00:00Gentlemen from Maryland to recognize.
00:02Thank you kindly, Mr. Chairman.
00:03Director Patel, before you joined the FBI, you railed against it for covering up Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
00:10Let me refresh your memory with this clip.
00:12It has Epstein's list. They're sitting on it.
00:15That doesn't seem like something you should do.
00:17You're protecting the world's foremost predator.
00:19That seems like an evil thing to do, regardless of who may be embarrassed in the release of that list.
00:23Why is the FBI protecting the greatest pederast, the largest scale pederast in human history?
00:30Simple, because of who's on that list.
00:33So you finished that December 2023 interview with a challenge to the FBI and harsh words for Republicans in Congress for not getting the Epstein files out to the public.
00:44You can see this clip.
00:45Boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.
00:49Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are, you said.
00:54You emphasize that the president and the FBI director each had complete authority to release Epstein's client list.
01:00You said Epstein's black book is under the, quote, direct control of the director of the FBI.
01:05Look at this clip.
01:07This is way off the topic, but who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book?
01:12FBI.
01:14But who?
01:16That is, I mean, there's.
01:18Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI.
01:21All right.
01:22So you were sworn in as director more than 200 days ago.
01:26Now the black book is under your direct control.
01:28So why haven't you released the names of Epstein's co-conspirators in the rape and sex trafficking of young women and girls?
01:37The Rolodex, which is what everybody colloquially refers to as the black book, has been released.
01:43Oh, no, you're talking about what the journalist got five years ago?
01:46No, that's not what we're talking about.
01:47We're talking about what you were talking about there.
01:49The black book under the direct control of the FBI, director.
01:52We have released more material than anyone else before.
01:56The Biden administration, Obama administration had the exact opportunities to release this material, and they never did.
02:01And if you are selling the men and women of the FBI, we're not going after child predators.
02:04Hang on.
02:04You said we're not going after child predators.
02:061,500 child predators arrested this year.
02:0935% increase.
02:10Okay, I'll reclaim my time.
02:114,700 child victims now.
02:12Mr. Chairman, I'm going to reclaim my time if you can instruct the witness.
02:15Why have you changed your position?
02:17There you were saying it's under the direct control of the FBI director, and all of it should be released.
02:23Why have you changed your position?
02:24Everything that has been lawfully permitted to be released has been released.
02:29And as I told you, the investigation was limited.
02:32And let me make something crystal clear.
02:33I never said Jeffrey Epstein didn't traffic other people, other women, and they're not other victims.
02:38This is the investigation we were given from 2006, 7, and 8, and the search warrants from 2006, 7, and 8.
02:44That's what we're working with.
02:46Wait, have you released all of the stuff that the FBI has seized from Epstein's house?
02:51The computers, the emails, the file cabinets, the documents?
02:55What about the financial records?
02:56Have you released all of that?
02:57Everything the court has allowed us to release.
02:59Which court are you talking about?
03:01Three separate federal courts have come in and said...
03:04We're talking about the evidence you've got.
03:06It's got nothing to do with what those courts have.
03:08Do you have any idea how the law works?
03:10Wait a minute.
03:10Do you want me to break the law in a federal judge's order to satisfy your curiosity?
03:12No, I want you to follow your own word, Director Patel.
03:15You said up there it was under the direct control of the FBI director.
03:19He had the black book.
03:20And everything I have direct control over, we have gone to court.
03:24You haven't.
03:24Complete your sentence.
03:25Everything you have direct control over, you said...
03:27We have gone to court and everything we have direct control over...
03:31Director Patel, complete your sentence.
03:32You said everything...
03:32And can lawfully release, we're releasing.
03:35He'd like to complete his answer.
03:38You began the sentence, everything you have direct control over, I.
03:42And then you stopped that sentence.
03:43You've released everything that you have direct control over?
03:45I have direct control over and can lawfully release.
03:49If you're not familiar with the court orders, that's not my fault.
03:52Oh, I'm perfectly familiar with that.
03:53I'm perfectly familiar with them.
03:54But how did we prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell?
03:58She was prosecuted with the investigatory material that was collected from 2001 and 2005.
04:06Because of the non-prosecution agreements and the court orders on the investigations and search warrants,
04:12we were not able to develop new information.
04:14And oh, by the way, Jeffrey Epstein was out for 12 years.
04:17And the Obama and Biden administration did nothing to look at his work, his pedophile network.
04:22If you want to blame me, that's fine.
04:23But now you're blaming the men and women who conducted this great search...
04:26No, stop that.
04:26I'm not blaming anybody other than you.
04:28You're not keeping your word.
04:29You said that you would release all of the materials under your direct control.
04:32Has anyone released more information on Epstein than I have?
04:34Has anyone?
04:35Much more...
04:35Did Comey?
04:36Did Ray?
04:36Much, much more...
04:37Did they?
04:38Excuse me.
04:38Much more has come out in the days since the American people in Congress have been demanding it.
04:43But it's coming out in dribs and drabs.
04:45Why don't you just release the entire file as you promised to do?
04:48I literally just told you.
04:50There are multiple federal court orders.
04:52I'm not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity.
04:55You didn't join us when we filed court to release the court orders.
04:59You could have.
05:00You have lawyers.
05:01You could have shown up.
05:02You didn't do that.
05:03That's a tiny fraction of the material we're talking about.
05:05That is not.
05:06It is a tiny fraction.
05:06How do you know that?
05:07Have you seen everything?
05:08It's all misdirection.
05:09How do you know that?
05:09The time of the gentleman has expired.
05:11Is there anything you've heard?
05:11Is there anything you've heard?
05:11How do you learn that?
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