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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello everyone, My name is Smitch Walsh. Welcome to today's
episode of news Flash. We have a good one for you.
As always on the show, Today France has recognized the
Palestinian state as a global tide turns against the Israeli's
actions the Israelis genocidal actions in Gaza, but it may

(00:35):
be too late, as the US and Israel have sabotage
to last best chance at ceasefire negotiations before the famine
really kicks in, and now of all people, the Israelis
are blaming the UN for lack of aid distribution. Will
break down all the details from the crisis of the

(00:55):
Gaza genocide. Also, Trump called Jeffrey Epstein quote the Greatest
in a newly unearthed friendly greeting on a copy of
his book that he gave to Epstein found by The
New York Times. Will give you the latest on that
and why he is still trying to cover everything up
regarding the Epstein case and why he made pardon Glene Maxwell. Also,

(01:22):
if you remember back in March, I don't know if
you do, when the Dems caved Chuck Schumer specifically caved
to Trump and Republicans on their spending bill opting to
go with Republican funding levels until September. Well, September is
getting close and Democrats, surprise, surprise, are considering caving again

(01:45):
to avoid a shutdown. Will give you all the latest
on the feckless Dems. We got a great show for
you today, everyone. This is Newsflash once again. All of
the stories you're about to hear will be available on YouTube.

(02:06):
Put the last one up at around midnight tonight. As
we continue to track the genocide of the Palestine people,
particularly in Gaza, we do actually have some good news
for you for once, but also a lot of troubling
and really tragic, tragic news to get through. We'll start though,

(02:26):
with some of the good news. First. This is from
Emmanuel Macron. He says, consistent with its historic commitment to
a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I've
decided that France will recognize the state of Palestine, and
he says he's going to make that announcement before the
UN General Assembly this coming September. He says we needed
immediacies fire, the release of all hostages, and massive humanitarian

(02:48):
aid for the people of Gaza, who will ensure the
demilitarization of mas secure and rebuild Gaza, and finally, we
must build the state of Palestine. And he's talking about
their you know, in all likelihood the Mahammudabas run power
authority and assure that ensure that by accepting its stimularization
and fully recognizing Israel, it contributes to the security of
the region. And you know the way he's accepting it.

(03:10):
Even if you take all the first the first big problem,
right is that the two stays solution is dead in
the water. You know, we saw yesterday or I think
it was a few days ago that the Israeli can
voted to and I think some of the opposition you've
been joined in as well, to annex, the call for
the annexation of the West Bank. The West Bank has
already to factor and analyze. They control annex excuse me, uh,

(03:34):
The Israel controls tax collection, they control energy collection, they
control all the checkpoints. They essentially dominate life in the
West Bank and are looking to dominate it even more
as simular attacks have exponentially exponentially increased. But also you know,
the the two stay solutions is taken off the table.
But even if you did want and it's taken off

(03:55):
the table by the way by Israeli actions that I
just mentioned, and not by anything that you know, Mahamuda
Bass has done in terms of cooperating with the Israeli
government hand and glove, especially after october'sa and tamping down
on any resistance in the West Bank to anything that
was going on. But another really very big problem with

(04:15):
this whole situation, even if you were to say, oh,
I want the due state solution, let's fight with the
due state solution, is if you were to do a
two state solution in that way, you know, it wouldn't
really be very effective because we saw what happened with
this attemper for two state solutions essentially redoing the Oslo course,
which is giving the palest Indians essentially a colony to

(04:35):
be controlled by Israel with no military, no currency, no
means of actually differentiating itself and building its own state identity,
which makes it very easy for Israel to come in
over the top and manipulate it and take control of
it and cause immense pain, death and suffering for the
people within that Palastinian state, as they had been doing
since the Ozo Accords and way before, and really obviously

(04:56):
picking that up in the wake of October seventh. So
the template laid out by Macron is really kind of
out of touch. You know, the Tuesday solution is already
dead in the water, and even if it was, the
way he's laid it out here is not really very convincing.
But it is a step in the right direction. And
it comes as you know, the people are really waking

(05:18):
up to what Israel is doing and it's you know,
I think that's what this post shows. You saw a
post here there is a letter strongly where a letter
from a secure starmer in the UK. You saw some
you know, tough headlines for Israel and the German press
talking about, you know, why they're starving all these children
and all that stuff. But yeah, it comes as there

(05:38):
has been the destruction of and you know, the US
here is really what matters in the US is not
taking any sort of a different tact towards Israel at all.
They have again pulled out of ceasefire negotiations probably was
the last best chance before mass famine really sets in here.
As people are dropping day by day dead in Gaza

(06:01):
because of the fam that's been going on, We've decided
to bring our team home from Doha. This is Steve
Whitkoff saying for consultations after the latest response from Hamas.
And this is a piece Envoy Steve Witkoff from the
US which clearly shows a lack of desire to reach
a ceasefire in Gaza. While the Meteors have made a
great effort, Halasa does not appear to be coordinated or

(06:23):
acting in good faith. We will now consider alternative options
to bring the hostages home and create a stable environment
for the people of Gaza. It's a shame that Hamas
has acted in this selfish way. We are resolute and
seeking an end to the conflict in a permanent place
in Gaza. You know, it really is quite disgusting to

(06:45):
see stuff like this from Steve Whitkoff. As the people
of Gaza are starving and essentially all that Hamas has
asked for is during this potential ceasefire, do you mind
having Israel not literally still be in Gaza. The Israeli
military is still being parked in Gaza and trying to
essentially build a concentration camp. You know, it is really incredible.
Jeremy Scahill of Dropside News has some pretty good analysis

(07:08):
on this. He says Israel has been pushing a narrative,
you know, through Hebrew media that Hamas is taking a
hard line and obstructing a deal. This is totally false.
Israel has put together a proposal to effectively occupy huge
losts of Gaza indefinitely, including building a large concentration camp
in Gaza. Hamas of course rejected this because it's not
a negotiation, it's a decoration of attentive continue to continue

(07:32):
the mass extermination and expulsion of the Pouse. The new
people in response to mass showed a willingness to agree
to Israeli troop withdrawal and redeployment maps that would still
allow significant and really imposed buffer zones encircling Gaza. So said, yeah,
can you just pull your troops a little bit back?
And then you know, the Israelis in the us of
essentially you know, turning the table over, walked out and

(07:53):
said hell no, that is what was going on again.
As the children of Gaza aren't dying every day and
turning into skeleton. It's really awful, awful stuff. On the
issue of aid, Israel's demand that's lethal aid scheme, the
so called Gaza u Manator Foundation, Romaine in Gaza. This
comes again as they say that, oh, the UN is
stopping the aid for me delivered. You know, Ryan Grim
will break down. How false that is. Hamas proposed that

(08:15):
the UN resume control of distribution sites to its four
hundred sites in Gaza. The only effective program for a
distribution that has ever existed. Say is essentially saying, get
the UN back in there, please. There are almost more.
There are more than ten thousand Palestinians held captive by Israel.
There's also an estimated two thousand saptions octobers have for
the explicit purpose of exchanging them for Israeli captives in Gaza.

(08:40):
Hamas proposed a framework that would free these two thousand
Palestinian hostages, as well as hundreds of other Palestinians, including
those serving life sentences, in return for israel soldiers held
captive in Gaza, which are all that remained. The civilians
captives have been released a long time ago. Finally, Hamas says,
asked for a clear guarantee from the United States that
Israel will not be allowed to resume the genocide after

(09:02):
initial sixty day truth. There's essentially saying, can the US
keep the ceasefire going? As well, like that is their
crazy demand that Steve Whickkoff has called unacceptable. Israel has
promoted a false narrative that has been reasonable, and Halsa
has been obstructionists. The reality is that Nanyai repeatedly sabotage
deals throughout the past twenty two months, and Israel unilaterally
endorsed the sorry, crushed the January cease fire excuse me

(09:28):
endorsed by Trump and Biden, and resumed the genocide and
forced starvation campaign. He boasted that he'll get a side
letter from Trump allowing him to resume the war regardless
of any deal that decides, and essentially saying, Trump, take
that guarantee to be away, please, so we can begin
to rebuild here and keep this going, keep you know,
the survival of the Palestinian people going. And meanwhile, Israel

(09:51):
wants to keep the entire war going. This context in
which the Palestinians are forced to operate in these negotiations
within Israeli side that daily makes clear public that it
wants to white Palestinians off the map. The Palist negotiators
are left with only one actual hope that Trump will
decide to stop if it was war of annihilation. This
is a huge gamble, regardless of what the actual signed

(10:12):
deal states. And you can see this here as the
Israelis pull out, there is an interesting kind of trend
throughout government where and throughout kind of politics as well,
where people are starting to realize and wake up to
the really the tragedy that's been going on here. And
Hillary Clinton even weighing in saying eight organizations report that

(10:34):
thousands of children are at risk of starvation while trucks
full of food weight sitting across the border. The full
flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately, and then
you know this guy alec Aran said, one day everyone
will voice men against this, promoting the book The Great
Book by Omar al Acad with probably a sentiment that
I feel probably two times every single day, three times

(10:58):
every single day. We can get these people now who
are coming out and saying, oh, we got to bring
the Eid Israa's gone too far. You know, here it comes,
you know, here comes the whole thing. Oh I was
always against this, it has gone too far. Right when it's
essentially too late, the United States, as we just talked about,
Israel pulled out probably the last best chance to stop
real famine from taking over Gaza. We have seen the

(11:22):
you know, you know. Manuel mcrown is a great example
coming out in the last hour. Oh, we'll recognize Palestine.
Here's another one. We have Barry Weiss of the Free Press,
who has been brutal in her support of Israel, unrelenting
in her support of Israel. Even now she's tweeting out
articles in her outlet saying the price of flower shows
the growing hunk crisis in Gaza. Important piece from a

(11:44):
meat seagull in the FP. Like Ryan Graham here is saying,
do tell you know, never heard this before? There's starvation
in Gaza? What no way? And then here you have
Amy Amy Klobachar talking about a cute malnutrition is rising
hundreds of palace and needs to be killed in recent
weeks while seeking food most if any of Gaza Humanitarian
Foundation distribution sites and others on the roots of a convoys.

(12:04):
This is simply unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And now outside the scope of famine. Not even myself.
This is the pediatrician who leads the war. He says,
I am speaking to you as a health official, but
I too am searching for flower to feed my family.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, she's actually quoting testimony from officials. Now on the
other angle of this is, as Ryan Gram will explain here,
the Israel is now blaming the UN for famine in Gaza.
They it's the UN's fault. Even though they've been pushing,
as we just read from Jeremy Scahill, in these negotiations
to keep the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is their aid

(12:44):
killing organization in involved in Gaza in service. They're now
essentially blaming the UN, who they have cast out and
they've stopped from getting any aid for the destruction of
the aid essentially. So, uh, here's the take, here's the analysis,
the break down here from Ryan Graham with Dropsie News.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
It's cleared to enter Gaza that the UN is refusing
to deliver. I spoke to people in the humanitarian aid
organization world to get a sense of what Israel is
talking about here, and the background is this, Well, let's
step back even further. We all saw Israel run a
global campaign to drive UNRA basically out of Gaza. UNRA

(13:28):
was the organization that was overseeing aid distribution in Gaza
and has been for many decades and was doing it effectively.
If you noticed before Israel took over aid distribution over
the last several months. You actually never saw any news
reports about aid seekers getting mowed down while they were
going to seek aid. You might remember the World's Central

(13:52):
Kitchen workers who were killed by Israeli drone strikes. You
might remember the flower massacre from early on in this conflict,
that was late twenty three early twenty twenty four. That
was an effort by Israel to control aid distribution. It

(14:12):
failed miserably as they slaughtered huge numbers of people. And
as a result of the flower massaker, aid delivery was
turned back over to international humanitarian aid organizations and we
didn't have massacres up until this Israeli back to the
US back Kaza Humanitarian Foundation took back over. So that's
the background. So on July twentieth, the World Food Program,

(14:35):
which is run by Cindy McCain, the widow of John McCain,
went on a twenty five truck aid delivery effort in
northern Gaza. Once they got cleared in, mobs of people
began surrounding the trucks. These are hungry, starving people trying

(14:55):
to kind of just grab the flower off the back
of the truck. And the IDF opened fire on them,
killing many of them. And so after this disaster, the
World Food Program said that it was going to pause
aid delivery until the IDF would guarantee that its soldiers

(15:16):
would stop firing on people who were seeking aid.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Unreasonable.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Why those trucks are still sitting there now, the UN said,
in response to Israel's claim that it's the UN to
blame that they're happy to deliver these trucks. Now, pause
for a second and consider that people say that you
need about nine hundred to one thousand trucks per day
to make sure that people are not dying of starvation,

(15:44):
and we're talking about nine hundred trucks total that have
been sitting there, you know, since July twenty first. So
the UN noted that Israel recently forced the evacuation of
UN workers from the last remaining a civilian area that
has not been completely destroyed, which is Darrel Balla. That's

(16:06):
where the UN and other relief agencies have their headquarters.
And Israel also repeatedly rejects requests by UN staff to
be able to move around Gaza. In order to be
able to deliver aid, UN staff have to be able
to move They are currently either stuck in their headquarters

(16:28):
or stuck in safe houses that they've moved to after
their headquarters has been forcibly evacuated by Israeli military incursions.
The short version is this Israel controls AID distribution and
people are starving to death in droves.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, so that's pretty simple right there. I think they're
from Ryan Grim, who has hit the nail on the
head regarding so much of this stuff. I mean, it
is a real effort by the Israeli media kind of
propaganda apparatus to essentially a lot of people because they
control all the AID. The UN is again kind of

(17:06):
carved up into these zones. They're being shot at, they're
being forced to evacuate, you know, the people who go
to these UN trucks are being killed. That only provides
room for Gazi minitarian foundation who are also killing the
Palestinians coming in and trying to get AID. And when
we talk about this stuff with the This is from
from Prem Takar here of the Ziteo News outlet. He

(17:27):
says over one quarter of all people who have died
in starvation in Gaza over the past twenty two months
have died in the past three days. So that speaks
to the incredible amount of starvation that has been building
up over so long because of this blockade, Because of
as ryank Grim explains, Israel has been stopping the UN

(17:48):
from effectively being able to deliver aid, not letting them
come in or shooting of their trucks when they do
come in, and you know, obviously that's something that they
can't co sign to essentially sign their people up there
their aid work up to get shot. And even when
they do brave through conditions like that, they're still being
kept into various areas, they're being cortined off. And then
that paves the way for the gaz Humanitarian Foundation to

(18:09):
come in and do what it does. And you know,
this comes after a new report from John Hudson, who
is of the Washington Post, on how they were essentially
warning of famine. The US government was warning a fan
in northern Gaza, and the bidendministration ordered this post, this,
this report to be deleted. This was back in twenty
twenty four when Biden was still in power. He scraped

(18:34):
this report through it out, send it off to be deleted.
And now there is a complete and total famine that
just true to this the way this report has been written,
there is now a complete and total famine that has
been shaping out in Gaza. So to essentially wrap it
all up, you know, the tide is essentially turning. There
are people who have been very prosued and this point

(18:57):
have come out and said this needs to stop now,
but it seems like it's too late as the United
States and Israel pilaticies find negotiations based on essentially nothing,
and they now try and blame the un for the
lack of aid distribution that's been going on as they
shoot un AID workers, stop them from delivering any aid,

(19:18):
and stop them from getting in, and shoot them when
they do let them in occasionally and essentially turn the
rest of the aid distribution over to the Gods of
Humanitarian Foundation, which is a giving people essentially food that
they can't use because they have to cook the flour
that they're giving they have to cook the pasta, but
they don't have fuel to cook the food that they're

(19:39):
being given by the Gods Humanitarian Foundation. And if they
don't get the food, chances are they're probably getting shot
by those same people, those Gods of Humanitarian Foundation. American
mercenaries and those Audief troops. So really really dark stuff
continuing from the Gods of strip. So the Jeffrey Epstein story,
despite Donald Trump's best efforts, is not going away. There

(20:02):
continues to be a pretty devastating drip drip drip effect
of even more stories coming out every single day. The
New York Times has another one of them, the headline
Trump's name is on contributor list for Epstein's birthday book.
You know, she's obviously going to further back up the
fact that he had in fact written the letter this

(20:22):
kind of sharpie marker that the New York Times or
the Wall Street Journal first report last week, Trump sues
for defamation. Now the New York Times gets the hands
on the list that Maxwell had when she was putting
together this book for Jeffrey Epstein's birthday. Glenn Maxwell obviously
the girlfriend, the kind of number one assistant, the right
hand woman to Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes and exploits.

(20:43):
So she puts together this list. It's like I'm gonna
get this person, this person, this person to for Jeffrey's
birthday book, right, And that list had Donald Trump on it,
and the New York Times has verified that. And what
you see there just over my head on your screen
if you're watching on YouTube Spencer Walls YouTube channel, is

(21:04):
that that note that Jeffrey or that Glene Maxwell wrote
Epstein on the front page of this leather bounded birthday book.
Apparently the list reviewed by The New York Times because
well known Epstein associates like Leslie Wexner, the then owner of
Victoria's Secret, and other retailers Allency Greenberg, whran the doomed
Wall Street firm bear Stearns, physicist Marie gell Mann. Mister

(21:28):
Greenberg and mister Gellman have since died. And what really
is bizarre to me is the fact that there's other
people on this list. You know, there has to be
other people on this list. I don't know why The
New York Times doesn't put that out fully like it
would obviously get tons of attention. You know, it wasn't
just those like four or five people on the list.
And I'm sure, you know, like Bill Clinton was on it,
you know, I'm sure there's you know, there was they

(21:50):
were having parties around this exact same time with Bill Clinton,
Donald Trump, Andrew all those other people. Very very famously
like two thousand and three to you know, maybe nineteen
ninety six was like really the heyday of what Epstein
was doing before he got caught a few years later,
got arrested for the first time. It's no secret Epstein
and Trump or friendly in the early nineties and early

(22:12):
two thousands. But facing intense criticism over his administration's refusal
to release files related to the government investigation into Epstein,
Trump has sought to downplay the extent of his relationship.
And this is again the real, you know, question worth
raising is that is Trump's team just stupid and incompetent
or is there actually something really bad going down, Because

(22:32):
if you would think given all these relationships, given the
fact that Trump did it appears cut ties in the
kind of mid two thousands, you know, apparently it was
over some sort of kind of land dispute, not over
the fact that he was a pedophile, because they probably
participated in a lot of that same stuff, you know,
with the very young girls. There's a billion comments about it,

(22:53):
but you know, they cut ties. Trump and Epstein cut ties.
A lot of people didn't cut ties and were still
hanging out of them. Andrew was still hanging out with
him well after he was convicted of sex trafficking, and
Epstein or Trump doesn't highlight that at all. He says, oh,
I didn't have any ties to it. We got to
keep the files very closely guarded. I don't want to
revictimize innocent people. And it's like, dude, you cut ties

(23:15):
with the situation, be like, yeah, I was friends with him.
It was a mistake. I cut ties. I knew there
was something off. A lot of people didn't cut ties. Here.
Here's all these files about the people that didn't cut ties. There.
You go go look at them, you know, just have
a feeding frenzy on them. But he does not, you know,
he continues to be incredibly sketchy. He's having, you know,
a meeting here with Glenn Maxwell. There's all this other

(23:35):
kind of stuff. And The New York Times was also
found yet another admiring note. Of course, Trump had to
give Epstein one of his books, The Art of the Comeback,
that belonged to mister Epstein. This was also found somehow
the Times. It doesn't really say how they got that
doesn't really give any hint to that. But there's another
note here. This is I don't know if we can

(23:57):
see it. It says October ninety seventh to October nineteen
ninety seven to jeff you are the greatest. From Donald
so you are the greatest. That's what he's telling Jeffrey
Epstein in October of nineteen ninety seven. Jacob Shamsey and
who is a pretty good following this. He's a legal
correspondent for Business Insider. As he says, as a person
who covered Glenn Maxwell's criminal trial, it was read through

(24:20):
pretty much every single file of the Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit.
I find this correct discourse to be in bizarre land
talking about really some of what we just touched on,
which is the fact that there are is so much
information and the government and so many other people is
acting like, you know, these files are not done with reactions,
they're not read through by the FBI to protect the victims.
You know that process has already been done. You know

(24:41):
New York Times reported that yesterday. Why aren't they releasing
these files if the redactions have already gone through. She
has a live criminal appeal, It doesn't make sense she
jeopardized it unless she'd get some kind of immunity. And
if she does, how can you trust her. She has
every incentive in the world to get out of her
twenty years sentence. This is what we're talking about here
with the conversations that Jeffreys A sorry Maxwell and the

(25:04):
Justice Department have been having over the past couple of days.
Just Department and the Deputy AG Todd Blanche, who is
very very chummy with Maxwell's lawyer back in the day.
They have been talking to each other their Blanche has
been interviewing Maxwell and her Florida prison and there's a
lot of shadiness going on behind that. You can try

(25:26):
and corroborate or about what she says based on vast
universe of evidence collected in the criminal and civil cases
involving Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. But Pam Bondi outed
half of the prosecution team. You're telling me that Todd
Blanche or the people on the House of Oversight Committee
have familiarized themselves with all the details of her ten
year legal saga in the past week and are ready
to talk to her about it, ready to interview her competently.

(25:46):
I don't buy it. Many of Epstein's case victims aren't
even the loops. So what are you talking about? For
these past you know, days and hours and all that.
So it's it is. It is very very strange. Let's
see if we can get this video here of a
very interesting conversation. I don't know exactly where it would be.
I think it's a little bit further down, but essentially

(26:08):
this is how things went after this interview. So this
is Maxwell's attorney, David oscow Markets. Listen to how he
phrases this conversation between Todd Blanche, who's a good friend,
Todd Blanche, who used to be Trump's defense attorney is
now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and
his client Glenn Maxwell.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
We had a very productive day today with the Deputy
Attorney General, Todd Blanche and Glenn Maxwell. First, we want
to thank the Deputy Attorney General for being so professional
with all of us and for meeting with us. He
took a full day and asked a lot of questions

(26:52):
and Miss Maxwell answered every single question.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
So very productive day. I wonder what they was so
productive about that, I mean, what are they trying to
do here? Are they trying to parton Maxwell for essentially
coming out and saying that Trump wasn't involved in the
Epstein files and essentially leaving it that at that and
not providing any evidence for that statement, even though we
know he was very much in the Epstein files, and

(27:16):
also I think more importantly, not getting to anyone else
who was in the Epstein files, not pushing Maxwell for
any evidence on this, and just letting her off the
hook for in exchange for exener any Trump. Well, it
certainly looks like it. Here's another clip of Maxwell returning
to the prison with a meeting carrying a box after
her meeting with Blanche, essentially carrying a big box of materials.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
There actually, if you look closely, she's carrying a box
of material Maxwell's attorney says she was forthcoming with every question.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
That trust going through the door. There the huge white box.
So you gotta wonder what's going on, you know, to say,
the least and the most obvious and easy thing to do.
This is what chamsy in here is saying that the
business inside a legal correspondent give us answers about the
Epstein thing Epstein file is to simply release the FILESID
they had already have an army of FBI agents doing reactions. Essentially,

(28:08):
release everything the DJ has, release everything. The FBI has
they've done the redaction, They've come through one hundred thousand
files four times to give reactions and flag different people.
If they've seen it, why not let us see it.
At this point, he says, give us Epstein's financial and transactions,
give us his text and emails. These are the things
that will tell us about his life, what he did
and did, how he did it, and who else was involved.

(28:30):
Why focus on a politically and legally dubious talk with
Glenn Maxwell, because maybe you have some ulterior motives, like
you want to sweep this thing under the rug, hide
your extensive involvement and protect the extensive involvement of other people,
other very powerful people from coming to light. Representative Rocannor
wants to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein to state great idea. Darren
Endyke and Richard kahnn are two figures. This is what

(28:51):
he said. So essentially, the Epstein birthday book is in
the hands of Epstein state lawyers will turn it over.
So that is a what Rocanna is trying to do. Also,
this is something that I think is kind of blown
under the radar in a big way. Steve Bannon, apparently
just before Epstein went to jail. Steve Bannon interviewed Epstein

(29:12):
for fifteen hours in his Manhattan and Paris apartments. That
footage is under wraps, and they also have very weird
close ties that would take a long time to get over,
you know, and this talks about how you know, Maxwell
and Maxwell's testimony, about Maxwell victims testimony about you know,
all the massages and all this disgusting crap that Maxwell

(29:35):
was kind of forcing her to give to Epstein and
to others. Again, the weird thing about it is, according
to The New York Times, the Justice Department worked around
the clock to clear one hundred thousand Epstein files for
public release and then just didn't release them. It's been
two months since the files have been cleared for release.
Where the hell are they? And I think that's a
very valid question, given all of this stuff that we

(29:59):
see Trump trying to do so through every single possible
story out at the media to distract them. He's begging
people to talk about something else, do something different, get
past all this. And the thing is, you know, there's
a whole thing about the New York Times combing through
one hundred thousand these files. New York Times really says,

(30:19):
oh there's nothing there there it was it was a
fruitless attempt. You know, if there's one hundred thousand files
and you're telling me there's nothing in all of them,
and they're all redacted and all the names have been
stamped out through four separate like you know, you know,
combing throughs of these files. They've looked through them four times,
they've redacted. Why not just release them? Why not release them?
Why are you talking to Glayne Maxwell and acting like

(30:40):
you're gonna pardon her? Like and again, I'm not lying
about this stuff. This was just moments ago at the
White House. Uh Trump taught about to add off to
Scotland asking about being asked about partying Glayne Maxwell.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Would you consider a pardon or a commutation for Elin Maxwell?

Speaker 5 (30:56):
If I tell you that I haven't thought about if really,
if that record, it's something I'm allowed to do it,
but it's something I have not thought about.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
You wouldn't rule it out?

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Why has the scholar would?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay, so I would like to have hear I answered
the question about if he would have ruled it out
or not. But it's it's definitely very weird, like Trump
is coming in begging people to change the conversation. Here's
another one. Well, I don't know about the meeting.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
I know it's taking place, and uh he's a fantastic
man with the great attorney, and people should really focus
on how well the country is doing, or they should
focus on the fact that Barack Hussein Obama, Letikou, Barackhussain,
Larry Summers from Harvard, that Bill play you know very well,

(31:48):
and lots of other friends, really close friends of Jeffrey
Summers should be spoken about.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yes, don't talk don't talk about me, talk about all
the other Democrats who are involved. Come on, what will
you think? What's the what's the whole big deal? Well,
you know, why why are you going so hard on me?
You know again, it is a very very weird situation
throughout all of this. Uh I really again, you want
to highlight it, you want to essentially emphasize it as

(32:19):
much as possible, all this very very strange business going on.
And I think the bottom line is, you know, why
hasn't the DJ released the recording of its meeting with
Glain Maxwell Shamsie's asking here, there's all these different questions
that I think are really weird. Again, bottom line here
with all of this, But as Trump looks to be

(32:40):
coosing up to Maxwell and trying to, you know, pardon
her in exchange for some sort of statement from her
saying that Trump did nothing wrong, Let's move on from this.
Let's not talk about any of the other people. Let's
and you're off the hook lane, you know. As all
that happens, I think we should be focusing on these
one hundred thousand files apparently clear for public release. Trump

(33:00):
and others in the administration are trying to keep them
under wraps. I think that is the most important thing
to highlight at this point. But anyway, a lot of
very weird stuff going on. I think we've covered essentially
everything there is to cover at this point regarding this,
but you know, I think there is It's very very

(33:23):
clear this entire situation, this entire drama, this entire back
and forth, is not going to be going away anytime soon.
Because the MAGA base, they've been hooked on this. You know,
the independent voters who were lied on Trump because he
thought he's something different and are now realizing that that
was not true. They are now hooked on this. And
I think the big thing is Democrats also are going

(33:45):
to be hooked on this, and that's kind of getting
negatively polarized. The fact that where Democrats are finding a
lot of benefit from talking about this, even though they
have their own kind of ties with I guess Bill Clinton,
who they're I guess, to their credit, they don't seem
that focused on protecting anymore, when that definitely once was
the case. You know, I think we could see some
very very interesting stuff on this coming down the road.
I don't know if you remember back in March, there

(34:07):
was some real real outrage towards the Democrats and particularly
Chuck Schumer after they voted. Chuck Schuman around nine other
people voted for Donald Trump's spending bill, and essentially it
is a stop gap measure. It was a candy, essentially
a plan to kick the can down the road until September.

(34:28):
But it kept funding for a lot of Trump's priorities
on immigration, on cutting pretty much every other part of
the government except for immigration. And it was all done
essentially because Chuck Schumer was scared, not I don't want
to say Democrats, because Democrats got, to their credit, they
did get really really pissed at him, But I don't

(34:49):
know it was because Chuck Schumer was scared about how
he would be perceived if he voted for a government shutdown,
and he didn't essentially force Republicans to come to him
for some concessions on that bill because of the fact
that they needed at least ten Democratic votes to get

(35:10):
through a filibuster, a potential filibuster from either someone on
the Democratic side or the Republican side who was unsatisfied
because there wasn't enough cuts to the budget. Since then,
the House has or in the Senate has passed a
recisions package, which it was at the express request of

(35:30):
the President, which cut nine billion dollars in federal government spending,
most totally, notably from things like the PBS and NPR
and the Federal Broadcast essentially the federal broadcasting kind of operations.
And if you look at some of these Recision Recisions Act,

(35:52):
of the Recisions Act of twenty twenty five, that was
because signed by the President, it took back money for
the USAID, as we put this up here from from
the House site, takes back money from USAID from the
corporations of public broadcasting resins funds that were provide of
the State Department for you know again, global health programs,

(36:13):
migration refugee assistants at USAID, US Institute for Peace, and
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. So it took back nine
billion dollars and already approved federal funding for that, which
really really angered a lot of people in Democratic side.
But now take look this. Democrats are leary apparently of
supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through

(36:34):
clawbacks of funding already approved by Congress. But you know,
there is a a kind of inclination here from Patty Murray,
who is the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, that
you know, they seem to let the seem to want
to let the process play out for now. Murray called
some of the initial spending bills advancing through the Senate

(36:55):
solowed compromise bills that truly reject the draconian cuss proposed
by President Trump. House Republicans. It's like, yeah, you can
get these compromised bills back. In the March package, they
kept all the funding for all these state department programs,
these aid programs, and for corporational public broadcasting MPR and PBS,
but they took it back later. They took it back

(37:16):
through a recisions package that the Democrats had no power
to stop now because it's spending bill. They need the
sixty votes to get through. Otherwise they could they could
face a filibuster. But there is you know, and they're
swearing now that we're done with the decisions, We're done
with all this. But this came out publicly. Russell t Vote,

(37:38):
the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told
reporters recently that the appropriations process has to be less bipartisan,
infuriating Democrats, who said the comment poisoned the well as
they worked with Republicans who put together spending bills. So
it's gonna be very interesting. You could tell, you could
sense it in the air that if all things being equal,
Democrats just want to vote this bill through because they

(38:00):
don't want to be blamed for a shutdown. They're scared
of an actual fight, and they are just totally and
completely willing to just cave to the Republicans. You know,
and this is again sign here. In a ninety to
eight vote earlier this week, most Senate Democrats voted to
open floor debate on the chambers first spending bill of
the year, are typically less contentious measure covering military construction

(38:20):
programs and veterans programs. Some other less deviceive bills could
potentially be added to this package. So it's a first
step kind of package here, which will allow them to
kind of separate out all this stuff that is uncontroversial
that both sides can kind of easily vote on, and
then they can vote on that. But there is going

(38:40):
to be a moment, you know, mark my words, that
they will try andforce some more intense stuff, some more
controversial stuff through, and it seems very likely that the
Democrats are at least going to seriously consider caving through again,
even though they got so much backlash last time because
of them, the fear that exists the top of the Democratic

(39:03):
Party for them to not be blamed for an oncoming
government shutdown. No one wants to shut down, and the
way we avoid that shutdown is working together. And it's
like they're they're acting like they have a any sort
of serious partner for peace. You know, Uh, I guess
I'm mixing my my stories here, but you know, they're
acting like they have any sort of serious partner for
negotiation when it comes to the Republican Party. But they're not.

(39:28):
They're they're not a serious partner. You know, there may
be some Democrats could be, or some some Republicans in
the Senate could be reasonable about it. You've see in
that kind of in the in the Senate they're kind
of seeking assurances that they won't do a decision package again.
But you still have the House Republicans, you still have
the Administration, and you still have probably most of the
Senatorial caucus from these deep red states that are are

(39:50):
going to be very focused on and actually want to
continue cutting this aid just the same way that they
were doing it before. So that's the same time again.
Here it says House Republicans are advancing funding bills sending
drastically lower spending levels, and their counterparts in the Senate,
Republicans on the Appropriations Committee in that chamber earlier this
week approved to spending bill that would slash the budget

(40:11):
for four and AID and the State Department by twenty
two percent. Still, some conservatives in the House have complained
in spending bills they're advancing do not do enough even
in the House to advance foreign or cut foreign spending.
Horney bill provided billions more for some international programs the
President had requested and rejected his calls to cut global
broadcasting initiatives, and so they're essentially going to say, you know,

(40:35):
going to be a really big push for them to
cut even more in the House, to get more in
line with the Trump agenda. And it seems again right
now the Democrats are very much going to do it,
and there's already this this push to from the Republicans,
and working with them would be doing essentially doing exactly
what they want. Because the Republicans, you know, John Thune,

(40:58):
Mitch McConnell, whoever, these people who are running the show
in the Senate and on the House side, or they'll
probably just get together and laugh about how easy the
Democrats already get to come to the table on things
like this. The you know, this is a quote here
from Thune to end the article. The Democrats haven't indicated
because they're so upset of the Decisions Bill last week,
which by the way, cut one ten percent federal spending,

(41:19):
that somehow they can use this as an excuse to
shut down the appropriation process and therefore shut down the government.
He said, we think that would be a big mistake,
and hopefully they'll think better of it and work with
us and I think the answer to that on the
Democratic side is simple. It's like, we don't want to
shut down the process. We just don't want you to
be able to run away with the process. We want
to sit down. We want to get some legitimate wins

(41:43):
for us in this bill. Otherwise we have the power.
We will. We have the faith in their messaging, which
they absolutely should have, although you know it's clear right
now that they don't. But you know, if I was
a leird a Democratic party, this is what I'd say.
We have faith in our messaging. We know your policies
are unpopular. We know you'd we you know, Americans don't
want to see more cutting of the federal aid budget.

(42:04):
And then maybe we can get some some funding back
for I don't know, like National Park System, the weather Noah,
National Oceanic and Atmospherical Association. I think it's does the
weather forecast. You know, we can get some objective win
in the face of the Trump administration assault on the
federal government. So that is something they have absolutely kind

(42:29):
of really failed to do, and it's hard to say
that they've even tried. But it's going to be very
very interesting to watch as we see you know, this
is kind of less controversial spending bill coming up. There's
probably gonna be a bigger, more controversial spending bill for
the next fiscal year two that we'll have to go
through at some point in another and that is where
the real pressure is going to be. So we'll a

(42:50):
news flash at least are going to continue to keep
a very very close eye on this, you know. And
I don't think that even if they do publicly oppose
decisions as the Democratics people want them to do, as
the Democratic senators want the Republican centators to do, it
doesn't matter. It won't matter to them politically if they

(43:11):
get enough pressure from the their kind of right wing
masters to come out and say all this stuff that
we work with the Democrats on the past, we'll just
come and take it back, just like they did in
this bipartison build. The Democrats got so much heat for
going along with They just clawed that stuff back back
from March. They clawed it back last week. So what's
going to stop them from doing it again? And I think,

(43:33):
you know, the assurance is mean nothing because they don't
have to answer to you. They have to answer to
Trump right wing media, the Magabase all that stuff, and
that that is something that you have no control of.
What you do have control over is your ability to fight,
your ability to stand up, be strong, be confident your messaging,
be confident in your organization, your backbenchers, your media outlets,

(43:56):
your ability to push your message out there and say
we are not voting for this unless we get some
big wins out of this. You need us now, you
don't need us very much in the future. We're going
to be strong on this, and I think, yeah, I
do think it's going to be very very interesting to
see which way the Dems take that. We will bring

(44:19):
you all the play by play on that and everything
else going on in the world when we return at
the beginning of next week. Thank you so much for listening.
We have all the stories on video form at the
stunts Walls YouTube channel. I'll post the last one at
midnight tonight. Have a great weekend. It's news flash.
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