00:00I'll take the opportunity of the Speaker's presence to respond to some of the things that he said.
00:06In the very presence of the victims and the survivors who come to join us today,
00:10the Speaker said that now would be a time we should be working on urgent legislative work.
00:15Mr. Speaker, justice is urgent legislative work.
00:19The truth is urgent legislative work.
00:25The Speaker says, why now? Why now?
00:28Well, Mr. Speaker, you were the one who refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 50 days.
00:33We would have done it 50 days ago, but she provided the 218th signature on the discharge petition.
00:39So why now? It was because of your dilatory tactics, your delay, your postponement of it.
00:46Now, the gentleman says that there are not sufficient protections.
00:51There are protections in the bill for the victims to make sure that their names will be redacted.
00:57And yet we hear even the Speaker of the House of Representatives openly inviting the U.S. Senate
01:02to start finger painting on this bill, which we have waited more than five months to bring to the floor.
01:09The Senate should pass the bill exactly as it's written.
01:12The President should sign it exactly as he said he would when he finally changed his mind.
01:17And the Epstein file must be released.
01:20Moreover, if the President is serious about what he's saying, he's got the power to release the Epstein file right now.
01:28Nobody's stopping him. It's within his possession. It's within his control.
01:33He can release the whole thing and he can redact the names of the victims and others who are innocent in this process.
01:42Mr. Speaker, Speaker Johnson said that these are unspeakable evils.
01:53Well, because of the bravery and the invincible courage of the women who've joined us today, they're no longer unspeakable.
02:01They're spoken. They're articulated.
02:04The cat is out of the bag and we know what's been going on for decades.
02:08It's been a double standard of justice.
02:11Going all the way back to Alex Acosta, who later got rewarded with a cabinet appointment in the Trump administration.
02:17Alex Acosta had a 60 count federal indictment ready to go against all kinds of people for an interstate sex trafficking conspiracy with solicitation, with child sex abuse, all of it.
02:32And he traded that 60 count federal indictment for one count in state court.
02:39And Jeffrey Epstein ended up getting the sweetest of sweetheart deals ever on the plea bargain front.
02:46He was free from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to do whatever he wanted in continuing to perpetrate his crimes and run his conspiracy.
02:55And then he would come and he would watch TV and spend the night in jail.
02:59And it was over in about a year after the rape and sexual abuse of hundreds and hundreds of girls.
03:06And he kept going. And he kept at it.
03:09We want the whole truth to come out. This is the United States of America.
03:14Even the British monarchy wouldn't put up with this.
03:17How about the American democracy?
03:19How about we say, no way, we're not going to allow this cover-up to go on for one day more.
03:25And I'm glad the president changed his mind after pulling out all the stops to try to get one of our Republican colleagues to change their mind,
03:36to remove their name from the discharge petition he gave up.
03:41And I want to salute the gentlelady from Colorado from having the courage to stand her ground in the Situation Room in the White House
03:49and say, no, she wasn't going to be bullied. No.
03:52So I'm glad the president changed his mind.
03:56But let's be clear, Mr. President, you've got the power today to release the entire file.
04:02That's what you called for. That's what Pam Bondi called for. That's what Kash Patel called for.
04:08So we don't need anybody calling for the Senate to slow things down for more weeks and more months.
04:14The American people have had it. We'll reserve.
04:17Gentlemen reserves.
04:19The gentleman is reminded to direct your comments to the chair and not your colleagues.
04:23The gentleman from Ohio.
04:32There's being Series 3, which student wants to else this mic, but please take care of yourself and take care of yourself.
04:37It will go along for the first quarter to this point.
04:38In the meantime, if you've looked for sure to Cruise the ship, you will also show me some grace.
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04:54it's the time.
04:55When we being together, we're ahead right,
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