00:00But did they even have a look? Billions of dollars in Epstein Fund transfers, and the Todd Blanch
00:11Department never even had a look. And then you get to Ghislaine Maxwell. Today, I think, is a
00:26sad and embarrassing day for this committee. As it looks like on a party-line vote, we are going to
00:34advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office
00:40of Attorney General of the United States. The reasons to vote against him number in the hundreds.
00:48But let's just focus on a few where my Republican colleagues purport to have great concern.
00:57Let's start with the Epstein files, where Todd Blanch participated in the cover-up, continues
01:11to participate in the cover-up, and is responsible for a massive screw-up of the release of the
01:22documents. Cover-up and screw-up on the Epstein files. What do I mean by cover-up? Well, first,
01:35they looked at four FBI 302s that were the testimony of a woman who told the FBI in a formal
01:47statement
01:48that she had been sexually assaulted and physically assaulted by Donald Trump around 13 or 14 years
01:56of age. Of those four 302s, they released one. The one that did not mention Donald Trump. Well,
02:11fortunately for transparency, these documents had been released in other areas and bait-stamped.
02:22So people figured out that some were missing. And with that, the other 302s that mentioned Donald Trump
02:30had to be produced. Only because they got caught were those 302s produced. And right now, as we sit here,
02:41Todd Blanch is still sitting on 37 pages that are almost certainly the agent's notes off of which the 302s
02:53were taken. That should be disclosed under the Epstein files law. But instead, those 37 pages remain
03:06covered up. Where else did the cover-up go? Well, the Department of Justice received suspicious activity
03:14reports from the Treasury Department about Epstein's accounts, many of them related to Russia.
03:23You'd think that an investigative body like the Department of Justice could look at a document called
03:30suspicious activity report and deduce that there might be suspicious activity. But did they even have a look?
03:44Billions of dollars in Epstein fund transfers and the Todd Blanch department never even had a look.
03:59And then you get to Ghislaine Maxwell. Where a deputy attorney general flew to Tallahassee to have a private meeting
04:14with a woman convicted of participating in Epstein's depravity. And what was the upshot of that meeting?
04:23Was it to get more information about who else was culpable? About whose secrets were still being kept? No.
04:34It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her
04:44her with a move to a club-fed prison. Now, the nominal excuse for that is, oh, she was in
04:52danger
04:54in her earlier prison. So we had to move her.
05:00How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility?
05:13I mean, think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense.
05:24So between the botched disclosure, which revealed victims of Epstein's depravity,
05:36whose names had not been previously known, in some cases with photographic images, with their addresses,
05:42in some cases, photographs without being fully clothed. Where does the buck stop for that if not with Mr. Blanche?
05:57That was an epic botch that did real harm to Epstein's victims.
06:08Voting for this guy today
06:12gives their blessing to the screw-up, to the botched release that even Pam Bondi pointed at Blanche as responsible
06:23for.
06:26And it gives the blessing to his continuing role in the cover-up of Epstein files.
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