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Speaker 1: So all last week we spoke about the Epstein files,

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we spoke about the new emails that were released, we

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spoke about the vote that's supposed to take place just

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this week. Common theme was that Trump was trying to

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convince MAGA leaders to vote against the release. Well, in

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an odd twist of faith, Trump yesterday changed his mind

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and welcome back to The Michael Cone Show. On our

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because this stupidity, it's got to stop now. Last night,

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on his way back to the White House from yeh

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another golf trip in Florida, Trump posted this on truth

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Social Let me show you what it says in it.

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It says, as I said on Friday night, aboard Air

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Force one to the fake news media House, Republicans should

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vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing

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to hide and it's time to move on from this

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Democrat hoax perpetuated by radical left lunatics in order to

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deflect from the great success of the Republican Party, including

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our recent victory on the Democrats shutdown. The Department of

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Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages

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to the public on Epstein. Are looking at various Democrat

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operatives Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc. And their

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relationship to Epstein and the House Oversight Committee can have

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whatever they are legally entitled to. I don't care. All

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I do care about is that the Republicans get back

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on point, which is the economy affordability, where we are

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winning big, our victory on reducing inflation from the highest

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level in history to practically nothing, bringing down prices for

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the American people, delivering historic tax cuts, gaining trillions of

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dollars of investment into America, record the rebuilding of our military,

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securing our border, deporting criminal illegal aliens, ending men in

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women's sports, stopping transgender for everyone, and so much more.

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Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive, and

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if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it

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before our landslide election victory. Some members of the Republican

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Party are being used, and we can't let that happen.

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Let's start talking about the Republican Party's record setting achievements

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and not fall into the Epstein trap, which is actually

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a curse on the Democrats, not us make America great again. Look,

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let me turn around and say this to you, if

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you have a chance, read my sub stack of this

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morning the vote Trump fears most. I turn around and

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I say, I want to be brutally clear about something

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that I'm absolutely sick and tired of hearing that there's

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nothing we can do. Nothing we can do about a

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runaway price, nothing we can do about an administration that

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governs like the Constitution is a suggestion pamphlet, nothing we

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can do while President Trump, yeah, you know, the same

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guy that I watched fly off the handle over being

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served in open can of diet coke while he treats

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the country like a prop, a prop in the world's

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most dangerous improv routine. It's defeatist, it's wrong, and frankly,

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it's the kind of thing that I hear people say

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when they haven't been paying attention. Because we did this.

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We we marched, we yelled, we organized. We build platforms

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and community and communities like right here on substack and

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on other social media platforms in the streets, anywhere, anywhere

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where the truth can gather momentum, even even when the

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government tries to suffocate it. Remember that when you're sitting

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there and you're listening, or you're reading one of Trump's

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truth social posts. Meanwhile, while change his mind on the vote,

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he still keeps claiming that this is a hoax. Let

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me show you what he says in it. He writes,

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it's a Democrat hoax for purposes of deflection, just like

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the Russia Russia, Russia scam. They had the sleazy relationships

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with Epstein and should be prosecuted. Well, let me be

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crystal clear on something that is just not true. It

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is not a hoax like the Russia Russia Russia hoax,

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which you've heard me say many times, had let's just say,

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no credibility at all. But last night on the tarmac,

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he actually told reporters that he doesn't want to talk

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about the Epstein files because it's fake news. Tell that.

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Tell that to the thousand women, the thousand children that

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were raped and slid and child sex trafficked. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: He said he concerned the pro you were calling for

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to you a smoke screen to block the week of

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Moor file is not the case.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to talk about it because fake

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news like you, you're a terrible reporter, and fake news

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like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect

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from the tremendous success of the Trump administration. So a

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guy like Massy, his pull numbers, they're showing he's a

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six percent approval rating right now, and we call him

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Ran Paul Junior because he never votes for the Republican Party.

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So they're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the

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tremendous success that we're having as a party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what this is really about is he knows that

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tomorrow when the vote or sometime this week when that

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discharge petition goes to the floor and everyone has to

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turn around either a voting for a pedophile or you're not.

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Trump doesn't like the concept of losing, and believe me

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when I tell you it's the one thing that he

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cannot cannot handle. I mean, other than of course, whole

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milk after his fifties, because lactose intolerance may be the

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only honest intolerance that he's ever admitted to. But losing.

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Losing repels him, Losing crushes him, Losing is the one

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experience that he cannot spin, he cannot bully, he cannot

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distract his way out of Now let me say this

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that the Epstein survivors, they they created a very powerful

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PSA calling for the files to be released. Hopefully all

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members of the House will see it. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: I suffered so much pain, so much pain, so much pain.

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I suffered so much.

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Speaker 4: I was fourteen years old.

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Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old, was seventeen, fourteen years old.

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This is me, this was me, This is me when

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I met Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 3: This is me when I met Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 2: There are about a thousand of us.

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Speaker 1: It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.

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It's time to shine a light into the darkness. I mean,

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talk about powerful.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, while they're doing things like this, Trump spent weeks

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and weeks railing against this petition, calling it again a hoax,

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lashing out claiming that it's a distraction, that the momentum,

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the momentum thanks to things like this, it didn't slow,

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not one bit. It grew. These survivors releasing a video

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like that, with advocates, organized calling campaigns, and ordinary people

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like you and me flooding congressional offices, demanding action. That pressure,

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That pressure is what's forcing Mike Johnson, what's forcing this

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administration's end. Not principle, not courage, just raw political math. Now,

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over the weekend, Thomas Massey, he made an interesting point.

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He said that the record of this Epstein file vote

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will last a whole lot longer than Trump's presidency. So

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don't vote to protect pedophiles with the hope that Trump

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is going to protect you because he won't play the.

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Speaker 5: Clip it happened. I would reminder my Republican colleagues who

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are just how to vote. Donald Trump can protect you

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in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement,

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but in twenty thirty he's not going to be the

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president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles. If

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you don't vote to release these files and the president

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can't protect you, then this, this vote, the record of

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this vote will last longer than Donald Trump's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what he's telling him, don't head your bets

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on Trump right, protect yourself. And then again, suddenly, I

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don't know, Republicans decide decide whether or not that they're

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going to end up voting alongside Donald Trump, or they

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won't and their names will go down in history because

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Trump only says that meaning release the files when he

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knows that transparency is coming with or without him. And again,

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what is he trying to do position himself out of

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the blast radius? Now, let me say this. That's send

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it to Chris Combs. He went on MSNBC this morning,

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just this morning with a pretty interesting theory of why

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he believes Trump changed his mind and what Bondy might

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need to do to save him. Play the clip.

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Speaker 5: What's the plan in terms of getting the House passed

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resolution in front of the Senate?

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Speaker 4: How soon will that happen?

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Speaker 5: How soon will these Republicans get a chance to reverse

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their votes and try.

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Speaker 4: To clean up their act? So this is going to

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be an interesting week. My gut hunch is that Attorney

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General Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by

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the President to open an investigation into a series of

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high profile Democrats, will promptly say, oh no, no, there's

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an ongoing investigation. We can't disclose any of this, and

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the President will back that up. But you are absolutely right.

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We should be going to the floor every day and

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doing unanimous consent requests that say we should see these files.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: We owe it to the victims, We owe it to transparency.

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Trump ran on, I will release the Epstein files on

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day one. Has done everything possible, including hauling Lauren Bobert

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into the situation room for a closed door muscle session.

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This is just a despicable act of betraying the victims

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of Epstein. It's long pastime that we get transparency around

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this for the American people.

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Speaker 1: I said the same thing in my sub stack this

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morning before he even went on the vote. Trump fears

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most I turn and I say, it's a ready made

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excuse to claim that documents can't be released due to

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ongoing investigations. My friends, that's not transparency. That's obstruction with

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a PR makeover. But let me be clear, none of

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it not the pressure of the threats, the last minute flip,

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the smokescreen investigations will stop what's happening this week with

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the vote. And finally Todd Blanche, Oh yeah, dear Old

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Todd told Fox News that he's going to find anyone

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and everyone who hasn't been held accountable for their involvement

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with with Jeffrey Epstein. Well, I don't know be careful

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what you wish for, play the.

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Speaker 2: Clip anyway, And so we're going to continue to find

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out if there's anybody responsible, anybody that hasn't been held accountable,

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and if they're out there, we'll find them. Yeah, I

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think most Americans will say the fact it has been

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going on for more in a decade and it seems

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like nobody, nobody's left to prosecute or bring targes against it,

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can't seem to find evidence. Is what's concerning the people.

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And more transparency the better.

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Speaker 1: So think yeah, only to you fool. Let me be

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very clear, don't tell me that there's nothing that we

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can't do. We have to keep doing what we're doing.

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We're doing it now and tomorrow or this week the

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country we're about to learn we're about to watch all

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of this unfold in real time. Because be clear, when

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Trump loses, even this one, even this one, democracy gains ground.

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