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To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand
And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice. >> Wow
All of them
That just blows up what Pam Bondi said 60 seconds back that anybody can meet with them
It has been a while since we have seen a grilling like this on Capitol Hill, but Attorney General Pamela Bondi sat today in front of the House Judiciary Committee and faced bipartisan skepticism about her and her DOJ's handling of the Epstein
Files release
Not only have they violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act, like 50 times now, every single day is a violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act
Not only have they underredacted the names of victims and then overredacted the names of perpetrators, but this entire process has very clearly been long drawn out and pried out of this administration against their will
Well, enter Pam Bondi.
She was the one who originally reopened the wound last February when she said, "I have the file sitting on my desk right now." One year later, she is sitting in front of members of Congress who are grilling the hell out of her
I want to walk you through essentially everything that happened because as Kyle Griffin points out.
It results in Pam Bondi refusing to apologize to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse for her actions in the Epstein case
To make matters worse for Pam Bondi, the Epstein survivors were sitting feet away from her, just a few feet away from her in this room and they stand up for a moment and Pam Bondi has nothing to say
She refuses to apologize even at the request of multiple members of Congress.
These survivors, like even beyond the Trump administration, by the way, these survivors have been trying for decades to have their story heard
Back in 2007, 2008, Epstein got this crazy plea deal in Florida that was screwing over the survivors
And then throughout years and years, these women weren't listened to by men in power.
But the Trump administration is clearly the worst offender trying to hide these files because they have every incentive to
Howard Lutnik is in them
Donald Trump is in them
Elon Musk is in them
It's almost like if you want to be in the administration, you have to be in the files
Either way, I digress
Let's start off where it all began.
Democratic Representative Jamie Rascin of Maryland starts off by introducing it and saying, "Listen, you have victims
So, you have hundreds of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein out there and you have a few seated behind you today
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Let's start where it all began. >> Welcome, Attorney General Bondi
You've got the best lawyer's job in America because your mission is justice and your clients are the American people. >> Yep.
But to promote justice for the people, you've got to listen to the victims, like the women seated behind you today
Those are just some of the hundreds of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's global sex trafficking ring who are demanding that the truth be told and are demanding accountability for the abusers who trafficked and raped them
You still haven't met with these survivors.
So with their permission, let me introduce to you the survivors and late survivors family members who are present today
There's Terresa Helm, there's Jess Michaels, Laura Bloom McGee, Danny Benski, Liz Stein, Marina Lassera, Sky and Amanda Roberts, who are the family of the late Virginia Dufra, Charlene Rousard, and Lisa Phillips
Now, you're not showing a lot of interest in the victims, Madam Attorney General.
Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal governmental violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as attorney general, you're siding with the perpetrators, and you're ignoring the victims
That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course. >> Wow
It starts off in an intense manner and then it gets more intense.
That will be your legacy unless you act quickly to change course
You're running a massive Epstein cover up right out of the Department of Justice
You've been ordered by subpoena and by Congress to turn over 6 million documents, photographs, and videos in the Epstein files, but you've turned over only three million.
You say you're not turning over the other 3 million because they're somehow duplicative, but we know that there are actual memos of victim statements in there
And you also took down the Department of Justice's prosecution memo from 2019
So, it's clearly not all duplicative, but even if it were, why not release it
Just release all the duplicative stuff.
In the half you did produce, you redacted the names of abusers, enablers, accompllices, and co-conspirators, apparently to spare them embarrassment and disgrace, which is the exact opposite of what the law ordered you to do
Even worse, you shockingly failed to redact many of the victims names, which is what you were ordered to do by Congress.
Some of the victims had come forward publicly, but many had not
Many had kept their torment private, even from family and friends
But you published their names, their identities, their images on thousands of pages for the world to see
So you ignored the law
And even with over a 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence.
Very quickly, you can see Pam Bondi begin to get visibly uncomfortable and shift around
Pay attention to her hands and her body movement right there
She kind of pushes herself around in a way that looks very uncomfortable. >> Thousand employees at your disposal
You acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked.
Very well said from Jamie Raskin
He's he's really sticking up for the victims in a very very powerful way
He then continues, >> "Victims and coddling perpetrators is what you do best when the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the brutal killing in Minneapolis of Renee Good, a poet and 37-year-old mother of three by Trump's masked paramilitary ICE agents.
You shut it down
You claim you're investigating the cold-blooded murder of Alex Prey, an ICU nurse at the VA
But how can we trust the administration when the president and Christy Gnome called Prey a domestic terrorist and Steven Miller called him a wouldbe assassin
Not only do you refuse to share evidence with the state and local investigators and prosecutors in Minnesota, you have blocked their access to the crime scene and the evidence.
How are you seeking justice for Mariamar Martinez, the monastery school teacher in Chicago who was shot five times by a border patrol agent who bragged about it on text
Or the family of Keith Porter, a father of two shot and killed by an offduty ICE agent in LA
Or the family of Sylio Vieas Gonzalez shot and killed in Illinois minutes after he dropped his kids off at school.
There's no sign of any movement
I'm glad he brought up Keith Porter and the others along with Renee Nicole Good and Alex Prey
Very important >> at the Department of Justice
You even launched a criminal investigation into Renee Good's grieving widow. >> Yep. >> How sick is that? >> Incredibly, incredibly sick
Then Rascin begins to talk about the the attempt to indict multiple members of Congress for simply quoting the Uniform Code of Military Justice and saying, "You can refuse illegal orders.
You tried to get a grand jury to indict six members of Congress who are veterans of our armed forces on charges of sedicious conspiracy simply for exercising their First Amendment rights
I hope you will heed the wisdom >> and the constitutional patriotism of those grand jurors and not try it again by doubling down on that humiliation as your best lawyers orders.
Very, very true
That needs to be pointed out more
Rascin continues by saying, "Please do not waste our time." The reason he's so firm in these clips, obviously, is because she's covering up for pedophiles, but secondly, because her last uh testimony in front of Congress back in October resulted in her reading off a bunch of scripted insults.
If you remember, she was scripted the entire time, insulting people in playing to an audience of one
That audience of one was Donald Trump, who was clearly watching behind the scenes, sitting there clapping her along
Now, as ranking ch ranking member, uh I asked the chairman to add a few extra rounds of questions today because we each have five hours of questions, not five minutes, but we're stuck with five minutes.
That's clearly insufficient to give voice to America's victims and survivors and to demand answers about all the corruption and cover-ups that we see at DOJ right now
We've got just one round
So we ask you politely but firmly, Madam Attorney General, please do not waste one second of our precious time by evading questions, by changing the subject or engaging in personal attacks against members of Congress.
We saw your performance in the Senate, and we're not going to accept that
This isn't a game
In the Senate, you brought something with you called a burn book, a binder of smears to attack members personally for doing the people's work of oversight
Please set the burn book aside and answer our questions.
And when you hear us reclaim our time, that means it's time for you to stop speaking
We only have five minutes
So when we reclaim our time, that means you stop
And if you don't, we will ask the chair to stop the clock and let you go on his time. >> All right, here we go
Let's hop into this.
Pam Bondi begins by weekly acknowledging the presence of the survivors/victims, but then goes on attack mode
All members of Congress, as you know, are invited to visit DOJ to see for yourselves
I want to take a moment to acknowledge the Epstein survivors who are here today
I'm a career prosecutor and despite what the ranking member said, I have spent my entire career fighting for victims and I will continue to do so.
I mean, even if we conceded that her entire career before last January was spent fighting for victims, that is all superseded by the big Epstein-shaped hole in her resume. >> I am deeply sorry for what any victim any victim has been through, especially as a result of that monster
If you have any information to share with law enforcement about anyone who has hurt you or abused you, the FBI is waiting to hear from you.
She's the one that covered up the multiple names
You're not fighting for the victims if you're covering up the names of the perpetrators that you currently have
I want you to know that any accusations of criminal wrongdoing will be taken seriously and investigated >> except if the accusations of criminal wrongdoing are against our administration.
Then we cover up the investigation
We spike it in Minneapolis
We say there's nothing to see here and we ask you to close your eyes
Next, we see Democratic Representative Gyipal ask the survivors to stand up and then she begins to press Pam Bondi to apologize
part is very very important >> to the survivors in the room.
If you are willing, please stand
And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice. >> Wow
All of them
That just blows up what Pam Bondi said 60 seconds back that anybody can meet with them. >> Please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
All right
Very powerful moment
And then Representative Gyipol takes it a step further and says, "Attorney General Bondi, will you then apologize?" >> Attorney General Bondi, you apologize to the survivors in your opening statement for what they went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein
Will you turn to them now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through with the un absolutely unacceptable release of the Epstein files and their information.
Congresswoman, you sat before Merritt Garland sat in this chair twice
Attorney General Bond finish my answer
No, I'm going to reclaim my time because I asked you this attorney specific question attorney to answer which is will you turn to the survivors
This is not about anybody that came before you.
It is about you taking responsibility for your department of justice and the harm that it has done to the survivors who are standing right behind you and are waiting for you to turn to them and apologize for what your department of justice is. >> Members members get to ask the questions
The witness get to answer in the way they want to answer the attorney general.
That's not accurate, Mr
Chairman. >> Because she doesn't like the answer
So, um, Mr. >> I wouldn't like the answer either
If you're refusing to apologize to the survivors and you're appealing to Meritt Garland, did you hear Pam Bondi's original answer a few seconds ago
She was like, Merrick Garland sat here.
Who who cares
We're not in the Biden era anymore. >> I have asked and she asked Meritt Garland this. >> I am reclaiming. >> The investigation was still ongoing
Pam Bondi doesn't know that Gilain Maxwell's appeal only ended in about September
October of 2024, meaning that is when most of the files could be released.
And when I will claim my time, I will determine the gentle lady. >> I'm not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics. >> The time belongs to the time belongs to the gentle lady
The gentle lady has 17 seconds. >> Thank you
You're not going to answer this question, so let me just I'll direct it to you.
What a massive >> No, I'm answering a question. >> Will you restore her time
The witnesses that are up with this woman who's doing theatric, let me have my gentle lady
the gentle lady from Washington. >> The 17 seconds were then restored because Pam Bondi kept interrupting
But Representative Jerry Nadler then gets a chance and Pam Bondi begins to scream at him.
You're you're a washed up lawyer or something to that effect. >> You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. >> Not on our time
No way
And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started. >> You don't tell me. >> Oh, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate. >> Lawyer, not even a lawyer. >> Committee will be in order.
Time and I should get back at least 45 seconds
We'll give you a few more. >> Sorry
She called Jamie Rasin a washed up lawyer. >> Not on our time
No way
And I told you about that attorney general before you started. >> You don't tell me. >> Oh, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate. >> Lawyer, not even a lawyer.
Committee will be in order. >> She said washed up lawyer
Not even a lawyer
Now Nadler takes over. >> So I have just So I really have just one question for you
How many of Epste's co-conspirators have you indicted
How many perpetrators are you even investigating
First, you showed it
You I I find it. >> How many have you >> Excuse me.
I'm going to answer the question. >> I answer my question. >> Jesus Christ
Is she like half drunk or over Why is she struggling to answer things concisely? >> Excuse me
I'm going to answer the question. >> She's not drunk
I think this is how she always is. >> Answer my question. >> No, I'm going to answer the question the way I want to answer the question.
Your theatrics are ridiculous
May I ask it? >> Chairman Jordan, I'm not going to get in the gutter with these people, but I'm going to answer the question. >> How many of you invited again
The time >> the gutter is where you're throwing the victims right now
You threw them under the bus, and now that it's your turn to go under that same bus, you are kicking and screaming this entire time.
Attorney General Pam Bondi then says, "Donald Trump's name does appear in the files countless times." Just to be clear and candid, I I personally think Jaime Rascin, Representative Rascin had the most powerful performance here thus far, but the other Democrats uh also Representative Jaipal did great
The other Democrats aren't as powerful as Raskin, but they're doing well.
General Bondi, it's been reported that uh there were at one point 1,000 U personnel assigned to the task of identifying and scrubbing Donald Trump's name from the Epstein files
Were those >> and she's smiling about it
Look at that >> name from the Epstein files
Were those reports uh accurate? >> I believe his name has appeared countless times in the document.
How many people were released
If I if I could if I could finish, I'm going to read you the stats
I just simply asked whether or not it was true that um General Bond did >> and she can't give a straight answer
We are going to continue to report on this on the Adam Mach channel
This is the largest cover up in size, scope, and scale since Watergate.
I would personally argue it is larger than Watergate since it spans multiple departments, multiple institutions
It's not just the president's inside circle and cabinet and some people that he hired to break into a hotel like with Nixon
This is like multiple departments
This is the DOJ
This is the FBI.
This is investigators moving by the thousand to go scrub out and redact Donald Trump's name
And we have to continue the pressure Pam Bondi is cracking under it