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

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Epstein Chronicles. The brainy acts over at the Department of

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Justice rolled out their latest publicity stunt like a late

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night infomercial, promising miracle results with absolutely zero effort, Act

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now and will unseal grand jury documents. They shout, as

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if the world hasn't already figured out that grand jury

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paperwork is a legal equivalent of an empty cereal box,

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crinkly noise, zero nutrition, and crumbs of nothing. And I

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don't know about you, but I'm pretty tired of watching

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them pretend that this is the key to unlocking the truth.

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It's more like banging a bunch of pots and pans

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thinking that they're conducting the New York Philharmonic. And meanwhile,

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the real problem, the rancid, festering corpse called the non

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prosecution Agreement, sits in the center of the room like

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a bloated whale carcass covered by a beach towel, and

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everyone in government's just pretending they can't smell it. They're

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buying time, hoping that the public loses interest, waiting for

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another shot. I need distraction to walk by wearing a

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sequined outfit and big sunglasses. They want to be the

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heroes in a story where they're the villains wearing cheap

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Halloween masks. Every time they announced something like this, you

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think Jesus himself just ascended from the heavens carrying stone tablets. Instead,

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it's some assistant deputy bureaucrat with the charisma of a

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wet paper napkin, explaining why releasing redacted transcripts of already

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known testimony is a revolutionary act. The reporter's nod like

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bobbleheads in a rental corolla, scribbling notes They don't believe

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because their editors already picked the headline before they left

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the office. The whole performance smells like somebody for breathing

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a murder scene instead of cleaning it. Everyone pretends not

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to notice the blood's soaking through the carpet. Everyone pretends

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the flowers on the table hide the stench. Everyone pretends

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this is justice instead of theater. These fools aren't opening doors,

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they're polishing the doorknobs. But don't worry. They insist the

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truth is near. The truth just needs one or a carefully

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scheduled legal maneuver. One more procedural dance Number one more

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round of sorry, we can't comment on ongoing investigations, sung

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in four part harmony by people whose souls ran away

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years ago. It's a joke, but nobody laughs because laughing

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means acknowledging just how absurd this really is. Instead, we

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grit our teeth until they crack. Meanwhile, the NPA sits

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like an unexploded bomb. Everyone tiptoes around, pretending it's just

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an oddly shaped decoration. It should have been incinerated the

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moment evidence surface proving the government was deceived, manipulated, and

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flat out defrauded by Jeffrey Epstein and his band of

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legal creeps. But of course that would require courage, and

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courage is extinct in Washington unless it comes with a

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sponsorship deal and a logo backdrop. The NPA is a

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fortress built to protect reputations, not justice. It's the emergency

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parachute for powerful parasites who can't afford to hit the ground.

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It's the firewall between the truth and the people who

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burn for it. And here's the part they won't tell you,

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but I will. Trump doesn't need Congress, he doesn't need

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the courts, he doesn't need the DJ's permission, slip or

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a magic spell from a federal judge. All he needs

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is a pen and ten seconds of spine density. But

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every time the subject comes up, he calls it a hoax.

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If he can launch missiles during dessert and brag about it,

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if he can fire cabinet members the way teenagers delete

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text messages, if he can rewrite policy by tweeting half

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drunk at two am, then he can rip up a

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fraudulent agreement signed in the shadows to protect predators. But

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he doesn't. And that's the part nobody wants to say

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out loud because it burns going up. He won't touch

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the NPA because it's the skeleton key to every lock

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room in this whole rotten mansion. They're rearranging rotten hay

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while pretending the river is coming any minute now. They

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schedule meetings to schedule meetings about meetings. They love process

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because process delays consequence. Process is their religion. Process is

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their weapon, Process is their shield, and every announcement is

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a rerun. They show it like a sitcom episode from

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ninety eight, where everyone already knows the punchline, but collapse anyway. Tonight,

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on a very special episode of Justice theater. The DOJ

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pretends to on earth hidden truth while hiding the real

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truth somewhere else. Q applause, Q dramatic music, Q credits,

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Q nothing. It's a slow motion con and we're expected

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to admire the artistry. And if you listen closely, you'll

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notice that nobody in power ever even uses the letters

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NPA in public. It's Voldemort level forbidden. Say it out

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loud and the wall starts sweating. Mention it in a hearing,

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and microphones mysteriously malfunction. Ask a direct question and watch

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pupils dilate like cornered animals. You'd think the document contained

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the launch codes for nuclear warheads instead of the truth

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about a child trafficker and the collection of famous ghouls

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who rode the gravy train. They think they can outrun time.

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They think they can outrun the survivors. They think they

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can outrun the Internet. They really think that you're going

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to forget. They genuinely believe if they keep dropping shiny

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distractions like breadcrumbs, the public won't notice the wolves. But

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they don't understand how much is changed. They don't understand

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rage with direction. They don't understand what happens when ordinary

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people stop believing in fairy tales. They want a bury

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history alive. They want silence to be permanent. They want

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closure without accountability, because the second the NPA dies, everything

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else goes with it. Every show collapses, every secret becomes evidence,

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every name becomes oxygen, and they know it. That's why

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they fight like drowning men. So instead we get this

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song and dance routine about grand jury papers, like there's

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some sacred relic that will change civilization, while the real

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weapon sits on touch behind glass. They're trying to sell

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knockoff justice to people who already paid full price. And

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if they were smart, they'd rip up the themselves and

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pretend they always wanted to. But they're not smart. They're arrogant,

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and they think that time is on their side. Today's

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article was published by CNN and the headline Justice Department

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again asked judge to unseal Epstein grand jury testimony after

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Congress passes law. This article was authored by Alison Maine

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and this is just to give that red meat out right. Hey, look,

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we told the courts to give us this information and

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they refused, So it's their fault, not Donald Trump's. But

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we all know that the grand jury process is a

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lot more difficult than that. Maybe later i'll post the

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episode where I explain why it's so difficult, because you

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don't just get grand jury documentation when you ask for it.

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There is a whole process, and if you don't fit

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the parameters of that process, you're not going to get

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the information. But even more importantly, that information from the

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grand jury is not going to lead us down any

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paths where we're going to get to the truth or

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any kind of justice. Now, look, I'm not saying I

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wouldn't want to see it. I want to see everything.

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But they're doing this on purpose when they could be

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focused on, oh, I don't know the NPA. Instead, they're

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over here focused on grand jury documents that they know

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they're not going to get. The Justice Department is asked

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a federal judge in Florida to reconsider unsealing grand jury

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material related to an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, as the

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agency faces a congressionally mandated deadline to release all documents

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related to the accused sex trafficker next month. A judge

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in the Southern District of Florida previously denied a request

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by the DOJ to make public transcripts from the case,

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which federal prosecutors asked for due to extensive public interest,

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but not as part of a judicial proceeding. Epstein committed

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many of his crimes in Florida. When a Florida judge

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denied the DOJ's original request, she said her hands are

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tied because the Justice Department sought to release the sealed

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evidence due to extend of public interest, not as part

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of a judicial proceeding, which is the usual standard in

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a filing. On Friday, the Justice Department cited the passage

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of a law early last week of a law mandating

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the release of all of its Epstein files within thirty days,

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arguing public production of the grand jury material is therefore required. Yo,

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this is like, very very ridiculous. They're over here demanding

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that this grand jury shit gets released and not doing

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the things that are in their power to do. Now,

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if you are doing it all at the same time, great,

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but they're not. This is nothing more than performative. This

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is looking for a scapegoat. This is looking to direct

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the outrage somewhere else, and I'm not buying it. In

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light of the acts clearer mandate the Court should authorize

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the Department of Justice to release the grand jury transcripts

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and lift any pre existing protective orders that would otherwise

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prevent public disclosure. The filing says, and look again, I'm

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not saying that I don't want to see it. I do,

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but they're trying to pitch it as something it's not.

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It's not going to be this key that leads us

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to victory. It's not going to show us things we

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don't know. All it's gonna do is add a little context.

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And while that's important, I think the main thing should

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be the NPA, and I've said that from the very beginning.

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That is the most restrictive document in this whole entire thing.

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But the legislation, which President Donald Trump signed into law

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last week does not specifically mention grand jury material. The law,

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formerly titled the Epstein Files Transparency Act, was passed by

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the House of Representatives almost unanimously earlier this month. The

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Senate then passed the bill through unanimous consent. It's not

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clear what files the Justice Department will release, or if

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it won't be released due to some of the ongoing investigations.

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What a bunch of bs If they don't release documents

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because of that investigation. Folks, you know the fixes in now.

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I'm sure most of you know the fixes in already,

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but you get my drift. There's no denying it. If

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that's the case, Trump is asked the DOJ to investigate

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Epstein's ties to many other high profile figures associated with

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the Democratic Party, including Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reed Hoffman, J. P.

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Morgan Chase, and many other people and institutions. Pretty sure

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all those people, as far as institution wise, are wrapped

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up with everybody. You think JP Morgan Chase or the

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rest of them are just doing banking with one person.

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They're just doing banking with one side of the aisle.

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These sons of bitches have their fingers and everybody's pie,

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including yours. The grand jury testimony that the Department seeks

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to release, however, is only a small portion of the

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thousands of documents related to the Epstein investigation and criminal case.

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Many of those documents are already in the Justice Department

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custody and may not have been presented to the jury

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in Florida. Look, the whole entire thing about Florida too,

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has to be examined, and in fact, we're going to

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have another episode about that, because it's important. The players

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that were down there need to be held accountable. Everybody

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that was involved in this non prosecution agreement held accountable

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at the very least answer for why they did what

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they did. And I don't mean some stupid ass OIG report.

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I mean something with teeth. And for me, the best

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way to go from here is a special investigator. That

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is the only way to get to the bottom of it.

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We can't trust the Justice Department, we can't trust the

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powers that be, so we have to make a different move.

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And I think that a special investigator ticks off all

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the boxes. But as far as the Grand Jerry documents go,

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they're not going to be the be all end all,

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bringing them up is because they know it's going to

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be in l because they want to redirect anger, so

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instead of people being mad at Trump or the administration,

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instead they turn their rage at the court. It's nothing

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more than more distraction and more deflection, and unfortunately for them,

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that's not gonna work. So cool story, bro, But we're

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still going to need all those Epstein files, all of

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the information that goes with this episode can be found

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in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to

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another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. As the Jeffrey Epstein

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maelstrom rages around Donald Trump and his administration, his Justice Department,

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led by Pam Bondy, has filed a motion with the

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court to get the grand jury testimony from Jeffrey Epstein's

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arrest in twenty nineteen unsealed. And on his face, that

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sounds like a good idea, right, the more information we have,

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the better, So I certainly won't turn down getting a

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look at the grand jury documents. But the problem is

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it's not that easy. And that's because there's a process

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that's put into place that makes it very difficult for

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these records, these documents to ever be released. And down

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in Florida for like twenty years over the grand jury

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records down there, And you know that when you're dealing

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with the federal government, you're dealing with and even more

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bureaucratic mess than anything else. So anybody who thinks that

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these records are going to be available and available in

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a short amount of time, they're crazy. And in this episode,

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I'm going to explain why. And the first thing you

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have to understand is the legal standard. And what you

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have to understand first is that the grand jury proceedings

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are secret by default. Rule sixty outline strict limits on disclosure,

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and the main reason that secrecy is preserved is to

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protect the reputation of people not indicted, encourage full and

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frank testimony, prevent flight or tampering with witnesses, and to

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protect jurors from external influence. So to get the records unsealed,

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you have to show a particularized need that outweighs the

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need for continued secrecy, and that standard was laid out

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in the Douglas Oil Company versus Petrol Stops of Northwest

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four forty one US two eleven in nineteen seventy nine.

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So that's the ruling that governs the grand jury transcripts

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being released or not. So who can petition for the disclosure? Well,

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the following people can petition the court to disclose the

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grand jury material, prosecutors, defendants in related criminal cases, civil

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litigants in related proceedings, journalists, or members of the public.

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Though rare and much harder. What's the process to get

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them un sealed? First, you have to file a motion

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in federal district court. A formal motion must be filed

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in the court that impaneled the grand jury. The motion

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must cite Rule six E three E, which lists exceptions

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to secrecy, including judicial proceedings grounds for a defendant to

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challenge an indictment civil litigation where the grand jury material

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is relevant. And then you have to demonstrate a particularize need.

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You have to show that the material is needed to

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avoid a possible injustice. You have to show that the

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disclosure outweighs the need for secrecy. A request is structured

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to cover only what is necessary. Then after that we

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go to court review. Then the judge may review the

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grand jury materials and camera privately before he decides. The

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court's going to weigh whether the grand jury investigation has concluded,

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the relevance of the material and the impact on witnesses, jurors,

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and subjects not charged. And if the motion's denied, you

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can appeal and look for a higher court to review.

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in rare and historical significant cases, the issue has been

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brought before the US Supreme Court. So is there any

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precedent for grand jury documents to be released. While the

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courts have granted access in major historical or public interest

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cases Watergate, Rosenberg, and the Chicago eight. Congress has sometimes

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obtained grand jury material for oversight under special circumstances, but

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this usually requires judicial approval or legislative request with separation

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of power scrutiny. What are some of the challenges in pitfalls. Well,

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if the government opposes the request, it becomes far more difficult. Witness,

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privacy and national security issues often block on sealing, and

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there's no automatic right to unseal, even for victims or journalists.

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So can the president or the Attorney General ask for

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this stuff to be disclosed? The answer is yes, But

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the grand jury secrecy is controlled by the judiciary, not

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the executive So Donald Trump cannot ask for this to

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be unsealed himself. He has to use his Department of

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Justice to do so. Grand jury secrecy is governed by

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Rule sixty and that rule gives a judiciary, not the

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executive branch, final say over whether the records can be released.

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The President or Attorney General can ask, but they cannot

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override the court. The Attorney General, through the Department of Justice,

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can file a Rule sixty three E motion with a

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federal court. This motion as the judge to allow disclosure

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for reasons such as use in a judicial proceeding, at

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the request of a defendant, at the request of Congress,

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and this was done for example during the Watergate investigation

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and the Mueller probe, where the DOJ filed motions to

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allow limited disclosure to Congress or to the public, but

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again a judge must approve it. The AG has no

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independent power to unseal without judicial sign off, and the

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president he has no formal role in unsealing. The president

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has even less authority here. He cannot order grand jury

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material to be released, cannot access them directly, cannot override

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Rule six E. The only thing a president can do

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is encourage the DOJ to file emotion or to classify

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related material if national security is involved, but grand jury

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material is not classified. It's sealed under judicial secrecy rules,

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so declassification does not apply. Understand that there are no

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national interest exceptions. There's no provision in Rule six y

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that says the public's right to know or executive interest

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is enough to release grand jury material. The standard remains

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particularized need judicial review, court authorization. Even if the entire

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country demands release. Only the courts can break grand jury secrecy.

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Well what about Congress. Congress or a congressional committee can

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request grand jury material as part of an investigation, But

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even Congress must go to court and prove the material

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is relevant to the legislative purpose, it's tailored, it satisfies

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legal exceptions under Rule sixty. The process is slow, heavily litigated,

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and highly controversial, as seen during both the Watergate and

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Mueller era fights over access to sealed materials. But listen,

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when it comes down to covering the truth behind federal

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criminal investigations. Few things are as tightly locked away as

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grand jury records. These proceedings are designed to be secret.

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The reason to protect witnesses, shield a reputation of those

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not indicted, and preserve the integrity of criminal prosecutions. But

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what if the public interest demands access? What if there

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is reason to believe those records contain vital information about corruption,

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cover ups or miscarriages of justice? Can anyone unseal them?

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The answer is yes, but the path is narrow, steep,

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and guarded by federal law. The secrecy of grand jury

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proceedings is governed by Rule six of the Federal rules

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of criminal procedure. This rule establishes that grand jury material,

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including testimony, exhibits, transcripts, and jury deliberations, are confidential, not

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just temporarily, not just until the trial ends their secret

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by default, often indefinitely. Only under very specific circumstances can

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the secrecy be broken, and even then it's not easy.

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Rule sixty isn't a suggestion, it's a firewall, and breaching

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it takes more than curiosity. It takes a compelling legal case.

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So who can ask for the grand jury records to

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be unsealed? The short answer is almost anyone, including journalists, historians, victims,

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or even members of the public. But the real question

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is whether they can convince a federal judge that their

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need is strong enough to override the default of secrecy.

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This is where the standard of particularized need comes in.

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That phrase comes from the Supreme Court precedent and is

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the key to any requests for grand jury disclosure. Without it,

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the judge won't even consider emotion. A particularized need means

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that you're not just hoping to find something interesting. You

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must prove that a specific grand jury material your requesting

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is necessary to avoid significant injustice. For example, you might

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need it to support your defense in a criminal trial,

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or to prove wrongdoing in a related civil lawsuit, or,

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in rare cases, to reveal historical information that serves the

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public good, such as what happened with Watergate tapes. But

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even then the burden is entirely on the person making

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the request. The next step is procedural. You must file

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a formal motion in federal court. This motion has to

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be submitted to the same court that oversaw the grand

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jury in the first place. It must clearly identify which

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material you want, why you want them, and how releasing

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them would not unduly harm the grand jury process. This

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is informality. The court takes these motions seriously, and if

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they're vague, overbroad, or a poorly justified, they'll be denied outright.

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Once a motion is filed, the federal judge will weigh

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several factors. First, is the grand jury investigation still ongoing.

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If it is, your chances drop significantly. Judges are extremely

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reluctant to expose an active process to outside scrutiny. But

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if the investigation is ended and the reasons for secrecy

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have diminished, the judge will look at the merits are

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the materials central to your case? Is your request narrowly tailored?

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Will disclosure in danger witnesses or harm the reputations of

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those not charged. If the judge thinks the risk outweighs

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the reward, the door stays shut. Even when a judge

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agrees to disclosure, it's almost never a full release. The

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court may allow access to us only a subset of

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the material, or attact names, or replace the material under

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a protective order that means the person receiving it can't

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share it publicly. They can use it in their case,

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but remain sealed from broader public view. In short, even

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a victory in court often means a limited win, because

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the court's goal is always to balance transparency with the

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integrity of the justice system. Now let's talk about power.

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Can the Attorney General order grand jury records to be unsealed?

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The answers no. The Attorney General can request disclosure, and

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often does through a formal DOJ motion, but the decision

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still rests with the federal judge. Even the highest law

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enforcement official in the country must go through the same

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legal channels as anyone else. The DOJ may argue that

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the release is in the interest of justice or national interest,

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but it can't force the court's hand. And what about

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the President of the United States. Surely the president can

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access anything right wrong. The President has no legal authority

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to unilaterally access or order the release of grand jury material.

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These records are protected not just by department policy, but

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by judicial authority. That means even the President must go

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through the courts. Now most the President can urge the

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Justice Department to file a motion or express support for transparency,

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but they cannot make it happen on their own. The

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structure reflects the balance in the US system. Grand Jury

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secrecy is not under the control of the executive branch.

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It belongs to the judiciary, and that's by design. It's

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meant to prevent political interference in criminal investigations, even in

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high profile cases, even when the public is demanding answers.

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The process doesn't bend for political pressure. It holds the

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line for better or worse. Congress, too, must go through

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the courts. Legislative committees can request access to grand jury

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material if they believe it's necessary for oversight or lawmaking,

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but they must prove that the materials are directly relevant

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and that their request meets the criteria laid out under

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Rule six E. Even then, it's not guaranteed. Courts will

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scrutinize whether the request is truly legislative or merely political.

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Congress may have subpoena power, but when it comes to

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grand jury secrecy, that power hits a wall. There have

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been rare moments in American history where grand jury materials

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were released to the public. The most famous examples include Watergate,

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where the Court allowed Congress to access Nixon related grand

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jury material, and the Mueller investigation, where limited, redacted testimony

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was shared with Congress and later made public. But those

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cases involved extraordinary circumstances and careful judicial review. There were

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the exception, not the rule, and it's important to understand

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that even after decades, courts don't automatically unseal grand jury records.

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Historians seeking access to records from the forties or fifties

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have still had to go through formal litigation, sometimes unsuccessfully.

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The courts remain fiercely protective of the idea that secrecy

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is essential to the functioning of the grand jury, even

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long after the fact. So where does that leave the victims, journalists,

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and the public. It leaves them with a long, difficult road,

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but not a hopeless one. If you can identify a

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specific injustice, build a narrow, evidence based case, and show

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that the need for disclosure outweighs the damage secrecy would cause,

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a judge can and sometimes will, authorize release. But the

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system is designed to make you prove it, not once,

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not vaguely, not emotionally, but precisely, egally and convincingly. And

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yet the legal wall is what makes the subject so

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explosive In high stakes, high profile cases, when the public

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sees powerful individuals skating past accountability, or when critical facts

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are locked behind sealed testimony, suspicion grows. That suspicion isn't

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always paranoia. It often stems from history. From Watergate to

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Iran Contra to Jeffrey Epstein, the American public has seen

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time and time again that secrecy can be abused just

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as easily as it can be justified. So while the

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law favors confidentiality, the human instinct to demand answers doesn't

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go away. It sharpens, it festers, And when grand jury

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records are the remaining source of truth, people rightly want access.

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But the law is not about what feels fair. It's

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about what can be proven. That's the burden anyone seeking

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disclosure must meet. You can't just say the public deserves

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to know. You must articulate why that knowledge is essential,

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what in justice it would correct, and how releasing the

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material will not compromise the rights of others. If that

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sounds like a high bar, that's because it is. The

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law presumes secrecy, and you have to flip that presumption.

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It's not enough to point to headlines or outrage or speculation.

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You need a legal argument with teeth. You need specificity,

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You need purpose. Otherwise the court will close the door

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before you even get your foot in. Even when access

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is granted, there are trade offs. Judges might approve release

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with conditions, redactions, limited sharing, or restrictions on use. In

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some cases, only attorneys may view the material, and others

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the court might allow certain parts to be introduced as evidence,

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but bar them from being made public. This means even

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a successful motion may not result in total transparency. The

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judiciary still holds the pen and edits cautiously. The process

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is more surgical than sweeping, designed to balance competing rights,

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not to serve public curiosity. This tension between secrecy and

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accountability is one of the most persistent dilemmas in American law.

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On one hand, secrecy protects the innocent and ensures cooperation.

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On the other, it can shield wrongdoing if left unchecked.

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The courts have to walk this tightrope. With every rule

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six y request, they consider not just what's at stake

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in one case, but what precedent they're setting for all

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future ones. If they swing the door to wide, they

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risk gutting the grand jury system. If they never open it,

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they risk enabling silence where justice demands speech. That's the

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judicial burden, balancing trust in the system with the people's

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right to know. Ultimately, grand jury secrecy is a test

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of democratic patients. It demands restraint from the press, discipline

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from the courts, and faith from the public. It offers

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no shortcuts. It protects as much as it withholds. But

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in a climate of distrust where institutions are under constant

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in suspicion, that secrecy often feels like silence, and silence

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when justice is in question rarely satisfies anyone. That's why

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the process to unseal exists not to determine the system,

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but to provide a controlled legal escape valve when the

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truth can no longer stay buried. But make no mistake,

479
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it's not a shortcut. It's a crucible and only the

480
00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:27,079
strongest claims can survive it. And yet, for all of

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00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:30,960
its legal formality and high minded rhetoric, the process to

482
00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:34,279
unseal grand jury records often feels less like a path

483
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:38,599
to justice and more like a bureaucratic dead end, intentionally

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designed to keep the truth buried under layers of red tape,

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judicial deference, and institutional self preservation. The courts demand to

486
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particularize need, but in practice, what they're really demanding is

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an airtight excuse to not get involved. They cite the

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integrity of the grand jury system, but rarely confront how

489
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the same secrecy can be weaponized to conceal a prosecutorial misconduct,

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shield the powerful, or erase the voices of victims. The

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00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,759
promise of transparency is dangled like a carrot, but when

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00:30:09,799 --> 00:30:12,680
you reach for it, the system reminds you that secrecy

493
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isn't the exception, it's the rule. So while technically yes,

494
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there is a legal mechanism to request disclosure, most people

495
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:25,039
will never succeed. Even the rare victories are off empiric,

496
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,960
heavily redacted, tightly controlled and strategically delayed until the political

497
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urgency is faded. It's a system that pretends to value truth,

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but only when the truth is no longer dangerous, and

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when public confidence collapses and conspiracy fills the vacuum. The

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courts and the Justice Department act bewildered, as if they

501
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,240
don't understand how faith the roads. When institutions treat transparency

502
00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:53,079
like a threat, the real verdict here is silent but deafening.

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Some doors aren't meant to open, no matter who's knocking,

504
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,920
and so we're left staring out a system that claim

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00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:03,519
to serve justice but operates more like a fortress, one

506
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:07,480
where the truth is barricaded behind legal procedure and accountability

507
00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:11,000
is filtered through a lens of caution, delay, and institutional

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self interest. When Grand Jerry's secrecy protects the innocent, it

509
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,680
serves a purpose, but when it protects the powerful, it

510
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,400
becomes a tool of silence. The courts may insist that

511
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,480
the process is fair, the Justice Department may claim it's

512
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,400
in good faith, but from the outside looking in, it

513
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,920
too often looks like a stall tactic in slow motion.

514
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:33,759
The question is will this be another exercise a controlled

515
00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:37,880
disclosure and calculated delay, or will the gates finally crack

516
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open in the name of real transparency? All right, folks,

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that's going to do it for this one. And coming up,

518
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,240
we're going to be taking a look at Jeffrey Epstein's

519
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,119
initial request for a bell and the letter that was

520
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,920
sent by his lawyers to the judge, and then we're

521
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,160
going to take a look at the order denying that

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00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,000
bell as well. And then you can see for yourself

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00:31:58,039 --> 00:32:00,440
inside of that letter, and then in side of the

524
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,400
order denying the bell request, what the court has to

525
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,720
say about co conspirators. You know, considering we've been hearing

526
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,880
that Jeffrey Epstein's a lone wolf and nobody else was involved,

527
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,480
I figured it was time to show up with some receipts,

528
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,839
so that process begins today. All of the information that

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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.

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

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Epstein Chronicles. Stop the Presses. The Department of Justice has

532
00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:33,480
graced us with an earth shattering revelation. The grand jury

533
00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:37,880
transcripts in the Glenn Maxwell case contain nothing new zip,

534
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:41,200
not a just a recycled pile of the same old

535
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,359
filth that we've all seen smeared across core documents, media leaks,

536
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,480
and survivor testimony for years. What a shocker, What a twist?

537
00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:54,240
Who could have possibly predicted that the doj our fearless

538
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,680
gatekeeper of justice would waste everyone's time confirming the obvious?

539
00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:01,759
So let's just call this what it is, a nothing

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00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:06,279
burger with extra distraction sauce, a theatrical shrug from the

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00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,319
very agency that sat on its hands for decades while

542
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:12,799
Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking children like he was running a carpool.

543
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,799
This is the doj popping out of its Heidi hole

544
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:18,599
like a groundhog to tell us, don't worry, folks, no

545
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,960
bombshells here, As if anyone was expecting them suddenly to

546
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,960
grow a spine and admit they buried half the case

547
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,880
to protect their buddies in high places. And what exactly

548
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,839
do we think they were going to say that the

549
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,880
transcripts contained smoking guns, that maybe there were names, important

550
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,880
names they forgot to prosecute. Please, these people couldn't find

551
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,599
a conspiracy if it bit them on the face, signed

552
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:44,640
a non disclosure agreement and gave them a campaign donation

553
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,119
and that's because this isn't about transparency. Instead, it's a

554
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,559
sleight of hand act. Look over here at the grand

555
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:54,200
jury transcripts, they say, while the real crimes, financial crimes,

556
00:33:54,440 --> 00:34:01,079
intelligence ties, institutional rot remain untouched, uninvestigated, and can nveniently ignored.

557
00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:05,079
The DOJ's job at this point seems less about prosecuting

558
00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:09,480
predators and more about laundering public outrage into procedural dead ends.

559
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,039
And let's not forget this entire nothing new stunt is

560
00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:16,639
their way of patting themselves on the back for keeping

561
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:20,239
the vault sealed, Because if there's nothing new, then surely

562
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
there's no reason to keep asking questions right, no reason

563
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,960
to keep digging, no reason to unseal records, track money trails,

564
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,480
or god forbid, interrogate the fact that half the people

565
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,519
who orbited Epstein are still out there, free as birds,

566
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,760
counting money and sleeping easy. You want to talk about

567
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,320
an insult wrapped in bureaucracy, this is it. The survivors

568
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,199
have bled in public for years, They've named names, they've

569
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,920
given dates, they've endured cross examinations, in public doubt and

570
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,719
courtroom trauma, and now instead of justice, they get this

571
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,119
little DOJ press puff. We checked nothing new here, as

572
00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:00,159
if justice was a checklist, as if closure was a formality.

573
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,800
So congratulations, DOJ, You've confirmed what everyone already knew. You

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00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,760
open the closet, took a peek inside, and shouted to

575
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,280
the world, no new skeletons. Meanwhile, the mansion is still

576
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,320
full of corpses. You never bother to exzoom, clap for yourselves.

577
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,000
That's the performance you're running now. Justice Theater tickets available

578
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:25,559
on Pacer Popcorn sold a JP Morgan and the Curtain

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00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,679
Never closes. Today's article is from ABC News and the

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00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,000
headline grand jury transcripts in Glene Maxwell's case contain nothing

581
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:38,719
new according to a DOJ filing. This article was authored

582
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:43,400
by Aaron Katerski. Much of what the Justice Department wants

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00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,440
a federal judge to unseal from the Glenn Maxwell grand

584
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,920
jury investigation is already known, and at least so far,

585
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,519
the Attorney General is seeking to unseal nothing else according

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00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,360
to new court filings on Tuesday, and I'll have that

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00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,039
core filing for you in full, either today or to

588
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,800
that way, you can take a look at it yourself

589
00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:07,079
and see what the DOJ has to say. The Justice

590
00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:09,920
Department turned over a version of the Maxwell grand jury

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00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,320
transcripts that identifies which information is not already publicly known.

592
00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:18,599
That annotated version shows that much of the information provided

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during the course of the grand jury testimony, with the

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00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,079
exception of the identities of certain victims and witnesses, was

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00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:28,880
made publicly available at trial or has otherwise been publicly

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00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,760
reported through the public statements of victims and witnesses. The

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00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,719
filing said, well, no shit. The whole entire point of

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00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:41,400
what the dj was doing was obfuscation, trying to show you, hey,

599
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,480
look we care, we're concerned, we're doing something about this,

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00:36:44,559 --> 00:36:48,360
we're investigating. But the truth is, if they were investigating,

601
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,440
they would have come out without memo. They wouldn't have said, look,

602
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:54,079
there's nothing left to see here and no more information

603
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,760
for any of you. The truth is Trump didn't expect

604
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,760
the blowback that he got, so they had to scramble

605
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,320
and try to figure things out on the fly. And

606
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,360
this is not the story to do that with. There's

607
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,960
way too much information out there and way too many

608
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,800
people know the scoop, and we're not talking about a

609
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,840
JFK kind of situation. The people who are involved a

610
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,719
lot of them are still alive. So if you want

611
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,280
the truth, all you have to do is listen to

612
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,280
what they're saying. But instead the DOJ decides to go

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00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,239
get in bed with a serpent, bend over backwards for her,

614
00:37:25,559 --> 00:37:28,880
and give her accommodations. Does that sound like justice to you?

615
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,519
Does that sound like the DOJ cares about the victims

616
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,280
and the survivors of Epstein and Maxwell? It certainly doesn't

617
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,599
look like that to me. Instead, it looks like the

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00:37:38,639 --> 00:37:43,199
DOJ is trying to cover their own ass. The Justice

619
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:46,239
Department is asking two federal judges in New York to

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00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,280
unseal grand jury transcripts in the Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein cases.

621
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:54,400
It's not asking the judges to unseal the grand jury exhibits,

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00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:57,360
though the Attorney General asks for several more days to

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00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,880
consider its position with respect to unsealed of the grand

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00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,480
jury exhibits. The filing said, they have no desire to

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00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,039
show you anything that's real or anything that's of note.

626
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:11,639
They want to recycle information and give you shit. We

627
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,320
already know what they're counting on is a lot of

628
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,079
people not understanding the story and thinking they're getting something new,

629
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,360
And it's just like with that first phase release they

630
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,039
did with the White Binders. They have no idea what

631
00:38:25,039 --> 00:38:27,440
they're talking about with this story. They tried to use

632
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,440
it for political gain and it blew up directly in

633
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,960
their face, and now they're in scramble mode to try

634
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,079
and save face as much as possible. But at this point,

635
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:38,400
I don't think it's possible. They just keep digging the

636
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,679
hole deeper for themselves. The Epstein grand jury met twice

637
00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:46,840
on June eighteenth, twenty nineteen and July second, twenty nineteen,

638
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,440
before he was indicted on charges accusing them of sexually

639
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:54,440
exploiting and abusing dozens of minor girls. The Maxwell grand

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00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,519
jury he met on June twenty ninth, twenty twenty, July eighth,

641
00:38:57,559 --> 00:39:01,760
twenty twenty, and March twenty ninth, twenty one, before she

642
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,239
was indicted on charges she conspired with Epstein to entice

643
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,320
miners to travel so they could engage in illegal sex acts.

644
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:12,119
And not only that, we all know she was abusing them.

645
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,719
And I got to keep bringing that up, obviously, because

646
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,480
these articles leave it out. And while trafficking human beings

647
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,800
is one of the most horrible things you could ever do,

648
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,039
abusing children in my opinion is the most heinous act

649
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,880
one can engage in, and if you're engaging in that

650
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,719
kind of behavior, you should be put under the jail,

651
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,480
not sent to camp. Brian. Maxwell was convicted and is

652
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:38,480
serving a twenty year prison sentence at an all female

653
00:39:38,519 --> 00:39:41,719
federal prison camp in Brian, Texas, where she was recently

654
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,760
moved from a minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida. The

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,360
Justice Department said it has provided notice of the unsealing

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,800
motions to all but one of the victims who are

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00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,800
referenced in the grand jury transcripts. Federal prosecutors have been

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00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:01,599
unable to contact the remaining victim, probably in hiding, probably

659
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:04,119
doesn't want to talk to the DOJ because the DOJ

660
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,159
keeps screwing them. Imagine if it was your daughter who

661
00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:10,960
was abused by Maxwell, and you wake up to this news, Oh,

662
00:40:11,039 --> 00:40:15,199
Glen Maxwell, the DOJ's new darling has been moved to Brian, Texas.

663
00:40:16,079 --> 00:40:19,800
What am I dreaming? Did I take LSD before I

664
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,840
went to bed last night? How's that even possible? Well,

665
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,119
it's possible because you have a DOJ that's more concerned

666
00:40:26,159 --> 00:40:29,400
with protecting its donors and the people that are friendly

667
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,880
to the administration than they are when it comes to

668
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,119
pursuing justice in the matter of Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn

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Maxwell's crimes. And that's been proven to us time and

670
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:42,840
time again. That's not speculation, that's not hyperbole. It's a fact.

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With respect to the victims who are not identified in

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the grand jury transcripts but who have previously received victim

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00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:54,159
notification in the Maxwell and Epstein matters, the government will

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00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:57,079
over the coming days alert those victims to the fact

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00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,960
of the unsealing motions, the filing said. On Monday, the

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00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,599
court placed on the docket letters from anonymous, purported Epstein

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00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,599
victims criticizing the Trump administration's approach. Look, I've heard directly

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00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:12,559
from survivors, and none of them are happy with what's

679
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:14,920
going on. None of them, not one of them. And

680
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,599
that's because there were promised transparency and instead they get

681
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:23,599
more roadblocks, more obfiscation, and more bullshit. This should be

682
00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:29,880
a really easy matter. All the informations there classify whatever's

683
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:35,199
classified as far as victim names victim identification. But besides that,

684
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,840
everybody else who's named in those documents should be outed.

685
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:41,519
And of course it doesn't mean that you were taking

686
00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:43,960
part in what Epstein was up to, But that doesn't

687
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,159
erase the fact that you had a relationship with them,

688
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,320
that you were friendly with them, and you might have

689
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,800
some information that's important to blow in the doors off

690
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,880
the whole case. Maybe some of these people saw some

691
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,480
of those unnamed girls from Eastern Europe. Maybe some of

692
00:41:58,519 --> 00:42:01,360
them know some of these Brazilian girls that were brought

693
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,320
in through mc squared, Or what about the girls in

694
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Guatemala or Ecuador, or what about the girls in Yugoslavia,

695
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,599
what about the girls in Ukraine. These are all the

696
00:42:12,679 --> 00:42:16,119
hunting grounds, the fertile hunting grounds that Jean Luke Brunel

697
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,199
was using to bring girls in for Epstein. And if

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00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,559
you think any of them are confident in what's going

699
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:24,440
on as far as the way the DOJ is handling things,

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00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:28,840
you're crazy. There's no way. So if the DOJ is

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00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,760
handling things like this, why would anyone come forward at

702
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,360
this point and add their name and their voice to

703
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,960
the growing storm? Just going to cause them more trouble.

704
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And obviously nobody's interested in any kind of justice, So

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00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,239
why should anyone come forward? Now, if you flip the

706
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,920
script and the DOJ was bringing in survivors and victims

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00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,000
of Epstein and Maxwell and talking to them, well, we'd

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00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,559
have a different conversation, but unfortunately we don't, and in

709
00:42:56,639 --> 00:43:01,559
my opinion, that's all by design. All of the information

710
00:43:01,639 --> 00:43:04,360
that goes with this episode can be found in the

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