00:00Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and he had never been asked to leave.
00:08Did you see the names of any potential co-conspirators that were redacted?
00:12Well, you know, I saw the names of lots of people who were redacted for mysterious or baffling or inscrutable reasons.
00:23Aren't even well-known individuals?
00:25For example, you know, Mr. Wexner, his name was redacted from a government document, and I couldn't understand the logic of that.
00:43He was not a victim, and his name has appeared other places.
00:48Now, the Department of Justice has not sent forth its so-called privilege log, so it's not explained yet why there might be certain redactions that have been made.
00:59I saw one document, which was an email that was sent by Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell,
01:10which was the foreword of an email that he had received from some of his lawyers,
01:15giving an account of a conversation between Epstein lawyers and Trump lawyers and others about what had taken place during that 2009 period.
01:30It was during the period of the 2009 investigation.
01:34And Epstein's lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump as saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago,
01:48but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and he had never been asked to leave.
01:53And that was redacted for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason.
01:58I know it seems to be at odds with some things that President Trump has been saying recently about how he had kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club or asked him to leave,
02:08and this was at least one report that appears to contradict it.
02:13Well, I don't, you know, here's the thing.
02:16The Department of Justice is under orders from Congress to release the entire Epstein file.
02:22They released 3.5 million documents, and they've withheld 3 million documents.
02:27So about half of all the documents have not been released yet.
02:32Of the 3.5 million documents that have been released, I probably had the opportunity to review maybe 30 or 40 of them.
02:42Okay, so this is going to be an extremely time-consuming and painstaking process.
02:47The Attorney General and the Department of Justice have said that this process was something that was completed by them back in July.
03:00These materials could have been released long ago, but they're just being released now.
03:04And if every member of Congress who voted for the discharge petition, if all 217 of us spent every waking hour over at the Department of Justice,
03:17it would still take us months to get through all of those documents.
03:21And there are only four computers now, so they would certainly need to get a couple hundred more computers for all of the members.
03:27But the point is that there is no way before Attorney General Bondi arrives on Wednesday that we're going to have the opportunity to go through every redaction in order to ask thorough questions.
03:40Do you think that's the connection that they held up releasing this so that everybody wouldn't be as thoroughly prepared for her testimony Wednesday?
03:46No, I think that the Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug.
03:57And the more deeply that I get into it, because obviously our colleagues on the Oversight Committee have taken the lead,
04:04but judiciary plays a very important role because we oversee the Department of Justice.
04:08But the more that I've gotten into it, the more I believe that the survivors here, the victims who are now active citizens for justice, really are leading the way.
04:22And we need to be having hearings with the survivors to hear from them about their experiences so they can explain what happened
04:29and so they can begin to set forth a theory of what took place.
04:33We need to be investigating the money. We need to be investigating the organizational hierarchy.
04:40There's no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes,
04:47Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. No way. It doesn't work like that.
04:51So we need to figure out what other conspiracies were involved, what other co-conspirators were involved.
04:58And I really do believe that listening to the survivors is going to be our pathway through this nightmare.
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