00:00We are joined in this room by some of the thousands of survivors from Jeffrey Epstein's horrific sex trafficking ring.
00:08They have shown such incredible courage in speaking out, in demanding accountability to bring the predators and pedophiles to justice.
00:19The Epstein Files Transparency Act required your Department of Justice to disclose the perpetrators connected with Epstein's criminal activities
00:27and to redact the information of survivors to protect their identities.
00:33Let me show you what actually happened.
00:36First, in violation of the law, your department has shown a pattern of redacting the names of powerful predators.
00:45Here behind me is one example of an email from Epstein to a man whose name was redacted.
00:52The email reads, quote,
01:01Only after members of Congress demanded that we see the unredacted files did the world learn the name of this
01:10individual,
01:11Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayam, the chairman and CEO of a company that had financial ties to President Trump's business
01:20and personal ties to Trump's advisor, Steve Bannon.
01:23Second, the survivors were not similarly protected, also in violation of the law.
01:30Here is another email titled Epstein Victim List.
01:35We have blurred the names of the survivors for their protection,
01:38but your Department of Justice initially released this list of 32 survivors' names with only one name redacted,
01:48along with numerous files that disclosed not only the names, the emails, and the addresses of survivors,
01:55but also nude photographs and even the identities of Jane Doe's,
02:00who had been protected for decades until your department released their names.
02:07Survivors are now telling us that their families are finding out for the first time that they were trafficked by
02:13Epstein.
02:14In their words, quote,
02:16This release does not provide closure.
02:18It feels like a deliberate attempt to intimidate survivors, punish those who came forward,
02:25and reinforce the same culture of secrecy that allowed Epstein's crimes to continue for decades.
02:32To the survivors in the room,
02:35If you are willing, please stand.
02:42And if you are willing,
02:44please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice.
02:54Please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
02:59Attorney General Bondi,
03:03You apologize to the survivors in your opening statement for what they went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein.
03:10Will you turn to them now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through
03:18with the absolutely unacceptable release of the Epstein files and their information?
03:34Congresswoman,
03:35You set before Merrick Garland set in this chair twice.
03:40Attorney General Bondi,
03:42Can I finish my answer?
03:44No, I'm going to reclaim my time because I asked you a specific question
03:49that I would like you to answer,
03:52which is will you turn to the survivors?
03:54This is not about anybody that came before you.
03:57It is about you taking responsibility for your Department of Justice
04:02and the harm that it has done to the survivors who are standing right behind you and are waiting for
04:09you
04:10to turn to them and apologize for what your Department of Justice has done.
04:15Members get to ask the questions.
04:16The witness gets to answer in the way they want to answer.
04:19The Attorney General can respond.
04:20That's not accurate, Mr. Chairman.
04:21Because she doesn't like the answer.
04:23It is my time.
04:23So, um, Mr. Chairman.
04:26Why didn't she ask Merrick Garland this twice?
04:30I am reclaiming my time and when I reclaim my time, it is mine.
04:35I'm not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics.
04:38The time belongs to the gentlelady.
04:40The gentlelady has 17 seconds.
04:43You're not going to answer this question.
04:45So let me just say this.
04:46Chairman, I'll direct it to you.
04:47What a massive cover-up.
04:48No, I'm answering a question.
04:49Mr. Chairman, will you restore her time?
04:51The witness is interrupting.
04:52I'm not going to get in the gutter with this woman.
04:53Stop the time.
04:53She's doing theatrics.
04:54Let me have my time.
04:55The gentlelady, the gentlelady from Washington controls the time.
04:58The gentlelady has 17 seconds.
05:00You can proceed with your final 17 seconds.
05:02What a massive cover-up this has been and continues to be.
05:07Donald Trump made the release of the Epstein files the center of his political campaign
05:11because he thought it would benefit him.
05:13Then you got into office, Attorney General, claimed to have a client list.
05:17Regular order.
05:18Only did them say that there was no list.
05:20Your deputy, Todd Blanche, met alone with Elaine Maxwell and transferred her to a minimum
05:27security prison and now you continue the cover-up and I wish that you would turn around to
05:34the survivors who are standing right behind you and on a human level.
05:39Chairman.
05:40The chair now recognizes the gentlelady.
05:41I'm what you have done.
05:42I yield back.
05:44The gentlelady, you have no time to yield back.
05:46We appreciate that.
05:47We appreciate the thought.
05:48Becca Ballant, if she will answer right or wrong, raping children.
05:52Wrong.
05:53Right or wrong, killing random citizens.
05:55Definitely wrong.
05:56Right or wrong, enriching yourself as the sitting President of the United States.
06:01Definitely wrong.
06:01Okay, thank you because I probably never would have got that with our witness.
06:04Our witness who somehow is a lawyer but does not understand how it works with witnesses.
06:08I'm not really sure what law school she went to and what all kind of cases she tried,
06:13but typically when you come into a space and somebody's a witness, then they sit there and they answer questions
06:19instead of asking questions.
06:21And then we also have this objection that we use as lawyers called non-responsive when a witness fails to
06:26actually answer the question.
06:28But nevertheless, let me address the survivors because that's exactly who they are.
06:32They are not victims.
06:33They are survivors.
06:34Let me say thank you for having more courage and moral clarity in your pinky fingers than the entire Department
06:40of Justice.
06:42We are currently the laughing stock of the world partially because of the failed leadership within the DOJ as we
06:48see kings and queens falling everywhere around the world.
06:51But we don't know the basics of right and wrong in this country because it's not about partisanship.
06:57And that's why I applaud Thomas Massey because he's the only person on the Republican side that has a backbone
07:02and knows how to stand up to corruption.
07:04But nevertheless, let me keep going.
07:07My Democratic colleagues have been attacked this entire committee hearing.
07:12They have been lied on.
07:13And frankly, the American people weren't looking for that.
07:16They were looking for answers about the corruption that they see coming from this administration.
07:20In the written testimony of this witness, of this particular witness, she stated that when she took office, she had
07:29two main goals.
07:30The first was to end the weaponization of justice.
07:33And second, to return the department to its core mission.
07:36Not only have you lied about both, you've intentionally done the exact opposite.
07:41You're spending more taxpayer resources arresting journalists than you are prosecuting pedophiles and creeps.
07:46In fact, your boss, the President of the United States, stated that this administration, quote, took the freedom of speech
07:53away.
07:54And at your direction, DOJ has arrested Don Lemon and Georgia Ford.
07:58And I might add that y'all actually had a judge that rejected y'all for trying to arrest Don
08:04Lemon before.
08:05Just like the grand jury rejected y'all as it relates to Senator Kelly.
08:08Just like a grand jury rejected y'all as it relates to Senator Slotkin.
08:12Just like the case against Tish James was dismissed and the case against Mr. Comey was dismissed.
08:18I completely don't get how it is that you're sitting at the top of DOJ because you don't seem to
08:24be good at your job.
08:25You're spending more taxpayer resources arresting these journalists.
08:28In fact, we know after Georgia Ford and Don Lemon were arrested, we know that there were homes of journalists
08:37that were raided.
08:37We know that threatened prosecution against students protesting your actions and forced tech companies to remove apps used to track
08:46ISIS activities.
08:47But let's circle back to you protecting pedophiles and creeps, because I want to talk about the President and his
08:53possible involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
08:56Now, I don't know what the President might have done with Jeffrey Epstein, but unlike this administration, I believe that
09:01facts matter.
09:01So let's talk about the facts. Fact number one, Donald Trump is one of the most named people in the
09:06Epstein files.
09:07At least 5,000 files contains more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, or Mar-a-Lago.
09:14Fact number two, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell made young girls available to Trump on multiple occasions.
09:21For example, according to this file, Ghislaine Maxwell presented a young girl to President Trump who spent more than 20
09:28minutes apparently flirting with her.
09:30Here's another example. This shows notes from FBI investigators that describe Jeffrey Epstein transporting a victim to Mar-a-Lago
09:38to meet with President Trump, where he bragged to Trump that, quote, this is a good one.
09:43Now, I'm not saying that the President is a pedophile, but there is a lot of evidence in these files
09:47that suggest that he's very close friends with a lot of men who are pedophiles.
09:51What's crazy about all of this is just that this is a big cover-up, and this administration is engaged
09:58in it. In fact, this administration is complicit.
10:00But there are numerous others, like how the DOJ is attempting to obstruct justice in the investigation of the rogue
10:06agents who have murdered American citizens,
10:08or how the DOJ sees voter data from Fulton County in an attempt to steal the 2026 midterm elections,
10:14or how federal agents have Tom Homan on tape accepting a bribe and your agency killed the investigation,
10:20or how your agency is ready to give the President a $230 million payday, which is unconstitutional.
10:27The Constitution is clear. The President shall not receive any payment except his salary while in office.
10:32The fact of the matter is that you will be remembered as one of the worst Attorney Generals in history.
10:37An Attorney General who has prioritized obstruction over justice, corruption over the law,
10:42fealty to the President over loyalty to the Constitution, and Mr. Chairman, I will yield.
10:47General Lady Yields, the gentleman from Missouri is recognized.
10:49Excuse me, the gentleman from Kansas, the Attorney General, former Attorney General.
10:53Mr. Schmidt is recognized.
10:55Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and General Bondi, thanks for being here.
10:58Did you have anything you wanted to say before we talk?
11:01I do. Thank you, Congressman. Thank you, my friend, for many years.
11:04I find it interesting that she didn't even want to try, Congresswoman Crockett, to ask any questions,
11:11because she certainly did not condemn her leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for taking money from Jeffrey Epstein
11:18after Epstein was convicted. And I will be brief to give you your time, Congressman.
11:24This is what she didn't want to talk about.
11:27Texas, from Cuba, convicted. Homicide arson, weapon offense.
11:33Convicted, so what are we talking about?
11:35Convict some of these perpetrators that raped these women that are sitting behind you
11:40that you refuse to even acknowledge they are here.
11:43Time belongs to the gentleman from Kansas.
11:46Mr. Chairman, could I have a few seconds back?
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