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Survivors of the late Jeffrey Epstein and House of Representative members on the Epstein Files Transparency Act speak in a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol.
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, responding to mounting pressure in Congress to force more disclosure in the case
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, responding to mounting pressure in Congress to force more disclosure in the case
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00:00moments I realized how powerless I was. If I spoke out, who would believe me? Who would protect me?
00:07Epstein himself was the most powerful leader of our country. Epstein surrounded himself, I'm sorry,
00:12with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world. He abused not only me, but countless
00:18others, and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. He bragged
00:23about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag,
00:29actually. And while what I endured will haunt me forever, I live every day with PTSD. I live as a
00:39mother trying to raise my child while distrusting a world that has betrayed me. This kind of trauma
00:44never leaves you. It breaks families apart. It shapes the way we see everyone around us.
00:49But one thing is certain. Unless we learn from this history, monsters like Epstein will rise again.
00:54There are files, government files, that hold the truth about Epstein, who he knew, who owed him,
01:01who protected him, and why he was allowed to operate for so long without consequence. Why was
01:07Maxwell the only one held accountable when so many others played a role? Why does the government hide
01:12this information from the public? This secrecy is not protection. It's complicity. And as long as the
01:20truth is buried, justice will remain out of reach. That is why this bill matters. Passing it will, bless
01:27you, endure, ensure that the suffering of survivors is not in vain. Passing it will bring accountability,
01:33transparency, and prevention. It will help protect the next generation of predators who seek to place
01:39themselves above the law through wealth, influence, and connections. This is not just my story. It is about
01:46every survivor who carries invisible scars. It's about the weight we live with daily. It is about the
01:52families broken and the future stolen. So I ask you, President Trump and members of Congress, why do we
02:01continue to cover up sexual abuse and assault? Who are we covering for? Let the public know the truth.
02:09We cannot heal without justice. We cannot protect the future if we refuse to confront the past.
02:22Just give a round of applause for all the courage and strength that we provide.
02:32We now will take a few questions. You can always get Congressman Massey, me, or Congressman Green
02:40in the hallways and other places. If you have questions for us, that's fine. But I wanted to
02:44see first if you have questions for the lawyers and the survivors. And Brad will facilitate any of the
02:51questions to the survivors. Yes. Yeah. This question would be for the survivors. The president has said
02:59that this Epstein issue is a hoax is the words that we use. Can we get your reactions to what you think when you hear him say that?
03:08I'll answer that. Mr. President Donald J. Trump. I am a registered Republican. Not that that matters
03:19because this is not political. However, I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so
03:24you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings. This is real trauma.
03:28What does it feel like emotionally to hear that? It's being gutted from the inside out. Not that I
03:37would know what that feels like, but I imagine it's the anxiety buildup with the depression and the survival
03:44mode. And then your nervous system goes limp and ironically is shot. And it feels like you just want
03:50to explode inside because nobody again is understanding that this is a real situation.
03:55These women are real. We're here in person to say that it's a hoax is just not
04:02please humanize us. I would like Donald J. Trump and every person in America and around the world to
04:07humanize us to see us for who we are and to hear us for what we have to say. There is no hoax. The
04:13abuse was real. Now what goes on behind closed doors? I can't speak for that. What happens around the
04:20world politically? I cannot speak for that. But I am here with all of these women, including our
04:25attorneys, and I would be more than happy to meet with him and I will meet him halfway.
04:33I wonder if any of the victims could respond to the news from recently about
04:36Ghislaine Maxwell being transferred to a lower security prison in the aftermath of speaking to
04:42Todd Planck. I'm happy to speak to that. We were horrified to learn that she had been transferred to
04:53a prison camp. She is someone who was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking. We often hear that she
05:04procured women for Jeffrey, which I think is a very sort of polite and minimizing term. She also
05:10participated in the abuse. She was a major architect of the scheme and the fact that she has painted
05:16herself as a victim I think is disgusting and it was horrifying I think to us that we were not told
05:21about her prison transfer. We found out about it in the news.
05:24So Anushka DiGiorgio, I testified alongside Annie at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. I was horrified when
05:39I found out not only had Ghislaine Maxwell been transferred to what's called a low security,
05:47it's it's really is like a like a holiday camp and uh and then afterwards I got a notification from the
05:54Department of Justice telling me that this was going to happen when it had already happened.
05:59I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for over 10 years. Ghislaine Maxwell was present
06:23for some of my abuse at the hand of Jeffrey Epstein. She was present, she was complicit,
06:28she was enabling and it is appalling and disgusting and it's one of my worst nightmares that she not
06:35only be transferred but at the possibility that's very much going around that she might be pardoned.
06:41This is not okay guys, this is not okay. And I just want to add that I think it sends a very
06:45dangerous message um to to our country to the young people in our country that someone that we all know
06:51is aware of these crimes could be given a pass. And just for the last one, the last survivor who
06:55just spoke, the last survivor who just spoke, she said that that Epstein would would brag about her
07:02relationship with Donald Trump. Could she please elaborate on about that?
07:05And anybody can get to the microphone? Get cold.
07:09My first trip to the Palm Beach residence, I drove there from the airport with Ghislaine Maxwell and
07:31they, Jeffrey and Elin were always very boastful about their friends, their famous or powerful
07:38friends. And his biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump.
07:43He had an eight by 10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them. Like they were very
07:49very close, very close, very close.
07:52Go ahead.
07:52One second, one second.
07:57For this client list that you ladies are putting together, you said it would be confidential,
08:03but will the public, could you clarify, will the public get to see that?
08:07So Lisa, what's your envision here?
08:09Is it going to go to the public or is it going to the survivors?
08:12No, we're reaching out to survivors that are scared.
08:14So come on.
08:16We're reaching out to survivors that are scared to come forward.
08:19And that also know who they were trafficked to.
08:21So that's the list that we're compiling.
08:23We're not quite sure, you know, how we're going to release that or even if we're going to,
08:28the Department of Justice needs to release the list.
08:30Right, because for folks at home, they might be confused.
08:34You know, the survivors know the names.
08:35You've seen these powerful people.
08:38Why can't you say the names?
08:41Why do we have to say the names when the government knows the names?
08:45And we're also scared to do so.
08:47Look what's happened to so many of the survivors that have revealed names.
08:49Yeah, I find the question about the bill.
08:52I think it's also worth saying that having represented, I think,
08:55between our firm and Boyce Schiller, hundreds of victims.
08:59And we've talked to them about the various people that they were farmed out to.
09:02So we've created somewhat of a list.
09:05Most of these individuals, the victims, are very scared to say these names because they could get sued.
09:11They're going to get attacked and nobody protected them the first time.
09:14And that was against one person.
09:16So is there a list?
09:17There is a list.
09:18But just to dispel kind of the common theme here, every one of these women was abused by Jeffrey Epstein
09:25and his scheme was to personally abuse women.
09:28When they reached a certain age, he did farm a section of them, some of them, out to some of his friends.
09:34That doesn't mean all of his friends.
09:37With that said, I'm more than happy to assist in helping create the list behind the scenes
09:42and see what we do with it.
09:43Woo!
09:44But if someone's interested in-
09:46Go ahead.
09:46Hold on, hold on.
09:47I think if someone's interested in prosecuting, they may have something different to say about
09:50sharing a list.
09:51But they're not sharing a list for nothing to happen.
09:54And that's the experience that they've had for all of these years.
09:56We're waiting to see the fate of the discharge petition right now as we're here.
10:02The Speaker and others have said that the people he met with yesterday had concerns
10:08about your names being released if this bill were passed.
10:11And some people I talked to today are not signing the discharge petition
10:14because they say you don't want them to.
10:16Can you clarify if that is not a bit?
10:19Do any of the survivors here not want the bill to pop?
10:23First of all, first of all, our legislation, Ro Khanna and I went through this.
10:28We talked about this and we were very careful to make sure that there is an exception so that
10:33personally identifiable information, not just their names, but anything they could be identified by
10:38would not be disclosed.
10:39And can you speak to that as survivors yourself?
10:42I think all of them are on the same page.
10:44They want everything released.
10:45You want the bill to pop up.
10:48Yes, unequivocally redact personally identifying information
10:52and release everything else.
10:55Okay.
10:57It's your first time speaking.
10:58I'll go to Marina if we can.
11:00Yeah, sure.
11:00Marina, you have stayed silent for so many years.
11:03Today, this is the first time, if you understand correctly,
11:05you have never before gone public with your story and to share this.
11:09Can you help us understand why today?
11:11Why now and why here?
11:12Well, it is not okay for us to be silenced.
11:18And it's not okay for Jeffrey Epstein and everybody else to be put on a pedestal.
11:24I think everybody needs to hear from us because we know what went on, right?
11:29And there is not only me who's been silenced.
11:31There are hundreds of women that are silenced.
11:34My hope is to stop this abuse for the future, right, for people that are coming up for women.
11:41My daughter, for example, these people have, these women have daughters.
11:45They most definitely don't want that anymore.
11:48And I think mainly it is, it is, this is therapy for all of us too.
11:55You know, we want to be heard.
11:57Nobody also has never asked me to speak.
12:00That's also another thing.
12:01So I can say for all of us here, we are here.
12:05We want this bill to pass.
12:06It is very important.
12:07Okay, and we need transparency.
12:09We are tired of looking at the news and seeing Jeffrey Epstein's name and saying that this is
12:13a hoax.
12:14We are tired of it.
12:16We are done.
12:17We are not going to be silenced.
12:18And I hope that my voice will bring other survivors and other victims to come along
12:23and speak up so that we can be more of a stronger voice and louder.
12:27And so what is your message to President Trump on this?
12:31Listen, I don't like to, I don't want to send a direct message to him.
12:34I'm already scared enough.
12:39Yeah, just, just pass the vote.
12:41Listen to us.
12:42This is not a hoax.
12:44Like, it's not going to go away.
12:46And like I said on my speech earlier, we are not going to be,
12:49we're not going to be silenced anymore.
12:51We will be speaking moving forward wherever we need to be.
12:54We will be, and we need to pass this.
12:56Go ahead.
12:58Thank you, sir.
12:59Jordan Conrad, the gateway pundit.
13:00You know, for years we've heard that there was an Epstein client list or some kind of a list.
13:05Now we do it for the DOJ that there is no list.
13:08But for all the victims, what do you guys think?
13:10I know you're working on your own list, but do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein had a list?
13:14Yeah, so there's not a list.
13:15Yeah, so here's what it was.
13:17Just like you heard everybody today, Jeffrey Epstein created through an organization
13:22that of enablers, of people that were on his payroll.
13:26It was a complicated scheme where others should still be investigated
13:30because they helped to enable him and operate this scheme.
13:33Without those people, he could not have done this.
13:35But the purpose was for him to personally abuse people.
13:39With that being said, certain of his friends,
13:42he farmed out certain of the women that he was exploiting too.
13:48But that wasn't the primary purpose of that scheme.
13:50And I don't think he wrote the names of those people down.
13:52There's not a list of, hey, here's all of the people that I sent females to.
13:57That's just not how that organization worked.
13:59Mr. Edwards, is there any evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was involved with
14:02or tied to the CIA or a foreign intelligence operation?
14:06I think that the safest thing for me to say is all files should come out,
14:10whether it is with the CIA, FinCEN, SEC, FBI.
14:16I'm not just making these up haphazardly.
14:18I'm giving you a road map where to look.
14:22Go ahead.
14:22The White House has said that this is a very hostile act.
14:31I'll go first, and then I'll let them.
14:32They're much more important than me.
14:33But I don't understand why it's a hostile act.
14:35I can tell you that I talked to President Clinton.
14:38I'm sorry, President Trump back in 2009 and several times after that,
14:42he didn't think that it was a hoax then.
14:44In fact, he helped me.
14:45He got on the phone.
14:46He told me things that were helping our investigation.
14:49Now, our investigation wasn't looking into him, but he was helping us then.
14:52He didn't treat this as a hoax.
14:53So at this point in time, I would hope that he would revert back to what he was saying
14:57to get elected, which is, I want transparency.
15:00This about-face that occurred, none of us understand it.
15:03In fact, I don't understand how this is an issue that's even up for debate.
15:08How do you not stand behind these women after you've heard their stories
15:13and know that hundreds of them were abused and it was only because files are being kept in secrecy?
15:19The world should know who he is, who protected him,
15:21and the other people that are out there to be investigated need to be investigated.
15:24Sir, are there any people who are currently serving in government who are named,
15:32who you know of, are in these files, who you had relations with,
15:36anything of that sort, who Jeffrey Epstein connected you with?
15:39Are you willing to say yes or no?
15:40I don't think I can answer.
15:41Mr. Edwards, right here for you.
15:43Mr. Edwards, Mr. Edwards,
15:46Sorry.
15:47Mr. Edwards, are you representing Virginia Roberts, correct?
15:50I'm sorry.
15:52Mr. Edwards, I think she's referring to my phone.
15:56I think she's referring to my phone.
15:58Hi, Anushka DiGiorgio.
16:00I have been threatened.
16:02I was threatened by phone.
16:04My daughter was threatened when I was volunteering to participate
16:08by means of being a witness in a civil lawsuit
16:12that Virginia Giuffre was bringing against Ghislaine Maxwell.
16:14I have been followed.
16:18I have been stalked.
16:20I have been followed not only by journalists,
16:22but by people who do not get out of the car
16:24and do not try and talk to me
16:26and just drive behind me
16:28as I drive my daughter to school.
16:30So the fear is very real for us.
16:32I have also been in multiple situations
16:34with both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
16:38where they have been direct and indirect
16:41about implying and saying
16:44that if I was to talk,
16:46if I was to bring any kind of trouble,
16:49then there would be severe consequence,
16:52including death.
16:54Just to add to that, Maxwell also threatened my sister Maria Farmer.
17:02When the FBI did nothing about her initial report,
17:05she reported individually at that time,
17:08and then in 2002 we spoke to a reporter at Vanity Fair
17:12telling our stories,
17:13fearful that perhaps other people were being harmed.
17:15We believed that was going to make a difference.
17:18We believed that would be put in print,
17:20and that story was crushed.
17:22It was because of their power.
17:24And the message that we got from that
17:27was direct threats from Maxwell to my sister
17:30about her well-being and her safety
17:32and that of our family.
17:33So I think many people have similar stories of threats.
17:36That has been a very real part of this case.
17:38Go ahead, over here.
17:40Do any of today's survivors speaking,
17:42does anybody here ever have any connection
17:44or interaction with that student's alleged financier
17:48or anything?
17:49No.
17:50No.
17:51No.
17:52No.
17:53No.
17:54No.
17:55I just want to say,
17:56one thing that's very clear,
17:58when people say, you know,
17:59please share names,
18:00there are names that are very well known,
18:02like that of Les Wexner,
18:03who everyone knows supplied an enormous amount
18:05of Epstein's, you know, financial wealth
18:09and allowed this operation to happen.
18:11So it's, I think, confusing to many of us
18:13why there have not been more ramifications for him
18:16and he's been seen as a victim when clearly,
18:19I believe there's more to it.
18:21Right here, please.
18:22Yeah.
18:23Yeah.
18:24So you represented Virginia Roberts,
18:25who prayed for many years.
18:27She eventually had to recant the allegations
18:29that she made against Alan Dershowitz.
18:31She alleged that...
18:33All right, next question.
18:36Next question.
18:38Yes.
18:39No, we're not answering your question.
18:42Anybody else?
18:43How did the victims feel about the interview
18:46that was given to Ghislaine Maxwell by Todd Glam?
18:48That's better.
18:49Why aren't you going to answer your question?
18:50Okay, ma'am, I think that you had a question.
18:52We're good, guys.
18:53When you talked in the past on MSNBC
18:56about the existence of the Epstein birth state vote,
19:01have you and yourself in the first litigation seen it?
19:06I don't know that we're able to reveal what we've seen
19:09and what we have not seen by way of protective order.
19:12But my point being in that circumstance was,
19:15if anybody wants answers, there's an easy place to get it.
19:18I told you where to get it.
19:19I said, the estate of Jeffrey Epstein has it.
19:21Serve a subpoena on them.
19:22They'll turn it over.
19:23And if we had served a subpoena on them in the past,
19:26they would have turned it over and we would have seen it,
19:29which I don't usually miss subpoenas like that.
19:31So there we go.
19:33Go ahead.
19:35You know, to your question about the allegations,
19:39there's a simple answer.
19:41Release the files.
19:42Let the American public decide.
19:44Instead of harassing, instead of, I gave you your say.
19:48You've been heard.
20:03You've been heard.
20:04You've been heard.
20:05You've been heard.
20:06And even Alan Dershowitz,
20:07even Alan Dershowitz has to release the files.
20:10Release the files.
20:11That is the answer.
20:12And that's what we're here for.
20:14And that is.
20:15The President.
20:16You said that Donald Trump gave you help in 2009.
20:32Can you elaborate on your interactions with Donald Trump back in 2009?
20:36And for any of the victims,
20:37they never see the president,
20:39but then not present yet, but did anyone ever see Trump with Epstein in any way?
20:44I don't know who's, I don't think that we can answer that question.
20:47Did anybody see Trump with Epstein back then? This is really not a political thing.
20:51We want the passage of the bill and this is not to call out President Trump.
20:56My point was that he was friendly back then, did not think that it was a hoax and was trying to
21:00help. And now it seems like all of the sudden somebody's in his ear and he's not. So I'm hoping
21:05he'll come back to where he was back in 2009, be on the side of the victims and stand with us.
21:11Go ahead.
21:11I wanted to ask the victims what they thought of the interview with Todd Lynch,
21:16with the Deputy Attorney General in the new day.
21:22Do you want to answer? I would, Teresa will step up. I would, Teresa J home.
21:28Happy to speak on that because what I will say is,
21:33she got this airtime and platform. Her voice was elevated way before our voices were elevated here
21:42today. And that same calm, manipulative voice that she had so polite there that day with Todd Blanche was the
21:55same polite, coercive, manipulative voice that I heard as she was grooming me to then send me off
22:06to the home of Jeffrey Epstein where he would assault me. So that's what she was doing for hours,
22:12speaking with me, building relationship with me, letting trust with me, allowing me to believe that
22:19I was going to get this job, a dream job that I had been recruited from my college, flown across the
22:25country from Los Angeles to New York City to interview. So I thought, so her voice that day
22:32was the same voice that sent me off to a monster. So believe nothing can be believed from what she
22:41says because she's, she's been charged with perjury. I myself could sit there and listen. And as I did,
22:50I sat there and listened to this woman's voice lie. And there was no pushback from Todd Blanche because
22:57does he even have the facts to be able to push back on her? We could sit there and push back.
23:04Why didn't we get to attend that? Why weren't we there that day? Or why wasn't even one of us consulted
23:11prior to that day in that meeting? And why on earth has she been moved from Florida to her, it basically
23:20is prison spa. I mean, you know, let's be real. None of us were consulted. I found out just like
23:29everyone here found out through the media, through all of you, we found out about Ghislaine's transfer.
23:36So we are all, I'm very angry to sit there and listen. The feelings that come up listening to this
23:43woman's voice is repulsive. Yes, I would say it's triggering. We all work very hard on healing.
23:51And it still gets to us after two decades. It's a very long answer, but that it's,
23:59it's repulsive to sit there and listen to her voice in her interview.
24:03Can we take, can we take two more, two more questions? One over here.
24:06My reporting in Bendy Farage directly led to $100 million payment from JP Morgan to the Virgin Islands.
24:16Will you go after the DOJ, the FBI, because they're sitting on evidence. I've held the evidence in my hands.
24:23Can you speak to that?
24:26I think that there's, there's nobody that's immune from
24:31us going after them if there's a legitimate action to take. So to the extent that that
24:35evidence exists, then show it to us and we'll help in every way we can. We stand with the victims.
24:41I don't think we can talk about, I don't think we can talk about that case.
24:56I do think it's worth saying though, despite the comments that he made,
25:00Virginia Roberts Jouffre is an American hero. She is somebody, she is somebody without whom we would
25:05not be able to have this voice. She was the one who had courage to name names, speak out against
25:12people. And, and she was standing up against everybody at one time with an enormous amount
25:17of pressure.
25:18And most of these women are here because of Virginia Roberts Jouffre.
25:21I don't think anybody knows, but I can tell you that in the, in the, uh, oversight committee
25:40meeting yesterday, they indicated that they were all for transparency, releasing the files
25:46and asked us to hold them accountable. Is that right? They said, hold, hold them accountable.
25:51So we intend to hold them accountable.
25:52We're going to show them where to go with it. And, uh, as long as they're doing their job,
26:01they should. I'm going to turn it back over to, uh, real kind of. Thank you.
26:07Let me just say this. Let me, let me say this. I think the people back who are testifying here
26:12today are speaking out today. They are American heroes. Let's give them a another round of applause.
26:16And you say, look, uh, Thomas, uh, Marjorie and I, we're huge believers in the first amendment
26:23and we believe in free speech and we take abuse all the time, but you see, you, you see why it's
26:29so hard to do what they have done because they come forward and you subject yourself to national
26:35scrutiny and national questioning. And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, how appreciative I
26:42am and, uh, how proud I am of what you've done today. You made a big difference. Before I bring
26:48on, uh, Marjorie and then Thomas will have the last word. Uh, I want to summarize three basic things that
26:54I heard from the, uh, survivors. First, they want to know why our government covered up for someone rich
27:03and powerful. Why is it that we have two Americans? People said, why do you need to release the Epstein
27:08files if Epstein is dead and Maxwell's in jail? Because we don't know who well, who all was
27:14involved in the cover of why is there? Why are there rich and powerful people who didn't have justice?
27:19They want to know that. Second, many said it's important for their own closure.
27:23They don't know their own abuse. They want to understand what's in these files for themselves.
27:29And third, we heard that there are many others who obviously were involved and they want to know,
27:34and the American people deserve to know what was there in those files. I actually think they're
27:39helping us come together as a country. I've never, I've never done a press conference with Marjorie
27:44Taylor Greene before. You know, I've done some with us, but look, this is such a, this country is
27:50divided and exhausted. It's, this is one thing, one thing that we can come together on. And I, I didn't,
27:58I was very clear with Thomas. This is not against President Trump. I would like nothing more
28:03than a true social post for him after this press conference saying, just release the files,
28:07got me with, be with Massey Connor. This is, this is about something much deeper.
28:12It is about bringing this country together to stand for America's kids, to restore trust,
28:18and to move this country forward. So thank you to the survivors for helping us do that.
28:23Now I want to introduce Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thank you.
28:28For everyone watching at home, I think it's important to put yourself in these women's shoes.
28:37As you're questioning, why can't they just name the names? What you don't realize is they just told
28:44their stories of being raped and being abused, being victimized, being manipulated, being coerced,
28:53and basically held in a prison of captivity of sexual abuse while they were young, young teenagers
29:00and extremely young, vulnerable women. And in Jeffrey Epstein's home and the places they went with him,
29:07they saw the most powerful people in the world in his pictures and they saw him with those people.
29:15Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to name names like that? These are some of the richest,
29:22most powerful people in the world that could sue these women into poverty and homelessness.
29:28Yeah, it's a scary thing to name names, but I will tell you, I'm not afraid to name names.
29:35And so if they want to give me a list, I will walk in that Capitol on the House floor,
29:40and I'll say every damn name that abused these women. I can do that for them. And I'd be proud to do it.
29:49Now another thing, this is not about politics. And this is a boiling point in American history,
29:57where the American people just like Roe just said, there's become two Americas. There's the America for
30:05the rich and the powerful and the elite where they never face any struggles or problems and never
30:10experience what real America goes through. And then there's forgotten America that faces all the
30:18problems and deals with all the issues and never gets justice for being sexually assaulted and raped
30:27by a monster. It shouldn't exist anymore. And people are sick of it. So let's recognize the fact
30:35that the administration before and the one before it and the one before it and the one before it and
30:41before it never did anything about this. So this isn't one political party or the other. It's a culmination
30:49of everyone work together to silence these women and protect Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal. And this is
30:59not just rich, powerful people think his drivers, his maids, his chefs, all the people his people that
31:07worked in his home security guards. I heard one story from a young woman that was being raped by Jeffrey
31:15Epstein when he was out on work release while he was serving time in prison and had an ankle monitor
31:23on his leg. Guess what? There was a police officer outside that door. So this list of names is quite a
31:31list of names and it doesn't extend just in the rich, powerful circles. It extends down to the very bottom
31:38where people were paid. And again, I will say this, there's victims suffering today in similar
31:45circumstances and they're terrified to name the names of the people that are currently abusing them.
31:53And so with these brave, courageous women fighting this fight, this is a fight for women and children
32:01and any person that is facing sexual abuse and rape and captivity and human trafficking
32:07right now. And so here's what I ask you in the press. Don't go for salacious headlines,
32:15go for the truth and defend these women and help those of us in Congress that are crossing our
32:24political party lines for do and doing the right thing and trying to do it together. And thank you,
32:30Rowe and thank you, Thomas. And now I recognize Thomas Massey from Kentucky.
32:40Well, there's three branches of government and we're supposed to keep each other accountable. And
32:46that's what we're doing here today in the people's house. We're standing in front of the people's
32:49house with real people, not a hopes. And they've told their story. We wanted to give them a platform to
32:56speak and speak and they've had it. They stepped up and they were brave. But I also today hoped that they
33:02would persuade my colleagues to join this effort. But I found out something today that happened that
33:08I wasn't expecting. They persuaded me to fight even harder. I'm not going to give up.
33:14And I want to end with this call to action. First, a call to action to my colleagues who just an hour
33:23before this press conference were prepared. They were given a fig leaf. We'll put a resolution on the
33:28floor so that you can say that you voted to protect the survivors. Their resolution doesn't really do
33:35anything. And that's the oldest trick in the swamp. When you want to kill the momentum,
33:42when you want to kill initiatives, you introduce a placebo, a different bill that does nothing.
33:49And then try to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. That's not going to happen this
33:55time. We demand real accountability. I encourage my colleagues, please, there's over 200 Republicans
34:03who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it. And every Democrat will
34:10sign it. And that will get us the number we need to force this vote to pass a law, not a polite request
34:17to the DOJ to police themselves. No, we need legally binding legislation to force that to happen.
34:25And my main call to action is to the people watching these live feeds that are going through these cameras
34:31right now. Congressman, listen to you. Light up their phones. Burn down the phone lines here in Washington, D.C.
34:40Ask them the questions that these survivors wanted you to ask them. Why won't you be for transparency?
34:50Don't accept their answer that the bill has a flaw or that the survivors don't want it. We know that's not
34:57true. They wouldn't be fighting it so hard in this town if it wasn't the real bill. So with that, please
35:04call your congressman. Tell him or her to get on this bill and to stand up for these survivors. Thank
35:10you. Thank you and God bless that's the end.
35:25Congressman Massey.
35:41We're talking about it.
35:48Yeah.
35:51Yeah.
35:56Yeah.
36:01All right.
36:03Yeah.
36:05help your colleagues. What are some of the reasons why they don't want to endorse this?
36:09They're being correct. I mean, look, I've got $2 million of ads running against me back in my
36:14district, and it's funded by three billionaires. One of them is an FDN platform. I mean,
36:20this is what happens. Your consultants, your political consultants will abandon you when
36:26the White House gets mad at you. The Speaker will block all of your bills. They'll shut down
36:32your fundraising. This isn't political, but it is. I mean, the opposition to this is very
36:39part. What's the impression of the White House against this vote? I have no idea why they're
36:47doing this. I believe they're trying to protect the people who are rich and powerful and connected
36:53like the Republican government. He's just doing what the White House is doing. He was for
37:00transparency for about 24 hours, and then he got tuned up by the White House. I don't know.
37:05He had a chance to look at the garage emails that were leaked in the last week. That's awesome.
37:11And Jeffrey Yates, he's involved with the app known as Carbine, which is currently rolled
37:15out in 23 states across the United States. I'm not that familiar with that. I'm spending most
37:20of my comments on my comments on the 35,000 pages that were released yesterday. And what I've found
37:26now, a page is completely redacted, entire flight logs completely redacted. So this is a
37:33non-release, and the danger that Republicans are running, particularly the administration right
37:38is recreating the debacle that returns in a bonding map, which she gave out the fine, and
37:45then everybody's looking at all about that information there. And what we need from this oversight committee
37:51investigation from some of the group members, otherwise it's just that it's exercising the paper.
37:58What is in the vote of the vote?
37:59Excuse me, I'm just looking for something. Oh, there it is.
38:06It's not that bad. It's surviving conditions.
38:08Yeah, it's everything that I can do. I think I already am, but I can probably just think
38:14that you know what it is.
38:15But you can both have email, they're according to the other person who is.
38:19So what's wrong on the situation, right?
38:21Well, it's not going on today.
38:23It's today.
38:24Well, it's first usually right there is this discharge.
38:30I'm sorry, we're going to make one more.
38:35Let me hear your voice.
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