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Saudi Arabia’s Investment Commitments in the U.S.
- A meeting between President Donald Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
- Announcement of a significant increase in Saudi investment in the U.S., from $600 billion to nearly $1 trillion.
- Discussion of economic growth, tariffs, job creation, and Trump’s claims about record-breaking investment levels.
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Epstein Files Transparency Act (HR 4405)
- Coverage of the House passing a bill requiring the Department of Justice to release all Epstein-related documents.
- Details of the bill’s provisions, including deadlines, redaction rules, and bipartisan support.
- Political dynamics: Trump’s evolving stance on transparency, Speaker Mike Johnson’s criticism of the bill’s flaws, and accusations of Democrats weaponizing the issue.
- Concerns about victim privacy, grand jury secrecy, and national security risks.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There was a major meeting in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's going to have a big impact on many Americans
and more than one trillion dollars of new investment in
the United States of America. This news comes as the
Saudi Crown Prince told President Donald Trump on Tuesday that
Saudi Arabia will be upping its investment commitment in the
US to nearly one trillion. That is up from six
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hundred billion that it was pledged in May. Trump received
the crown prints on the South Lawn with plenty of
well pomp, culminating with three F thirty fives and three
F fifteen flying over the White House. After giving the
crown prints a tour of the President Jawak of Fame
along the West Wing Colonnade in a photo opportunity, they
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held a bilateral meeting before reporters in the Oval Office. Quote,
I believe, mister President, today and tomorrow we're going to
announce that we are going to increase the six hundred
billion to almost one trillion of investment, real investment and
real opportunity by details in many areas and the agreement
that we are signing today in many areas of technology,
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artificial intelligence, and materials, magnets, etc. Will create a lot
of domestic opportunities. He went on to add Trump, who
moments earlier said he would like to see the Saudi
investment rise to one trillion and joked he would need
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Listen to what the President had to say is he
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introduced the Crown Prince to the media inside the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Extremely respected man in the Oval Office today and a
friend of mine for a long time, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Friend of mine. I'm very proud of the jobs nun.
What he said is incredible in terms of human rights.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And everything else, and he's the crown Prince, the future King,
and I just want to pay my greatest respect to
your father King, who was an amazing man.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I met him early on. I freed him at the
airport at an age.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It was pretty high up there, and it was about
one hundred and seventeen degrees as he was standing in
the gray carpet as I came out of the plane.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And he's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And when I met his brilliant son who was at
the oval office, and shortly thereafter you came in represented
the country, and I called the father.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I said, this guy is fantastic. And I don't know
if that helped you or hurt you, but obviously it
couldn't have hurt too.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Much because here you are right for we had a
great mating and the office has changed quite a bit,
and we inherited a mess. You actually told me you
thought the country was in big trouble. I'm not going
to use the exact word that you use. I refuse to.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Say that you thought our country was dead a year and.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A half two years ago, but a country was in trouble,
and now we have the hottest country in the world.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You said that also, and we do.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We have. The United States is right now the hottest
country in the world. And between the tariffs and the
election November fifth election, we've done things that nobody can believe.
Twenty one trillion dollars will be the amount invested in
the United States or committed to invest in one year.
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So I mere nine months, we're up to almost eighteen
trillion dollars. Biden as an example, the Biden administration, if
you call it that, it's to me it was the
Biden lack of administration.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
They were less than one trillion for four years. We're
going to be twenty one trillion for one year. I
think that's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The biggest in history was a certain country three trillion.
We're going to be twenty one trillion. On top of that,
prices are coming down. We inherited a mess with high prices,
the worst.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Inflation in the history of our country.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We had inflation that was a single four years, the
worst inflation in the history of the United States. Gas
prices through the route. And that's after destroying our petroleum reserve,
which was meant for wars and big emergencies, not to
try and when at election, they opened up the reserves
so that people get dollars three dollars less in gasoline,
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and it didn't work.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They got about three cents.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Less because as big as those reserves are the peanuts
when you're talking about that kind of traffic, and we're
rebuilding the reserves, we're doing all of this, and we've
done a job. We're also bringing down prices very substantially,
and we've already brought them down very very substantially.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Gasoline is way down.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think you'll be seeing two dollars gasoline, but we're
now at two fifty to forty five.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Some are lower than that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It was four fifty five dollars, six dollars, three fifty
three seventy five under by no different.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Numbers, but way high. And we have energy way down.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But the biggest thing to me, because I know what
it means in jobs, is the fact that we're at
over seventeen trillion dollars scott and we expect to be
around twenty twenty one trillion dollars in one year, and
that's many times bigger than history. The highest number was
three trillion dollars and we're going to be a twenty
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one trillion. That means new plants, new AI, new auto plants.
We have auto plants coming in from Canada and from Mexico,
from Germany, from Japan. Toyota just agreed to invest ten
billion dollars on new auto plants, all American workers.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
We've never been in a position like this. You can
go back to the beginning.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Our country has never been in a position like this,
and it really is because of the fact that we
use tariffs to bring all this money in. And you're
going to see the results in a year when these
plants start to open up. We have more plants under
construction now than at any time in the history of
our country. And these are big plants. These are the
biggest plants anywhere in the world. And I want to
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thank you because you've agreed to invest six hundred billion
dollars into the United States and.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Because my friends, he might make it a trillion, but
I'm going to have to work on him. But it's
hundred We can count on six hundred million, but that
number could go up a little bit higher.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yes, sir, I don't know, we'll see, but we appreciate
it very much.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So SODIA is going to be investing.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
At least six hundred million dollars, and that means investments
in plans, in companies, money on Wall Street, and what
it really means for everybody that really counts as jobs,
a lot of jobs.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We have a lot of jobs. So I just want
to thank you. We've been really good friends for a
long period of time.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We've always been on the same side of every issue.
I think we've done a great job in wiping out
the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else could have done that,
No other president would have done it.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And we had the pilots in the Oval office right here.
We were celebrating a very successful attack.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So I had them in with that beautiful be too
bomber that's over there, and they said, Sir, for twenty
two years we practiced this attack predecessors.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
These were very young guys.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So twenty two years they sent our predecessors and us
practice the attack on ran But no president ever gave
us the go ahead. Three times a year they went
up and they practiced the attack. Nobody let us do
it until you came along. And I let them do
it because it was the right thing to do. You
can't have a nuclear rn and so we put you
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in a very good position.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But I just want to say it's.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
An honor to be your friend, and it's an honor
that you're here, and you'd like to say a few words.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You can hear the President there making it clear that
we have an ally in Saudi Arabia when it comes
to fighting terrorism, something the President wanted to point out,
also talking about how they worked together to make sure
they took out that Iran nuclear plant and one trillion
dollars of investment coming into the United States of America
as well. The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
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known as HR forty four oh five, with a one
twenty seven to one vote, with five not voting at all.
It was taken up under suspension of the rules, which
means it needed a two thirds majority, and still passed easily.
Every Democrat and all but one Republican voted yes. The
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lone no vote was Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana,
who says he's worried about privacy for victims and people
mentioned who aren't charged with crimes. What the bill does
is passed by the House is this It orders the
Department of Justice to release all files, all records, all communications,
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and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and associated investigations.
The Department of Justice has a short deadline thirty days
in some reports, fifteen in others, depending on version and
the final texts, and how that will be controlled to
make the material public once it becomes law. It also
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allows reactions to protect the identity of victims and minors
avoid harming ongoing investigations as well, and explicitly says the
Department of Justice cannot withhold or redact information just because
it's politically embarrassing, reputationally damaging, or politically sensitive, quote unquote.
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So the question now is what is next. Well, the
bill now goes to the Senate. The majority leader there,
John Thune, has said he expects a Senate to consider
it fairly quickly and possibly as soon as later today
or tomorrow. But it still needs sixty votes there. And
let's be honest, with a Senate divide the way it
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is where you couldn't even get sixty votes to keep
America's government open, nothing is promising now. If it passes
the Senate, it would then go to President Donald Trump's
desk for signature. Now, the bill is aimed at forcing
the DOJ, as I mentioned earlier, to release a broad
universe of Epstein related materials, including case files related to
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Epstein's sex trafficking investigation and prosecution his associate Maxwell, as
well flight logs and transportation records where DOJ has them,
internal communications and investigative notes files that mention public officials,
government employees, and other individuals connected to the case. Separate
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from the bill, the House Oversight Committee already dumped more
than twenty thousand pages of documents from the Epstein estate
within the last week. That's obviously a lot of documents
that have now gone public, But this new bill is
meant to go further by targeting the Department of Justice
specific files. Now, the other question is where does the
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president stand on this. Trump's stance has shifted well visibly
over the last few days. His earlier stance was why
are we doing this? There's nothing there. Let's move on
and get the work of the American people done. Then,
when Representative Thomas Massey and Representative Rocanna started the discharge
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petition to force a vote, Trump and his allies pressure
Republicans not to sign it. One administration official report, he
called signing the petition a hostile act.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
To the administration.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But then Trump said, fine, you're gonna play this way
and you're going to turn this into a democratic hoax,
then we'll give you total transparency.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Once it became clear that the bill was going to
have the votes and the.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Discharge petition crossed a two eighteen signature threshold, Trump publicly
said to Republicans in the House they should vote to
release the files, saying, quote, I've got nothing to hide.
Republicans should support transparency and move on from what he
said is nothing but a demo democratic hoax, just like
Russia collusion. I'm all for it. Sure I would, was
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another thing that the President said. The White House also
has a write up amplifying this line, telling Republicans go
and do it, and questioned whether Democrats will equally be
transparent about people in their orbit who might be named
in the files. So the short version is this, Donald
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Trump said it was nothing at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Many believe that is still true.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But now he's saying give it all to the American
people and telling Republicans to move forward, which they've clearly done.
There's also the political dynamics of this moving into the
Senate when you have a four hundred and twenty seven
to one vote, this makes this the most bipartisan moment
of Congress in my lifetime. The bill's sponsors and most
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vocal supporters include Rocanna, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert,
Nancy Mace, a very ideologically mixed group that is clashed
with leadership at times as well. Speaker Mike Johnson ultimately
voted for the bill, but is still calling it a
political show vote and warning that forcing the DOJA to
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classify within a fixed timeline is dangerous. As he described
it from an intel perspective, he's openly asking the scent
to change the bill to add more protections for victims
and also for whistleblowers. Now the White House and the
GOP messaging now is clear, there is nothing to hide.
It's embarrassing to name names for some, but they're saying
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let it all be out there.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So what is next?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, over the next few days, the big question is this,
does the Senate change the bill? And if the Senate
amends or adds more privacy protections, the legislation would then
have to go back to the House.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
How broad will the actual release be.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Even if it becomes law, Jay can still redact the
victims and active investigations. The fight will be over whether
the DOJ tries to stretch those categories or whether Congress
pushes for a very aggressive disclosure. And then there's more
documents to be dumped. In general, the House oversight already
releasing twenty thousand pages from the estate. If this bill
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becomes law, DOJ production could be larger, more sensitive, and
more directly tied to federal investigations and.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who knew what and when.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Now here's one other part that needs to be brought
up and addressed as well, and that is just well
the politics of this. Here is what James Comer had
to say about it.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
In the House, they have no idea la They're just fishing.
They don't care about the victims. They don't care about
providing justice for the victims or giving the American people
the truth.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
They only care.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
About one thing, and that's trying to embarrass Donald Trump.
They hope and pray there's something in these documents that
will embarrass Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I've subpoenaed the estate.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We've produced over sixty five thousand pages of documents, and
there's nothing in there about Donald Trump that hadn't already
been disclosed that President Trump hasn't already explained. All we
find are knew problems with Democrats like Stacey Plaskett and
Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
So why not just release the files? I mean, if
there's nothing in there, who cares? Why not for transparency sake?
And the administration obviously players of the administration said they
were going to be released, and then some were released,
but not all of them. The President said, go ahead
and release them, So just get it out there and
have it done with.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Well, that's what I've encouraged the White House to do,
and they're working with us. They've released what they could
legally release. There's grand jury testimony, and the Trump administration
asked the judge to release that grand jury testimony, and
the judge, who was an Obama appointee, rejected the Trump
Department of Justice request to really least the grand jury
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touch away. So a judge has to issue that. But look,
I think the Trump administration is working with us a
lot more than what the media has given him credit for.
But I've encouraged the President to disclose everything. I'm glad
that he's gone ahead and put this issue to borrow,
this Tutchar expetition behind us. This is just a stunt
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by the Democrats and a few dyscrountaled Republicans. We're getting
the documents, and as soon as we get them on
the Oversight Committee, we're making in public and I think
that's what the President wants and hopefully we'll get all
the documents released and we can move on to the
issues that the American people care about.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's clear this is political and that's exactly what James
Comer was calling out.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
The Republicans voted for the transparency because what the Democrats
have done is they've used the abuse of sexual assault
victims to try to score political points against Donald Trump,
and now it's backfiring yet again. It's all about transparency.
That is what President Trump promise when he was elected president.
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Yet again, exposing mud that the government was hiding from
all of us. We now know that it's moving forward
with the Epstein papers. I call them papers because it
is a lie to say that there is an Epstein file.
There are a lot of documents to deal with Jeffrey Epstein,
but it is not a file in the way that
it was described before Donald Trump became president. You know
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when the Democrats were trying to weaponize it. Well, now
we know we're going to get to see those files
or those papers. As a Speaker of the House, Mike
Johnson led the way with a House vote in favor
of disclosing exactly what we have at the DOJ. He
stated publicly a press conference, I'm going to vote to
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move this forward. Despite describing the bill as a recklessly
flawed bill, Johnson also said that the measure is a
way to demonstrate transparency and there's nothing to hide. Specifically
in the context of responding to allegations that the files
might implicate Donald Trumper be used as a political weapon. Now,
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Johnson went to the floor of the House and repeatedly
called the bill dangerously fawed because he believes it lacks
sufficient protection for victims, whistle blowers, and innocent third parties
whose names might appear in the files. He criticized how
the bill was drafted, for example, pointing out that the
authors of the discharge petition had signed the wrong section
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of the US Code and that the legislation could force
the release of child sexual abuse material due to imprecise language.
Johnson also emphasized that the House cannot amend the bill
under the discharge petition process, so he wants to senate
via the Majority Leader John Thum, to make corrections before
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final passage. He said he's been working with a small
army of lawyers on this issue. He also accused Democrats
forcing what he called a political show vote on this
issue and said it was irresponsible how it is happening.
I want you to hear Speaker Johnson in his own
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words from the House talking about this before the vote.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that
this guy committed with his trafficking ring and all of
the abuses that they that they made these young women
go through. They're using that as a political weapon to
try to distract from their failures as a party and
to try their best to try to tie President Trump
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somehow into this wretched scandal.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The President had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
He's been very clear and he has nothing to hide,
and that's why he's endorsed the vote today. I suspect
this vote will be probably unanimous. But here's the important
point that everybody needs to understand we have been advocates
of maximum transparency, but we have also insisted that the
victims be carefully protected. The Oversight Committee has been doing
extraordinary work, and we've got some of the most vigorous
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advocates on the Republican and Democrat side on the Oversight Committee.
They've been working in earnest to deliver transparency for the
American people and to do it in a responsible manner.
What do we mean by that, the bypart is an
effort over there is already producing all the results that
the discharged petition seeks and much much more. Chairman Comer
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and all of these advocates over there have been releasing
thousands of documents, for example, from the Epstein estate.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
By the way, in my view.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
That's been the greatest treasure trove of information because it's
yielded for us Epstein's own personal flight logs, his financial records,
his daily calendars, and so much more. But importantly, none
of that was addressed or is addressed, and the legislation
that's being voted on today, the estate files wouldn't even
have been encompassed in that. And so it goes to
show that the Oversight Committee is doing it from the
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From the very beginning, we've been insistent that this matter
be handled carefully and with the utmost caution and care
for the people who have been harmed. They should not
be made to suffer any longer. We're talking about real
people's lives at stake here, and young victims who don't
want to be dragged into this political game that could.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Get hurt further.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
But the Democrats are rushing the release of thousands of
unsubstantiated documents that may be included in this that are
going to be in the public domain with the passage
of this bill. And there are serious deficiencies in the
legislation that I have noted at length, and Republicans have
to work to address those deficiencies in the Senate if
and when this legislation is advanced. I stood before the
American public today at our press conference, and I explained
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in detail that the dangers of the discharge petition. We
have posted at my website Speaker dot gov a summary.
The legal Council, a small army of lawyers put this together.
I used to be a federal court litigator. Many of
my colleagues whove spoken today were we understand the dangers
of how this was haphazardly draw on up and among them.
By the way, mister speaker, before I forget seeking AMAS
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consent to enter into this document of the record, it
is that.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
It's on the website.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
It's entitled how the flaws of HR forty four h
five could revictimize Epstein's victims, create new victims, and damage
the judicial system.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
It is dated today, thank you, and.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
It summarizes just five or six of the major concerns.
Among them, it fails to fully protect victim privacy, It
could create new categories of victims. It potentially jeopardizes grand
jury secrecy. It fails to prohibit release of child sexual
abuse materials that are not appropriately defined in the legislation.
It jeopardizes future federal investigations, and we have National Security
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currncerns regarding classified information. We'll put this in the record
because we need the legislative record to reflect what is
the legislative intent behind this vote. I used to litigate cases,
we would litigate federal statutes and whether or not they
could survive, and legislative intent is important, and we need
to say clearly for the record, as a speaker of the House.
I'm saying to you, this legislation that will pass today
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is flawed and it must be amended. The question is
why didn't we amend it here before we passed it
because the authors won't allow it. Because under the rules
of the House in our discharge petition, they have to
agree to consent for the legislation to be amended, and
they are not doing that. So now we rely upon
our partners in the other chamber to get that done,
and they need to do that. The victims deserve our
utmost respect. In fact, they should be saluted for their courage.
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And the young women who have not come forward who
are now some of them are middle h women who
have not come forward also deserve our respect and they
deserve to be protected. Republicans support transparency. We want maximum transparency,
especially when it comes to disclosing the names of anybody
who had anything to do with these evils, anybody who
conspired with or aided in any way Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
They must be brought to justice.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
We want the bill to be amended so it doesn't
in at the same time, violate victim privacy, create new victims,
disclose the names of any whistleblower or informant cause the
release of grand jury materials or child say abuse materials
are under minor national security, and if and when the
Senate takes this up, we will work with our colleagues
over there to make sure that these things are corrected.
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I'll I'll just close with this simple thought. We've been
at this a while. It's drug on for a while,
but it's time for this to come to light. We
are I expect, I expect that this will be a
unanimous vote, and it will reflect what I think every
member in this chamber. And I'll say this now, at
least in recent days, every member of the Chamber on
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the Democrats side, they didn't say anything for four years,
but they're for maximum transparency now and so is this site.
But we want to do it in a respectful and
careful manner so that we don't subject innocent people to
further harm. And that has been the whole thing I
told all my members today. I'll be voting yes on this,
and I suspect almost everyone will. We'll send it to
the Senate and we hope it's corrected. Thank you for
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the time, speaker.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Now you back, you listen to what he just said there,
and it really shows you just how sick the Democrat
critic party is. They don't care who they hurt. The
Democratic Party just wants us to be a political issue.
They want it to be a political issue. I'm gonna
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say it again. They want it to be a political
issue to hurt Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's the whole thing. That's literally the whole ballgame. It's
the only thing that they care about. It's sad because
there are flaws, but if you're a Republican, as the
speaker described there, and you vote against this, it would
be used and weaponized against you. That is one of
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the sad and sick problems of.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The final point that the President made about this is fine,
go ahead and make it public so it's clear there
is nothing that we as Republicans are trying to hide.
Put it all out there so that everyone can see it.
It's also sad that the Democrats can't even do that
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the responsible way, and the only thing they want to
do is try to put Republicans in a corner and
they don't care what victims they hurt in the process.
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There was a major meeting in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's going to have a big impact on many Americans
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Saudi Crown Prince told President Donald Trump on Tuesday that
Saudi Arabia will be upping its investment commitment in the
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that we are signing today in many areas of technology,
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Listen to what the President had to say is he
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introduced the Crown Prince to the media inside the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Extremely respected man in the Oval Office today and a
friend of mine for a long time, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Friend of mine. I'm very proud of the jobs nun.
What he said is incredible in terms of human rights.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And everything else, and he's the crown Prince, the future King,
and I just want to pay my greatest respect to
your father King, who was an amazing man.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I met him early on. I freed him at the
airport at an age.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It was pretty high up there, and it was about
one hundred and seventeen degrees as he was standing in
the gray carpet as I came out of the plane.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And he's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And when I met his brilliant son who was at
the oval office, and shortly thereafter you came in represented
the country, and I called the father.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I said, this guy is fantastic. And I don't know
if that helped you or hurt you, but obviously it
couldn't have hurt too.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Much because here you are right for we had a
great mating and the office has changed quite a bit,
and we inherited a mess. You actually told me you
thought the country was in big trouble. I'm not going
to use the exact word that you use. I refuse to.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Say that you thought our country was dead a year and.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A half two years ago, but a country was in trouble,
and now we have the hottest country in the world.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You said that also, and we do.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We have. The United States is right now the hottest
country in the world. And between the tariffs and the
election November fifth election, we've done things that nobody can believe.
Twenty one trillion dollars will be the amount invested in
the United States or committed to invest in one year.
(05:06):
So I mere nine months, we're up to almost eighteen
trillion dollars. Biden as an example, the Biden administration, if
you call it that, it's to me it was the
Biden lack of administration.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
They were less than one trillion for four years. We're
going to be twenty one trillion for one year. I
think that's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The biggest in history was a certain country three trillion.
We're going to be twenty one trillion. On top of that,
prices are coming down. We inherited a mess with high prices,
the worst.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Inflation in the history of our country.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We had inflation that was a single four years, the
worst inflation in the history of the United States. Gas
prices through the route. And that's after destroying our petroleum reserve,
which was meant for wars and big emergencies, not to
try and when at election, they opened up the reserves
so that people get dollars three dollars less in gasoline,
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and it didn't work.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They got about three cents.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Less because as big as those reserves are the peanuts
when you're talking about that kind of traffic, and we're
rebuilding the reserves, we're doing all of this, and we've
done a job. We're also bringing down prices very substantially,
and we've already brought them down very very substantially.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Gasoline is way down.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think you'll be seeing two dollars gasoline, but we're
now at two fifty to forty five.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Some are lower than that.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It was four fifty five dollars, six dollars, three fifty
three seventy five under by no different.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Numbers, but way high. And we have energy way down.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But the biggest thing to me, because I know what
it means in jobs, is the fact that we're at
over seventeen trillion dollars scott and we expect to be
around twenty twenty one trillion dollars in one year, and
that's many times bigger than history. The highest number was
three trillion dollars and we're going to be a twenty
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one trillion. That means new plants, new AI, new auto plants.
We have auto plants coming in from Canada and from Mexico,
from Germany, from Japan. Toyota just agreed to invest ten
billion dollars on new auto plants, all American workers.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
We've never been in a position like this. You can
go back to the beginning.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Our country has never been in a position like this,
and it really is because of the fact that we
use tariffs to bring all this money in. And you're
going to see the results in a year when these
plants start to open up. We have more plants under
construction now than at any time in the history of
our country. And these are big plants. These are the
biggest plants anywhere in the world. And I want to
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thank you because you've agreed to invest six hundred billion
dollars into the United States and.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Because my friends, he might make it a trillion, but
I'm going to have to work on him. But it's
hundred We can count on six hundred million, but that
number could go up a little bit higher.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yes, sir, I don't know, we'll see, but we appreciate
it very much.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So SODIA is going to be investing.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
At least six hundred million dollars, and that means investments
in plans, in companies, money on Wall Street, and what
it really means for everybody that really counts as jobs,
a lot of jobs.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We have a lot of jobs. So I just want
to thank you. We've been really good friends for a
long period of time.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We've always been on the same side of every issue.
I think we've done a great job in wiping out
the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else could have done that,
No other president would have done it.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And we had the pilots in the Oval office right here.
We were celebrating a very successful attack.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So I had them in with that beautiful be too
bomber that's over there, and they said, Sir, for twenty
two years we practiced this attack predecessors.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
These were very young guys.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So twenty two years they sent our predecessors and us
practice the attack on ran But no president ever gave
us the go ahead. Three times a year they went
up and they practiced the attack. Nobody let us do
it until you came along. And I let them do
it because it was the right thing to do. You
can't have a nuclear rn and so we put you
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in a very good position.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But I just want to say it's.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
An honor to be your friend, and it's an honor
that you're here, and you'd like to say a few words.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You can hear the President there making it clear that
we have an ally in Saudi Arabia when it comes
to fighting terrorism, something the President wanted to point out,
also talking about how they worked together to make sure
they took out that Iran nuclear plant and one trillion
dollars of investment coming into the United States of America
as well. The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
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known as HR forty four oh five, with a one
twenty seven to one vote, with five not voting at all.
It was taken up under suspension of the rules, which
means it needed a two thirds majority, and still passed easily.
Every Democrat and all but one Republican voted yes. The
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lone no vote was Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana,
who says he's worried about privacy for victims and people
mentioned who aren't charged with crimes. What the bill does
is passed by the House is this It orders the
Department of Justice to release all files, all records, all communications,
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and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and associated investigations.
The Department of Justice has a short deadline thirty days
in some reports, fifteen in others, depending on version and
the final texts, and how that will be controlled to
make the material public once it becomes law. It also
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allows reactions to protect the identity of victims and minors
avoid harming ongoing investigations as well, and explicitly says the
Department of Justice cannot withhold or redact information just because
it's politically embarrassing, reputationally damaging, or politically sensitive, quote unquote.
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So the question now is what is next. Well, the
bill now goes to the Senate. The majority leader there,
John Thune, has said he expects a Senate to consider
it fairly quickly and possibly as soon as later today
or tomorrow. But it still needs sixty votes there. And
let's be honest, with a Senate divide the way it
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is where you couldn't even get sixty votes to keep
America's government open, nothing is promising now. If it passes
the Senate, it would then go to President Donald Trump's
desk for signature. Now, the bill is aimed at forcing
the DOJ, as I mentioned earlier, to release a broad
universe of Epstein related materials, including case files related to
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Epstein's sex trafficking investigation and prosecution his associate Maxwell, as
well flight logs and transportation records where DOJ has them,
internal communications and investigative notes files that mention public officials,
government employees, and other individuals connected to the case. Separate
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from the bill, the House Oversight Committee already dumped more
than twenty thousand pages of documents from the Epstein estate
within the last week. That's obviously a lot of documents
that have now gone public, But this new bill is
meant to go further by targeting the Department of Justice
specific files. Now, the other question is where does the
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president stand on this. Trump's stance has shifted well visibly
over the last few days. His earlier stance was why
are we doing this? There's nothing there. Let's move on
and get the work of the American people done. Then,
when Representative Thomas Massey and Representative Rocanna started the discharge
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petition to force a vote, Trump and his allies pressure
Republicans not to sign it. One administration official report, he
called signing the petition a hostile act.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
To the administration.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But then Trump said, fine, you're gonna play this way
and you're going to turn this into a democratic hoax,
then we'll give you total transparency.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Once it became clear that the bill was going to
have the votes and the.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Discharge petition crossed a two eighteen signature threshold, Trump publicly
said to Republicans in the House they should vote to
release the files, saying, quote, I've got nothing to hide.
Republicans should support transparency and move on from what he
said is nothing but a demo democratic hoax, just like
Russia collusion. I'm all for it. Sure I would, was
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another thing that the President said. The White House also
has a write up amplifying this line, telling Republicans go
and do it, and questioned whether Democrats will equally be
transparent about people in their orbit who might be named
in the files. So the short version is this, Donald
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Trump said it was nothing at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Many believe that is still true.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But now he's saying give it all to the American
people and telling Republicans to move forward, which they've clearly done.
There's also the political dynamics of this moving into the
Senate when you have a four hundred and twenty seven
to one vote, this makes this the most bipartisan moment
of Congress in my lifetime. The bill's sponsors and most
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vocal supporters include Rocanna, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert,
Nancy Mace, a very ideologically mixed group that is clashed
with leadership at times as well. Speaker Mike Johnson ultimately
voted for the bill, but is still calling it a
political show vote and warning that forcing the DOJA to
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classify within a fixed timeline is dangerous. As he described
it from an intel perspective, he's openly asking the scent
to change the bill to add more protections for victims
and also for whistleblowers. Now the White House and the
GOP messaging now is clear, there is nothing to hide.
It's embarrassing to name names for some, but they're saying
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let it all be out there.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So what is next?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, over the next few days, the big question is this,
does the Senate change the bill? And if the Senate
amends or adds more privacy protections, the legislation would then
have to go back to the House.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
How broad will the actual release be.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Even if it becomes law, Jay can still redact the
victims and active investigations. The fight will be over whether
the DOJ tries to stretch those categories or whether Congress
pushes for a very aggressive disclosure. And then there's more
documents to be dumped. In general, the House oversight already
releasing twenty thousand pages from the estate. If this bill
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becomes law, DOJ production could be larger, more sensitive, and
more directly tied to federal investigations and.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Who knew what and when.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Now here's one other part that needs to be brought
up and addressed as well, and that is just well
the politics of this. Here is what James Comer had
to say about it.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
In the House, they have no idea la They're just fishing.
They don't care about the victims. They don't care about
providing justice for the victims or giving the American people
the truth.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
They only care.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
About one thing, and that's trying to embarrass Donald Trump.
They hope and pray there's something in these documents that
will embarrass Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I've subpoenaed the estate.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We've produced over sixty five thousand pages of documents, and
there's nothing in there about Donald Trump that hadn't already
been disclosed that President Trump hasn't already explained. All we
find are knew problems with Democrats like Stacey Plaskett and
Hakeem Jeffries.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
So why not just release the files? I mean, if
there's nothing in there, who cares? Why not for transparency sake?
And the administration obviously players of the administration said they
were going to be released, and then some were released,
but not all of them. The President said, go ahead
and release them, So just get it out there and
have it done with.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Well, that's what I've encouraged the White House to do,
and they're working with us. They've released what they could
legally release. There's grand jury testimony, and the Trump administration
asked the judge to release that grand jury testimony, and
the judge, who was an Obama appointee, rejected the Trump
Department of Justice request to really least the grand jury
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touch away. So a judge has to issue that. But look,
I think the Trump administration is working with us a
lot more than what the media has given him credit for.
But I've encouraged the President to disclose everything. I'm glad
that he's gone ahead and put this issue to borrow,
this Tutchar expetition behind us. This is just a stunt
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by the Democrats and a few dyscrountaled Republicans. We're getting
the documents, and as soon as we get them on
the Oversight Committee, we're making in public and I think
that's what the President wants and hopefully we'll get all
the documents released and we can move on to the
issues that the American people care about.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's clear this is political and that's exactly what James
Comer was calling out.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Again.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
The Republicans voted for the transparency because what the Democrats
have done is they've used the abuse of sexual assault
victims to try to score political points against Donald Trump,
and now it's backfiring yet again. It's all about transparency.
That is what President Trump promise when he was elected president.
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Yet again, exposing mud that the government was hiding from
all of us. We now know that it's moving forward
with the Epstein papers. I call them papers because it
is a lie to say that there is an Epstein file.
There are a lot of documents to deal with Jeffrey Epstein,
but it is not a file in the way that
it was described before Donald Trump became president. You know
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when the Democrats were trying to weaponize it. Well, now
we know we're going to get to see those files
or those papers. As a Speaker of the House, Mike
Johnson led the way with a House vote in favor
of disclosing exactly what we have at the DOJ. He
stated publicly a press conference, I'm going to vote to
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move this forward. Despite describing the bill as a recklessly
flawed bill, Johnson also said that the measure is a
way to demonstrate transparency and there's nothing to hide. Specifically
in the context of responding to allegations that the files
might implicate Donald Trumper be used as a political weapon. Now,
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Johnson went to the floor of the House and repeatedly
called the bill dangerously fawed because he believes it lacks
sufficient protection for victims, whistle blowers, and innocent third parties
whose names might appear in the files. He criticized how
the bill was drafted, for example, pointing out that the
authors of the discharge petition had signed the wrong section
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of the US Code and that the legislation could force
the release of child sexual abuse material due to imprecise language.
Johnson also emphasized that the House cannot amend the bill
under the discharge petition process, so he wants to senate
via the Majority Leader John Thum, to make corrections before
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final passage. He said he's been working with a small
army of lawyers on this issue. He also accused Democrats
forcing what he called a political show vote on this
issue and said it was irresponsible how it is happening.
I want you to hear Speaker Johnson in his own
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words from the House talking about this before the vote.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that
this guy committed with his trafficking ring and all of
the abuses that they that they made these young women
go through. They're using that as a political weapon to
try to distract from their failures as a party and
to try their best to try to tie President Trump
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somehow into this wretched scandal.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
The President had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
He's been very clear and he has nothing to hide,
and that's why he's endorsed the vote today. I suspect
this vote will be probably unanimous. But here's the important
point that everybody needs to understand we have been advocates
of maximum transparency, but we have also insisted that the
victims be carefully protected. The Oversight Committee has been doing
extraordinary work, and we've got some of the most vigorous
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advocates on the Republican and Democrat side on the Oversight Committee.
They've been working in earnest to deliver transparency for the
American people and to do it in a responsible manner.
What do we mean by that, the bypart is an
effort over there is already producing all the results that
the discharged petition seeks and much much more. Chairman Comer
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and all of these advocates over there have been releasing
thousands of documents, for example, from the Epstein estate.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
By the way, in my view.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
That's been the greatest treasure trove of information because it's
yielded for us Epstein's own personal flight logs, his financial records,
his daily calendars, and so much more. But importantly, none
of that was addressed or is addressed, and the legislation
that's being voted on today, the estate files wouldn't even
have been encompassed in that. And so it goes to
show that the Oversight Committee is doing it from the
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From the very beginning, we've been insistent that this matter
be handled carefully and with the utmost caution and care
for the people who have been harmed. They should not
be made to suffer any longer. We're talking about real
people's lives at stake here, and young victims who don't
want to be dragged into this political game that could.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Get hurt further.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
But the Democrats are rushing the release of thousands of
unsubstantiated documents that may be included in this that are
going to be in the public domain with the passage
of this bill. And there are serious deficiencies in the
legislation that I have noted at length, and Republicans have
to work to address those deficiencies in the Senate if
and when this legislation is advanced. I stood before the
American public today at our press conference, and I explained
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in detail that the dangers of the discharge petition. We
have posted at my website Speaker dot gov a summary.
The legal Council, a small army of lawyers put this together.
I used to be a federal court litigator. Many of
my colleagues whove spoken today were we understand the dangers
of how this was haphazardly draw on up and among them.
By the way, mister speaker, before I forget seeking AMAS
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consent to enter into this document of the record, it
is that.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
It's on the website.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
It's entitled how the flaws of HR forty four h
five could revictimize Epstein's victims, create new victims, and damage
the judicial system.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
It is dated today, thank you, and.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
It summarizes just five or six of the major concerns.
Among them, it fails to fully protect victim privacy, It
could create new categories of victims. It potentially jeopardizes grand
jury secrecy. It fails to prohibit release of child sexual
abuse materials that are not appropriately defined in the legislation.
It jeopardizes future federal investigations, and we have National Security
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currncerns regarding classified information. We'll put this in the record
because we need the legislative record to reflect what is
the legislative intent behind this vote. I used to litigate cases,
we would litigate federal statutes and whether or not they
could survive, and legislative intent is important, and we need
to say clearly for the record, as a speaker of the House.
I'm saying to you, this legislation that will pass today
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is flawed and it must be amended. The question is
why didn't we amend it here before we passed it
because the authors won't allow it. Because under the rules
of the House in our discharge petition, they have to
agree to consent for the legislation to be amended, and
they are not doing that. So now we rely upon
our partners in the other chamber to get that done,
and they need to do that. The victims deserve our
utmost respect. In fact, they should be saluted for their courage.
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And the young women who have not come forward who
are now some of them are middle h women who
have not come forward also deserve our respect and they
deserve to be protected. Republicans support transparency. We want maximum transparency,
especially when it comes to disclosing the names of anybody
who had anything to do with these evils, anybody who
conspired with or aided in any way Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
They must be brought to justice.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
We want the bill to be amended so it doesn't
in at the same time, violate victim privacy, create new victims,
disclose the names of any whistleblower or informant cause the
release of grand jury materials or child say abuse materials
are under minor national security, and if and when the
Senate takes this up, we will work with our colleagues
over there to make sure that these things are corrected.
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I'll I'll just close with this simple thought. We've been
at this a while. It's drug on for a while,
but it's time for this to come to light. We
are I expect, I expect that this will be a
unanimous vote, and it will reflect what I think every
member in this chamber. And I'll say this now, at
least in recent days, every member of the Chamber on
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the Democrats side, they didn't say anything for four years,
but they're for maximum transparency now and so is this site.
But we want to do it in a respectful and
careful manner so that we don't subject innocent people to
further harm. And that has been the whole thing I
told all my members today. I'll be voting yes on this,
and I suspect almost everyone will. We'll send it to
the Senate and we hope it's corrected. Thank you for
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the time, speaker.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Now you back, you listen to what he just said there,
and it really shows you just how sick the Democrat
critic party is. They don't care who they hurt. The
Democratic Party just wants us to be a political issue.
They want it to be a political issue. I'm gonna
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say it again. They want it to be a political
issue to hurt Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's the whole thing. That's literally the whole ballgame. It's
the only thing that they care about. It's sad because
there are flaws, but if you're a Republican, as the
speaker described there, and you vote against this, it would
be used and weaponized against you. That is one of
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the sad and sick problems of.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
The final point that the President made about this is fine,
go ahead and make it public so it's clear there
is nothing that we as Republicans are trying to hide.
Put it all out there so that everyone can see it.
It's also sad that the Democrats can't even do that
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the responsible way, and the only thing they want to
do is try to put Republicans in a corner and
they don't care what victims they hurt in the process.
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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