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So what makes you think when she's not under oath

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she's gonna be forthcoming and tell the truth. It's outrageous,

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it's infuriating, and it continues this White House cover up

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of the Epstein files. Garcia said, we're not going to

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take that anymore. Well, what is it exactly that you

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plan on doing, mister Garcia? Have you even talked about

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a special counsel yet or maybe a tribunal of some sort?

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How about the DOJ getting rid of the NPA? Have

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we had that conversation? So what exactly is it that

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you're not gonna take anymore? And is this a twisted

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sister video? Now we're not going to take it only

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to turn around and take it These people talk a

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big game, all of them. Very few of them ever

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come through. Another Democrat, Representative, Maxwell Frost of Florida, called

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it a fake deposition where no one can see what's

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going on, noting the lack of c SPAN cameras for

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the closed door meeting. Well, I don't think there should

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be a closed door meeting unless it has to do

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with national security, Like, what are we doing here? Why

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are my tax dollars being used for closed door meetings?

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Maybe I should learn a different language and say this

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in a different language. I do not trust the Department

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of Justice or Congress to tell us the truth. Everything

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has to be open door. Everything has to be transparent,

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completely and fully. They have lost the benefit of the doubt,

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at least as far as I'm concerned. Now, if you

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want to trust them, you want to believe them, that's

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up to you. But the days of me being dog

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walked by politicians are long over. Comer meanwhile, suggested the

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walkout was premeditated and part of a political game. And

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that's why I would have never walked out if I

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was one of the Democrats, because you take away that narrative,

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then oh the Democrats stormed out, stay there for the

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whole thing and then leave and say, well, that was ridiculous.

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I just wasted X amount of time in my life

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to be lied to once again by Pam Bondy. But

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if you storm out in the middle of it, you

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give them a narrative. They came out clutching their pearls,

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complaining that she wasn't answering questions. He said, the first

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three people to ask questions, all they did was complain.

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Comer is such a clown. And it's amazing to me

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how many of these people are willing to burn their

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political careers in order to further this cover up. Like

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it's unbelievable to me, because make no mistake, this is

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attached to them for the rest of their political careers.

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What do you think Comer is just going to fade

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into oblivion. He's going to run again and wait and

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see the ads that are put up against them. James

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Comer protecting pedophiles and not your children. I can hear

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the ads now. At one point during the hearing, there

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was a verbal argument between Comer and Democratic Representative Summerly

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of Pennsylvania. Both lawmakers acknowledged, of course there was, because

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it's about them. It's almost hard to quantify the amount

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of ego that was in that room. Leetol reporters that

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she asked Comer if he will compel Bondi to comply

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with the subpoena and initiate proceedings to hold her in

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contempt of Congress if she doesn't show up, and instead

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of answering as an adult, he said that I was bitching. Well,

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it's a good question, will you hold her in contempt

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or not? The answer is probably know because Donald Trump

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would lose his shit and none of these Republicans can

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have that right. Last thing they want to do is

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turn into the new Joe Kent and have every fucking

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MAGA person in the world call you a trader. And look,

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I don't know if Joe Kent leaked information or not.

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Nobody does besides Joe Kent and maybe the investigators. But

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my point is how quickly people will turn and all

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of a sudden, you go from hero to zero in

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point three seconds. Just ask Marjorie Taylor Green. And if

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there's not complete compliance, forget it. You're going to be

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the next one up. And these members of the committee

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that are also in the GOP, they know that and

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instead of having the courage like Marjorie Taylor Green or

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Thomas Massey. They just go along to get along. But

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I think deep in their guts they know that what

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they're doing is wrong, and what they're doing is disgusting.

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Comer confirmed that interaction, saying Lee was just complaining about

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the format. He later wrote on x I said Democrats

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were bitching and wasting everyone's time. Because Democrats were bitching

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and wasting everyone's time, sort of like this bogus ass

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investigation that you're heading up here, mister Comer, you know,

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a waste of everybody's time. Ask whether she will comply

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with the subpoena. Bondi said after the briefing that she

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made a crystal clear I will follow the law, a

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response that Garcia called inadequate. Bondi also criticized democrats walkout.

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But did she talk about the doo. That's what everybody

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needs to know about, right, the doo, the doo, the tao.

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One congress woman screamed, Cespan wasn't in there, so she

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didn't want to ask questions. Yet all day long, they've

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been on social media saying they had all these questions.

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Bondi said, is Pambondi for real, as if she'd answer

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any of the questions anyway. It's all a big game

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to these people, I'm telling you right now, Bondi has

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been in the middle of this Epstein shit since Florida,

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so she can save the BS for somebody else. CBS

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News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

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The incident underscores how caustic the Epstein issue has become.

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The Justice Department has faced years of intense questions over

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its handling of the disgraced financier who avoided federal charges

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for child sex crimes until twenty nineteen, when he was

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indicted or sex trafficking but died by suicide allegedly in jail,

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drawing public fascination and conspiracy theories. Well keep that in mind, okay.

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Up until recently, outlets like CBS call this whole thing

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a conspiracy theory, and they still haven't learned their lesson.

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The Department has released millions of government files on Epstein

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in recent months, spanning multiple federal investigations into him, and

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is convicted associate you mean, co conspirator, right, fellow child abuser,

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general scumbag and bipedal serpent That's what you mean, right,

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Glenn Maxwell. After Congress passed the law late last year

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requiring it to publish its files on EPSTEIN, members of

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both parties have criticized the Justice Department's handling of the

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files release, arguing that some files were inappropriately withheld or

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excessively redacted. Some sexual abuse survivors also say their personal

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information was exposed. The Department has offended its release process,

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saying that hundreds of lawyers poured through the files to

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check for survivors' names and have taken documents down when

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there are redaction mistakes. Oh yeah, they've done a fantastic job.

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They should all get raises. In fact, they should all

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get bus made and they should be put in the Smithsonian.

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Are they for real right now patting themselves on the

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back for this piss poor job. Democrats have accused Bondie

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of engaging in a cover up. Well, I'm not a Democrat.

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I can promise you that, and I'm telling you they're

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engaging in a cover up. We want her under oath

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because we don't trust her, Frost said Wednesday evening. Comer

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said that Republicans are committed to carrying out a serious

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investigation and want to work with the Justice Department to

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get answers. Does it look like a cover up? He

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said the Attorney General, Blanche and all the top brass

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at the DOJ. We're in here to answer questions, and

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yet they don't ask a single question. Comer is such

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a clown. Holy cow. I honestly don't know if there's

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a bigger moron than James Comer. So the whole entire thing,

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like I've told you from the jump, is a gigantic circus.

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And unfortunately it's all by design. And if it wasn't

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for the discharge petition, forget it, they would have killed

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this story so quick that it would have made your headspin.

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But thankfully we're in a place now where James Comer

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can't really do that. Now he can muck things up

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like he's been doing and be an absolute tool. But

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at the end of the day, the law is the law,

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and if the DOJ doesn't abide by that law, at

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some point, that bill is gonna come do and folks,

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you're a boy will be here for it, all right,

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That's gonna do it for this one. All the information

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that goes with this episode can be found in the

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description box,