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

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Epstein Chronicles. We've been talking a lot about subpoenas lately,

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and in this episode we're talking about another one, and

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this time it's Pam Bondy who's on the clock because

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the House Oversight Committee has now subpoenaed her for a

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testimony about the Epstein files. Now, under normal circumstances, this

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would be very, very dangerous for paum Bondy as far

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as perjuring herself and telling falsehoods. But considering that Donald

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Trump is just going to pardon her anyway, I expect

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paum Bondy to be the same way that she was

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during the last committee meeting when she made a fool

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of herself and the administration. And unfortunately, nothing I've seen

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from her leads me to believe that it's going to

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be anything but the same kind of song and dance. However,

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I do think that she'll probably decide not to talk

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about the stock market this time. Remember that one. I

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don't know what you're laughing at, Raskin. The Dow's over

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fifty thousand, as if that has anything to do with

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what we're talking about now, don't get it. Twisted. It's

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always good when the stock market's banging, certainly not you know,

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downplaying that good for everybody's four oh one, k et cetera. Great,

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but that's not the topic of conversation. Stop trying to

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move the goalposts, stop trying to gaslight people, and furthermore,

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Pound Bondy, stop lying to the American public, especially while

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you're under oath. Today's article is from NBC News and

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the headline House Overside Committee votes to subpoena Pound Bondi

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for testimony on the Epstein files. This article was authored

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by Darrah Gregorian, Kyle Stewart, Owen Hayes, and Michael Kosner.

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The Republican led House Overside Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena

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Attorney General Pound Bondy for testimony on the department's handing

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of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. The motion to subpoenal

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Bondy passed by a vote of twenty four to nineteen.

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Five Republicans voted for it, including Nancy Mace of South Carolina,

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who put the motion forward. The Republicans voting with Mace

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and the Democrats were Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Bobert

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of Colorado, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

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And good on all of them, and shame on the

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Republicans who voted against this. What's wrong with you? And honestly,

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I don't want to hear shit about Oh, the kids,

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the kids, the kids. You people don't care about the kids.

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You care about yourselves and winning elections. That's what you

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care about. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to

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a request for comment. The Department acknowledged Wednesday that tends

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that thousands of Epstein files are offline as it deals

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with redactions and privacy issues that it hopes to have

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addressed by the end of the week. A Bondi claims

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the DOJ has released all the Epstein files. The record

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is clear, they have not. Mace road on X She's

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not wrong. They have not released all the files, and

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they continue to play coy, Oh, well, we're going to

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release this one, but not that one. Oh, this one

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has some damning information about Santa Claus in it, so

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we can't release it. And what vexes me is the

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fact that there is no sort of teeth within the law.

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Nobody can force their hand Bondi and the administration can

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just do whatever they want. There is no oversight whatsoever.

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The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover ups

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in American history. His global sex trafficking network is larger

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than what is being revealed. Three million documents have been

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released and we still don't have the full truth. Videos

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are missing, audio is missing, logs are missing. There are

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millions more documents out there. We want to know why

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the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than

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delivering justice. And you know what's crazy. All these clowns

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are more mad at people like Hayley Robson than they

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are people like Leon Black or Les Wexner. It is

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just bananas to me. Macetole reporters after the vote, I

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know that Bondi is testified before the Judiciary Committee, but

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she's not testified before me or the Oversight committee. I

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need to get to the bottom of this. For other

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survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, well, props to Nancy Mace for

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at least trying to make this happen and for moving

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this forward. Now. Look, I'm not going to say that

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I'm a big Nancy Mace fan. I'm not a big

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fan of any politician, but anybody that's trying to move

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this forward here, somebody I can at least not to

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and say thank you. But of course I remain cynical

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about the whole thing, and about her motivations and the

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motivations of everybody else involved. There's a lot at play here,

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a lot of politics, a lot of maneuvering, and a

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lot of people trying to gain political ground when it

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comes to this topic. So they can talk all they want,

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it's action I'm looking for. I have a lot more questions,

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and I don't expect to be talking about the stock market.

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So she better not bring those notes when she comes

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to the Oversight Committee, May said, referring to Bondie's contentious

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hearing with the House Judiciary Committee last month when she

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brought up the stock market's performance under President Donald Trump.

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It was so disgustingly ridiculous. I have never been more

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turned off watching one of those hearings ever in my life,

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And in the old days, I watched a lot of

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hearings like that. I went to school for political science,

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and for me, the process of the government and how

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it works has always been fascinating, and I can't ever

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remember a time where somebody carried on the way Pam

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Bondi did. It was an embarrassment not only to herself

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but to the administration and the country as a whole.

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And she needs to do better. So I hope that

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this committee holds her to a standard, and I hope

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Mace isn't just talking nonsense. Mace said. The subpoena is

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for a closed door testimony with video that would be

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released to the public afterward. There's no date yet for

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the testimony. It should be public. Sorry, why closed door?

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She's a sitting Attorney general, right, she owes that to us,

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and this is why nobody trusts them. Oh, let's have

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a closed door meeting and then we'll release the video.

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Why not just have an open door meeting and let

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everybody see it. What's the difference that way? You can

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go off the record, so you guys can do your

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k fabe and make pretend you hate each other, only

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to be buddies afterwards. I'm not buying it. At last

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month's How's Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi touted the Justice Department's

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efforts to comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act, which

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mandated the public release of most information from the instigative

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files and to Epstein and his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell.

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More than five hundred attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of

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hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress's law.

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We've released more than three million pages, including one hundred

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and eighty thousand images, all to the public while doing

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our very best in that timeframe allotted by the legislation

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to protect victims. Bondi said, well, she's, you know, doing

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a great job, literally felled out all of it. But sure,

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let's trust Pam Bondi, the paragon of truth. Congress passed

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the bill after the Justice Department in the FBI said

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in a memo in July that they had conducted an

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exhaustive review of the files and would not charge anyone

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else as part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring, which they

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said affected over one thousand victims, and would not release

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any more information about the case. Yo a thousand victims,

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no arrests besides Glenn Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Jean lu Brunel,

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and we're closing the case, huh. And we should stop

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asking questions. We should talk about the dow. Are you

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on mushrooms? You can't be sober and talking like this, right,

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that can't be the case. You have to be on

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some kind of hallucinogenic. The Oversight Committee then subpoenaed the

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Justice Department to turn over the files to Congress, but

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it had turned over only about thirty thousand documents, most

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of which had already been made public. And it was

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a gigantic kick to the nerds. Right, oh, here you go. Wait,

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hold on a minute, We've seen all of this already.

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Weren't those files in the binders that you passed out

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for all the idiots who carry water for you? Talk

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about audacious. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed

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into law in November, required that all documents be made

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public within thirty days, with some exceptions. Deputy Attorney General

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Todd Blanche announced the release of three million pages of

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files at the end of January, but he said the

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Department was withholding roughly three million more documents. Blanche has

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said that many of them were duplicates, but some were

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being withheld for various privileges, including deliberative process privilege, the

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work product doctrine, and attorney client privilege. In other words,

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screw you. Todd Blanche can do whatever he wants. The

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bills co authors, Representative Thomas Massey and Rocanna say that

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that's a violation of the law, which mandates the department

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to turn over internal DOJ communication, including emails, memos, meeting

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notes concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline

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to investigate Epstein or his associates. Yeah, we haven't seen

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any of that. Huh. And my guess is it's all

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by design. They wanted to be as confusing as possible,

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Blanche said. Other documents that have been withheld include some

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that are in a foreign language and others that have

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been sealed by judges. Lawmakers, and many Epstein's survivors have

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repeatedly criticized how many of the documents have been redacted,

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with information about possible accomplices blacked out, while some information

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about victims was not redacted when it should have been. Again,

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my guess, by design, and I'm sorry, but I'm not

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giving the DOJ. Pambondi, Todd Blanche, and Donald Trump the

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benefit of the doubt they have not earned that. The

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Justice Department has also been criticized for repeatedly taking down

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a number of files, sometimes for unspecified reasons. After a

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Wall Street Journal article this week said tens of thousands

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of pages are missing from the files, a department spokesperson

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told NBC News in a statement that it has not

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deleted any files in compliance with the EFTA. Our team

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is working around the clock to address victim concerns, redact

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personally identifiable information and any images of a sexual nature,

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the statement said, referring to the bill Trump signed into

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law in November. The statement added that as of Monday,

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forty six hundred and thirty five files were offline for

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further review and should be ready for reproduction by the

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end of the week. This is the most transparent Department

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of Justice in history, and all responsive documents will be

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repopulated online once proper redactions are made. So let's just

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go back and redact things retroactively. What exactly were those

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hundreds of lawyers doing when they were working on their redactions?

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The missing documents include some reason notes from three interviews

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the FBI conducted with a South Carolina woman who alleged

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that she was a sexual assault a victim of EPSTEIN

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and also made sexual abuse allegations against Trump. To an

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NBC News analysis of the Epstein files and information provided

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by a source familiar with the investigation. It's not clear

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whether the sexual abuse allegations against Trump were discussed in

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other interviews. That the Justice Department did not release all

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of it needs to be released, I'm sorry, but that's

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how it goes. As for comment on the documents, last week,

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the White House referred to a statement the Justice Department

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issued when the Epstein files were released. It said some

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of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President

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Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the

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twenty twenty election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded

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and false, and if they have a shred of credibility,

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they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,

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which is incorrect. Mutually assured destruction. They didn't want to

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light the whole thing on fire. Okay, That's why this

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stuff was never opened. That's why this information was never used,

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because if you tried to use it on Trump, you

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have to use it on everybody. And they can't have that,

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can they. Who's going to pay the bills? Trump, whom

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law enforcement is not accused of any wrongdoing in connection

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with Epstein. Has said that he stopped socializing with Epstein

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in the early two thousands because he thought he was

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a creep. Well, okay, I thought it was because he

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was stealing workers or because of a business deal, But

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I guess we'll just go with he was a creep.

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And as far as Bondi goes, look, this woman is

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an embarrassment and the fact that she's up there representing

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the United States of America as the Attorney General is

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a dark stain, and in my opinion, she needs to

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be held accountable by Congress for her behavior. Will she be, Unfortunately,

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I highly doubt it. But either way, we'll keep an

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eye on things, and when we get a date, we'll

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make sure we add it to the catalog. As far

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as this one, well that's going to do it. All

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