[0:00]I'm going to show you two photos of former Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew attended various parties
[0:07]with Jeffrey Epstein. Under the law Congress passed, you were allowed to redact photos
[0:15]to protect the victims of Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You redacted the photos
[0:21]of this victim's face because you were following the congressional law, is that correct?
[0:32]I'm sorry that we redacted the victims because you were following the congressional law, correct?
[0:36]Yes. Okay. You have now established that we, please put the photos back up, that we are looking
[0:44]at a sex trafficking victim. Under the federal victims trafficking protection act, not only is
[0:51]Jeffrey Epstein guilty, but anyone who patronizes Epstein's sex operation is also guilty of a crime.
[1:00]That's why I find it absolutely despicable that you sought to protect Epstein's clients
[1:06]like former Prince Andrew. Last July, you closed the case on Epstein's abusers.
[1:14]The July 2025 memo from your department justice stated, quote, we did not uncover evidence
[1:21]that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. These two photos,
[1:27]please put the photos back up. These two photos staring you in the face are evidence of a crime
[1:35]and more than enough evidence to predicate an investigation against former Prince Andrew.
[1:40]So I ask you, Attorney General Patent Bondi, why did you shut down this investigation last
[1:45]July and why have you not prosecuted former Prince Andrew? I don't believe you asked Merrick
[1:51]Garland these questions when he was Attorney General. I agree with you. I agree with you.
[1:59]I agree with you. During the Biden administration, I called for people looking at Epstein files.
[2:06]Merrick Garland dropped the ball as did Attorney General Bill Barr, as did Alex Acosta,
[2:12]a whole string of failures. But you are in charge. You have the power to change things,
[2:17]to hold these men accountable, and you're doing the opposite. You're protecting them.
[2:20]So I want to move on to another man. Can I answer that though? I want to move on to
[2:24]another question. Can I answer your question about protecting Prince Andrew? You answered
[2:26]the question. You're saying no. I love this. I want to discuss another man, Donald Trump,
[2:31]who is all over the Epstein files, like former Prince. Here's the video.
[2:50]Like former Prince Andrew, Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein.
[2:57]I want to know, were there any underage girls at that party or at any party that Trump attended
[3:04]with Jeffrey Epstein? This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect
[3:18]from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump
[3:23]has committed a crime. Everyone knows that. This has been the most transparent presidency.
[3:28]He's the one that asked that those files be released. I'm going to put up
[3:44]another document from a witness who called the FBI's National Threat Operations Center
[3:50]because I believe you just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files.
[3:55]Don't you ever accuse me of a crime. I believe you just lied under oath.
[3:59]And this is on videotape. You said there's no evidence of a crime. I'm showing you.
[4:04]Here is a witness statement who called into the FBI's Threat Operations Center.
[4:10]He drove Donald Trump around in a limo. He overheard what Donald Trump said to
[4:14]Jeffrey on his cell phone. He was so angry he was going to stop the limo and hurt
[4:18]Donald Trump. And he met a girl who said she was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
[4:24]She later had her head blown off and officers at the scene said that could not have been
[4:28]suicide. No one, no one at the Department of Justice interviewed this witness.
[4:37]You need to interview this witness immediately. Epstein should rot in hell so should the men
[4:44]who patronize his operation. And as we sit here today, there are over 1,000
[4:49]sex trafficking victims. And you have not held a single man accountable. Shame on you.
[4:55]If you had any decency, you would resign right after this hearing concludes.
[4:59]The gentleman has expired. May I respond?
[5:04]Yeah, I don't know how you respond. I did not ask a question.
[5:06]But he doesn't want to talk about the horrific crime in California. He does not want to talk
[5:11]about crime in his day. I did not ask a question.
[5:16]The meeting will be in order. The gentleman has yielded back his time.
[5:22]Thank you kindly, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Attorney General Bondi.
[5:26]You've got the best lawyer's job in America because your mission is justice and your clients
[5:32]are the American people. But to promote justice for the people, you've got to listen
[5:36]to the victims, like the women seated behind you today. Those are just some of the hundreds
[5:42]of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's global sex trafficking ring who are demanding that
[5:48]the truth be told and are demanding accountability for the abusers who trafficked and raped them.
[5:55]You still haven't met with these survivors. So with their permission, let me introduce
[6:00]to you the survivors and late survivors, family members who are present today.
[6:05]There's Teresa Helm. There's Jess Michaels. Laura Blum McGee. Danny Bensky. Liz Stein.
[6:13]Marina Lacerda. Skye and Amanda Roberts, who are the family of the late Virginia Dufray.
[6:20]Charlene Rushard. And Lisa Phillips. Now, you're not showing a lot of interest in
[6:25]the victims, Madam Attorney General. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring
[6:31]or the homicidal governmental violence against citizens in Minneapolis,
[6:35]as Attorney General, you're siding with the perpetrators and you're ignoring the victims.
[6:41]That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. You're running a massive
[6:48]Epstein cover-up right out of the Department of Justice. You've been ordered by subpoena and
[6:53]by Congress to turn over six million documents, photographs, and videos in the Epstein files,
[6:59]but you've turned over only three million. You say you're not turning over the other three million
[7:04]because they're somehow duplicative, but we know that there are actual memos of victim statements
[7:10]in there, and you also took down the Department of Justice's prosecution memo from 2019.
[7:17]So it's clearly not all duplicative, but even if it were, why not release it? Just release
[7:22]all the duplicative stuff. In the half you did produce, you redacted the names of abusers
[7:29]enablers, accomplices, and co-conspirators, apparently to spare them embarrassment and
[7:35]disgrace, which is the exact opposite of what the law ordered you to do. Even worse,
[7:41]you shockingly failed to redact many of the victims' names, which is what you were ordered
[7:48]to do by Congress. Some of the victims had come forward publicly, but many had not. Many
[7:53]had kept their torment private, even from family and friends, but you published their names,
[8:01]their identities, their images on thousands of pages for the world to see.
[8:09]So you ignored the law, and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal,
[8:14]you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded
[8:21]cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked. This performance screams
[8:29]cover-up. Convicted sex trafficker and groomer Glaine Maxwell opened the gates of hell to
[8:37]Virginia Joufray and hundreds of other victims, as Virginia recorded in her remarkable book,
[8:42]Nobody's Girl. But when Maxwell was subpoenaed to come testify before Congress,
[8:47]you and Todd Blanch quickly moved her from a higher security prison to a minimum security
[8:54]camp in Texas, where she's enjoyed five-star treatment, including catered meals, private gym
[9:00]time, and access to a therapy puppy. All because Todd Blanch, who's utterly failed to investigate
[9:08]the monstrous crimes of Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators, spent nine hours with Maxwell
[9:14]and satisfied himself that she would have nothing untoward to say about Donald Trump,
[9:20]which is your only real interest in the matter, based on institutional performance.
[9:25]But abandoning victims and coddling perpetrators is what you do best. When the
[9:31]FBI opened a criminal investigation into the brutal killing in Minneapolis of Renee Good,
[9:36]a poet and 37-year-old mother of three by Trump's masked paramilitary ICE agents,
[9:42]you shut it down. You claim you're investigating the cold-blooded murder of Alex Preti, an ICU
[9:48]nurse at the VA. But how can we trust the administration when the president and Kristi
[9:53]Noem called Preti a domestic terrorist and Stephen Miller called him a would-be assassin?
[10:00]Not only do you refuse to share evidence with the state and local investigators
[10:03]and prosecutors in Minnesota, you have blocked their access to the crime scene and the
[10:08]evidence. How are you seeking justice for Marimar Martinez, the Montessori school teacher in Chicago
[10:15]who was shot five times by a border patrol agent who bragged about it on text? Or the
[10:21]family of Keith Porter, a father of two shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA?
[10:26]Or the family of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez shot and killed in Illinois
[10:30]minutes after he dropped his kids off at school? There's no sign of any movement at
[10:36]the Department of Justice. You even launched a criminal investigation into Renee Good's grieving
[10:41]widow. How sick is that? But it's even worse, you've turned the People's Department of Justice
[10:48]into Trump's instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza and you
[10:54]deliver every time. He tells you to go after James Comey, Letitia James, Lisa Cook,
[11:00]and Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve Board, and members of Congress like
[11:04]Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly, Alyssa Slotkin, Chris Eulahan, Jason Crow, Chris D'Alusio, and Maggie
[11:11]Goodlander, to name a few, and you snap to it. You replace real prosecutors with counterfeit
[11:18]stooges who robotically do the president's bidding. Nothing in American history comes
[11:23]close to this complete corruption of the justice function and contamination of federal
[11:29]law enforcement. The good news is many serious lawyers at DOJ, including some of your own
[11:34]original employees, have refused your lawless orders. Danielle Sassoon, your original pick
[11:41]for acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, resigned rather than follow your corrupt order
[11:46]to quash an indictment against Mayor Eric Adams as a political favor from Donald Trump.
[11:52]A Federalist Society member who clerked for Justice Scalia, U.S. Attorney Sassoon refused
[11:57]to participate in this blatantly corrupt scheme. Her top assistant, Hagan Scotton,
[12:02]an Iraqi war vet and two-time Bronze Star recipient who clerked for Chief Justice Roberts,
[12:07]and then Judge Kavanaugh, promptly resigned too, writing to your office, quote,
[12:12]I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward
[12:18]to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. You and the president nominated
[12:23]Eric Siebert, a 15-year career prosecutor, to be your U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
[12:28]District of Virginia. But after five months of investigating Latisha James and James Comey,
[12:36]he found no evidence to justify criminal charges. So you forced him out. You replaced him with
[12:41]Lindsay Halligan, Trump's personal lawyer from the Mar-a-Lago documents case, who had
[12:47]zero prosecutorial experience and no qualifications. And then you were humiliated
[12:52]when a federal judge found that this corrupt appointment was blatantly unlawful and threw out
[12:57]Halligan's indictments entirely. And grand juries of American citizens have repeatedly rejected
[13:03]your vendettas and baseless indictments brought by the hacks left at DOJ. Now,
[13:07]with two different grand juries in Virginia voting down indictments against Latisha James
[13:11]in a single week and just yesterday, another grand jury shut down your vendetta factory
[13:18]by rejecting indictments against the six members of Congress who had spoken out to remind all
[13:23]service members that they have a duty to refuse illegal orders. You tried to get a
[13:29]grand jury to indict six members of Congress who are veterans of our armed forces on charges
[13:34]of seditious conspiracy simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. I hope you will
[13:40]heed the wisdom and the constitutional patriotism of those grand jurors and not try it again
[13:46]by doubling down on that humiliation. As your best lawyers are sacked for having
[13:51]participated in the January 6th case or just flee for the exits now, your new lawyers keep
[13:56]lying in court. In dozens of cases, they've been excoriated for lying to federal judges.
[14:01]Chief Judge Boesberg right here in DC suggested your Department of Justice
[14:06]perpetrated a fraud on the court. Other judges found your statements to be, quote,
[14:11]inexplicably misleading, patently incredible, totally inconsistent, and so disingenuous that
[14:18]the court is left with little confidence that the government can be trusted to tell the truth
[14:23]about anything. Now, as ranking member, I asked the chairman to add a few extra
[14:30]rounds of questions today because we each have five hours of questions, not five minutes,
[14:35]but we're stuck with five minutes. That's clearly insufficient to give voice to America's
[14:40]victims and survivors and to demand answers about all the corruption and cover-ups that
[14:45]we see at DOJ right now. We've got just one round, so we ask you politely but firmly,
[14:50]Madam Attorney General. Please do not waste one second of our precious time by evading
[14:57]questions, by changing the subject, or engaging in personal attacks against members of Congress.
[15:03]We saw your performance in the Senate and we're not going to accept that. This isn't a game.
[15:08]In the Senate, you brought something with you called a burn book, a binder of smears to attack
[15:13]members personally for doing the people's work of oversight. Please set the burn book aside
[15:19]and answer our questions, and when you hear us reclaim our time, that means it's time for you
[15:23]to stop speaking. We only have five minutes, so when we reclaim our time, that means you stop.
[15:29]And if you don't, we will ask the chair to stop the clock and let you go on his time.
[15:34]The quality of justice in America depends on the character of our government. Please do your job
[15:40]and bring the Department of Justice back from the brink. The survivors seated behind
[15:44]you and the American people watching everywhere deserve a Department of Justice worthy of its
[15:49]name. I yield back, Mr. Chair. Madam Attorney General, you acknowledged earlier to Mr. Johnson
[15:55]that President Trump was mentioned in the release countless times, you said,
[16:00]in the Epstein files. I just want to play a video, though, for you that I think speaks to
[16:05]the frustration that many of these victims have. Trump's name appears in the files,
[16:12]so it could at least be a thousand times. Is that right?
[16:16]The number is a total misleading factor. We have not released anyone's name. We have not
[16:21]released anyone's name in the Epstein files that has not been credible. We have released
[16:26]every piece of legally permissible information. You can characterize the numbers however you want
[16:31]it. You're claiming my time, Director. It sounds like if you don't know the number,
[16:35]it could at least be a thousand times. It's not. It's not. Is it at least 500 times? No.
[16:40]Is it at least 100 times? No. Then what's the number? I don't know the number.
[16:47]I understand why the victims are frustrated. And the Attorney General acknowledged what Mr.
[16:51]Patel would not acknowledge, that it was way more than a thousand times. But I want to
[16:56]move Madam Attorney General to weaponization of government. And yesterday it was reported that
[17:02]six members of Congress had indictments sought against him, and they were not returned by a
[17:07]grand jury. My colleagues have spoken about their frustration of being in subpoenas and
[17:12]having cell phone records combed through. Well, in 2017 and 2018, Adam Schiff and I
[17:19]had our cell phone records and email records combed through, not by you but a different
[17:24]Department of Justice under the President. It was in retaliation for our role in the
[17:28]Russia interference campaign. An Inspector General report would find this improper
[17:33]and that the predicate for it was absurd. In 2020, after sitting on two committees that were
[17:38]a part of the President's first impeachment, an FBI agent leaked my cooperation in a national
[17:43]security case where my campaign was targeted. The President's FBI senior leadership authorized
[17:49]two statements to the press that said I was never suspected of wrongdoing and only helped
[17:53]the investigation. But that didn't stop the death threats or my GOP colleagues from referring
[17:57]me to an ethics investigation where Kevin McCarthy's Chairman on the Ethics Committee
[18:02]would find the same thing as the FBI. Our current FBI Director would then write a book
[18:06]called Government Gangsters and identify a long list of enemies. About a quarter of them have
[18:11]been either investigated or indicted. He listed me at the very top along with Adam Schiff
[18:16]and during that same testimony refused to recuse himself when asked if he would recuse
[18:24]any case came across his desk involving me or people on that list. Since that testimony,
[18:29]his department has put me under investigation with Senator Schiff for the nonsense mortgage fraud
[18:34]cases that we've seen. I get it. This is what the President does. I've priced it in. We have
[18:40]a bingo card at home that my kids have made of what will come next. I expected that the
[18:45]President would come after his enemies. But what I want to talk to you next is serious
[18:49]and I did not expect this would happen and I'd like your help on it. The President has inspired
[18:54]death threats against me and many sitting up here with me. In June 2025 an individual left
[19:01]11 voicemails at my district office. On the voicemails they said get the message to him
[19:06]I'm going to hunt him down that motherfucker and toss his ass over the Golden Gate Bridge
[19:10]by my fucking self. Donald Trump's Department of Justice in the Northern District of
[19:15]California declined to prosecute. On May 14, 2025, on Twitter, responding to something I posted,
[19:22]an individual said no it wasn't Eric and now I'm going to kill you. The Department of Justice
[19:27]from the Southern District of Texas declined to prosecute. May through December of 2025
[19:33]we received messages at my office that said I hope somebody shoots you and your children
[19:38]and your wife in the head. Pew pew motherfucker, pew pew. I would stay indoors as much as
[19:43]possible and my children unfortunately have to do that. The Department of Justice has not charged
[19:48]this individual and cited that he's a prolific caller and has health conditions. Although
[19:53]what we have found in our own investigation and his voicemails is that he has said he will
[19:57]employ others to do this. The President can come after me, it's fine, I'm in the arena,
[20:03]so are these folks. But we never expected that the Department of Justice would not seek to
[20:09]prosecute and investigate those who are making threats against us. And that would include
[20:13]those on that side of the aisle. And I'm just asking for your help to protect life because
[20:19]life is at risk with the environment we're in right now. Congressman, I completely agree with
[20:24]you. I know about several of those personally involving you. I believe one has been charged
[20:33]publicly. And there's something I would be happy to talk to you about off camera,
[20:39]but I can assure you that they are very serious. They are being looked into. And I can give you
[20:46]more details on those. None of you should be threatened ever. None of your children should
[20:51]be threatened. None of your families should be threatened. And I will work with, you can come
[20:57]into my office any day. I will work with all of you on both sides of the aisle if you are
[21:02]ever threatened. And I would gladly talk to you after this hearing about your cases. But I can
[21:07]tell you some of them are very active. Appreciate that. Now yield back. The gentleman yields back.
[21:11]And we're sorry for what the gentleman and his family have had to go through.
[21:16]Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. And to be clear, I'm not going to ask any questions
[21:19]of this witness because this witness has revealed that she has no intentions of
[21:22]answering questions. But instead, I'm going to ask some very basic questions really quickly
[21:26]of my colleague, Becca Ballant, if she will answer right or wrong, raping children.
[21:31]Of wrong. Right or wrong, killing random citizens. Definitely wrong. Right or wrong,
[21:36]enriching yourself as the sitting president of the United States. Definitely wrong. Okay,
[21:41]thank you, because I probably never would have got that with our witness. Our witness who
[21:44]somehow is a lawyer but does not understand how it works with witnesses. I'm not really
[21:48]sure what law school she went to and what all kind of cases she tried. But typically,
[21:53]when you come into a space and somebody's a witness, then they sit there and they answer
[21:57]questions instead of asking questions. And then we also have this objection that we
[22:02]use as lawyers called non-responsive when a witness fails to actually answer the question.
[22:07]But nevertheless, let me address the survivors because that's exactly who they are. They
[22:12]are not victims. They are survivors. Let me say thank you for having more courage
[22:16]and moral clarity in your pinky fingers than the entire Department of Justice. We
[22:21]are currently the laughing stock of the world, partially because of the failed leadership within
[22:26]the DOJ as we see kings and queens falling everywhere around the world. But we don't know
[22:31]the basics of right and wrong in this country because it's not about partisanship. And that's
[22:36]why I applaud Thomas Massey because he's the only person on the Republican side that has a
[22:41]backbone and knows how to stand up to corruption. But nevertheless, let me keep going.
[22:46]My Democratic colleagues have been attacked this entire committee hearing. They have been lied on
[22:52]and frankly the American people weren't looking for that. They were looking for answers about
[22:56]the corruption that they see coming from this administration. In the written testimony of this
[23:02]witness, of this particular witness, she stated that when she took office, she had two main
[23:08]goals. The first was to end the weaponization of justice and second, to return the department
[23:14]to its core mission. Not only have you lied about both, you've intentionally done the exact
[23:19]opposite. You're spending more taxpayer resources arresting journalists than you are prosecuting
[23:24]pedophiles and creeps. In fact, your boss, the president of the United States, stated that this
[23:29]administration, quote, took the freedom of speech away. And at your direction, DOJ has arrested
[23:36]Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. And I might add that y'all actually had a judge that rejected y'all
[23:42]for trying to arrest Don Lemon before, just like the grand jury rejected y'all as it relates
[23:46]to Senator Kelly, just like a grand jury rejected y'all as it relates to Senator Slotkin,
[23:52]just like the case against Tish James was dismissed and the case against Mr. Comey was
[23:57]dismissed. I completely don't get how it is that you're sitting at the top of DOJ because
[24:02]you don't seem to be good at your job. You're spending more taxpayer resources arresting
[24:06]these journalists. In fact, we know after Georgia Fort and Don Lemon were arrested,
[24:13]we know that there were homes of journalists that were raided. We know that threatened
[24:18]prosecution against students protesting your actions and forced tech companies to remove
[24:24]apps used to track ISIS activities. But let's circle back to you protecting pedophiles and
[24:29]creeps because I want to talk about the president and his possible involvement with
[24:34]Jeffrey Epstein. Now, I don't know what the president might have done with Jeffrey Epstein,
[24:38]but unlike this administration, I believe that facts matter. So let's talk about the facts.
[24:42]Fact number one, Donald Trump is one of the most named people in the Epstein files.
[24:46]At least 5,000 files contains more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, or Mar-a-Lago.
[24:54]Fact number two, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell made young girls available to Trump
[24:59]on multiple occasions. For example, according to this file, Ghislaine Maxwell presented
[25:04]a young girl to President Trump who spent more than 20 minutes apparently flirting with
[25:10]Here's another example. This shows notes from FBI investigators that describe Jeffrey Epstein
[25:15]transporting a victim to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump where he bragged to Trump that
[25:20]quote, this is a good one. Now I'm not saying that the president is a pedophile, but there
[25:24]is a lot of evidence in these files that suggests that he's very close friends with a
[25:29]lot of men who are pedophiles. What's crazy about all of this is just that this is a big
[25:34]cover-up and this administration is engaged in it. In fact, this administration is complicit.
[25:40]But there are numerous others like how the DOJ is attempting to obstruct justice in the
[25:44]investigation of the rogue agents who have murdered American citizens or how the DOJ seized
[25:49]voter data from Fulton County in an attempt to seal the 2026 midterm elections or how federal
[25:54]agents have Tom Homan on tape accepting a bribe and your agency killed the investigation
[26:00]or how your agency is ready to give the president a 230 million dollar payday,
[26:05]which is unconstitutional. The Constitution is clear. The president shall not receive
[26:09]any payment except his salary while in office. The fact of the matter is that you will be
[26:13]remembered as one of the worst attorney generals in history, an attorney general who
[26:17]has prioritized obstruction over justice, corruption over the law, fealty to the president
[26:22]over loyalty to the Constitution. And Mr. Chairman, I will yield.
[26:26]The gentleman from Kansas, the former attorney general, Mr. Schmidt is recognized.
[26:34]Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And General Bondi, thanks for being here. Did you have anything
[26:38]you wanted to say before we talk? I do. Thank you, Congressman. Thank you,
[26:42]my friend, for many years. I find it interesting that she didn't even want to try,
[26:47]Congresswoman Crockett, to ask any questions because she certainly did not condemn her
[26:53]leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for taking money from Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein was convicted.
[27:00]And I will be brief to give you your time, Congressman. This is what she didn't want to
[27:05]talk about. Texas from Cuba, convicted, homicide arson, weapon offense. Convicted,
[27:12]so what are we talking about? Convict some of these perpetrators that rape these women
[27:17]that are sitting behind you that you refuse to even acknowledge they are here.
[27:21]Time belongs to the gentleman from Kansas. Mr. Chairman, could I have a few seconds back
[27:26]to make up for the yelling? Thank you. General, did you have anything further to say?
[27:31]Texas convicted of homicide. Cecil Joseph from Dominican Republic.
[27:38]Texas convicted for kidnapping, rape. Khalid Khan from Afghanistan. That's why
[27:45]they want to talk about Epstein and not what's happening in their own states.
[27:53]Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Behind me I have three documents from the DOJ production that are
[27:58]emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
[28:04]To my right is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of
[28:10]names not to redact. Sorry, a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this
[28:17]email? They released this email in the document production. Literally the worst thing you could
[28:24]do to the survivors, you did. And they're getting phone calls. A lot of these people
[28:29]didn't want to be known. And we know you touched the document because you redacted one
[28:34]name and you redacted the lawyer's name but you left the survivor's name there.
[28:39]The next document I want to show you, that was in the title, the victim's survivor's
[28:45]names, right? The title of this one is child sex trafficking, co-conspirators, fully redacted.
[28:54]And by the way, I'm going to unredact them here. Les Wexner is in this. Now,
[29:03]your deputy attorney general said, oh, well, he appears hundreds of times in the files,
[29:10]but he doesn't appear in this file until I forced you to release it where he's listed as a
[29:16]co-conspirator, not to tax evasion, but to child sex trafficking, not to prostitution,
[29:24]not to money laundering, child sex trafficking. And then finally, what we have here,
[29:31]is the third exhibit that I have, is emblematic of the FD 302 release. These are the documents
[29:39]that we need that you're holding onto and overredacting because they have the names
[29:45]of the men who are implicated. How do we know? Because the survivors gave testimony to the FBI
[29:54]and it's in there. And what happens when you go to the portal at the DOJ to look at what's
[29:59]behind this redaction? Another redaction. So we can't even see them. And then there's some
[30:05]of these files you've pulled down from the website that we will never see because we can't
[30:12]search the redactions. So I have several questions for you. Who's responsible? Are
[30:18]you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the
[30:24]victims' names? Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name
[30:30]as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of accountability?
[30:38]I believe Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times. Yeah, I already told you that.
[30:44]This is where he's listed as a co-conspirator. Can I finish my answer? Come on. Let me
[30:49]finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. You're acting like everybody's
[30:56]trying to cover up Wexner's name. I'm reclaiming my time. I'm going to answer
[30:59]this question. Reclaiming my time. This isn't how this works. Can I have my time?
[31:06]The gentlelady can give her answer. The time belongs to the gentleman. I'm reclaiming
[31:10]my time. So I'm going to put the language of the bill up on the screen.
[31:15]Chairman, may I give my answer on that? It's a political joke and I need to give my answer on that.
[31:21]Let the attorney general respond and then the gentleman can move to his next question.
[31:25]Chairman, it's my time. Within 40 minutes, you asked me a question. Within 40 minutes,
[31:30]Wexner's name was added back. Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed.
[31:36]There was one redaction out of over 4,700 and we invited you in.
[31:43]This guy has Trump derangement syndrome. You're a failed politician.
[31:50]Chairman, please restore his time and remind the witness of the rules here.
[31:53]There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday
[31:59]that he trafficked to other individuals. Is that your position as well?
[32:04]My position is any victim who comes forward, of course, we would love to hear from them.
[32:13]1-800-CALL-FBI. Did you ask Merrick Garland that the last four years? Did you talk about Epstein?
[32:21]I'm reclaiming my time. I'm glad you're asking about Merrick Garland because this is bigger
[32:26]than Watergate. This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden.
[32:33]Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George Bush. This cover up spans decades
[32:38]and you are responsible for this portion of it.
[32:41]And that's weird. I want to know at what point,
[32:44]at what point did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Westner was not a co-conspirator?
[32:51]Because our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the
[32:56]screen, please, to release the internal decision about whether to prosecute him or not.
[33:03]And it's not in the files and it's not in the files for any of these other men.
[33:07]Time of the gentleman has expired.
[33:09]May she answer?
[33:10]And he's a hypocrite because he voted against the ban that we were talking about
[33:15]on deep fake AI porn. Only two people voted against it and you were one of them, hypocrite.
[33:23]The gentleman's time has expired.
[33:25]She didn't answer the question.
[33:28]Mr. Chairman, could she answer the question?
[33:30]Chairman, I was wondering.
[33:31]The gentlelady is allowed, the attorney general is allowed to respond the way she
[33:34]wants to respond to any member's questions, Republican, Democrat.
[33:37]All right, I have your name as consent request.
[33:39]Gentleman's recognized for a UC.
[33:41]All right, this is an example. I'm submitting these 302 forms
[33:45]that are entirely redacted, even when you go to look at them.
[33:49]Without objection.
[33:50]I'm submitting a witness statement that implicates Lex Westner.
[33:56]I'm submitting an article from the New York Times that the DOJ released nude photos
[34:01]and identifiable pictures of the victims.
[34:05]I'm submitting a letter from A.G. Bonney to Cash Patel,
[34:10]employing him to quit keeping the files.
[34:14]When you found out that they were keeping files from you,
[34:17]because they're still redacting files.
[34:19]Chairman, are we going to recess for votes?
[34:23]Yes, we are.
[34:24]I'm submitting, for unanimous consent,
[34:26]a document of 17 individuals who've resigned because of the Epstein files.
[34:30]Without objection.
[34:33]The gentlelady from California.
[34:35]Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[34:36]I would note that Mr. Nadler's question has not yet been answered,
[34:40]but I want to start by asking that out of respect for the American public
[34:44]and the Epstein survivors, some of whom, of course, are here today,
[34:49]that we can have a transparent conversation and get the public the answers they deserve.
[34:55]I want to briefly direct your attention
[34:58]to two documents I'm hoping we will put up on the screen.
[35:03]In the first, an individual emails Jeffrey Epstein
[35:07]asking whether a woman identified as M was pro or civilian,
[35:13]and Epstein responds that she was a civilian, Russian, and fun.
[35:17]In the second email, Epstein writes to Steve Tisch about a Ukrainian girl,
[35:24]noting that she was, quote, a little freaked out by the age difference
[35:28]and stating that he would try to convince her not to return to Ukraine.
[35:32]He then instructs Mr. Tisch to call him, adding,
[35:35]I don't like records of these conversations.
[35:38]So I'd like to ask a straightforward question
[35:41]that really is either a yes or no answer.
[35:44]Do these emails constitute credible evidence, not proof,
[35:49]but credible evidence warning further investigation
[35:53]into whether Steve Tisch was involved in Epstein's criminal conduct?
[35:59]Do you think yes or no?
[36:01]I'm not going to play a yes-no game with you,
[36:03]but I will answer the question to the best of my ability.
[36:06]As I said, we will look and investigate any case involving any victim.
[36:12]I'm not familiar.
[36:13]There were three million pages, of course, with that email.
[36:16]But of course, we will look into anything.
[36:19]The documents have been released, three million.
[36:21]The redacted versions, we left them open for all of you to come view.
[36:27]I believe you view them.
[36:28]If not, will you have some copies?
[36:29]I'd like to.
[36:30]But can I finish, please?
[36:31]I'm not being rude.
[36:32]I only have five minutes.
[36:33]No.
[36:34]Yeah, and I only have 30 seconds based on your filibustering.
[36:37]You didn't give a yes or no answer.
[36:40]So let me just go further.
[36:42]Director Patel testified in this committee room
[36:46]that there was no credible information indicating
[36:49]that Epstein trafficked victims to anyone else.
[36:52]And glancing at the documents, that proves that's not the case.
[36:57]In July, your department issued a memo stating
[37:00]that it had conducted an exhaustive review of the Epstein files
[37:05]and concluded that no additional individuals would be charged.
[37:09]So I did go over to the Department of Justice yesterday.
[37:12]I would note that all our 35 members are in the House,
[37:18]and there's four computers.
[37:20]So it would take many months to actually have the time.
[37:26]I only had a few hours.
[37:28]I think the transparency argument is really kind of a sham
[37:31]because it's not really possible to really go in.
[37:37]I did, however, see a US attorney information
[37:41]for the Southern District of New York indicating
[37:44]that there were additional survivors
[37:46]and probable co-conspirators.
[37:49]Other members of Congress have uncovered likely co-conspirators
[37:53]whose names were blocked out.
[37:55]Now, the Epstein File Transparency Act,
[37:59]which all but one member of this House voted for
[38:02]and the president signed, requires the department
[38:06]to release everything except that it needs to be redacted
[38:10]to protect the victims or an ongoing prosecution,
[38:16]which apparently there is none
[38:17]from the testimony we have received.
[38:20]I am concerned that this act has not been fully complied with.
[38:25]When Director Patel came to the committee,
[38:28]he admitted that up to 1,000 FBI agents
[38:31]had gone through the files
[38:33]and redacted President Trump's name from them.
[38:36]And it's pretty clear that what has been transmitted
[38:40]from the FBI continues to redact President Trump's name,
[38:44]even though he is mentioned, you know,
[38:47]thousands of times in these files.
[38:49]So I think the credibility of the department
[38:52]in terms of complying with the act has been damaged.
[38:56]And I think the department's credibility
[38:58]has been damaged in other ways.
[39:01]I think we all saw the horrible video
[39:04]of American citizens being killed
[39:08]by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
[39:10]And I think how the department has handled these cases
[39:14]raises a lot of doubt about the department.
[39:16]State and local police in Minnesota
[39:19]got a court order to get access to the crime scene
[39:22]to be sure evidence would be properly preserved
[39:26]by federal agents.
[39:27]But they took the agents, defied the court order,
[39:31]and in a departure from general policy,
[39:35]DOJ is not collaborating with state
[39:38]and local law enforcement on these homicides.
[39:42]So I really think that is a disgraceful approach
[39:45]to the homicides of American citizens
[39:48]and it really does nothing to bring credit
[39:52]to your department.
[39:53]And, Mr. Chairman, I would yield back.
[39:55]The gentleman yields back.
[39:56]May I answer?
[39:57]Attorney General can respond.
[39:58]I find it interesting that she keeps going
[40:00]after President Trump,
[40:01]the greatest president in American history.
[40:04]If they could maintain their composure.
[40:06]This isn't a circus, this is a hearing.
[40:09]I find it interesting she keeps going
[40:11]after Donald Trump.
[40:12]She doesn't say how much money
[40:13]she took from Reid Hoffman, did you?
[40:15]None.
[40:16]And nor did she post anything.
[40:18]Mr. Chairman, regular order, please.
[40:20]She posted nothing on her ex-account,
[40:23]on her Twitter account during the Biden years.
[40:25]General lady.
[40:26]And yet now all of a sudden question asked.
[40:29]She's going after a point of order.
[40:30]There was no question on the attorney general.
[40:33]She doesn't just get to speak.
[40:35]Committee will be in order.
[40:36]I have a point of order, Mr. Chairman.
[40:37]Committee will be in order.
[40:39]Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
[40:40]Lady can state her point of order.
[40:43]When a witness attacks.
[40:45]Not a valid point of order.
[40:46]You've got to state it.
[40:46]She hasn't completed her point of order yet.
[40:48]Please let her speak, Mr. Chairman.
[40:49]Let's have some regular order here.
[40:50]Regular order is you've got to state the rule.
[40:52]I am trying to make a point of order
[40:55]that the witness without responding to a question
[40:59]has attacked me personally.
[41:01]I think it's pathetic
[41:02]that she can't answer the questions
[41:04]and instead is attacking members of the committee.
[41:06]The gentleman from Wisconsin is recognized.
[41:10]Mr. Chairman yields back.
[41:10]Gentleman from New York is recognized.
[41:12]Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[41:13]Ms. Bondy, I went over to the department yesterday
[41:15]for a couple of hours to review
[41:17]some of the unredacted materials.
[41:20]And I am looking forward to your detailed explanation
[41:23]for why you have withheld almost half of the documents
[41:27]which is required by the bill.
[41:30]Now, obviously there are 3 million documents
[41:32]so I didn't get through much.
[41:34]But one thing I didn't see was the client list
[41:37]that you said you had on your desk a year ago.
[41:41]I did, however, find a couple of important documents.
[41:44]An 86-page prosecution memo
[41:47]from the Southern District of New York
[41:49]and a draft indictment from Florida
[41:52]against Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators.
[41:55]For reasons that I cannot understand
[41:57]nor are permitted by the bill,
[42:00]they were still redacted even for members of Congress.
[42:04]So, Ms. Bondy, will you commit right here
[42:07]to immediately providing those two documents
[42:11]in unredacted form to members of Congress?
[42:18]Not a complicated question.
[42:20]Well, I guess it is for you
[42:22]because you have a law degree and those are privileged.
[42:25]Okay, they're not privileged
[42:28]but we will discuss that later.
[42:31]I also found an email that I have right here
[42:34]from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell
[42:36]that was unredacted
[42:38]and it included notes of statements
[42:41]that Donald Trump made
[42:42]about his prior relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
[42:46]Now, there is no reason for this
[42:48]to be hidden from the American people.
[42:50]There is no privilege.
[42:52]There is no attorney-client privilege
[42:54]and I see you're checking with your staff
[42:56]and I can assure you, staff,
[42:58]this is not under attorney-client privilege
[43:00]because it was sent from Jeffrey Epstein
[43:02]to Ghislaine Maxwell.
[43:04]Will you commit to publicly providing
[43:07]the unredacted version of this
[43:09]so that the American people
[43:11]can understand the extent of Donald Trump's lies
[43:15]about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?
[43:18]You're about as good of a lawyer today
[43:20]as you were when you tried to impeach
[43:21]President Trump in 2016.
[43:23]Have you apologized for that in 2019?
[43:26]So, will you unredact this?
[43:28]You're a lead counsel on that privilege.
[43:30]I'm asking you, will you unredact this?
[43:32]Privileged.
[43:33]Privileged, of course.
[43:35]I look forward to discussing this more.
[43:38]Now, these are obviously improper redactions.
[43:43]I'm talking.
[43:43]If they're not privileged...
[43:45]Quiet.
[43:45]Don't yell at me.
[43:46]If they're not privileged...
[43:47]Mr. Chairman, would you stop the clock, Mrs. O'Neill?
[43:48]It's not a Mr. Gohan.
[43:49]Even though you used your improper redactions
[43:53]You'll like my answer.
[43:54]If we review them and they're not privileged,
[43:57]we will be happy to release them.
[43:59]We'll stop the clock.
[44:00]We'll stop the clock.
[44:01]Time belongs to the member.
[44:02]Go ahead.
[44:04]Even though you used improper redactions
[44:06]to protect Donald Trump
[44:08]and other predators associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
[44:11]you did the exact opposite thing
[44:13]with the survivors and victims of this scheme.
[44:17]So, their identification information
[44:19]was really the only thing required to be redacted,
[44:22]and it was not.
[44:23]And it's clear this was not a mistake.
[44:26]This was not by accident.
[44:28]This was not because you only had 30 days
[44:30]when you really used 75,
[44:31]and that doesn't even include all the hours last March
[44:34]that you were redacting it.
[44:37]But I'll tell you why it's clear it wasn't a mistake.
[44:41]There is an email entitled Epstein Victim List.
[44:46]There are 32 names.
[44:47]One is redacted.
[44:49]31 are not.
[44:51]So, someone looked at it
[44:52]and decided to redact something.
[44:55]And I will tell you
[44:57]that that is clearly intentional
[44:59]to intimidate these survivors and victims.
[45:04]Now, in a interview last week—
[45:06]How will you tell me that's intentional?
[45:10]In an interview last week,
[45:11]Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said
[45:14]that any victim that wants to speak
[45:17]with the department has done so, hopefully.
[45:20]Well, thanks to the incredibly brave people
[45:23]sitting here behind you,
[45:23]we can actually ask them if that's true.
[45:26]Now, would the survivors and victims who are here
[45:28]please stand up one more time?
[45:32]Just by show of hands,
[45:33]how many of you or your loved ones
[45:36]actually have met with the Department of Justice
[45:39]and provided testimony and evidence?
[45:44]None.
[45:45]And of those of you who have not met,
[45:47]which is everyone,
[45:48]how many of you have reached out,
[45:50]either individually or through a lawyer
[45:53]or representative,
[45:55]to offer to provide testimony and evidence?
[46:00]All of them.
[46:01]And of those of you, all of you,
[46:03]who have reached out,
[46:05]how many of you were denied or ignored
[46:07]by the Department of Justice?
[46:10]All of them.
[46:12]And despite the shameful and despicable efforts
[46:15]by Ms. Bondi and her department
[46:17]to intimidate you,
[46:18]how many of you are still willing to speak
[46:21]to the Department of Justice?
[46:23]All of them.
[46:24]Well, Ms. Bondi,
[46:25]it looks like you have some more witnesses
[46:27]to talk to.
[46:28]And I yield back.
[46:29]We will go to the good gentleman
[46:31]from North Carolina,
[46:32]Congressman Nott.
[46:32]Thank you.
[46:33]May I have a moment, Congressman?
[46:34]Yes, ma'am.
[46:35]Thank you.
[46:38]Here we go.
[46:39]Here's the photograph.
[46:40]This is why he wanted to repeat everything
[46:43]that had been said previously on Epstein.
[46:47]This is his state.
[46:48]New York.
[46:49]You probably don't even know who this is.
[46:51]Waheed Mohamed from Afghanistan.
[46:53]Yes, because I'm no longer a prosecutor.
[46:55]Convicted of assault.
[46:57]Wow.
[46:58]He represents New York.
[47:00]Wow.
[47:00]Yet he doesn't care about the illegal aliens
[47:03]convicted of crimes.
[47:05]Assault and homicide.
[47:07]No longer a prosecutor,
[47:08]so he doesn't care about his constituents.
[47:10]Here we go.
[47:12]Arson.
[47:13]El Salvador.
[47:14]Miguel Palacios.
[47:18]Furman Flores Ramalas.
[47:21]Mexico.
[47:22]Rape.
[47:24]Let's talk about the 70% of immigrants
[47:26]who are detained without a criminal
[47:28]conviction or arrest.
[47:29]Stop the clock.
[47:30]Stop the clock.
[47:32]Mr. Chairman, I want to begin
[47:34]by acknowledging the survivors
[47:35]of Jeffrey Epstein's horrific abuse
[47:38]who are in the room with us today.
[47:40]I want to thank all of you
[47:41]for your bravery in speaking out.
[47:43]I want to say that you and the other
[47:44]survivors of these heinous crimes
[47:47]deserve better from this
[47:48]Department of Justice.
[47:50]In particular, it is shocking
[47:52]that the department did not redact
[47:54]the names of Epstein's victims,
[47:56]but it did redact the names
[47:57]of their abusers.
[47:59]I don't know whether this was done
[48:00]out of incompetence
[48:02]or whether it was deliberate
[48:03]and malicious, but either way
[48:05]it is completely unacceptable.
[48:07]Even more troubling, the DOJ has
[48:09]failed to bring any of these
[48:10]perpetrators to justice.
[48:12]Instead, it has engaged in a
[48:13]relentless pursuit of Donald Trump's
[48:16]perceived enemies.
[48:18]I want to focus on just one example.
[48:20]The Attorney General of my home
[48:21]state of New York, Tish James.
[48:24]This DOJ has been hell-bent
[48:26]on securing an indictment
[48:27]against Ms. James for something,
[48:29]anything, simply because
[48:31]she held Donald Trump's companies
[48:32]accountable for years
[48:34]of financial fraud.
[48:35]And indeed, the department
[48:37]manufactured an investigation
[48:38]against her for alleged quote
[48:40]mortgage fraud.
[48:41]The D.U.S. attorney leading
[48:43]the investigation, Eric Siebert,
[48:45]a Trump appointee, refused to bring
[48:47]charges against Ms. James
[48:49]because there was simply no evidence.
[48:51]Unfortunately, a prosecutor
[48:53]who refused to do Trump's bidding
[48:56]has no place in this DOJ,
[48:58]so Mr. Siebert was forced out.
[49:01]Trump could not contain his fury.
[49:03]Fury that he expressed to you
[49:05]in a social media post
[49:06]addressed to you by name.
[49:08]I'm sure you've seen it.
[49:09]Quote, I fired him
[49:11]and there is a great case
[49:12]he wrote to you about Mr. Siebert.
[49:14]Then we moved down.
[49:15]We can't delay any longer.
[49:17]It's killing our reputation
[49:18]and credibility.
[49:19]They impeached me twice
[49:20]and indicted me five times.
[49:22]Over nothing.
[49:24]Justice must be served now.
[49:26]And obviously, you followed that order.
[49:29]Lindsay Halligan,
[49:30]Trump's former defense lawyer
[49:32]who had never prosecuted
[49:33]the case in her life,
[49:35]was installed to replace Mr. Siebert
[49:37]and it was clear that part of her mandate
[49:39]was to go after Ms. James.
[49:41]Halligan immediately saw an indictment
[49:43]which a court dismissed
[49:44]because Halligan was illegally
[49:46]put into the road.
[49:48]But your department was undeterred
[49:50]and not once, but twice
[49:52]it tried to indict
[49:53]Attorney General James in separate courts.
[49:55]Both grand juries rejected you
[49:57]and refused to indict her.
[49:59]It is practically unheard of
[50:01]for a grand jury to refuse an indictment.
[50:03]In 2016,
[50:05]it happened in just six cases
[50:07]out of over 150,000 offenses.
[50:11]And you had happened twice
[50:12]in the same week.
[50:13]In two different courts.
[50:15]That must have been humiliating.
[50:17]And now there are reports
[50:18]you are continuing to investigate her.
[50:20]The amount of resources
[50:21]that have gone into targeting
[50:23]Attorney General James,
[50:24]months of investigations,
[50:26]multiple failed indictments
[50:28]is astounding.
[50:29]Since your own prosecutors told you
[50:31]that there is not enough evidence
[50:32]to support a conviction,
[50:34]it's clear that you were going after her
[50:36]simply because she held
[50:37]President Trump accountable
[50:39]and he wants to punish her.
[50:41]And she is just one name
[50:43]on a long list of Trump political enemies
[50:45]that DOJ has reported detargeting.
[50:47]From Jerome Powell
[50:48]and Lisa Cook at the Federal Reserve
[50:50]to James Comey,
[50:52]numerous Democratic members of Congress,
[50:54]John Brennan, Jack Smith,
[50:55]Democratic officials of Minnesota,
[50:57]Chris Krebs,
[50:58]Miles Taylor and more.
[51:00]And those are just the ones we know about.
[51:02]In contrast to these
[51:03]politically motivated investigations,
[51:05]grasping at something
[51:06]they can charge their enemies with,
[51:08]we now have concrete evidence
[51:10]of disgusting criminality
[51:11]revealed in the Epstein files.
[51:13]So I have just,
[51:14]so I really have just one question for you.
[51:17]How many of Epstein's co-conspirators
[51:19]have you indicted?
[51:21]How many perpetrators
[51:22]are you even investigating?
[51:30]First, you showed it,
[51:33]I find it.
[51:33]How many have you indicted?
[51:34]Excuse me,
[51:35]I'm going to answer the question.
[51:37]I answer my question.
[51:38]No, I'm going to answer the question
[51:39]the way I want to answer the question.
[51:41]No, you're going to answer the question
[51:42]the way I asked it.
[51:43]Chairman Jordan,
[51:44]I'm not going to get in the gutter
[51:45]with these people,
[51:46]but I'm going to answer the question.
[51:47]How many have you indicted?
[51:49]Again, the time belongs to me.
[51:50]Reclaiming my time.
[51:51]The time belongs to me.
[51:51]I think it's very interesting.
[51:52]Reclaiming my time.
[51:53]I think it's very interesting
[51:55]that he talks about they indicted,
[51:58]the president said they indicted him twice.
[52:00]Mr. Chairman, please stop the clock
[52:01]and restore his time.
[52:02]Oh, okay.
[52:03]Here we go with these theatrics.
[52:05]The time belongs to the gentleman from New York.
[52:08]We will give you a few more seconds.
[52:09]We will do that.
[52:10]But when you ask a question,
[52:12]the witness gets it.
[52:13]You may not like the answer,
[52:14]but she gets to answer.
[52:15]The question was how many of Epsi-
[52:17]They don't like the answer, Chairman,
[52:20]because it's honest.
[52:22]So he asked a four-minute question.
[52:25]Restore 45 seconds, Mr. Nabler,
[52:27]please, Mr. Chairman.
[52:28]You can let her filibuster all day long,
[52:30]but not on our watch.
[52:32]Not on our time.
[52:33]No way.
[52:34]And I told you about that,
[52:35]Attorney General,
[52:36]before you started.
[52:36]You don't tell me anything.
[52:37]Oh, I did tell you
[52:38]because we saw what you did in the Senate.
[52:40]Is he a lawyer?
[52:41]Not even a lawyer.
[52:42]Maybe we'll be in order.
[52:43]Time, and I should get back
[52:44]at least 45 seconds.
[52:45]We will give you a few more seconds.
[52:46]I said that already.
[52:47]45 seconds.
[52:48]Okay.
[52:49]I'm timing right now, Mr. Nabler.
[52:50]All right.
[52:51]I'm giving you my time.
[52:52]The answer to my question,
[52:53]how many of Epsi's co-conspirators
[52:55]has she indicted, is zero.
[52:58]You have been the Attorney General
[53:00]for a whole year,
[53:01]and your DOJ fired
[53:02]the lead prosecutor of this case,
[53:04]sat on evidence this entire time,
[53:07]and claimed falsely last July
[53:09]that there were no more leads.
[53:10]It took an act of Congress
[53:11]for you to finally release
[53:13]part of the Epsi files,
[53:14]and when you did,
[53:15]you included personal information
[53:17]about the victims
[53:18]while protecting the names of abusers.
[53:19]Time of the gentleman has expired.
[53:21]None of the perpetrators
[53:21]have been brought to justice,
[53:23]but enormous resources
[53:24]are dedicated to Mr. Epsi.
[53:25]Time of the gentleman has expired,
[53:26]and obviously there was...
[53:27]It's clear that under your leadership,
[53:28]the Department of Justice
[53:29]will no longer work...
[53:30]There was no question in there.
[53:31]...in order to respond to.
[53:33]I yield back.
[53:34]The gentleman yields back.
[53:37]May I answer?
[53:38]I think our next questioner,
[53:41]Madam Attorney General,
[53:42]is going to give you time
[53:42]to respond to.
[53:43]Thank you, Chairman.
[53:44]All kinds of things.
[53:45]We will turn to the gentleman
[53:46]from Texas for five minutes.
[53:47]Ms. Bondi, you go right ahead.
[53:49]Over here.
[53:50]The time is yours.
[53:53]Thank you.
[53:55]First, he brought up
[53:56]the President saying
[53:57]they indicted me twice.
[53:59]They sure did.
[54:00]They tried to impeach him twice,
[54:02]and you, Mr. Nadler,
[54:03]were one of the leads
[54:05]on the impeachment.
[54:06]I was on the other side.
[54:07]I lived that with you.
[54:08]During impeachment,
[54:09]you said the President conspired,
[54:12]sought foreign interference
[54:14]in the 2016 election.
[54:16]Robert Mueller found no evidence,
[54:19]none, of foreign interference
[54:21]in 2016.
[54:22]Have you apologized
[54:23]to President Trump?
[54:25]Have you apologized
[54:26]to President Trump,
[54:27]all of you who participated
[54:29]in those impeachment hearings
[54:30]against Donald Trump?
[54:32]You all should be apologizing.
[54:34]You sit here and you attack
[54:36]the President,
[54:36]and I am not going to have it.
[54:38]I'm not going to put up with it.
[54:40]You know, all they want to do
[54:42]the American people need to know this.
[54:44]They are talking about Epstein today.
[54:47]This has been around
[54:48]since the Obama administration.
[54:51]This administration
[54:53]released over three million
[54:55]pages of documents,
[54:57]over three million,
[54:58]and Donald Trump signed that law
[55:01]to release all of those documents.
[55:04]He is the most transparent President
[55:07]in the nation's history,
[55:10]and none of them,
[55:12]ask Merrick Garland
[55:14]over the last four years,
[55:16]one word about Jeffrey Epstein.
[55:20]How ironic is that?
[55:21]You know why?
[55:22]Because Donald Trump,
[55:25]the Dow,
[55:26]the Dow right now is over,
[55:29]the Dow is over $50,000.
[55:31]I don't know why you're laughing.
[55:33]You're a great stock trader,
[55:34]as I hear, Raskin.
[55:35]The Dow is over $50,000 right now.
[55:39]The S&P at almost $7,000,
[55:43]and the NASDAQ smashing records.
[55:46]Americans 401Ks
[55:48]and retirement savings are booming.
[55:51]That's what we should be talking about.
[55:53]We should be talking about
[55:55]making Americans safe.
[55:57]We should be talking about
[55:58]what does the Dow have to do
[56:00]with anything?
[56:00]That's what they just asked.
[56:02]Are you kidding?
[56:03]Mr. Jordan,
[56:04]Mr. Jordan.
[56:05]Committee will be in order.
[56:08]Mr. Jordan,
[56:08]am I going to get an extra 45 seconds
[56:10]added to my time?
[56:11]The committee will be in order.
[56:13]The time belongs to the gentleman from Texas.
[56:16]The attorney general can respond.
[56:18]Thank you.
[56:20]The Dow has shattered $50,000
[56:24]for the first time.
[56:25]This is crazy.
[56:26]They said it couldn't be done in four years,
[56:29]yet President Trump has done it
[56:31]in one year.
[56:33]National median rents
[56:35]have fallen to a four-year low,
[56:38]thanks to Donald Trump.
[56:40]That's why they want to focus on Epstein
[56:43]and our most transparent president
[56:46]in the nation's history.
[56:48]The murder rate, as I said,
[56:50]has plummeted
[56:52]to a 125-year low,
[56:55]thanks to Donald Trump.
[56:59]For an unprecedented nine straight months,
[57:06]there were zero illegal border crossings
[57:09]at the southern border.
[57:12]That's what we should be focused on.
[57:14]All the great work
[57:15]that this president has done
[57:17]and will continue to do
[57:20]to keep America safe
[57:21]and to make Americans safe.
[57:25]Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[57:26]Good morning,
[57:27]Attorney General Bondi right here.
[57:30]We are joined in this room
[57:32]by some of the thousands of survivors
[57:34]from Jeffrey Epstein's
[57:36]horrific sex trafficking ring.
[57:38]They have shown such incredible courage
[57:41]in speaking out,
[57:42]in demanding accountability
[57:45]to bring the predators
[57:46]and pedophiles to justice.
[57:49]The Epstein Files Transparency Act
[57:51]required your Department of Justice
[57:53]to disclose the perpetrators
[57:55]connected with Epstein's criminal activities
[57:58]and to redact the information of survivors
[58:01]to protect their identities.
[58:03]Let me show you what actually happened.
[58:06]First, in violation of the law,
[58:08]your department has shown a pattern
[58:11]of redacting the names of powerful predators.
[58:15]Here behind me is one example
[58:17]of an email from Epstein
[58:19]to a man whose name was redacted.
[58:22]The email reads,
[58:24]quote, where are you?
[58:26]Are you okay?
[58:28]I loved the torture video.
[58:31]Only after members of Congress demanded
[58:33]that we see the unredacted files
[58:36]did the world learn the name of this individual,
[58:39]Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulaim,
[58:42]the chairman and CEO of a company
[58:45]that had financial ties
[58:47]to President Trump's business
[58:49]and personal ties to Trump's advisor, Steve Bannon.
[58:52]Second, the survivors were not similarly protected,
[58:57]also in violation of the law.
[58:59]Here is another email titled Epstein Victim List.
[59:03]We have blurred the names of the survivors
[59:05]for their protection,
[59:06]but your Department of Justice
[59:08]initially released this list of 32 survivors' names
[59:13]with only one name redacted,
[59:16]along with numerous files
[59:18]that disclosed not only the names,
[59:20]the emails and the addresses of survivors,
[59:23]but also nude photographs
[59:26]and even the identities of the survivors.
[59:29]The names of those who had been protected for decades
[59:33]until your department released their names.
[59:36]Survivors are now telling us
[59:38]that their families are finding out
[59:40]for the first time
[59:41]that they were trafficked by Epstein.
[59:44]In their words, quote,
[59:46]this release does not provide closure.
[59:49]It feels like a deliberate attempt
[59:51]to intimidate survivors,
[59:53]punish those who came forward,
[59:55]and reinforce the same culture of secrecy
[59:59]that allowed Epstein's crimes to continue for decades.
[1:00:03]To the survivors in the room,
[1:00:06]if you are willing, please stand.
[1:00:12]And if you are willing,
[1:00:14]please raise your hands
[1:00:16]if you have still not been able to meet
[1:00:19]with this Department of Justice.
[1:00:24]Please know for the record
[1:00:25]that every single survivor has raised their hand.
[1:00:30]Attorney General Bondi,
[1:00:33]you apologize to the survivors
[1:00:35]in your opening statement
[1:00:37]for what they went through
[1:00:38]at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein.
[1:00:40]Will you turn to them now
[1:00:42]and apologize for what your Department of Justice
[1:00:47]has put them through
[1:00:49]with the absolutely unacceptable release
[1:00:55]of the Epstein files
[1:00:56]and their information?
[1:01:03]Congresswoman, you said before,
[1:01:08]Merrick Garland sat in this chair twice
[1:01:10]Attorney General Bondi.
[1:01:12]Can I finish my answer?
[1:01:13]No, I'm going to reclaim my time
[1:01:15]because I asked you a specific question
[1:01:19]that I would like you to answer,
[1:01:21]which is will you turn to the survivors?
[1:01:24]This is not about anybody that came before you.
[1:01:27]It is about you taking responsibility
[1:01:30]for your Department of Justice
[1:01:32]and the harm that it has done
[1:01:34]to the survivors who are standing right behind you
[1:01:38]and are waiting for you
[1:01:40]to turn to them and apologize
[1:01:42]for what your Department of Justice has done.
[1:01:45]Members get to ask the questions,
[1:01:46]the witness get to answer
[1:01:47]in the way they want to answer.
[1:01:49]That's not accurate, Mr. Chairman.
[1:01:51]Because she doesn't like the answer.
[1:01:53]So, why didn't she ask Merrick Garland this?
[1:02:00]I'm reclaiming my time
[1:02:02]and when I reclaim my time,
[1:02:04]it is my time.
[1:02:05]I'm not going to get in the gutter
[1:02:06]for her theatrics.
[1:02:08]The time belongs to the gentlelady.
[1:02:10]The gentlelady has 17 seconds.
[1:02:12]Thank you.
[1:02:13]You're not going to answer this question,
[1:02:15]so let me just say this.
[1:02:16]Chairman, I'll direct it to you.
[1:02:17]What a massive cover-up.
[1:02:18]No, I'm answering a question.
[1:02:19]Mr. Chairman, will you restore her time?
[1:02:20]The witness is interrupting.
[1:02:21]I'm not going to get in the gutter
[1:02:22]with this woman.
[1:02:23]Stop the time and let me have my time.
[1:02:26]The gentlelady from Washington
[1:02:27]controls the time.
[1:02:28]The gentlelady has 17 seconds.
[1:02:29]You can proceed with your final 17 seconds.
[1:02:32]What a massive cover-up this has been
[1:02:34]and continues to be.
[1:02:37]Donald Trump made the release
[1:02:38]of the Epstein files
[1:02:39]the center of his political campaign
[1:02:41]because he thought it would benefit him.
[1:02:43]Then you got into office,
[1:02:44]attorney general,
[1:02:45]claimed to have a client list,
[1:02:46]only to them say that there was no list.
[1:02:50]Your deputy, Todd Blanch,
[1:02:52]met alone with Elaine Maxwell
[1:02:55]and transferred her
[1:02:56]to a minimum security prison.
[1:02:59]And now you continue the cover-up
[1:03:01]and I wish that you would turn around
[1:03:04]to the survivors
[1:03:05]who are standing right behind you
[1:03:07]and on a human level.
[1:03:08]Chairman, I apologize.
[1:03:09]The chair now recognizes
[1:03:10]the chair.
[1:03:11]I'm what you have done.
[1:03:12]Time is the time of the gentlelady.
[1:03:13]I yield back.
[1:03:14]The gentlelady, you have no time
[1:03:15]to yield back.
[1:03:16]The action.
[1:03:17]We appreciate the thought.
[1:03:23]Attorney General Bondi,
[1:03:25]that man works for you now, right?
[1:03:30]Who was that, congressman?
[1:03:32]The man in that video,
[1:03:33]the one who was in the police worn
[1:03:35]body cam footage,
[1:03:37]the one allegedly yelling,
[1:03:38]kill him at police officers
[1:03:40]on January 6th.
[1:03:42]His name is Jared Weiss.
[1:03:44]He does work for us.
[1:03:44]He works for you
[1:03:45]at the Department of Justice.
[1:03:47]He does.
[1:03:48]This is an individual
[1:03:50]whom a federal grand jury
[1:03:51]indicted for two felonies
[1:03:54]and four misdemeanors
[1:03:55]related to his participation
[1:03:57]in the attack on January 6th.
[1:03:59]One of those charges was forcibly
[1:04:00]assaulting, resisting,
[1:04:01]opposing, impeding,
[1:04:02]intimidating,
[1:04:03]interfering with police
[1:04:05]with the intent to commit
[1:04:06]another felony.
[1:04:08]This is who you choose
[1:04:11]as the chief law enforcement officer
[1:04:12]of the United States of America
[1:04:13]to hire at the Department of Justice
[1:04:16]someone on video
[1:04:18]yelling, kill him at police officers,
[1:04:22]right?
[1:04:23]I believe he was pardoned
[1:04:24]by President Trump.
[1:04:25]Oh, he was pardoned.
[1:04:27]You're right.
[1:04:28]You're right.
[1:04:29]Pardoned by President Trump
[1:04:32]for his offense.
[1:04:33]Pardoned for yelling,
[1:04:34]kill him at police officers.
[1:04:37]And yet you expect
[1:04:39]hardworking police officers
[1:04:40]across the country to believe
[1:04:42]that you take law enforcement seriously.
[1:04:45]You could imagine
[1:04:47]the reaction of so many folks
[1:04:49]across the country
[1:04:51]hearing the chief law enforcement officer
[1:04:54]of the United States refuse
[1:04:57]to even condemn
[1:04:58]what that individual
[1:04:59]whom you've now hired
[1:05:02]did.
[1:05:02]But in any event,
[1:05:04]let's talk a little bit
[1:05:05]about some of the other divisions
[1:05:06]within the Department of Justice
[1:05:07]and what's happened over the last year.
[1:05:09]You're familiar
[1:05:10]with the public integrity section
[1:05:11]of the DOJ's criminal division.
[1:05:13]I think it's referred to as PIN.
[1:05:15]Is that right?
[1:05:15]Yes.
[1:05:16]Okay.
[1:05:17]Do you know
[1:05:17]which presidential administration
[1:05:20]under which the PIN was first created?
[1:05:22]I can tell you what administration
[1:05:24]that the weaponization
[1:05:25]was ended under.
[1:05:26]I'll reclaim my time.
[1:05:27]This wasn't a trick question.
[1:05:28]You don't get to reclaim your time.
[1:05:29]Madam Attorney General.
[1:05:31]Mr. Chairman, we just played a witness
[1:05:33]that he does reclaim his time.
[1:05:35]Because I don't answer a question
[1:05:36]to your satisfaction.
[1:05:37]Mr. Chairman.
[1:05:38]Madam Attorney General,
[1:05:39]the time belongs to the gentleman
[1:05:41]from Colorado.
[1:05:42]The president under which PIN was created
[1:05:44]was Gerald Ford.
[1:05:46]It was created after water.
[1:05:47]I'm not asking a question,
[1:05:48]Madam Attorney General.
[1:05:49]The administration under which it was created
[1:05:51]was Gerald Ford.
[1:05:52]When you first started
[1:05:52]as the Attorney General of the United States,
[1:05:54]there were 35 people working in that office.
[1:05:56]There are now two people
[1:05:57]working in that office
[1:05:58]because you have gutted it.
[1:05:59]How many people work
[1:06:00]for the national cryptocurrency enforcement team
[1:06:03]in the criminal division today?
[1:06:08]Can I answer the question about PIN?
[1:06:10]I've asked you a question.
[1:06:11]How many people work-
[1:06:11]You've asked me a question
[1:06:13]but you don't want me to answer.
[1:06:13]How many people work
[1:06:14]for the national cryptocurrency enforcement team?
[1:06:17]You won't answer.
[1:06:18]How many people work-
[1:06:18]I'll answer PIN.
[1:06:21]PIN will not be weaponized.
[1:06:23]Actually, you know what-
[1:06:24]What's funny about this?
[1:06:25]I'll say to the chairman.
[1:06:25]What's funny about this?
[1:06:26]Mr. Chairman, you know what the answer is?
[1:06:28]And I think I understand why
[1:06:29]the Attorney General
[1:06:30]does not want to answer the question.
[1:06:31]Because you eliminated
[1:06:32]the national cryptocurrency
[1:06:33]enforcement team last year.
[1:06:35]So I understand why
[1:06:35]you don't want to tell the American people
[1:06:37]who works there.
[1:06:37]I understand why
[1:06:38]you don't want to talk about
[1:06:39]Mohammed Solomon in your district
[1:06:41]who murdered people.
[1:06:42]Mr. Chairman, will you stop the clock
[1:06:43]so his time is not wasted by the witness?
[1:06:45]I've been very generous
[1:06:46]with allowing extra time
[1:06:48]when we have these little disputes.
[1:06:49]I understand.
[1:06:50]You've got the time, Mr. Goose.
[1:06:52]I might as well ask
[1:06:54]the chairman these questions.
[1:06:55]I'd be happy to answer some of your questions.
[1:06:56]What's profound?
[1:06:58]The questions I've asked-
[1:06:59]Profound?
[1:06:59]The crime in your district?
[1:07:01]The questions I've asked, Mr. Chairman,
[1:07:03]are not trick questions.
[1:07:05]They're not gotcha questions.
[1:07:06]They're actually basic questions
[1:07:08]about how the Department of Justice functions
[1:07:10]and the unwillingness
[1:07:11]of this attorney general
[1:07:13]to answer them.
[1:07:14]In good faith,
[1:07:15]when a member of Congress asks
[1:07:17]how many people work
[1:07:18]at the national cryptocurrency
[1:07:20]enforcement team
[1:07:21]and the attorney general
[1:07:22]refuses to answer it,
[1:07:24]it is not a coincidence.
[1:07:26]It's because she eliminated the team.
[1:07:29]Why?
[1:07:29]Because her boss,
[1:07:31]the president of the United States,
[1:07:33]is making money hand over fist.
[1:07:35]$1.4 billion dollars
[1:07:37]over the course of the last year
[1:07:39]through cryptocurrency holdings.
[1:07:40]I think what is happening
[1:07:42]at the Department of Justice
[1:07:43]is a disgrace, Mr. Chairman.
[1:07:45]And I would urge you
[1:07:47]to gain control of this hearing.
[1:07:51]With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
[1:07:53]Yeah.
[1:07:54]Objection.
[1:07:55]The gentleman from Illinois is recognized.
[1:07:57]Thank you, Chairman.
[1:07:58]Attorney General Bondi,
[1:07:59]glad you finally made it here
[1:08:01]after hiding for four months
[1:08:02]from this committee.
[1:08:03]I understand why you're hiding.
[1:08:04]Oh, I thought you were hiding from us, Chairman.
[1:08:06]You're one of the worst
[1:08:08]attorney generals in our history
[1:08:10]and an instrument of Donald Trump's
[1:08:13]lawless authoritarian agenda.
[1:08:14]And I'm glad the American people
[1:08:16]are seeing who you are,
[1:08:17]how you act,
[1:08:18]and the lack of good values.
[1:08:21]You weaponize the Department of Justice
[1:08:23]to target immigrants,
[1:08:24]working families,
[1:08:25]and anyone that Trump deems
[1:08:28]an enemy of the state.
[1:08:31]All to protect real powerful criminals,
[1:08:34]including in your administration.
[1:08:36]My Democratic colleagues have focused
[1:08:38]on your cover-up of the Epstein files
[1:08:41]and your passion for protecting
[1:08:43]pedophiles and child traffickers.
[1:08:45]That alone is grounds for impeachment.
[1:08:49]But there's so much more
[1:08:50]to your corrupt tenure as attorney general.
[1:08:53]You directed prosecutors
[1:08:55]to investigate elected officials
[1:08:57]in welcoming jurisdictions,
[1:08:59]and you got thrown out of court
[1:09:01]when you sued Chicago, Cook County,
[1:09:03]and Illinois.
[1:09:04]You directed prosecutors
[1:09:06]to prioritize low-level immigration cases
[1:09:09]while gutting enforcement
[1:09:11]against corporate criminals
[1:09:13]and public corruption.
[1:09:15]You revived draconian
[1:09:17]You're talking about
[1:09:18]public corruption?
[1:09:19]Which should be repealed
[1:09:22]to illegally send people
[1:09:24]to a torture prison in El Salvador.
[1:09:27]You fired over 100 immigration judges,
[1:09:30]including the Assistant Chief
[1:09:32]Immigration Judge in Chicago,
[1:09:34]without cause,
[1:09:35]and installed unqualified military judges
[1:09:38]whom you instructed to deny asylum
[1:09:41]in violation of the law.
[1:09:43]You prosecute the president's enemies
[1:09:46]like Jim Comey and Tish James
[1:09:48]while giving impunity to federal agents
[1:09:51]who are murdering and brutalizing
[1:09:53]and terrorizing constituents,
[1:09:55]including in Chicagoland,
[1:09:57]in my neighborhood.
[1:09:58]I saw it last year firsthand.
[1:10:01]You and Cash Patel covered up the murder
[1:10:04]of Silveira Villegas-Gonzalez
[1:10:06]in my district by ICE agents.
[1:10:08]You tried to investigate Renee Good
[1:10:11]instead of the ICE agent who murdered her,
[1:10:15]and you tried to cover up
[1:10:17]the murder of Alex Peretti
[1:10:19]by CBP agents.
[1:10:22]You bring fake charges
[1:10:23]against protesters
[1:10:25]like the Broadview Six
[1:10:27]and Marimar Martinez,
[1:10:29]whom your administration
[1:10:31]labeled a domestic terrorist.
[1:10:34]This is the Montessori teacher
[1:10:35]who lived in my district
[1:10:37]while protecting thugs
[1:10:38]who terrorize us and VHS authority.
[1:10:42]That's what you do.
[1:10:44]Protect and enable the criminals
[1:10:46]who are plundering our society
[1:10:48]and destroying what's left of democracy
[1:10:51]and the rule of law.
[1:10:53]Epstein accomplices,
[1:10:55]Mastier chest thugs,
[1:10:57]corporate criminals,
[1:10:59]Tom Holman,
[1:10:59]Eric Adams,
[1:11:00]insurrectionists,
[1:11:01]the list goes on.
[1:11:03]And you talk about fighting crime,
[1:11:05]but you protect any criminal
[1:11:07]who helps you and Trump
[1:11:09]turn our country
[1:11:10]into an authoritarian gangster state.
[1:11:15]And after all this,
[1:11:17]nobody supports you.
[1:11:19]I'm not talking about Democrats.
[1:11:21]I'm talking about
[1:11:22]conservative judges
[1:11:24]who are condemning
[1:11:25]the rampant lawlessness
[1:11:26]at DOJ under your leadership.
[1:11:29]Your prosecutors are quitting in droves
[1:11:32]over being forced
[1:11:33]to prosecute low-level immigration cases,
[1:11:36]including in Chicagoland.
[1:11:38]Your MAGA base despises you
[1:11:40]because you're covering up
[1:11:42]the Epstein file.
[1:11:43]How ironic.
[1:11:44]And even your own boss
[1:11:46]has repeatedly complained
[1:11:48]to your staff about you,
[1:11:50]calling you weak and ineffective,
[1:11:53]weak and ineffective.
[1:11:54]That's what Donald Trump
[1:11:56]thinks of you already.
[1:11:58]You will not win, however.
[1:12:00]Chicagoland rejects you.
[1:12:02]The American people reject you.
[1:12:04]Our communities have demonstrated
[1:12:06]our strength and resilience
[1:12:08]in the face of cruelty
[1:12:11]and cowardice.
[1:12:12]Democrats must impeach
[1:12:14]and remove lawless officials
[1:12:15]like you and Kristi Noem
[1:12:18]and impose accountability
[1:12:20]for every criminal action.
[1:12:22]But you can spare yourself
[1:12:24]more humiliation.
[1:12:25]Resign now and submit yourself
[1:12:27]to accountability
[1:12:29]by the American people.
[1:12:31]Mr. Chairman,
[1:12:32]before I yield back,
[1:12:33]I ask unanimous consent
[1:12:35]to submit, for the record,
[1:12:37]this Wall Street Journal article
[1:12:40]dated January 12, 2026
[1:12:43]and titled,
[1:12:45]Trump has complained
[1:12:46]about Pam Bondi
[1:12:47]repeatedly to aides.
[1:12:49]Thank you and I yield back.
[1:12:51]Objection.
[1:12:52]The gentleman yields back.
[1:12:52]The gentleman from Texas
[1:12:54]is recognized.
[1:12:56]I thank the Chairman.
[1:12:57]May I have 20 seconds, please?
[1:12:59]Yes, ma'am.
[1:12:59]Thank you.
[1:13:00]Let's hear the opposition research.
[1:13:02]Thank you.
[1:13:02]That's absolutely right.
[1:13:06]He's not running for office again
[1:13:08]because, well,
[1:13:10]I don't know why
[1:13:10]you're not running for office again,
[1:13:12]but after the filing deadline,
[1:13:16]after the filing deadline,
[1:13:17]you publicly announced
[1:13:19]you would not run
[1:13:20]when your Chief of Staff,
[1:13:22]Patty Garcia,
[1:13:23]announced and took your seat.
[1:13:25]That's a state matter.
[1:13:26]That isn't a federal matter.
[1:13:27]You should investigate crimes.
[1:13:29]I believe Democrats know
[1:13:30]you should investigate
[1:13:31]violations of the law.
[1:13:33]The time belongs to the gentleman from Texas.
[1:13:36]Oh, they just called him.
[1:13:37]Okay.
[1:13:38]The Chair now recognizes
[1:13:40]the gentleman from Maryland.
[1:13:41]Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[1:13:43]I want to start by saying
[1:13:44]I appreciate what you said,
[1:13:46]Attorney General Bondi,
[1:13:47]and you've said it to me personally,
[1:13:49]that you take the personal security
[1:13:51]of every member of Congress seriously
[1:13:53]and that people can contact you about that.
[1:13:55]And in these times,
[1:13:56]that's a very serious matter.
[1:13:58]So I thank you for that.
[1:14:00]Article 2, Section 1, Clause 7
[1:14:02]of the Constitution
[1:14:03]is the domestic emoluments clause.
[1:14:06]And it says that the President
[1:14:08]is limited to his salary and office
[1:14:10]and cannot receive any other money
[1:14:12]from the federal government
[1:14:14]while he's in office.
[1:14:15]It cannot be increased by $1.
[1:14:18]This President is the first President
[1:14:20]in U.S. history
[1:14:21]who has repeatedly sued
[1:14:23]the federal government,
[1:14:24]sued the federal government
[1:14:25]for $230 million
[1:14:27]for the judicial search warrant
[1:14:29]at Mar-a-Lago,
[1:14:30]which was perfectly lawful
[1:14:31]and was never struck down.
[1:14:33]But now he's suing the IRS
[1:14:35]for $10 billion.
[1:14:37]He's suing the IRS
[1:14:38]for $10 billion,
[1:14:39]which I think is around 80 percent
[1:14:41]of its annual budget
[1:14:43]because his tax returns were leaked
[1:14:47]and they were illegally leaked
[1:14:48]by a private contractor
[1:14:50]who actually is in prison now,
[1:14:51]Charles Littlejohn,
[1:14:52]but he wants $10 billion.
[1:14:54]Now, I want to ask you the question
[1:14:58]of whether you think
[1:14:59]it would violate
[1:15:00]the domestic emoluments clause
[1:15:02]for you to settle
[1:15:03]that $10 billion case
[1:15:05]or any of the other claims
[1:15:07]that the President has made
[1:15:08]against the government.
[1:15:09]He himself has remarked,
[1:15:11]it's interesting
[1:15:12]because I'm the one
[1:15:13]that makes the deal, right?
[1:15:15]And he says,
[1:15:15]I kind of have to work it out
[1:15:17]with myself.
[1:15:18]Do you think it would violate
[1:15:19]the domestic emoluments clause
[1:15:21]for the President
[1:15:21]to work out a deal
[1:15:23]from people
[1:15:23]who are his subordinates
[1:15:25]under his unitary executive theory
[1:15:27]to get money
[1:15:28]in one of these cases?
[1:15:30]I'm not going to discuss
[1:15:31]pending litigation.
[1:15:33]Okay, so theoretically
[1:15:34]you're saying
[1:15:35]because his privacy rights
[1:15:38]were violated in that tax case,
[1:15:40]and they were.
[1:15:41]I'm with the President on that.
[1:15:42]I mean, his Mar-a-Lago thing
[1:15:44]is ridiculous,
[1:15:44]but there's no doubt
[1:15:46]that his tax returns,
[1:15:47]despite the fact that he promised
[1:15:48]to release them,
[1:15:49]despite the fact
[1:15:50]that every other President
[1:15:51]released the tax returns,
[1:15:52]he suffered embarrassment
[1:15:53]when it showed
[1:15:54]that he hadn't paid taxes
[1:15:55]for several years
[1:15:56]and he had a right for that
[1:15:57]not to happen.
[1:15:58]Now, I want to turn back
[1:16:00]to the Epstein survivors
[1:16:02]because President Trump
[1:16:03]may have been a little bit embarrassed
[1:16:06]by the release of those tax returns.
[1:16:11]How much do you think
[1:16:12]the claims of these survivors
[1:16:15]are worth?
[1:16:16]As the good congressman
[1:16:19]from Kentucky just pointed out,
[1:16:21]there were lots of survivors
[1:16:23]who had decided
[1:16:24]for reasons of their own
[1:16:26]never to release their names.
[1:16:28]That determination
[1:16:29]was representative people
[1:16:31]in Congress
[1:16:31]and we built it
[1:16:32]into our federal law
[1:16:34]that their names
[1:16:35]could not be released
[1:16:36]and yet you published
[1:16:37]their names,
[1:16:38]their phone numbers,
[1:16:39]their addresses,
[1:16:40]personally identifying information.
[1:16:42]If Donald Trump
[1:16:43]can get 10 billion dollars
[1:16:44]theoretically
[1:16:45]from the Department of Justice,
[1:16:46]how much should these people
[1:16:49]get for a far worse violation
[1:16:52]of their privacy rights
[1:16:53]and a far greater danger
[1:16:55]established to them
[1:16:56]in their lives?
[1:17:01]Do you even know
[1:17:02]who Chase Mulligan is?
[1:17:03]You're so obsessed with,
[1:17:05]you don't, do you?
[1:17:05]I'm going to teach you
[1:17:06]the rules again.
[1:17:07]You're the attorney
[1:17:07]general of the United States.
[1:17:08]You're obsessed with him.
[1:17:09]You're the attorney
[1:17:10]general of the United States.
[1:17:10]I'm obsessed with Donald Trump.
[1:17:12]You have Trump derangement syndrome.
[1:17:14]Mr. Chairman,
[1:17:15]I think my time is restored.
[1:17:16]I think my time is restored.
[1:17:17]In your district,
[1:17:19]in your district,
[1:17:19]and you don't even know about it,
[1:17:21]about keeping children safe
[1:17:23]from online predators.
[1:17:24]Time belongs to the gentleman
[1:17:25]from Maryland.
[1:17:26]The gentleman can proceed.
[1:17:28]I want the whole country
[1:17:30]to look at this
[1:17:31]because this is the attorney
[1:17:32]general of the United States
[1:17:33]whose job is law enforcement.
[1:17:35]We've never had a witness
[1:17:36]who has misunderstood our rules
[1:17:38]and been unable to conform
[1:17:40]his or her conduct
[1:17:41]to our rules before.
[1:17:43]We have only five minutes
[1:17:45]and so we use our time
[1:17:47]to ask you specific questions.
[1:17:48]How long are you giving me to answer?
[1:17:49]Excuse me,
[1:17:50]I'm not yielding to you right now.
[1:17:52]I'd like that second restored too.
[1:17:55]So Ms. Bondy,
[1:17:56]the way it works is
[1:17:57]we ask you a question
[1:17:58]and you answer it.
[1:17:59]And if you go off
[1:18:00]on a wild goose chase,
[1:18:02]another tangent,
[1:18:02]you start reading statistics
[1:18:04]or you start talking about stuff
[1:18:05]going on in our district.
[1:18:06]And by the way,
[1:18:06]I invite you to my district,
[1:18:08]come to my district,
[1:18:09]but that's not what we're here
[1:18:10]to do today, okay?
[1:18:12]So, and you do that,
[1:18:13]then we are allowed to say
[1:18:14]we reclaim our time.
[1:18:15]At that point,
[1:18:16]you have to be quiet.
[1:18:18]You have no choice.
[1:18:19]You have to be quiet.
[1:18:20]So I hope you understand
[1:18:21]the rule at this point.
[1:18:22]Now here's what I want to ask you.
[1:18:25]You're in law enforcement.
[1:18:26]We've seen all kinds
[1:18:27]of evidence of crimes
[1:18:29]and when we go over
[1:18:30]to the Department of Justice
[1:18:31]for the four computers
[1:18:32]for every member of Congress,
[1:18:33]we see more evidence of crimes.
[1:18:35]Will you create
[1:18:36]a joint task force
[1:18:39]of the Department of Justice
[1:18:40]and governors
[1:18:41]and state attorney generals
[1:18:42]and district attorneys
[1:18:43]across the country
[1:18:45]to investigate the crimes
[1:18:46]that have taken place
[1:18:47]against these victims
[1:18:48]and more than a thousand like them?
[1:18:50]The DOJ is not doing its job.
[1:18:52]Will you create a task force
[1:18:54]with state and local law enforcement
[1:18:56]to make that happen?
[1:19:01]The lady can respond
[1:19:02]if she wants to.
[1:19:04]Thank you, Chairman.
[1:19:06]He called Chase Mulligan
[1:19:07]a wild goose chase
[1:19:08]and didn't even know who he was.
[1:19:10]He is a defendant
[1:19:12]in your own district
[1:19:13]who preyed on girls.
[1:19:15]Mr. Chairman.
[1:19:16]Well, you know what?
[1:19:16]If he were part
[1:19:17]of the absentee investigation,
[1:19:18]you wouldn't do anything about it.
[1:19:19]Online chat rooms
[1:19:21]and committed sex portion,
[1:19:23]yet he didn't even know
[1:19:25]in your tiny little district
[1:19:27]who he was.
[1:19:27]Mr. Chairman,
[1:19:28]she's embarrassing you.
[1:19:29]He's about to be...
[1:19:30]This is your committee
[1:19:31]and she is embarrassing me.
[1:19:32]It's time on you.
[1:19:32]The time of the gentleman
[1:19:34]has expired.
[1:19:35]I would remind the committee
[1:19:37]last Congress,
[1:19:38]Secretary Mayorkas
[1:19:39]was here numerous times
[1:19:40]and he wouldn't answer our questions
[1:19:42]even when we sent them to him
[1:19:43]ahead of time in writing.
[1:19:45]So that's what we've had to deal with.
[1:19:48]I think the Attorney General
[1:19:49]is doing just fine.
[1:19:53]I am from Memphis, General Bondi,
[1:19:56]and Memphis does have
[1:19:57]the task force there.
[1:19:59]The Memphis Safe Task Force
[1:20:00]has been operating in Memphis
[1:20:01]for several months.
[1:20:02]And we do have a Democratic Mayor,
[1:20:04]Paul Young,
[1:20:05]and he's not against
[1:20:06]the task force,
[1:20:07]but he's against ICE
[1:20:08]being in Memphis
[1:20:09]and he's not in favor
[1:20:10]of the National Guard
[1:20:11]being in Memphis.
[1:20:12]And I concur with him
[1:20:13]on those positions.
[1:20:14]I think the DEA being there,
[1:20:15]the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
[1:20:17]the FBI who have been in Memphis
[1:20:19]and other ways
[1:20:20]having more people there
[1:20:21]is good for Memphis.
[1:20:22]Crime has gone down in Memphis,
[1:20:24]but it went down 25 percent
[1:20:26]before the task force got there
[1:20:27]under the direction of
[1:20:28]Mayor Young and Director Davis,
[1:20:31]Chief Davis.
[1:20:32]It's gone down about 15 percent
[1:20:34]more since then.
[1:20:35]And that's good.
[1:20:36]But I would like to comment
[1:20:37]that Mexico City's
[1:20:38]homicide rate has gone down 40 percent
[1:20:40]during the same time
[1:20:41]when Memphis has only gone down
[1:20:43]25 percent.
[1:20:44]And that's not necessarily
[1:20:47]because of the task force,
[1:20:48]although the mayor says
[1:20:49]he thinks it's helped.
[1:20:50]So I thank you for that.
[1:20:53]You would agree, I presume,
[1:20:54]that violent crime
[1:20:55]in communities across our country
[1:20:58]is critically important
[1:20:58]and that's why the task force is there.
[1:21:00]Is that not true?
[1:21:03]Yes. And if I can just add to that,
[1:21:04]I think the surge,
[1:21:06]our FBI under the leadership
[1:21:08]of Director Patel came in
[1:21:09]and did a surge in Memphis.
[1:21:11]Earlier?
[1:21:12]Yes. Right.
[1:21:13]Prior to the task force.
[1:21:14]And thank you for saying that
[1:21:16]about Mayor Young.
[1:21:17]He's been great to work with
[1:21:18]and thank you.
[1:21:20]He's a good guy.
[1:21:21]He's a very good guy.
[1:21:23]One problem I've got
[1:21:24]with where we are
[1:21:25]in priorities here.
[1:21:27]A recent Department of Justice,
[1:21:29]National Institute of Justice report
[1:21:30]based on arrest records
[1:21:32]in Texas and in California
[1:21:34]found that undocumented
[1:21:35]immigrants were less than half
[1:21:36]as likely as U.S.-born Americans
[1:21:38]to be arrested for homicide.
[1:21:40]And this pattern holds for assault,
[1:21:41]sexual assault, robbery,
[1:21:43]burglary, theft, and arson.
[1:21:44]Half as likely to be arrested
[1:21:46]for drug offenses.
[1:21:47]So I ask you,
[1:21:48]and I've written to you about this,
[1:21:50]there are TV ads that run
[1:21:52]that say to local law enforcement,
[1:21:54]specifically,
[1:21:55]are you tired of having
[1:21:56]your hands handcuffed
[1:21:58]because you can't do the things
[1:21:59]you wanted to do when you joined.
[1:22:00]And if you want to do something different,
[1:22:02]join ICE
[1:22:03]and you'll get a $50,000 bonus
[1:22:05]and we'll pay off your student debts
[1:22:08]and we'll help you with pensions,
[1:22:10]et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[1:22:11]So they're encouraging local law enforcement
[1:22:13]to leave local law enforcement
[1:22:14]and go to work for ICE.
[1:22:16]We need people working
[1:22:17]in the front lines
[1:22:18]of local law enforcement
[1:22:19]to protect our citizens
[1:22:21]from the worst to the worst.
[1:22:22]The worst to the worst
[1:22:23]are not the immigrants.
[1:22:24]The worst to the worst records show
[1:22:26]our native-born Americans.
[1:22:28]And they are committing crimes
[1:22:30]that hurt our citizens and our cities.
[1:22:32]And you're working against it
[1:22:33]and thank you for that.
[1:22:34]But by trying to get
[1:22:35]our local law enforcement
[1:22:36]where we have an under count
[1:22:38]of officers in Memphis
[1:22:40]to leave Memphis
[1:22:41]and go to work for ICE
[1:22:42]to deport people
[1:22:43]is a wrong priority.
[1:22:44]Why are we trying to get people,
[1:22:46]policemen,
[1:22:47]who are working on the front lines
[1:22:49]to leave the front lines,
[1:22:50]take the $50,000
[1:22:52]and go to work for ICE
[1:22:53]and instead of working
[1:22:55]to fight the worst to the worst.
[1:22:58]Congressman,
[1:22:59]I have not yet seen that commercial,
[1:23:00]that ad.
[1:23:02]I would argue that
[1:23:02]we need strong people
[1:23:04]in both local law enforcement,
[1:23:06]state law enforcement
[1:23:07]and all of our federal agencies
[1:23:10]working together.
[1:23:12]I've seen some of the worst
[1:23:14]of the worst violent criminals,
[1:23:19]violent criminals
[1:23:20]who were in this country illegally.
[1:23:22]We both know that.
[1:23:24]And in Memphis,
[1:23:25]working hand in hand,
[1:23:26]I want to stick with Memphis
[1:23:28]and your mayor
[1:23:29]and what you discussed
[1:23:30]because there have been
[1:23:31]nearly 6,000 arrests
[1:23:34]as of February 8th
[1:23:35]and I think you agree with this,
[1:23:37]in your district,
[1:23:40]and almost 600 gang members.
[1:23:43]What we found in Memphis,
[1:23:45]a lot of the gangs
[1:23:46]are local gangs,
[1:23:48]but 600 gang members
[1:23:50]were taken off the streets.
[1:23:52]148 missing children
[1:23:58]were recovered
[1:23:59]by all of us working together
[1:24:02]and nearly 1,000 illegal guns
[1:24:05]were seized as a result
[1:24:07]of us working together.
[1:24:08]And I don't disagree
[1:24:09]with some of the things you said,
[1:24:10]but there are questions
[1:24:11]about those children,
[1:24:12]but it's a different thing.
[1:24:14]The fact is ICE is running rampant
[1:24:16]and you are not investigating them.
[1:24:18]When they killed Mr. Prette
[1:24:20]and Ms. Good,
[1:24:21]that was an execution
[1:24:23]and you did not investigate it.
[1:24:25]And you tried to investigate
[1:24:26]Ms. Good's widow
[1:24:27]and you tried to investigate
[1:24:28]Mr. Prette.
[1:24:29]They were executed
[1:24:31]like Kristi Noem
[1:24:33]executed her dog
[1:24:34]and that was wrong
[1:24:35]and you should investigate
[1:24:36]those people
[1:24:37]and you should investigate
[1:24:38]anybody that uses a weapon
[1:24:39]in federal official or not
[1:24:41]for civil rights violations.
[1:24:43]I yield back the balance.
[1:24:44]The gentleman yields back
[1:24:44]his time to Jeffrey Epstein.
[1:24:47]Attorney General Bondi,
[1:24:49]yes or no,
[1:24:50]has the Justice Department
[1:24:51]asked Secretary Lutnick
[1:24:53]about his ties to Epstein?
[1:24:57]Excuse me.
[1:24:59]Secretary Lutnick
[1:25:00]has addressed those ties himself.
[1:25:02]I'm asking you,
[1:25:03]has the Justice Department
[1:25:05]specifically asked
[1:25:07]Secretary Lutnick
[1:25:08]about his ties
[1:25:09]to Jeffrey Epstein?
[1:25:10]He has addressed those ties himself.
[1:25:13]Has the DOJ asked Secretary Phelan
[1:25:16]about his ties
[1:25:17]to Jeffrey Epstein?
[1:25:19]I don't know whether
[1:25:19]he has addressed those or not.
[1:25:21]Has the Deputy,
[1:25:23]has Deputy Secretary Feinberg
[1:25:25]talked to the Department of Justice
[1:25:27]about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?
[1:25:32]Yes or no?
[1:25:33]Has the Department of Justice
[1:25:35]talked to Secretary,
[1:25:36]Deputy Secretary Feinberg
[1:25:37]about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein,
[1:25:39]which are clearly spelled out
[1:25:41]in the files?
[1:25:42]It's a very simple question.
[1:25:43]It's not a trick question.
[1:25:44]I'm just asking you.
[1:25:46]Yeah, I'm stunned
[1:25:47]that you want to continue
[1:25:48]talking about Epstein.
[1:25:49]Oh my gosh.
[1:25:50]Okay, I'm recording my time.
[1:25:52]I'm asking you,
[1:25:53]not a trick question,
[1:25:54]a simple question.
[1:25:56]Okay, so what is clear is
[1:25:58]we have evidence.
[1:25:59]Do you know who Chris Malin is?
[1:26:02]We have evidence
[1:26:03]that three senior officials
[1:26:05]within the Trump administration
[1:26:06]have ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
[1:26:09]And what I can conclude,
[1:26:11]I can conclude
[1:26:12]from what you are saying
[1:26:14]that you have not talked to them.
[1:26:15]What does ties mean?
[1:26:16]I think Americans
[1:26:18]would be shocked to learn
[1:26:21]that you are not interested
[1:26:23]in talking
[1:26:24]with these officials
[1:26:25]who have ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
[1:26:26]What does ties mean?
[1:26:27]Can you define that?
[1:26:28]Across the world,
[1:26:29]prominent men who've been exposed
[1:26:32]in the files
[1:26:33]have resigned their jobs in disgrace.
[1:26:36]And that's a good first start.
[1:26:37]And that same standard,
[1:26:39]this same standard
[1:26:42]should apply here.
[1:26:43]And Americans want accountability.
[1:26:45]Who is Chris Malin?
[1:26:46]Was the president aware?
[1:26:49]Please stop talking.
[1:26:50]It is not your time
[1:26:51]to ask questions.
[1:26:52]It is not your time.
[1:26:53]I'm reclaiming my time, Mr. Chair.
[1:26:54]One second.
[1:26:55]Time belongs to the jetlight
[1:26:56]from Vermont.
[1:26:57]Was the president aware
[1:26:59]of Secretary Lutnick's ties to Epstein
[1:27:01]when he chose him
[1:27:02]to lead the Department of Commerce?
[1:27:06]Was he aware?
[1:27:07]Chris Malin was a Border Patrol agent.
[1:27:09]Okay, so I'm going to conclude
[1:27:11]that the president, in fact,
[1:27:12]did know about his ties
[1:27:14]because he was the next door neighbor.
[1:27:16]Shame on you.
[1:27:18]Oh, for goodness sakes.
[1:27:19]This is pathetic.
[1:27:20]This is pathetic, Mr. Chair.
[1:27:23]I am not asking trick questions here.
[1:27:26]The American people have a right
[1:27:27]to know the answers to this.
[1:27:29]These are senior officials
[1:27:31]and the Trump administration.
[1:27:32]This is not a game, Secretary.
[1:27:36]I'm attorney general.
[1:27:38]My apologies, I couldn't tell.
[1:27:42]By 2008, we knew
[1:27:45]that Epstein was a convicted
[1:27:47]sexual abuser.
[1:27:48]And we now know
[1:27:49]that Lutnick went to Epstein's island
[1:27:52]in 2012.
[1:27:54]How was that not a deal breaker
[1:27:55]for the president?
[1:27:56]And why aren't you asking questions
[1:27:59]of the commerce secretary
[1:28:01]about what he saw
[1:28:02]when he was at the island,
[1:28:04]which he lied about,
[1:28:05]not ever going to?
[1:28:07]Why are you not asking these questions?
[1:28:09]And I see that my time
[1:28:10]is almost expired,
[1:28:11]so I will say this.
[1:28:12]Do the right thing,
[1:28:14]attorney general.
[1:28:15]Meet with the survivors.
[1:28:16]They have been asking for a year.
[1:28:18]Meet with the survivors.
[1:28:20]Do the right thing.
[1:28:21]I yield back.
[1:28:21]The gentleman from South Carolina
[1:28:25]is recognized for five minutes.
[1:28:26]May I have 20 seconds of his time?
[1:28:28]That'll be up to the gentleman.
[1:28:30]Absolutely, Madam.
[1:28:31]Thank you.
[1:28:31]Thank you.
[1:28:33]I was curious
[1:28:34]if you, congresswoman,
[1:28:36]asked Bill Clinton that.
[1:28:39]Didn't see one tweet,
[1:28:41]not one.
[1:28:42]I didn't see one tweet
[1:28:44]when Joe Biden was in office
[1:28:45]about Bill Clinton.
[1:28:47]Didn't ask Merrick Garland
[1:28:48]anything about Epstein,
[1:28:50]not once when he was-
[1:28:51]Weak sauce.
[1:28:52]And also, I want the record
[1:28:54]to reflect that, you know,
[1:28:56]with this antisemitic culture right now,
[1:28:58]she voted against
[1:28:59]a resolution condemning-
[1:29:02]Oh, oh, oh!
[1:29:03]I just want to be clear.
[1:29:04]Do you want to go there,
[1:29:06]attorney general?
[1:29:07]Or do you want to go there?
[1:29:09]Are you serious?
[1:29:11]Talking about antisemitism
[1:29:13]to a woman who lost
[1:29:14]her grandfather in the Holocaust?
[1:29:16]Really?
[1:29:18]The committee will be in order.
[1:29:19]Talk to Jared Wise about antisemitism.
[1:29:22]The ranking member
[1:29:24]knows it.
[1:29:24]Can I get like 30 seconds back, you know?
[1:29:27]Yeah, I've been-
[1:29:27]This ballot took 30 of mine.
[1:29:28]I think the whole committee knows.
[1:29:29]I've been very generous
[1:29:30]in making sure everyone gets their five minutes
[1:29:32]in the same-
[1:29:32]I'm going to talk about sanctuary cities
[1:29:34]for a second, which-
[1:29:36]Without objection,
[1:29:37]the gentleman from Florida is recognized.
[1:29:40]Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[1:29:42]Good morning, attorney general Bondi.
[1:29:44]Good afternoon.
[1:29:45]Oh, you're right, good afternoon.
[1:29:45]It's been a long day.
[1:29:48]I wrote this this morning.
[1:29:50]We've known each other a long time.
[1:29:52]And I'll always be appreciative
[1:29:54]for your assistance
[1:29:55]when you were attorney general in Florida
[1:29:57]after the shooting at my high school
[1:29:58]at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
[1:30:00]in my hometown of Parkland
[1:30:01]when we passed a bipartisan bill,
[1:30:03]the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Act,
[1:30:05]which was the largest policy response
[1:30:07]to a school shooting in American history.
[1:30:10]Your department also prosecuted
[1:30:12]to the fullest extent of the law,
[1:30:13]a constituent of mine and former felon
[1:30:15]that had plans to kill me
[1:30:17]when he was picked up by law enforcement
[1:30:19]after he was target practicing
[1:30:20]in his backyard with two rifles,
[1:30:22]a scope, a silencer,
[1:30:23]3,000 rounds of ammunition,
[1:30:26]an anti-Semitic manifesto.
[1:30:27]My name was the only name on their target list
[1:30:29]and my kids found out about this
[1:30:31]from their friends at school.
[1:30:32]So thank you.
[1:30:35]However, the most transparent administration
[1:30:39]in American history.
[1:30:40]Before Trump,
[1:30:41]we didn't know the word transparency, apparently.
[1:30:44]It's been 12 months
[1:30:45]since you gave Republican influencers
[1:30:47]part one of the Epstein files.
[1:30:48]You said the list was on your desk,
[1:30:50]then a memo came out
[1:30:51]and said that there was no list.
[1:30:52]Phase two of the binders never happened.
[1:30:54]The President of the United States
[1:30:55]says the Epstein thing is a hoax.
[1:30:56]He blasts his own base
[1:30:58]for wanting the release of the files.
[1:30:59]He blamed Barack Obama.
[1:31:01]Republicans voted against the release
[1:31:03]of the files in the Rules Committee.
[1:31:04]Then they refused to even return
[1:31:06]to the Rules Committee
[1:31:07]until they could be protected
[1:31:08]from future votes on the release.
[1:31:11]Speaker Johnson sends Congress home
[1:31:13]a day early before break.
[1:31:14]They sent the Deputy Attorney General
[1:31:16]to meet with Maxwell.
[1:31:17]She says something favorable
[1:31:18]about the President.
[1:31:19]Miraculously, she gets transferred
[1:31:21]to a minimum security facility.
[1:31:23]No one can explain why.
[1:31:25]Miraculously,
[1:31:26]the leaks to the Wall Street Journal stop.
[1:31:28]We come back from break.
[1:31:29]We have the Massey Discharge Petition.
[1:31:31]Republicans drop a rule,
[1:31:33]a non-binding resolution
[1:31:35]trying to kill the Massey Discharge Petition.
[1:31:37]The White House says
[1:31:38]passing the Massey Discharge Petition
[1:31:39]is a hostile act.
[1:31:41]Trying to stop the necessary 218 signatures,
[1:31:44]according to Republican members that signed it,
[1:31:46]the White House brought them
[1:31:47]into the Situation Room.
[1:31:48]You know, the place where the President goes
[1:31:50]for time of war.
[1:31:51]Promising things like appropriations
[1:31:53]or maybe even to primary them.
[1:31:54]People in the room say you were there.
[1:31:56]It didn't work.
[1:31:57]We get the 218 signatures.
[1:31:59]We eventually passed the Massey Petition.
[1:32:01]You guys didn't release the files.
[1:32:03]You were forced by Congress.
[1:32:06]Every member of the House except one
[1:32:09]and the entire Senate.
[1:32:10]The reason the President signed it
[1:32:11]is because it was a veto-proof majority.
[1:32:14]We can't agree on anything.
[1:32:16]And yet, the entire House but one member
[1:32:19]and the whole Senate
[1:32:20]forced the administration to release the files.
[1:32:22]Cash Patel under oath said to Senator Kennedy,
[1:32:25]the FBI is not in possession
[1:32:27]of any criminal evidence
[1:32:28]that Epstein trafficked girls
[1:32:29]to anyone but himself.
[1:32:31]We know now that's not true.
[1:32:33]According to documents,
[1:32:34]Epstein had a worldwide sex trafficking ring.
[1:32:36]Girls from Poland, Czechoslovakia,
[1:32:38]Russia, Paris,
[1:32:39]modeling agencies sending him girls.
[1:32:41]He even had a relationship with a summer camp
[1:32:43]where he groomed girls at a picnic table.
[1:32:45]Ghislaine Maxwell says 29 Epstein associates
[1:32:48]cut secret DOJ deals.
[1:32:49]Turns out there is a list.
[1:32:51]Six names readily available if you unredact them.
[1:32:53]Co-conspirators named,
[1:32:55]but we got them when you unredact them.
[1:32:57]Maxwell recently tells a House oversight committee
[1:33:00]that she wants clemency to release more names.
[1:33:03]Cash Patel under oath said Trump's name
[1:33:04]appears less than 100 times in the files.
[1:33:06]We now know that's not true.
[1:33:07]Trump's name appears more times
[1:33:09]in the Epstein files
[1:33:10]than God's name appears in the book about God.
[1:33:14]Okay, by the way, this is the Trump Bible.
[1:33:15]Move over King James.
[1:33:17]Trump's name also appears more times
[1:33:19]in the Epstein file
[1:33:20]than Harry Potter's name appears
[1:33:22]in the seven books about Harry Potter.
[1:33:25]Lutnik says that in 2008,
[1:33:27]he went to Epstein's home,
[1:33:28]says he had a massage table in the living room.
[1:33:29]But Epstein said he got one every day,
[1:33:31]that it was the right type of massage.
[1:33:33]He and his wife decide to leave
[1:33:35]and say they'll never be in a room with him again.
[1:33:37]Howard then says,
[1:33:38]I'm sure the Epstein stuff is all on video.
[1:33:40]He was the greatest blackmailer of all time.
[1:33:42]Well, how would Howard know that?
[1:33:45]But now the files are public.
[1:33:46]And in 2012, we found out
[1:33:48]that he and his family are on Epstein Island.
[1:33:50]After, after, after,
[1:33:53]Epstein pled guilty to state charges.
[1:33:55]I'm from Florida.
[1:33:56]I take my family to Disney World,
[1:33:58]not to Epstein Island.
[1:34:00]There are documents in the files
[1:34:01]that dispute the president's claim
[1:34:03]that he kicked Epstein out of his club.
[1:34:04]Allegedly, the president said
[1:34:05]Epstein, that he asked Epstein to leave.
[1:34:07]Supported now, that that's disputed though,
[1:34:10]statements from the manager of the club.
[1:34:13]Now, Madam Attorney General,
[1:34:14]I have like 25 seconds left.
[1:34:15]So because I'm curious,
[1:34:18]and I just, I'd like to see you flip
[1:34:20]to the Jared Moskowitz section of the binder.
[1:34:23]I'm interested to see what staff provided
[1:34:25]on the, on the oppo on me.
[1:34:27]And because we're in the Olympics,
[1:34:28]I'm going to give it a grade.
[1:34:29]I just want to see how, how good it is.
[1:34:32]So give me your best one.
[1:34:33]So first of all, nothing is funny
[1:34:36]about mocking the Bible
[1:34:37]and holding up a 12th Bible.
[1:34:39]That's what you did.
[1:34:40]You made a joke and I find a defense for that.
[1:34:42]That's all I have to say.
[1:34:43]I want it from the burn book.
[1:34:45]I want it from the burn book,
[1:34:45]which is the best one.
[1:34:46]What you got?