Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. We've been talking a lot about subpoenas lately,
and in this episode we're talking about another one, and
this time it's Pam Bondy who's on the clock because
the House Oversight Committee has now subpoenaed her for a
testimony about the Epstein files. Now, under normal circumstances, this
would be very, very dangerous for paum Bondy as far
as perjuring herself and telling falsehoods. But considering that Donald
Trump is just going to pardon her anyway, I expect
paum Bondy to be the same way that she was
during the last committee meeting when she made a fool
of herself and the administration. And unfortunately, nothing I've seen
from her leads me to believe that it's going to
be anything but the same kind of song and dance. However,
I do think that she'll probably decide not to talk
about the stock market this time. Remember that one. I
don't know what you're laughing at, Raskin. The Dow's over
fifty thousand, as if that has anything to do with
what we're talking about now, don't get it. Twisted. It's
always good when the stock market's banging, certainly not you know,
downplaying that good for everybody's four oh one, k et cetera. Great,
but that's not the topic of conversation. Stop trying to
move the goalposts, stop trying to gaslight people, and furthermore,
Pound Bondy, stop lying to the American public, especially while
you're under oath. Today's article is from NBC News and
the headline House Overside Committee votes to subpoena Pound Bondi
for testimony on the Epstein files. This article was authored
by Darrah Gregorian, Kyle Stewart, Owen Hayes, and Michael Kosner.
The Republican led House Overside Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena
Attorney General Pound Bondy for testimony on the department's handing
of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. The motion to subpoenal
Bondy passed by a vote of twenty four to nineteen.
Five Republicans voted for it, including Nancy Mace of South Carolina,
who put the motion forward. The Republicans voting with Mace
and the Democrats were Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Bobert
of Colorado, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
And good on all of them, and shame on the
Republicans who voted against this. What's wrong with you? And honestly,
I don't want to hear shit about Oh, the kids,
the kids, the kids. You people don't care about the kids.
You care about yourselves and winning elections. That's what you
care about. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to
a request for comment. The Department acknowledged Wednesday that tends
that thousands of Epstein files are offline as it deals
with redactions and privacy issues that it hopes to have
addressed by the end of the week. A Bondi claims
the DOJ has released all the Epstein files. The record
is clear, they have not. Mace road on X She's
not wrong. They have not released all the files, and
they continue to play coy, Oh, well, we're going to
release this one, but not that one. Oh, this one
has some damning information about Santa Claus in it, so
we can't release it. And what vexes me is the
fact that there is no sort of teeth within the law.
Nobody can force their hand Bondi and the administration can
just do whatever they want. There is no oversight whatsoever.
The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover ups
in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger
than what is being revealed. Three million documents have been
released and we still don't have the full truth. Videos
are missing, audio is missing, logs are missing. There are
millions more documents out there. We want to know why
the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than
delivering justice. And you know what's crazy. All these clowns
are more mad at people like Hayley Robson than they
are people like Leon Black or Les Wexner. It is
just bananas to me. Macetole reporters after the vote, I
know that Bondi is testified before the Judiciary Committee, but
she's not testified before me or the Oversight committee. I
need to get to the bottom of this. For other
survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, well, props to Nancy Mace for
at least trying to make this happen and for moving
this forward. Now. Look, I'm not going to say that
I'm a big Nancy Mace fan. I'm not a big
fan of any politician, but anybody that's trying to move
this forward here, somebody I can at least not to
and say thank you. But of course I remain cynical
about the whole thing, and about her motivations and the
motivations of everybody else involved. There's a lot at play here,
a lot of politics, a lot of maneuvering, and a
lot of people trying to gain political ground when it
comes to this topic. So they can talk all they want,
it's action I'm looking for. I have a lot more questions,
and I don't expect to be talking about the stock market.
So she better not bring those notes when she comes
to the Oversight Committee, May said, referring to Bondie's contentious
hearing with the House Judiciary Committee last month when she
brought up the stock market's performance under President Donald Trump.
It was so disgustingly ridiculous. I have never been more
turned off watching one of those hearings ever in my life,
And in the old days, I watched a lot of
hearings like that. I went to school for political science,
and for me, the process of the government and how
it works has always been fascinating, and I can't ever
remember a time where somebody carried on the way Pam
Bondi did. It was an embarrassment not only to herself
but to the administration and the country as a whole.
And she needs to do better. So I hope that
this committee holds her to a standard, and I hope
Mace isn't just talking nonsense. Mace said. The subpoena is
for a closed door testimony with video that would be
released to the public afterward. There's no date yet for
the testimony. It should be public. Sorry, why closed door?
She's a sitting Attorney general, right, she owes that to us,
and this is why nobody trusts them. Oh, let's have
a closed door meeting and then we'll release the video.
Why not just have an open door meeting and let
everybody see it. What's the difference that way? You can
go off the record, so you guys can do your
k fabe and make pretend you hate each other, only
to be buddies afterwards. I'm not buying it. At last
month's How's Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi touted the Justice Department's
efforts to comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act, which
mandated the public release of most information from the instigative
files and to Epstein and his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell.
More than five hundred attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of
hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress's law.
We've released more than three million pages, including one hundred
and eighty thousand images, all to the public while doing
our very best in that timeframe allotted by the legislation
to protect victims. Bondi said, well, she's, you know, doing
a great job, literally felled out all of it. But sure,
let's trust Pam Bondi, the paragon of truth. Congress passed
the bill after the Justice Department in the FBI said
in a memo in July that they had conducted an
exhaustive review of the files and would not charge anyone
else as part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring, which they
said affected over one thousand victims, and would not release
any more information about the case. Yo a thousand victims,
no arrests besides Glenn Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Jean lu Brunel,
and we're closing the case, huh. And we should stop
asking questions. We should talk about the dow. Are you
on mushrooms? You can't be sober and talking like this, right,
that can't be the case. You have to be on
some kind of hallucinogenic. The Oversight Committee then subpoenaed the
Justice Department to turn over the files to Congress, but
it had turned over only about thirty thousand documents, most
of which had already been made public. And it was
a gigantic kick to the nerds. Right, oh, here you go. Wait,
hold on a minute, We've seen all of this already.
Weren't those files in the binders that you passed out
for all the idiots who carry water for you? Talk
about audacious. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed
into law in November, required that all documents be made
public within thirty days, with some exceptions. Deputy Attorney General
Todd Blanche announced the release of three million pages of
files at the end of January, but he said the
Department was withholding roughly three million more documents. Blanche has
said that many of them were duplicates, but some were
being withheld for various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the
work product doctrine, and attorney client privilege. In other words,
screw you. Todd Blanche can do whatever he wants. The
bills co authors, Representative Thomas Massey and Rocanna say that
that's a violation of the law, which mandates the department
to turn over internal DOJ communication, including emails, memos, meeting
notes concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline
to investigate Epstein or his associates. Yeah, we haven't seen
any of that. Huh. And my guess is it's all
by design. They wanted to be as confusing as possible,
Blanche said. Other documents that have been withheld include some
that are in a foreign language and others that have
been sealed by judges. Lawmakers, and many Epstein's survivors have
repeatedly criticized how many of the documents have been redacted,
with information about possible accomplices blacked out, while some information
about victims was not redacted when it should have been. Again,
my guess, by design, and I'm sorry, but I'm not
giving the DOJ. Pambondi, Todd Blanche, and Donald Trump the
benefit of the doubt they have not earned that. The
Justice Department has also been criticized for repeatedly taking down
a number of files, sometimes for unspecified reasons. After a
Wall Street Journal article this week said tens of thousands
of pages are missing from the files, a department spokesperson
told NBC News in a statement that it has not
deleted any files in compliance with the EFTA. Our team
is working around the clock to address victim concerns, redact
personally identifiable information and any images of a sexual nature,
the statement said, referring to the bill Trump signed into
law in November. The statement added that as of Monday,
forty six hundred and thirty five files were offline for
further review and should be ready for reproduction by the
end of the week. This is the most transparent Department
of Justice in history, and all responsive documents will be
repopulated online once proper redactions are made. So let's just
go back and redact things retroactively. What exactly were those
hundreds of lawyers doing when they were working on their redactions?
The missing documents include some reason notes from three interviews
the FBI conducted with a South Carolina woman who alleged
that she was a sexual assault a victim of EPSTEIN
and also made sexual abuse allegations against Trump. To an
NBC News analysis of the Epstein files and information provided
by a source familiar with the investigation. It's not clear
whether the sexual abuse allegations against Trump were discussed in
other interviews. That the Justice Department did not release all
of it needs to be released, I'm sorry, but that's
how it goes. As for comment on the documents, last week,
the White House referred to a statement the Justice Department
issued when the Epstein files were released. It said some
of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President
Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the
twenty twenty election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded
and false, and if they have a shred of credibility,
they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,
which is incorrect. Mutually assured destruction. They didn't want to
light the whole thing on fire. Okay, That's why this
stuff was never opened. That's why this information was never used,
because if you tried to use it on Trump, you
have to use it on everybody. And they can't have that,
can they. Who's going to pay the bills? Trump, whom
law enforcement is not accused of any wrongdoing in connection
with Epstein. Has said that he stopped socializing with Epstein
in the early two thousands because he thought he was
a creep. Well, okay, I thought it was because he
was stealing workers or because of a business deal, But
I guess we'll just go with he was a creep.
And as far as Bondi goes, look, this woman is
an embarrassment and the fact that she's up there representing
the United States of America as the Attorney General is
a dark stain, and in my opinion, she needs to
be held accountable by Congress for her behavior. Will she be, Unfortunately,
I highly doubt it. But either way, we'll keep an
eye on things, and when we get a date, we'll
make sure we add it to the catalog. As far
as this one, well that's going to do it. All
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