00:00Recognize the Democrat leader.
00:01Mr. President, today marks the first day of the House embarking on their Epstein recess.
00:10And already, the story Republicans hoped would quietly fade is growing louder by the hour.
00:17Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi
00:22and the Department of Justice informed President Trump back in May
00:26that his name appears multiple times in the Epstein files.
00:32Let me remind my colleagues, only last week,
00:36Donald Trump told a reporter that Attorney General Bondi never told him his name was in those files.
00:42Now we know that this was a lie, plain and simple, a red-faced lie.
00:49And this revelation raises not just serious questions about President Trump,
00:54but about Attorney General Bondi herself.
00:58Bondi has proven to do all of Trump's bidding.
01:03No matter what way you slice it, General Bondi lied to the American people.
01:10She told us we'd see the report.
01:12She told us it's on her desk.
01:14Then we're told there's no report.
01:16So you can understand the deep skepticism Americans have when they hear that today,
01:22Bondi's personal prosecutors, yes, the very ones under her direction,
01:28are preparing to interview Ghislaine Maxwell,
01:31Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice behind closed doors in Florida.
01:36Let me repeat, under no circumstances should anyone from Donald Trump's Department of Justice
01:45be allowed to privately interview Ghislaine Maxwell.
01:49The conflict of interest just stares you in the face, and it's unacceptable.
01:54If you've been following this saga, and given how the White House and Speaker Johnson have so mishandled it,
02:03and who hasn't been following it, you know exactly why this moment is so dangerous.
02:08There is every reason to fear that Donald Trump could offer Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon
02:14in exchange for silence, or even worse, phony exoneration.
02:20Let me be clear. Trump is sending his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche,
02:26to try and execute a corrupt cover-up,
02:30potentially offering leniency to a woman who also abused the victims.
02:35Enough. Enough. Enough with the hiding.
02:40Enough with the excuses, and enough with the cover-up.
02:43The American people deserve transparency.
02:47They deserve answers.
02:48And there are massive questions here.
02:51Not just for the President, but for the Vice President,
02:54the Attorney General,
02:56the FBI Director,
02:58and Republican leaders in Congress.
03:01What's in the files?
03:04When did they learn about it?
03:07And how long have they been misleading the American people?
03:12What's in the files?
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