July 7, 2025 • 4 mins
Mendte in the Morning talks to Rory O’Neill about the latest from the DOJ and FBI regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his ‘client list’.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the deadline for the tariffs are upon us, and
Donald Trump has decided he is not going to negotiate
face to face or even by phone or anything sending
an envoy anymore. He's just going to send out letters.
Let's get the latest on that from Rory O'Neil, wr
(00:21):
National Correspondent. So this is a take it or leave.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It letter, that's what they're calling it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
These letters are going out to twelve different countries. We
don't know which countries yet, but they're getting a letter
essentially telling them what the new tariff policy is going
to be. The President also said in a post on
truth Social that any country that does looks favorably on
those bricks nations Brazil, Russia, China, they'll get an extra
(00:50):
ten percent tariff on goods that they try to sell
in the US. So we're back to focusing on these
trade deals again. He set that ninth deadline. Let's see
what happens in these next few days.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So what is he hoping will happen. What is the
point of this exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, he thinks that Look, he has said many times
that tariff is his favorite word.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
He thinks that the American consumer has been getting ripped
off and that it's been hurting our domestic economy. He
thinks that by imposing tariffs, more companies will shift their
manufacturing back to the US make things domestically rather than
pay the import tax.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But you know, it's a bit of a wait and see.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You know, if it's like we saw it in Vietnam
at twenty percent tax on what they sell us from Vietnam,
you know, twenty percent when you're talking about clothing in particular,
that's not enough to make you move your manufacturing plant here, right,
So we'll see if companies want to follow through on this,
but we'll also see if there is a pushback to
(01:50):
some of these final notices going out today.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It'll be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know you're also covering the Jeffrey Epstein files as well,
and that has been really fascinating because every time they
release something, it's disappointing. And now is it true that
there's not even a client list?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right, That's what was first reported by Axios yesterday that
they said there is no client list, and they've determined
that Jeffrey Epstein did commit suicide. They say it was
not murder. They've released some videotape from the prison that
shows no one going in or out of Epstein's cell,
at least in that area.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
So look, and this is what the FBI director Cash
Battel and is number two Dan Bongino, two guys that
two years ago would have been really feeding into all
these conspiracy theories, but now say, there's nothing to it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There's no client list, and there was no murder. It
was a suicide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you know what I want to find out. And
all of this, of course is going to conspiracy theorists.
They're gonna go nuts because all of this is really
really suspicious. But do you remember when they rated his
home in Manhattan home in office in Manhattan and they
came out of there with tons of videotapes, right where
are they?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, we heard Attorney General Pam Bondi say that there
were thousands of tapes. Child pornography on the tapes. I mean,
she has acknowledged that they exist, but she also wanted
to make sure that if people on those videos were
young girls under age, she didn't want their images to
be released either.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But if Epstein was guilty of.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That, then now that he's dead, there's really nothing to prosecute.
So this would suggest that it was just Epstein and
the underage girls in the videos. No one else was involved,
because according to the memo that's going out, it's actually
this is case closed. Don't look for any other prosecutions
as a result of the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Wait a second, I thought the entire point of doing
these videotapes was they could use them as blackmail, and
so I don't understand that Epstein is the only thing.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Said that there was no evidence that that Lapstein was
using the videos or his black book in order to
blackmail anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I don't think anybody buys any of this. I mean,
I don't know who there. It sounds like they're trying
to protect some people, that's for sure, because we were
told all of this stuff in the past. There was
a client list. There of course, was a list of
people on the plane. There were videotapes of all these people.
And now all of a sudden, no, that's no longer true.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It is we gus are Yeah, Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna
is saying, this is not what we or the American
people asked for, in a complete disappointment, get us the
information we asked for.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Was her post on x I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's some important people making phone calls to the White
House to make this go away. Rory O'Neil, WR, National Correspondent,
Thanks so much, Thanks Larry
Well, the deadline for the tariffs are upon us, and
Donald Trump has decided he is not going to negotiate
face to face or even by phone or anything sending
an envoy anymore. He's just going to send out letters.
Let's get the latest on that from Rory O'Neil, wr
(00:21):
National Correspondent. So this is a take it or leave.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It letter, that's what they're calling it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
These letters are going out to twelve different countries. We
don't know which countries yet, but they're getting a letter
essentially telling them what the new tariff policy is going
to be. The President also said in a post on
truth Social that any country that does looks favorably on
those bricks nations Brazil, Russia, China, they'll get an extra
(00:50):
ten percent tariff on goods that they try to sell
in the US. So we're back to focusing on these
trade deals again. He set that ninth deadline. Let's see
what happens in these next few days.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So what is he hoping will happen. What is the
point of this exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, he thinks that Look, he has said many times
that tariff is his favorite word.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
He thinks that the American consumer has been getting ripped
off and that it's been hurting our domestic economy. He
thinks that by imposing tariffs, more companies will shift their
manufacturing back to the US make things domestically rather than
pay the import tax.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But you know, it's a bit of a wait and see.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You know, if it's like we saw it in Vietnam
at twenty percent tax on what they sell us from Vietnam,
you know, twenty percent when you're talking about clothing in particular,
that's not enough to make you move your manufacturing plant here, right,
So we'll see if companies want to follow through on this,
but we'll also see if there is a pushback to
(01:50):
some of these final notices going out today.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It'll be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know you're also covering the Jeffrey Epstein files as well,
and that has been really fascinating because every time they
release something, it's disappointing. And now is it true that
there's not even a client list?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right, That's what was first reported by Axios yesterday that
they said there is no client list, and they've determined
that Jeffrey Epstein did commit suicide. They say it was
not murder. They've released some videotape from the prison that
shows no one going in or out of Epstein's cell,
at least in that area.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
So look, and this is what the FBI director Cash
Battel and is number two Dan Bongino, two guys that
two years ago would have been really feeding into all
these conspiracy theories, but now say, there's nothing to it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There's no client list, and there was no murder. It
was a suicide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you know what I want to find out. And
all of this, of course is going to conspiracy theorists.
They're gonna go nuts because all of this is really
really suspicious. But do you remember when they rated his
home in Manhattan home in office in Manhattan and they
came out of there with tons of videotapes, right where
are they?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, we heard Attorney General Pam Bondi say that there
were thousands of tapes. Child pornography on the tapes. I mean,
she has acknowledged that they exist, but she also wanted
to make sure that if people on those videos were
young girls under age, she didn't want their images to
be released either.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But if Epstein was guilty of.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That, then now that he's dead, there's really nothing to prosecute.
So this would suggest that it was just Epstein and
the underage girls in the videos. No one else was involved,
because according to the memo that's going out, it's actually
this is case closed. Don't look for any other prosecutions
as a result of the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Wait a second, I thought the entire point of doing
these videotapes was they could use them as blackmail, and
so I don't understand that Epstein is the only thing.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Said that there was no evidence that that Lapstein was
using the videos or his black book in order to
blackmail anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I don't think anybody buys any of this. I mean,
I don't know who there. It sounds like they're trying
to protect some people, that's for sure, because we were
told all of this stuff in the past. There was
a client list. There of course, was a list of
people on the plane. There were videotapes of all these people.
And now all of a sudden, no, that's no longer true.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It is we gus are Yeah, Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna
is saying, this is not what we or the American
people asked for, in a complete disappointment, get us the
information we asked for.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Was her post on x I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There's some important people making phone calls to the White
House to make this go away. Rory O'Neil, WR, National Correspondent,
Thanks so much, Thanks Larry
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