1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Stateside, Richard morning, do we know this meeting's reel? Is 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: it actually happening now as I'm reading or not? 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 2: Well, we know that the number two official from the 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: Justice Department, Todd Blanche, who also happens to have been 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's criminal lawyer, who was seen walking into the building. 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: We don't know what's taking place inside there, but yeah, 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: there is another strange turn in the Epstein pedophilia scandal. 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: Of course, there is the indication that officials will interview 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: Gulaine maxwellsh She is serving a twenty year prison term 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: for sex trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: in jail in twenty nineteen. There's all occurring as the 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,639 Speaker 2: Epstein saga is blown up on Capitol Hill with demands 13 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 2: for the Epstein files to be released. Rupert Murdock's Wall 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: Street Journal said Trump was told back in May that 15 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: his name is in the Epstein files, but he denied 16 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: it when he was asked by a reporter soon after that. 17 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: Of course, that doesn't indicate why Trump might be in 18 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: the files. The two men were said to be close 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: pals for some fifteen years while the Epstein abuses were 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 2: taking place. Reporter Michael Wolfe says he has about one 21 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: hundred hours of interviews with Epstein and made back in 22 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: the day and says the sex trafficker told him the 23 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: reason for the split with Trump was at a time 24 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: when a multimillion dollar French Staff, Florida mansion was up 25 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: for sale. Wolf told CNN. 26 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 3: Brought his friend Trump to look at the house and 27 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 3: advise him on moving the swimming pool. Trump went around 28 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 3: his back and overbid him and got the house. Epstein 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 3: believed at that time that Trump didn't have the money 30 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: to do this, and he started to make noise that 31 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 3: Trump was fronting for someone, in fact, a Russian oligarch. 32 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 3: He believed then that in retribution, Trump went to the 33 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 3: police informed the police about what was going on at 34 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: Epstein's house in Palm Beach. 35 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: Jeline Makeswell was found guilty in connection with the sexual 36 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: abruce of more than two hundred teenage girls and young women, 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: one of them but you need you, Fray say. She 38 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: was sixteen. Maxwell and Epstein began training her daily on 39 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: their demands for pedophilium. Geffrey took her own life in 40 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: Australia back in April of this year, at age forty 41 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: one while in nineteen ninety four or fourteen year old 42 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: girl testified under oath and the criminal trial of Maxwell. 43 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: This was the period when Trump called Epstein a quote 44 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: unquote terrific guy. Here's part of what that young girl, 45 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 2: Jane testified. Did you come? Did they come a time 46 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: in your life when you met someone named Jeffrey Epstein? 47 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 2: Answer yes? Did they come a time in your life 48 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 2: when you had sexual contact with Jeffrey Epstein? Answer yes? 49 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: How old were you when that first happened? Answer fourteen 50 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: years old? Question was there anyone else in the room 51 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 2: with you when you had sexual contact with Jeffrey Epstein 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: when you were fourteen years old? Answer Julane Maxwell. Now 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: the Trump Justice Department is meeting with Maxwell, it seems, 54 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 2: with some victims saying she was as bad or worse 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 2: than Epstein because of her role in finding and grooming 56 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: underage girls. 57 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: Right, Columbia, So is this a precedent? Two hundred over 58 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: three years in funding flows? Again, what do we got here? 59 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 2: Well, it depends what the university. The bosses do at 60 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: Columbia University in New York has just agreed to pay 61 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: this large show amount of May two hundred and twenty 62 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: million bucks US in a deal with the government and 63 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: the Trump team to restore federal government funding. The Trump 64 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: White House has been at odds with various top flight unis, 65 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: including Harvard. Much of this was triggered by pro Palestinian 66 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 2: protest on university campuses. Columbia. In their settlement today says 67 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: Jewish students have experienced painful incidents on campus. They say 68 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 2: an independent of view. Now we'll serve over the university's responses. Harvard, 69 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: of course there are two billion dollar freeze in their 70 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: federal funding for research. They argued that this is all 71 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: a breach of academic freedom. So that part of the 72 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: dispute Mike's still playing out. 73 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, have a good weekend. I appreciate it very much. 74 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: When Scotos is coming to Trump's party this week. They've 75 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: allowed him to fire members of the Consumer Products Safety Commission. 76 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: The commission would now lack. They've got three of them 77 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: and two are gone, so they don't the chorum basically, 78 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: but under it what's important about this. Under existing law, 79 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: members can only be removed for neglect of duty or malfeasance. 80 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: But Trump went ahead and sacked them anyway. The Supreme 81 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: Court back in may allow them to fire members of 82 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: the National Labor Relations Board and also the Merit Systems 83 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: Protection Board. And then they said, because of this latest case, 84 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: because we did that, you can do this. So essentially, 85 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: you can fire seemingly anyone who wants. 86 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 87 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 88 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.