Charles Feldman: US Correspondent on the latest developments in the Epstein case, subpoenas

Former US President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary have received subpoenas from a congressional committee to testify about Jeffrey Epstein. 

The Republican committee chair has also called eight others, including former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller. 

The committee's looking for more information about the deceased sex offender after the Trump administration decided against releasing further files. 

US Correspondent Charles Feldman told Mike Hosking we’re unlikely to see any great revelations come from this. 

He says it doesn’t seem like there’s anything that will come out about Epstein that hasn’t already been leaked over the past few years – but that hasn’t stopped either the Republicans or Democrats from pursuing the files.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the stits and Charles Pelpman's doing the
business for us this morning. Charles, morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning Mite.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now where are we at in Texas? Have they rounded
up any of those loose Democrats it or not?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Not yet? You know, this is something that, as you know,
the Democrats are doing to try to head off a
plan by the Republicans in the state of Texas to
rework the way the districts are so that their votes
come the next election would go more in the favor
of the Republican Party. So the Democrats decided to up
and leave the state to various places like Illinois in California,

(00:35):
and they're saying they're not going to come back until
the Republicans dropped the plan, And meantime, the Republican governors
trying to get them arrested, but it's not particularly clear
on what the charges would be.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
There is a date or timeline on this and after
a while the court steps in. Isn't that right?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes? Yes, But the problem is that this is a
civil issue. It's not a criminal issue in the state
of Texas. At most the Democrats that have fled could
be fined a certain amount of money but I don't
think considering the stakes involved, that that is going to
weigh particularly heavily on their minds.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, talk to me then about Epstein. So we've got
the House Committee that's opoenion, the Clinton's the dog is involved.
Listen to what will we see and what we see.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, what you're probably not going to see, Mike, is
any great revelations. You know, it doesn't seem as if
there's anything about Jeffrey Epstein that is going to come
out that has not already leaked over the past few years.
But that has not stopped both the Republicans and the Democrats.
This is something they both seem to agree on in

(01:46):
trying to pursue more files from the Department of Justice
and elsewhere to see who was involved with Epstein, who
visited his island, who flew with him on his private jet.
But again, that stuff has already been out there in
the public domain. So it's not likely we're going to
see any major developments. But it is dragging on and

(02:08):
on and on, and it's the story that just keeps
on giving.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, it is west wing. Trump was on the roof,
I'm assuming surveying his kingdom. Was he.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's actually a good way of putting it. I can't
remember anytime in well, actually any time in history when
a president of the United States was seen wandering around
on the roof of the White House. Apparently he was
doing that because you know, he fancies himself still a
mastered builder, and he has ordered a reworking of everything

(02:41):
from the rose garden outside the White House to a
ballroom inside the White House. So apparently he was surveying
the project. But it is unusual, to say the least,
to see a president on top of a roof.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen one on top
of the roof. Chile's good catch up, Charles Fieldman out
of the States this morning. By the way, it's not
going to apply to US, I don't think. But they're
now looking if you want to go to America for
a number of travelers to post fifteen thousand dollars bonds.
It's a pilot program basically if you're from a country
with historically high visa over stay or rates, and it's
applying to whoever leisure, leisure and business travelers as well

(03:17):
B one or B two visas, which isn't US. The
US Department of State is going to I don't know
if they've officially announced it, but it's coming. Countries were
the most overstayers Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Haiti, and Venezuela. So
anywhere between five ten and fifteen thousand dollars by way
of a bond, you're going to have to stump up.
So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

(03:37):
Speaking of that part of the world, the southern part
of the America is Bolsonnaro of course, had some very
bad neues from the Supreme Court, so he's now under
house arrest. Trump follows us closely because he thinks Bolscenario
is quite a cool guy, so he's already I think
the last number I saw was fifty percent as in tariff,
so I'm sure that what the Supreme Court did yesterday
isn't going to help that particular cause. For more from

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