00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Patel, before you joined the FBI, you had very strong opinions
00:05about what the FBI was hiding regarding Jeffrey Epstein. In a September 2023 interview with
00:10Glenn Beck, you said the Black Book is under the, quote, direct control of the director of the FBI.
00:16In December 2023, you said, let us know who the pedophiles are. Even for a short time after
00:22becoming FBI director, in February of 2025, you tweeted, quote, there will be no cover-ups,
00:28no missing documents, no stone left unturned. In June, you told Joe Rogan, quote, we've reviewed
00:35all the information, we're going to give you every single thing we have and can. But then suddenly
00:39in July, everything changed. You and Attorney General Pam Bondi released one video and said
00:47that there was nothing more to see. Your July memo says you uncovered more than 300 gigabytes of data
00:55and physical evidence, but that you had decided no further disclosure would be appropriate or
01:02warranted. That is a quote. I think what happened, Mr. Patel, is that suddenly you discovered that
01:08Donald Trump's name was all over these files and you started a giant cover-up. So you are under oath,
01:16Mr. Patel. You just testified to Mr. Swalwell that you did not speak to the president about the Epstein
01:24files. To your knowledge, did Attorney General Pam Bondi speak to the president about what was in the
01:31Epstein files? I can't speak for Attorney General Pam Bondi. So to your knowledge, you don't have any
01:37information. The question was, do you have any knowledge? Do you have any knowledge? I can't speak.
01:42You are refusing to answer the question. So let me tell you that the Wall Street Journal reported
01:47that in May, Bondi told Trump that he was in the Epstein files and at the same meeting said that
01:54the DOJ did not plan to release the files. Yesterday, you testified to Senator Kennedy that there was
02:01quote, no credible information that Epstein trafficked girls to anyone else and that you have
02:06quote, continuously and publicly asked the public to come forward with more information and we'll look
02:12into it. Today, in response to Mr. Massey's question, you appear to say that the survivors were not
02:22credible. These are survivors. That's not at all what I said. Okay, great. I'm going to ask you this
02:28in a second, but let me tell you about the survivors and let's bring them up here into the room.
02:33These are
02:34women who came to the Hill and testified that they were groomed and raped at the age of 14 and
02:4116 years
02:42old and they called to meet with the president and to meet with the FBI and to have people investigate
02:49their claims. Some of them have never testified before. If you are so interested in getting the
02:54public to submit any information, why have you not met with them? You said you haven't met with them.
02:59Have you met with them? I'll give you one more chance. My job as the FBI director is to
03:05invite all investigative leads. Is the answer yes or no to whether or not you met with these women who
03:10were sexually abused and raped? Any insinuation by you or any people on your side that I am not
03:17manhunting child predators and sex traffickers, just look at the stats and you talk about cover-ups,
03:23man. You talk about cover-ups. I will take as much time as I want. Where were you during the
03:28Obama and
03:29Biden administrations when these so-called cover-ups were going on? Why didn't anyone in those
03:34administrations talk to any of these purported witnesses? I have welcome every single person to
03:40provide credible information. Time belongs to the gentlelady from Washington. When you accuse the
03:45witness of something, he's allowed to respond. That's how it works. Listen, he didn't even,
03:49excuse me, Mr. Chairman, you have always been fair, but this is not fair. No, this is my time and
03:56he
03:56said that the witnesses were not credible. Seconds of time. I'm going to get an additional minute of
04:03time because that's how much time he took. You won't get a minute. You'll get some seconds. What we
04:06think is under five minutes. You don't get to demand how much time you get. That's not how it works.
04:11Mr. Patel, are the victims of the Jeffrey Epstein horrific trafficking ring? Are they credible?
04:22Any person with information about ongoing sexual trafficking. I'm asking you if they're credible.
04:28Ma'am, I'm commenting on the evidence we have. We have routinely asked for people to come forward
04:33with more evidence and we will look at it. And the evidence that we have was the same evidence that
04:38the Biden and Obama Justice Department said, they determined, not me, they determined that that
04:43information was not credible. Mr. Chairman, he's not letting me even ask my questions. You ask the
04:48questions, he gives an answer. You may not like what he says, but that doesn't mean you get to
04:51interrupt him. Mr. Chairman, can we restore the gentlelady 45 seconds so she can complete her
04:56question? We'll give her additional 30 seconds, which is what I said earlier. I'm going to keep taking my
04:59time. No, you'll take the time that you get. You are not answering the question. The question is,
05:07are these women credible? It's a yes or no answer. I have answered the question. Well,
05:12what is the answer? And I keep telling you, I'm the only FBI director that has welcomed new
05:16information in this case. This administration is the only one that has welcomed any new information
05:21in this case. Is there a yes or no to whether the victims are credible? Present new, credible information.
05:26Present new information. Are the victims credible or not? The victims, I'll tell you what happened in the
05:32last Trump administration. Are they credible or not? You can't even say. Victims credibly came forward.
05:35And you know what happened? President Trump authorized the indictments of Jeffrey Epstein.
05:40President Trump called them a hoax. Not Biden, not Obama. No one else. President Trump called the entire
05:44thing a democratic hoax. So I would like to ask you. The gentlelady time has expired. I gave her the
05:51additional 45 seconds she requested. The gentlelady yields back. The gentleman from New Jersey is
05:56recognized for his five minutes. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask if you would meet with the women
05:59who were sexually abused and raped and groomed at the ages of 14 and 16 years old. Are you going
06:09to cover
06:09up? Are you going to continue to cover up for the rich and powerful men, including those that might be
06:16on this committee? I can yell too, Mr. Chairman, but I don't want to yell above this. The time belongs
06:21to the gentleman from New Jersey. I appreciate the gentlelady yielding back. Are you going to allow them to testify,
06:25Mr. Patel?
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