00:00Thank you so much. And first of all, let me just say that we are standing before you.
00:06We're having this conversation because of the oversight Democratic leadership.
00:10And so I want to reiterate that it's the Democratic leadership on oversight that has truly been able to move this forward.
00:18I'm sure many of you don't recall, but we were sent home early to try to avoid being able to take a vote on something like getting these files.
00:28We are about doing real transparency. We don't care who's in the files. We are going after you.
00:33So if I had to sum up what happened today, we heard the stories of victims.
00:38And honestly, we heard the story of at least one person that has never come forward before today.
00:45This was the very first time that she was telling anyone in a semi-public way her story.
00:51And if I had to summarize the theme, I would say that their theme was to do something.
00:55It is probably the theme of the American people in general right now when it comes to government is that they want us to do something.
01:02So, yes, we have the roundtable, but they actually want to see some action.
01:06The fact that this started off in the 90s and we had someone who could talk about what happened to them in the 90s.
01:14But then you go down the line and you've got somebody that's telling us their story from 2008.
01:19These failures led to years and years of abuse that did not have to take place.
01:25And so the reality is this. Some think that this is all over and some think that nothing else is going on.
01:33But if there was ever a RICO case, it would have been the Epstein case.
01:37So how we went from something that should have been RICO because of how sophisticated of a system this was.
01:44And this wasn't just one little sick old man that was doing stuff.
01:48But there were so many layers, whether we're talking about the banks that were involved, whether we're talking about those that worked for him, that helped him, whether we're talking about the monster known as Maxwell.
02:00And that's exactly how y'all need to refer to her.
02:03She is a monster. She is not a victim.
02:06So let me tell you, I want some action items to come out of this because for once we somewhat look like we're bipartisan in the Oversight Committee.
02:13Number one, we need answers. We need answers on why it is that Maxwell was transferred from her current station and or her former station in Florida down to Texas.
02:27We need to have an understanding because everything that I heard today leads me to know that for sure she was all up and in and through this entire process.
02:37Not to mention that she was indicted by a jury of her peers and then she was tried and convicted and given 20 years.
02:45So why is it that we had somebody again?
02:48It almost seems like we are doomed to repeat our failures because why is it we have high level people that seemingly are running cover for a criminal?
02:58And that is what she is. She is a monster and she is a criminal.
03:01So number one, we need answers on what happened with that transfer, why it took place.
03:06And honestly, we all need to stand together and say that Maxwell needs to go back to where the monsters go, which is to a higher level of security.
03:14We also need to understand that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has legislation that she has been trying to push forward.
03:22And so in a bipartisan way, we all need to get behind Debbie because we found and what we learned is that there were loopholes as it relates to the Crime Victims Act.
03:31And so we've got to make sure that no other victims suffer in the way that they did when you have somebody like Alex Acosta that decides that he wants to play games and dismiss a case and never inform the victims of what's going on as is required by law.
03:46So we are going to have to fix those loopholes to make sure that that doesn't happen, because it took them 10 years of fighting this.
03:54And ultimately, by the time they got to the end of it, well, it also was Jeffrey Epstein's in.
03:59And so there was not a resolution for that.
04:01And the final thing that I think that we need to do is obviously we need to continue to push forward and make sure that we get all the files because we know that we have not received them all.
04:14Because I am standing in front of the press, I'm also going to make a plea.
04:18One of the things that I realized was that there's a lot of stuff that the DOJ may have.
04:23But honestly, if you don't have a thorough investigation and I can't say if we had a thorough investigation or not, we have no idea.
04:31But the reality is that when you have investigators that go out, they go out and they collect information.
04:36I am not necessarily convinced that they even have gone out and done their due diligence to fully investigate this case in the first place.
04:43So if there's anyone in the public that believes that you have information that would be valuable, you've never been able to get through to federal agencies or no one would listen to you when you try to go forward and bring information forward.
04:58I am asking that you trust Oversight Dems and you bring that information to us.
05:04Or if you know where some information is contained, let us know so that we can then send subpoenas out that way.
05:11We want to do right not only by those that have already suffered under Epstein, but we want to prevent other trafficking rings that we know are out there.
05:20We want to make sure that we are doing right for future generations.
05:23So with that, I now have the honor of presenting to you the firecracker out of New Mexico.
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