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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike, if some illegal alien really wants to come here.
When he does, well he can come back and buy
the Golden ticket from Trump, the gold card. I are
you guys for the gold card? I mean, we already
have the EB five visa program which people can do that,
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but it's been loosey goosey, and he's just trying to
tighten it up. I'm actually for it. I don't have
a problem with it, as long as you're properly vetting
the people that you know. Just it would be easy
for any cartel member to skim five million dollars, so
you don't want them coming in. But if you were
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able to vet them and turn people down despite having
the five million dollars, and I'm fine with it. The
breaking news I want to get to just quickly and
then move on to what I wanted to talk about
is that the United States Supreme Court has temporarily halted
the ruling that prevented Trump ump from freezing four and
(01:02):
aid temporarily. So this Biden appointed judge, I forget which
district court he was in site made may have been
the DC Court, I'm not sure, but he had ordered
that all of the payments that had been frozen in
usaid and the kind of largely in foreign aid that
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those payments resume by midnight last night, eleven fifty nine
pm last night, and the Acting Solicitor General on behalf
of the administration appealed to So I think this must
have been in DC, because I think she appealed to
the DC Court of Appeals and a three judge panel
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ruled against her. And I'm not surprised by that because
restraining orders or injunctions to stop doing something or to
do something are generally not appeal and they're generally not
appealable because in nineteen ten point nine percent of the
cases it's just temporary. It's why they called a temporary
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restraining order. Look, just we're going to freeze everything the
way it is now until we have a hearing to
whether or not I'm going to enter in enter a
permanent injunction to make you do something or to stop
you from doing something. So they're built in safeguards. So there,
I wasn't surprised that whatever appellate court that it was decided, no,
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we're not going to intervene. The lower court can proceed,
and even though you are arguing and the government's argument was, look,
we cannot we cannot possibly comply with this order to
resume these payments by eleven to fifty nine pm because
we haven't vetted the payments. We've got to start the
you know, we've got to re enter all of this information.
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And we were in the process of stopping the payments
so that we could check them for validity. Even if
someone had it's done the work, all we were doing
was saying we're not paying you now until we determine
whether or not you really did the work and didn't
work meet the standards that was required by the contract.
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So it's I think she had a good argument. She
went to the US Supreme Court. Just though.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We start at the US Capitol and this sit in
protest you see here against cuts to foreign aid spending
including USAID capital.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now, I find it hilarious that people are protesting like
they should. I think this isn't This is in the
Cannon House Office building, and there is a rotunda when
you first walk into the Canon House Office building, and
you know, the marble pillars all around, and they've put
some sign on the floor and they're all interlocked with
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their feet facing outward as a former circle in the
middle of the rotunda I'd love to go up to
some of these people and say, what age what aid
are you protesting? Like, what in particular, what particular foreign
aid are you upset about? I bet they have no
answer none.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Months of a police seene here arresting several people inside
the Cannon House Office building, the White House just announcing
today plans to cut more than ninety percent of Foreign
eight contracts for usaid and sixty billion dollars in overall
US assistance dished out around the world. The White House
now facing a deadline of midnight tonight, just a couple
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hours from now, to complete pre authorize two billion dollars
in Foreign eight payments. The administration late today though, filing
an emergency appeal asking the US Supreme Court to halt
that deadline, saying it will now take multiple weeks to
pay that out from foreign spending to the government payroll.
The White House issuing that memo today, setting the stage
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for large scale layoffs across the federal Here's President Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
We're cutting down government.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We're cutting down the size of government.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We have to. We're bloaded, we're sloppy. We have a
lot of people that aren't doing their job.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We have a lot of people that don't exist.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Agencies are directed to submit plans for reduction enforced by
March thirteenth, that includes not only layoffs, but eliminating positions entirely.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So Dragon had a good point as he was listening
to that. What was your question?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Trying to make sure the wording makes sense to me
because it's spinning around my head and I'm getting a
little dizzy. They are stopping the stop to the freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Got it? Got it? So it's the judge stopped the freeze.
I mean the judge froze the funds. Uh huh No, no, no, no, no,
the government froze the funds. The government said, no, you
cannot do that. You must pay it. The Appeals Court said,
we agree with the lower court, you must pay it.
And the Supreme Court stepped in the small again said no,
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we're going to stop the injunction.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
To stop the stop. Yes, so it's still frozen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Still frozen. You got it, aren't you? Glad you've work
on the fourth floor?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Now makes complete sense.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See, I know you just need you just need time.
You need time in a cookie time and a cookie
solves everything. So now let's get to what I really
wanted to talk about. Question, legitimate, sincere question, do you
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really care about the Jeffrey Epstein files? Dragon? Do you
really care about it?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I'd be curious is to know what names are on
that you know, what what higher ups, big wigs, big
names are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, so I'm kind of where you are. I'm curious.
I'd like to know who was on the manifest who
went to the island. But and I'm sure there are names.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
For example, it's gonna look bad for any name on
that list, but that does not mean that they participated
in said acts.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
See, it's like we're an old, married couple. He finishes
my sentences for me. Professor Dershowitz is out with some
opinion pieces about how he wants the files released. His
name's going to be on that list, and he is
adamly denied that he ever engaged in any sexual activity
with anyone, let alone an underaged you know, female or male,
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I guess for that matter. So while I would like
the files to be released, maybe because I'm a jerk
and I want to see people scramble, I don't want
innocent people to get caught up in this. But if
if you were buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and you flew
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down there to I forget the name of the island,
but if you flew to the island and you did
it numerous times, I kind of wonder, like, how did
you not know what was going on? Or if you
truly did not know what was going on, why were
you going to the eye? I mean, there's just all
the swirling of questions in my head.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Just because you're a friend of Pablo Escobar does not
mean you're dealing drugs.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Right, But if you're a friend of Pablo Escobar, you
probably kind of suspect there's something going on, Like Pablo
came from a really poor family and suddenly Pablo owns
mansions and private jets and ghost streams and everything. Oh
you don't wonder. I mean Dragon looks at me and
my extravagant wealth and is absolutely convinced that I'm meeting
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drugs on the side, which I normally do with the
group out there in the pits. I'm eating my own
profits as well. Yeah, I'm injecting my own profits, is
what I'm doing. So I have this kind of pay
relationship with the Epstein files, But what's the rule about
the butt? Pay attention to what I say after the butt.
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Pam Bondy has said I should have pulled the SoundBite up.
This is I'm sorry. What you get what you pay for.
I did not pull up the SoundBite, but she is
on record as saying the Epstein files are on my
desk and we're going to release them as soon as possible.
And that's been several weeks ago, or at least at
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least a couple of weeks ago. Well that's what bugs me, then,
why haven't you done it? So let me walk through
my thinking about this, and let's start. I don't want
to make this theological depending upon your particular version of
the Bible. Ecclesiastes eight eleven says, in essence, because the
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sentence against an evil deed is not active upon on quickly,
the heart of the children of man is fully set
to do evil. In other words, you've got to face evil,
do something about it, and do it quickly, otherwise evil
will take root in your heart, in the heart of man.
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It's a good Bible verse. Well it would have been,
it wasn't quite that long ago. My notes say that
Pam Bondi announced it would have been the twenty fifth.
I think that the Epstein files, or at least some
of the files, would be released for public consumption today.
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Now I always still have time to go on, but
the files are obviously going to contain various items. The
files I think will include some are all the names
of Epstein's associates. It will contain the flight logs that
detail who travel to as private island and those who
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might have because they went to the island, they may
have and they may not have taken part in sexual
abuse of minor children. Now, whether they did or not
is important, but the more important thing is is that
Jeffrey Epstein who somehow managed to hang himself while guards
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look the other way. The abuse of minor children is
one of those things where when we do taxpayer relief shops,
we actually celebrate the death of the thug. Children and
dogs are off limits for me and Dragon. Now, I
don't know. I don't think anybody knows if this is
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going to be a comprehensive undoing of a bunch of
high profile figures that are on that list. But everybody
seems to be really anticipating, and it's likely going to
create some public surprises going to create some disgust, and
it's going to create a lot of speculation, and it's
going to expose some you know, let me, let me
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broaden it. It's gonna it's going to expose the special
status of elitists in this country. Now, let's go bear
with me. Don't jump to conclusions here. Let's go to
Donald Trump for a moment, because why did Donald Trump win?
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You got it in your head. It's kind of like
asking you to list five things you did yesterday. Donald
Trump's election election came with a mandate for a bunch
of stuff. Can you name souff? Well, I think border
security was probably number one. The economy was number two.
Jump start the economy, deport people who are here. Uh,
shatter these death packs that we have with some of
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these international groups that weaken us. Uh. Terminate any engagement
in an endless, unwinnable conflict wherever that might be. Doesn't
get mentioned much, but election reform. He did mention something
the other day in a press conference about paper ballants. Well,
I think we need to focus on that and of
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course eliminate or at least gut the deep state, the
administrative state. And there are probably some others, but those
are just something that I think of. But I think
one thing that everybody is wanting, whether it's Christopher Ray,
whether it's Anthony Fauci, whether it's the Biden family, which
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are off limits now because of a pardon. I think
Americans are just asking for some justice, which is why
I point out Ecclesiastes. When the sentence for a crime
is not quickly carried out, people's hearts get filled with
schemes for evil, for wrongdoing, for lawlessness. And so I
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think that justice as a broad category is something that
we expected from this administration. But I'm here because I
firmly believe that there is no political future for anybody
without justice. And if there is no justice, you can
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forget about a Maga dynasty. You can forget about JD.
Vance or anybody else that might you know in the
next over the next three or four years, evolve as
a leading candidate to be the next Conservative Republican president,
the next MAGA president. You can forget all of that,
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Which is why I think Trump is working so hard
and so quickly right now, because if if most of
the Trump agenda gets done, the political machine is waiting
anxiously on electionary form, if there's one under construction to
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see just how far the opposition can go in manipulating
the midterms, which are now you know, really really kind
of biting at our heels. If there is no justice,
we will permanently disgrace those who have lost loved ones
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at the hand of violent foreigners or fentanel or whatever
illicit drugs have come into the country. The flow of
these third world unassentable, unassimilable foreigners will continue until we
go the way of Rome. We're going to continue to
lose any sense of an American identity, and we are
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going to buckle under the weight of a welfare state
that is designed to punish successful in order to who
lift up the entitled. It's the it's the whole concept
of equity. So the time to punish those responsible for
the deliberate dissolution of our sovereignty is now. If there
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is no justice, warmongers who have provoked the world of violence,
serious blood shed and death, well, their license will advance,
Their license will grow to continue to do that. History
gives us plenty of examples of post war societies that
wound up worse off. On the other side, of a
war than they were going than they were they were
going into the war. So if there is no justice
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those who've abused women and children, I mean we slavery
still exists, child adult human trafficking, human sexual abuse, human
sex trafficking is going on. Got to have justice. What'll
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we do?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Michael, Kathy b here, like your friend that you met
at the reception, I'm also your friend and your biggest
fand so much so that if you've got in a
car crash in a lonely, snowy mountain road and broke
your ankles, I take you in and heal you back
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to health.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
She sounds like, as in, Kathy Bates, take me in.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I sh'll help you and mine.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know, tie me to the bed and then beat me.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You're safe.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, I just you know, I want to believe that,
you know, should nurse me back to health and chicken
soup and maybe a little tequila here and there and whatever,
nurse me back to But I had this Kathy Bates
thing in my head too.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Can you watch that scene?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean I've seen a lot of horror movies, and
I've seen a lot of grouse some stuff, but just
that scene with his ankle. Oh, there's something about that.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Another reason why I love this audience. Think about what
went through her head.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Huhuh to leave a talk back yep.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
In the middle of a discussion of Jeffrey Epstein files
to tell us that God love him. Man oh man,
So let's go to Professor Dershowitz because I want you
to hear what he has to say, because this is well,
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there's just so much to unpack in what he writes.
He says, from the time I was first falsely accused
of having sexual contact with someone I never heard of,
which he was remem when this whole story broke what
years ago, Oh, Professor Dershowitz was down there and he
had sex with so and so, and he didn't bat
an eye. He came out of the shoot just boom.
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That is faults, and I demand to see the evidence.
In fact, he wrote a a wop ed, he wrote,
he wrote a wop ed for the walls Meat duggle.
Yes he did. It was amazing. He asked the FBI
to actually open a criminal investigation of himself so that
he could prove beyond any doubt that the charges were
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completely made up in faults. And he also agreed this
is this is such a lawyer. I love it. He
said that he would waive any and all privileges if
they would just conduct an investigation. In other words, I'll rape,
I'll wave my right against self and crida, I'll wave
my Fifth Amendment rights, I'll wave my right to do process.
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Just everything. You just start and open an investigation file
and investigate the hell out of me about that charge,
because you're not going to find anything, cause I didn't
do anything. He continues to this day to demand that
every bit of evidence be close be disclosed, because, as
he says, I know with one hundred percent certainty that
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the evidence, if completely produced without exceptions, exculpates me for
the simple reason that I did nothing wrong. But he
points out that as long as the evidence is being withheld,
and as he points out, is being withheld for no
good reason, only the guilty are protected by withholding the evidence.
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Only the guilty or protected by withholding the evidence. The
guilty include those who may have been sexually involved in
the Epstein case, but the guilty may also include anyone
who deliberately made false allegations against innocent people, something that
I really had kind of just forgotten about. Another reason
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why he would want these things disclosed. Who made the
allegation against me? Because that is defamation. You accuse me
or anybody else falsely of having sex with an underage child.
Yep bring on the libel and slander suits. I just
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hope you got a bunch of money, because I's going
to take it. He points out that we know that
there were videotapes that Epstein made, and he thinks that
this video evidence will indicate who did and probably who
did not engage an improper conduct. And that now forget
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him for a moment, because this gets back to my
whole point in the last segment about justice, because justice
and the public interest, which are intertwined, would completely be
served by producing the entirety of the evidence. Now, before
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I go further, I'm not trying to cast aspersions upon
Pam Bondy, but I do want to hold her accountable.
If you and this is probably both a challenge and
a warning to the Attorney General and to everybody else
in the cabinet. I know that with Donald Trump, it
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is it is balls to the wall. Let's move forward,
let's get it done, Let's say what we mean. Meanwhile,
we say and let's do it. Okay. Well, that puts
a huge obligation and burden on you as a member
of the cabinet when you say, in effect, the Epstein
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files are on my desk and I'm reviewing them and
I'm going to release them. What do you hear? I hear,
you got them and you're going to release them. Most
people ignore the middle part about I'm reviewing them. Why why?
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Because if this these files, if it's a document, it's
a it's a thumb drive, I mean, whatever the hell
it is. I don't know what in physical form it is.
But if it was part of his court case, were
a criminal court case where he's now the defendant and
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you've done nothing wrong, you may get caught up in
a fece storm of allegations and speculation every but you're
there now. So there's no harm that I can think of.
Maybe some other lawyers got some better idea than I do,
but I can't think of any legal harm that is
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going to fall upon the shoulders of someone who is innocent. Oh,
they're going to have a PR problem because while your
name was in the file, well that doesn't mean anything.
So release the documents or the file whatever form it's
in release it. The longer you wait, the more you
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become speaking of Pam Bondy here, the more you become
part of this deep state that we've all voted for
Trump to come in and completely rack wreckon, take a
wrecking ball to it. And now you seem to be
protecting Now I don't know that she really is, and
maybe she's truly a lucis the attorneys. With all due
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respect to Pam Bondy, I know she's got a crapload
of stuff on her plate right now. She's got the
whole weaponization issue. She's got to deal with all of
the investigations of Trump. She's got to figure out who
in that huge bureaucracy she can trust or not trust.
She's busily trying to work with the White House Officer
personnel to come up with names to fill all the
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US attorney positions around the country. She has a crapload
of stuff to do right now. But the the problem
is she stepped out and made the point that the
files were on my desk and I'm reviewing and I'm
going to release them. So my expectations are, Hey, you
know what, there were days when I would wake up
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at four or five o'clock in the morning, which is
why I love doing morning and drive. And I would
be in the office before six am because Bush was
having some you know, teleconference or whatever we had to attend,
or I just had work to do. And again not
trying to pat myself on the back, but that same
day I might not get back to my dump of
an apartment until eight, nine or ten o'clock at night.
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It was brutal. Sometimes that's what you agree to when
you get nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
That's the kind of lifestyle that you agree to. And
if you've ever been a lawyer in private practice and
you've been up against a trial, you know that, hey,
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order because we're going to be in the office all
night long. I've done those kinds of nights before. You've
probably done them in your business, whatever it is. You know,
if you are, if you're Chris, and the guys at
Discount Bath that I just did the spot for, I
just looked over because there's the spot. So they've been
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working on a project all day long. Well, they get home,
they may or may not have time for dinner, and
then what do they have to do? Well, they've got
other projects. They've got to make sure that they get
they get they're getting all of their that all their
vendors are getting all the supplies they need because they
can't wait until the day the project starts. So, hey,
do we have the facets all crap? No, they have
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weren't delivered on time. So they may not be at
the office. They may be at home working on their computer,
but they're working. If you've ever owned a small business,
you know that's what it's like. Well, Pam Bondi has
stepped into a gigantic small business called the Department of Justice.
So release the files, putting it off. Those who have
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been accused, whether they have rightly or wrongly been accused,
include some of the most prominent people in this world, politicians,
princess celebrities, businessmen, and those who are totally innocent like
Professor Dershowitz. They have a right to public disclosure of
the evidence of their innocence, and those who are guilty
of the serious crimes they have no right of privacy.
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So the evidence falls in several categories. The evidence might
just be names of people who Epstein knew, business associates, lawyers, accountants, friends.
Those names might be in telephone books, diaries, airplane manifests,
other documents. They have nothing, They prove nothing that implicates
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them in anything illegal. Then there are other names that
appear in accusatory documents. We've got depositions, we got all
the legal pleadings. Why have the legal leading is not out?
Why have we not seen those? There's no evidence to
support the uncorroborated accusations, but they are believed by many
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and that needs to be disproved. Then you have all
the digital evidence, photographic, recorded, whatever it might be that
proves some connection between an accused and an accuser, but
doesn't necessarily prove any improper conduct. And at least in theory,
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if there is a smoking gun such as a video
that might implicate you in a sex crime, well I
haven't seen any evidence of that either against anybody. Oh
I've heard plenty of rumors about it, Prince Andrew and
the others. Oh yeah, it's all out there. So I
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would just say, if we're going to understand that justice
delayed is justice denied. If we're going to understand ecclesiast
is that as long as you don't you don't rapidly,
you know, meet out justice, that evil will fill men's hearts,
and that evil can take many forms, including speculation. Well,
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was bondy, You've had time release the files.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Trump the Musk have got to expose who at the
highest levels has been enriching themselves by this government misspending.
And it cannot just be the low level employees or else.
This whole thing is going to explode and bagfire right
in their face.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And it comes crashing though.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I told you, you know, I've seen some scary horror movies,
some gor stuff that's just got eyeballs dangling from the head.
But as soon as she has that sledgehammer and puts
the block between his feet, it's like, no.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Do you remember how we started the entire program this
morning talking about how people see me as their friend?
Uh huhh, and then I really want my privacy. Uh yeah,
this is why, exactly why not that I think anybody
out there is Kathy Bates. But you never know, it's
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a it's a lack of world and I just want
to be a little circumspect about who I hang out with.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's a pleasure to meet you, now goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Somebody says that they want the Biden her interview released.
Oh my gosh, I want to see that video so
badly and then give her three zero four seven, says Michael.
In an interview yesterday, Pam Bondi said that she was
reviewing the file to protect the over two two hundred
and fifty victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, uh, these files,
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I'm certain have been digitized. We live in the age
of digitizing court records. So you know the names of
the victims, you do a word search, you readact those
and you release the files. I mean, this is another
example of what I need a new sharpie over here
to black out some names.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You just need control f exactly exactly
Mike, if some illegal alien really wants to come here.
When he does, well he can come back and buy
the Golden ticket from Trump, the gold card. I are
you guys for the gold card? I mean, we already
have the EB five visa program which people can do that,
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but it's been loosey goosey, and he's just trying to
tighten it up. I'm actually for it. I don't have
a problem with it, as long as you're properly vetting
the people that you know. Just it would be easy
for any cartel member to skim five million dollars, so
you don't want them coming in. But if you were
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able to vet them and turn people down despite having
the five million dollars, and I'm fine with it. The
breaking news I want to get to just quickly and
then move on to what I wanted to talk about
is that the United States Supreme Court has temporarily halted
the ruling that prevented Trump ump from freezing four and
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aid temporarily. So this Biden appointed judge, I forget which
district court he was in site made may have been
the DC Court, I'm not sure, but he had ordered
that all of the payments that had been frozen in
usaid and the kind of largely in foreign aid that
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those payments resume by midnight last night, eleven fifty nine
pm last night, and the Acting Solicitor General on behalf
of the administration appealed to So I think this must
have been in DC, because I think she appealed to
the DC Court of Appeals and a three judge panel
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ruled against her. And I'm not surprised by that because
restraining orders or injunctions to stop doing something or to
do something are generally not appeal and they're generally not
appealable because in nineteen ten point nine percent of the
cases it's just temporary. It's why they called a temporary
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restraining order. Look, just we're going to freeze everything the
way it is now until we have a hearing to
whether or not I'm going to enter in enter a
permanent injunction to make you do something or to stop
you from doing something. So they're built in safeguards. So there,
I wasn't surprised that whatever appellate court that it was decided, no,
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we're not going to intervene. The lower court can proceed,
and even though you are arguing and the government's argument was, look,
we cannot we cannot possibly comply with this order to
resume these payments by eleven to fifty nine pm because
we haven't vetted the payments. We've got to start the
you know, we've got to re enter all of this information.
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And we were in the process of stopping the payments
so that we could check them for validity. Even if
someone had it's done the work, all we were doing
was saying we're not paying you now until we determine
whether or not you really did the work and didn't
work meet the standards that was required by the contract.
(03:14):
So it's I think she had a good argument. She
went to the US Supreme Court. Just though.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We start at the US Capitol and this sit in
protest you see here against cuts to foreign aid spending
including USAID capital.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now, I find it hilarious that people are protesting like
they should. I think this isn't This is in the
Cannon House Office building, and there is a rotunda when
you first walk into the Canon House Office building, and
you know, the marble pillars all around, and they've put
some sign on the floor and they're all interlocked with
(03:53):
their feet facing outward as a former circle in the
middle of the rotunda I'd love to go up to
some of these people and say, what age what aid
are you protesting? Like, what in particular, what particular foreign
aid are you upset about? I bet they have no
answer none.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Months of a police seene here arresting several people inside
the Cannon House Office building, the White House just announcing
today plans to cut more than ninety percent of Foreign
eight contracts for usaid and sixty billion dollars in overall
US assistance dished out around the world. The White House
now facing a deadline of midnight tonight, just a couple
(04:36):
hours from now, to complete pre authorize two billion dollars
in Foreign eight payments. The administration late today though, filing
an emergency appeal asking the US Supreme Court to halt
that deadline, saying it will now take multiple weeks to
pay that out from foreign spending to the government payroll.
The White House issuing that memo today, setting the stage
(04:57):
for large scale layoffs across the federal Here's President Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
We're cutting down government.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We're cutting down the size of government.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We have to. We're bloaded, we're sloppy. We have a
lot of people that aren't doing their job.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We have a lot of people that don't exist.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Agencies are directed to submit plans for reduction enforced by
March thirteenth, that includes not only layoffs, but eliminating positions entirely.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So Dragon had a good point as he was listening
to that. What was your question?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Trying to make sure the wording makes sense to me
because it's spinning around my head and I'm getting a
little dizzy. They are stopping the stop to the freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Got it? Got it? So it's the judge stopped the freeze.
I mean the judge froze the funds. Uh huh No, no, no, no, no,
the government froze the funds. The government said, no, you
cannot do that. You must pay it. The Appeals Court said,
we agree with the lower court, you must pay it.
And the Supreme Court stepped in the small again said no,
(06:01):
we're going to stop the injunction.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
To stop the stop. Yes, so it's still frozen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Still frozen. You got it, aren't you? Glad you've work
on the fourth floor?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Now makes complete sense.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See, I know you just need you just need time.
You need time in a cookie time and a cookie
solves everything. So now let's get to what I really
wanted to talk about. Question, legitimate, sincere question, do you
(06:34):
really care about the Jeffrey Epstein files? Dragon? Do you
really care about it?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I'd be curious is to know what names are on
that you know, what what higher ups, big wigs, big
names are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, so I'm kind of where you are. I'm curious.
I'd like to know who was on the manifest who
went to the island. But and I'm sure there are names.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
For example, it's gonna look bad for any name on
that list, but that does not mean that they participated
in said acts.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
See, it's like we're an old, married couple. He finishes
my sentences for me. Professor Dershowitz is out with some
opinion pieces about how he wants the files released. His
name's going to be on that list, and he is
adamly denied that he ever engaged in any sexual activity
with anyone, let alone an underaged you know, female or male,
(07:35):
I guess for that matter. So while I would like
the files to be released, maybe because I'm a jerk
and I want to see people scramble, I don't want
innocent people to get caught up in this. But if
if you were buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and you flew
(07:58):
down there to I forget the name of the island,
but if you flew to the island and you did
it numerous times, I kind of wonder, like, how did
you not know what was going on? Or if you
truly did not know what was going on, why were
you going to the eye? I mean, there's just all
the swirling of questions in my head.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Just because you're a friend of Pablo Escobar does not
mean you're dealing drugs.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Right, But if you're a friend of Pablo Escobar, you
probably kind of suspect there's something going on, Like Pablo
came from a really poor family and suddenly Pablo owns
mansions and private jets and ghost streams and everything. Oh
you don't wonder. I mean Dragon looks at me and
my extravagant wealth and is absolutely convinced that I'm meeting
(08:46):
drugs on the side, which I normally do with the
group out there in the pits. I'm eating my own
profits as well. Yeah, I'm injecting my own profits, is
what I'm doing. So I have this kind of pay
relationship with the Epstein files, But what's the rule about
the butt? Pay attention to what I say after the butt.
(09:07):
Pam Bondy has said I should have pulled the SoundBite up.
This is I'm sorry. What you get what you pay for.
I did not pull up the SoundBite, but she is
on record as saying the Epstein files are on my
desk and we're going to release them as soon as possible.
And that's been several weeks ago, or at least at
(09:29):
least a couple of weeks ago. Well that's what bugs me, then,
why haven't you done it? So let me walk through
my thinking about this, and let's start. I don't want
to make this theological depending upon your particular version of
the Bible. Ecclesiastes eight eleven says, in essence, because the
(09:55):
sentence against an evil deed is not active upon on quickly,
the heart of the children of man is fully set
to do evil. In other words, you've got to face evil,
do something about it, and do it quickly, otherwise evil
will take root in your heart, in the heart of man.
(10:19):
It's a good Bible verse. Well it would have been,
it wasn't quite that long ago. My notes say that
Pam Bondi announced it would have been the twenty fifth.
I think that the Epstein files, or at least some
of the files, would be released for public consumption today.
(10:43):
Now I always still have time to go on, but
the files are obviously going to contain various items. The
files I think will include some are all the names
of Epstein's associates. It will contain the flight logs that
detail who travel to as private island and those who
(11:03):
might have because they went to the island, they may
have and they may not have taken part in sexual
abuse of minor children. Now, whether they did or not
is important, but the more important thing is is that
Jeffrey Epstein who somehow managed to hang himself while guards
(11:24):
look the other way. The abuse of minor children is
one of those things where when we do taxpayer relief shops,
we actually celebrate the death of the thug. Children and
dogs are off limits for me and Dragon. Now, I
don't know. I don't think anybody knows if this is
(11:46):
going to be a comprehensive undoing of a bunch of
high profile figures that are on that list. But everybody
seems to be really anticipating, and it's likely going to
create some public surprises going to create some disgust, and
it's going to create a lot of speculation, and it's
going to expose some you know, let me, let me
(12:10):
broaden it. It's gonna it's going to expose the special
status of elitists in this country. Now, let's go bear
with me. Don't jump to conclusions here. Let's go to
Donald Trump for a moment, because why did Donald Trump win?
(12:31):
You got it in your head. It's kind of like
asking you to list five things you did yesterday. Donald
Trump's election election came with a mandate for a bunch
of stuff. Can you name souff? Well, I think border
security was probably number one. The economy was number two.
Jump start the economy, deport people who are here. Uh,
shatter these death packs that we have with some of
(12:54):
these international groups that weaken us. Uh. Terminate any engagement
in an endless, unwinnable conflict wherever that might be. Doesn't
get mentioned much, but election reform. He did mention something
the other day in a press conference about paper ballants. Well,
I think we need to focus on that and of
(13:15):
course eliminate or at least gut the deep state, the
administrative state. And there are probably some others, but those
are just something that I think of. But I think
one thing that everybody is wanting, whether it's Christopher Ray,
whether it's Anthony Fauci, whether it's the Biden family, which
(13:42):
are off limits now because of a pardon. I think
Americans are just asking for some justice, which is why
I point out Ecclesiastes. When the sentence for a crime
is not quickly carried out, people's hearts get filled with
schemes for evil, for wrongdoing, for lawlessness. And so I
(14:04):
think that justice as a broad category is something that
we expected from this administration. But I'm here because I
firmly believe that there is no political future for anybody
without justice. And if there is no justice, you can
(14:28):
forget about a Maga dynasty. You can forget about JD.
Vance or anybody else that might you know in the
next over the next three or four years, evolve as
a leading candidate to be the next Conservative Republican president,
the next MAGA president. You can forget all of that,
(14:51):
Which is why I think Trump is working so hard
and so quickly right now, because if if most of
the Trump agenda gets done, the political machine is waiting
anxiously on electionary form, if there's one under construction to
(15:11):
see just how far the opposition can go in manipulating
the midterms, which are now you know, really really kind
of biting at our heels. If there is no justice,
we will permanently disgrace those who have lost loved ones
(15:32):
at the hand of violent foreigners or fentanel or whatever
illicit drugs have come into the country. The flow of
these third world unassentable, unassimilable foreigners will continue until we
go the way of Rome. We're going to continue to
lose any sense of an American identity, and we are
(15:54):
going to buckle under the weight of a welfare state
that is designed to punish successful in order to who
lift up the entitled. It's the it's the whole concept
of equity. So the time to punish those responsible for
the deliberate dissolution of our sovereignty is now. If there
(16:15):
is no justice, warmongers who have provoked the world of violence,
serious blood shed and death, well, their license will advance,
Their license will grow to continue to do that. History
gives us plenty of examples of post war societies that
wound up worse off. On the other side, of a
war than they were going than they were they were
going into the war. So if there is no justice
(16:39):
those who've abused women and children, I mean we slavery
still exists, child adult human trafficking, human sexual abuse, human
sex trafficking is going on. Got to have justice. What'll
(17:01):
we do?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Michael, Kathy b here, like your friend that you met
at the reception, I'm also your friend and your biggest
fand so much so that if you've got in a
car crash in a lonely, snowy mountain road and broke
your ankles, I take you in and heal you back
(17:25):
to health.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
She sounds like, as in, Kathy Bates, take me in.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I sh'll help you and mine.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know, tie me to the bed and then beat me.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You're safe.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, I just you know, I want to believe that,
you know, should nurse me back to health and chicken
soup and maybe a little tequila here and there and whatever,
nurse me back to But I had this Kathy Bates
thing in my head too.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Can you watch that scene?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean I've seen a lot of horror movies, and
I've seen a lot of grouse some stuff, but just
that scene with his ankle. Oh, there's something about that.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Another reason why I love this audience. Think about what
went through her head.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Huhuh to leave a talk back yep.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
In the middle of a discussion of Jeffrey Epstein files
to tell us that God love him. Man oh man,
So let's go to Professor Dershowitz because I want you
to hear what he has to say, because this is well,
(18:40):
there's just so much to unpack in what he writes.
He says, from the time I was first falsely accused
of having sexual contact with someone I never heard of,
which he was remem when this whole story broke what
years ago, Oh, Professor Dershowitz was down there and he
had sex with so and so, and he didn't bat
an eye. He came out of the shoot just boom.
(19:03):
That is faults, and I demand to see the evidence.
In fact, he wrote a a wop ed, he wrote,
he wrote a wop ed for the walls Meat duggle.
Yes he did. It was amazing. He asked the FBI
to actually open a criminal investigation of himself so that
he could prove beyond any doubt that the charges were
(19:24):
completely made up in faults. And he also agreed this
is this is such a lawyer. I love it. He
said that he would waive any and all privileges if
they would just conduct an investigation. In other words, I'll rape,
I'll wave my right against self and crida, I'll wave
my Fifth Amendment rights, I'll wave my right to do process.
(19:44):
Just everything. You just start and open an investigation file
and investigate the hell out of me about that charge,
because you're not going to find anything, cause I didn't
do anything. He continues to this day to demand that
every bit of evidence be close be disclosed, because, as
he says, I know with one hundred percent certainty that
(20:05):
the evidence, if completely produced without exceptions, exculpates me for
the simple reason that I did nothing wrong. But he
points out that as long as the evidence is being withheld,
and as he points out, is being withheld for no
good reason, only the guilty are protected by withholding the evidence.
(20:28):
Only the guilty or protected by withholding the evidence. The
guilty include those who may have been sexually involved in
the Epstein case, but the guilty may also include anyone
who deliberately made false allegations against innocent people, something that
I really had kind of just forgotten about. Another reason
(20:49):
why he would want these things disclosed. Who made the
allegation against me? Because that is defamation. You accuse me
or anybody else falsely of having sex with an underage child.
Yep bring on the libel and slander suits. I just
(21:11):
hope you got a bunch of money, because I's going
to take it. He points out that we know that
there were videotapes that Epstein made, and he thinks that
this video evidence will indicate who did and probably who
did not engage an improper conduct. And that now forget
(21:36):
him for a moment, because this gets back to my
whole point in the last segment about justice, because justice
and the public interest, which are intertwined, would completely be
served by producing the entirety of the evidence. Now, before
(21:57):
I go further, I'm not trying to cast aspersions upon
Pam Bondy, but I do want to hold her accountable.
If you and this is probably both a challenge and
a warning to the Attorney General and to everybody else
in the cabinet. I know that with Donald Trump, it
(22:23):
is it is balls to the wall. Let's move forward,
let's get it done, Let's say what we mean. Meanwhile,
we say and let's do it. Okay. Well, that puts
a huge obligation and burden on you as a member
of the cabinet when you say, in effect, the Epstein
(22:43):
files are on my desk and I'm reviewing them and
I'm going to release them. What do you hear? I hear,
you got them and you're going to release them. Most
people ignore the middle part about I'm reviewing them. Why why?
(23:05):
Because if this these files, if it's a document, it's
a it's a thumb drive, I mean, whatever the hell
it is. I don't know what in physical form it is.
But if it was part of his court case, were
a criminal court case where he's now the defendant and
(23:28):
you've done nothing wrong, you may get caught up in
a fece storm of allegations and speculation every but you're
there now. So there's no harm that I can think of.
Maybe some other lawyers got some better idea than I do,
but I can't think of any legal harm that is
(23:48):
going to fall upon the shoulders of someone who is innocent. Oh,
they're going to have a PR problem because while your
name was in the file, well that doesn't mean anything.
So release the documents or the file whatever form it's
in release it. The longer you wait, the more you
(24:10):
become speaking of Pam Bondy here, the more you become
part of this deep state that we've all voted for
Trump to come in and completely rack wreckon, take a
wrecking ball to it. And now you seem to be
protecting Now I don't know that she really is, and
maybe she's truly a lucis the attorneys. With all due
(24:31):
respect to Pam Bondy, I know she's got a crapload
of stuff on her plate right now. She's got the
whole weaponization issue. She's got to deal with all of
the investigations of Trump. She's got to figure out who
in that huge bureaucracy she can trust or not trust.
She's busily trying to work with the White House Officer
personnel to come up with names to fill all the
(24:54):
US attorney positions around the country. She has a crapload
of stuff to do right now. But the the problem
is she stepped out and made the point that the
files were on my desk and I'm reviewing and I'm
going to release them. So my expectations are, Hey, you
know what, there were days when I would wake up
(25:14):
at four or five o'clock in the morning, which is
why I love doing morning and drive. And I would
be in the office before six am because Bush was
having some you know, teleconference or whatever we had to attend,
or I just had work to do. And again not
trying to pat myself on the back, but that same
day I might not get back to my dump of
an apartment until eight, nine or ten o'clock at night.
(25:37):
It was brutal. Sometimes that's what you agree to when
you get nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
That's the kind of lifestyle that you agree to. And
if you've ever been a lawyer in private practice and
you've been up against a trial, you know that, hey,
(25:59):
order because we're going to be in the office all
night long. I've done those kinds of nights before. You've
probably done them in your business, whatever it is. You know,
if you are, if you're Chris, and the guys at
Discount Bath that I just did the spot for, I
just looked over because there's the spot. So they've been
(26:20):
working on a project all day long. Well, they get home,
they may or may not have time for dinner, and
then what do they have to do? Well, they've got
other projects. They've got to make sure that they get
they get they're getting all of their that all their
vendors are getting all the supplies they need because they
can't wait until the day the project starts. So, hey,
do we have the facets all crap? No, they have
(26:41):
weren't delivered on time. So they may not be at
the office. They may be at home working on their computer,
but they're working. If you've ever owned a small business,
you know that's what it's like. Well, Pam Bondi has
stepped into a gigantic small business called the Department of Justice.
So release the files, putting it off. Those who have
(27:04):
been accused, whether they have rightly or wrongly been accused,
include some of the most prominent people in this world, politicians,
princess celebrities, businessmen, and those who are totally innocent like
Professor Dershowitz. They have a right to public disclosure of
the evidence of their innocence, and those who are guilty
of the serious crimes they have no right of privacy.
(27:29):
So the evidence falls in several categories. The evidence might
just be names of people who Epstein knew, business associates, lawyers, accountants, friends.
Those names might be in telephone books, diaries, airplane manifests,
other documents. They have nothing, They prove nothing that implicates
(27:49):
them in anything illegal. Then there are other names that
appear in accusatory documents. We've got depositions, we got all
the legal pleadings. Why have the legal leading is not out?
Why have we not seen those? There's no evidence to
support the uncorroborated accusations, but they are believed by many
(28:10):
and that needs to be disproved. Then you have all
the digital evidence, photographic, recorded, whatever it might be that
proves some connection between an accused and an accuser, but
doesn't necessarily prove any improper conduct. And at least in theory,
(28:30):
if there is a smoking gun such as a video
that might implicate you in a sex crime, well I
haven't seen any evidence of that either against anybody. Oh
I've heard plenty of rumors about it, Prince Andrew and
the others. Oh yeah, it's all out there. So I
(28:50):
would just say, if we're going to understand that justice
delayed is justice denied. If we're going to understand ecclesiast
is that as long as you don't you don't rapidly,
you know, meet out justice, that evil will fill men's hearts,
and that evil can take many forms, including speculation. Well,
(29:15):
was bondy, You've had time release the files.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Trump the Musk have got to expose who at the
highest levels has been enriching themselves by this government misspending.
And it cannot just be the low level employees or else.
This whole thing is going to explode and bagfire right
in their face.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And it comes crashing though.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I told you, you know, I've seen some scary horror movies,
some gor stuff that's just got eyeballs dangling from the head.
But as soon as she has that sledgehammer and puts
the block between his feet, it's like, no.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Do you remember how we started the entire program this
morning talking about how people see me as their friend?
Uh huhh, and then I really want my privacy. Uh yeah,
this is why, exactly why not that I think anybody
out there is Kathy Bates. But you never know, it's
(30:12):
a it's a lack of world and I just want
to be a little circumspect about who I hang out with.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's a pleasure to meet you, now goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Somebody says that they want the Biden her interview released.
Oh my gosh, I want to see that video so
badly and then give her three zero four seven, says Michael.
In an interview yesterday, Pam Bondi said that she was
reviewing the file to protect the over two two hundred
and fifty victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, uh, these files,
(30:48):
I'm certain have been digitized. We live in the age
of digitizing court records. So you know the names of
the victims, you do a word search, you readact those
and you release the files. I mean, this is another
example of what I need a new sharpie over here
to black out some names.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
You just need control f exactly exactly
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