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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to the Jim Acosta Show. It's another

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Speaker 1: day that ends and why in Donald Trump's assault on

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Speaker 1: American democracy, the borders are for the Trump administration. Tom

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Speaker 1: Homan has announced that the ICE and other federal agents

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Speaker 1: are ending their federal crackdown in Minneapolis. In Minnesota. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the question remains, where will they go next. Meanwhile, I've

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Speaker 1: got Steve Schmidt here with the Save America Movement. They're

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Speaker 1: out with a bank of new ads that are going

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Speaker 1: to be targeting voters across the country, raising the issues

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Speaker 1: not just device and the rise of fascism in the

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Speaker 1: United States, but also Pam Bondi, the Attorney General's disastrous

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Speaker 1: performance in front of the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: during which she insulted lawmakers and refused to answer questions

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Speaker 1: or even face the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's years of abuse.

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Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt joins me, Now, Steve, great to see as always.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you, Jim, And you know, let's dive

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Speaker 1: right into that. I want to show your ads in

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Speaker 1: just a moment. But I got I mean, everybody is

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Speaker 1: still talking about Pam Bondi's disastrous performance in front of

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Speaker 1: the House Judiciary Committee. I don't think anybody is going

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Speaker 1: to forget that image of the Attorney General refusing to

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Speaker 1: turn around and face the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. I

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Speaker 1: think that's going to go down in history as a

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Speaker 1: uniquely shameful moment. And I'm just curious what your thoughts are, because,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were all watching this yesterday with our

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Speaker 1: jaws on the floor. I can't imagine a more offensive

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Speaker 1: performance by a cabinet official. I can't recall a time

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Speaker 1: when this happened in recent history.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is her epitet. This is the sum of

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Speaker 2: her career and her life. She will be remembered for

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Speaker 2: this at the hour of her death. It will be

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Speaker 2: etched onto her tombstone. This appearance will be seen in

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Speaker 2: law schools and ethics one oh one.

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Speaker 3: We will have an awakening.

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Speaker 2: Of ethics in America after this, including legal ethics. Every

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Speaker 2: first year law student's going to sit in a class

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Speaker 2: and watch that disgrace.

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Speaker 3: And it is a disgrace. There are no words for it.

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Speaker 2: Her personal behavior was utterly unhinged, psychotic. Even this is

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Speaker 2: a person who has destroyed the integrity of the Justice Department.

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Speaker 2: It's not being destroyed. It is wrecked. It is gone,

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Speaker 2: and every prosecutor has a decision to make you either

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Speaker 2: leave now or you are tainted by this and you

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Speaker 2: should appropriately be fired. When a Democratic resident is inaugurated

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Speaker 2: on January twenty at twenty twenty nine, Pam BONDI will

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Speaker 2: likely go to prison in the future.

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Speaker 3: She will certainly be disbarred.

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Speaker 2: It was an assault on the people's house, on the

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Speaker 2: Article one branch. It was a fuck you from the

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Speaker 2: executive branch to the American people. And we are sovereign

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Speaker 2: in this country. I mean, I would have asked her

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Speaker 2: if I was a member of Congress, I would have said,

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Speaker 2: do you know where you are? Did you hit your

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Speaker 2: head this morning? Or did you just roll in drunk

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Speaker 2: from the bar? Were you out late with Judge Janine?

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Speaker 2: Were you hitting the box wine at four am on

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Speaker 2: the mar A Lago Patia. Do you know how to

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Speaker 2: spell the word comportment? What about decorum? It was just despicable,

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Speaker 2: and I think the whole country saw it. The whole

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Speaker 2: country understands these people are crazy and they're unfit. And

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Speaker 2: as an old political consultant, what I would say, if

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Speaker 2: you're a Democrat. You should run explicitly on Pam Bondi

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Speaker 2: needs to be impeached. Howard Lutnik needs to be impeached.

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Speaker 2: Janine Piro needs to be impeached, and Christy nom needs

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Speaker 2: to be impeached. They are unfit for the duties they hold,

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Speaker 2: and the disaster of this.

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Speaker 3: Is plainly evident. Maybe she's been sent.

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Speaker 2: By God to wake up the American people from their

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Speaker 2: long slumber of indifference, because anybody who watched that should

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Speaker 2: understand that the rule of law in this country has

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Speaker 2: a jack boot on its on his throat, and in

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Speaker 2: the end, she is protecting child rapists.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: He's belligerent about it, she's aggressive about it, and her

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Speaker 2: refusal to turn around and face those women was an

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Speaker 2: act of profound moral cowardice.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more, Steve. And I think

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Speaker 1: that it also raises the question, and I've been talking

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Speaker 1: about this on the show, and I think you and

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this, is that it just looks more

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Speaker 1: and more that Donald Trump has something to hide, and

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Speaker 1: it is way bigger than just you know what he

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Speaker 1: said to Marjorie Taylor Green about you know how his

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Speaker 1: buddies might get hurt, their reputations might get damaged, and

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Speaker 1: all this. First of all, we don't give a shit

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Speaker 1: about that. We don't care who goes to prison as

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Speaker 1: a result of raping children. That's where you belong. But

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Speaker 1: I just it just seems to me. What stood out

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Speaker 1: to me from that hearing is that she is protecting

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Speaker 1: something that is very dark, very sinister, something the public

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Speaker 1: is not aware of that we don't have the answers to.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of this stuff is in the files

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Speaker 1: and it's been redactive. And I know, Steve, one of

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Speaker 1: the things that you've done is your group Save America

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Speaker 1: has put out ads targeting a variety of issues, and

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Speaker 1: one of those issues that you're targeting is Pam Bondi.

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Speaker 1: Let's play this and continue to talk about this on

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Speaker 1: the other side. The Pan Bondi ad.

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Speaker 3: Best of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.

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Speaker 2: It's sitting on my desk right now to review.

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Speaker 4: Pambondi also told us there were thousands of videos now

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Speaker 4: pedophile protector Pam is lying, covering up crimes of the

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Speaker 4: child rapist. Lies, just deceive others. They've wrought the foundation

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Speaker 4: of the self. The more a person wise, the less

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Speaker 4: they can trust their own reflection. Bondi's Epstein lives are ugly.

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Speaker 2: Ever challenge my integrity.

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Speaker 4: We do pan them a thousand times over before by

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Speaker 4: say the America Movement, it's.

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Speaker 1: A powerful ad Steve.

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Speaker 2: Well, she is hideous, and I do challenge her attegrity,

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Speaker 2: woman with no integrity. In fact, she's evil, and I

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Speaker 2: don't use that word loosely. Covering up the rape of

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Speaker 2: little girls, teenage girls, and young women by some of

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Speaker 2: the most powerful men in the world is abjectly evil,

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Speaker 2: and we're uncomfortable with the use of that word. But

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Speaker 2: if it's Brian Crowberger in Idaho, it is an act

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Speaker 2: of evil.

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Speaker 5: If it is Ted Bundy, if it's Timler evil. What

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Speaker 5: these people are is evil, and the country has been

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Speaker 5: indifferent to it or deluded about it, or the evil

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Speaker 5: would land somewhere.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 2: But as the old poem goes, first they come for

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Speaker 2: and then next in the country is in revolt against

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Speaker 2: these vile, dishonest people who have shown us who they are.

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Speaker 2: She will go down in history as one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest villains in American history. And because of Pam Bondi,

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Speaker 2: the Department of justice is going to be taken down

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Speaker 2: to its studs and have to be rebuilt because the

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Speaker 2: rule of law has been desecrated by her.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and it just seems to me that

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Speaker 1: there's really no other choice at this point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was just reported, you know, in the last day

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Speaker 1: or so, that a federal judge has now agreed to

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Speaker 1: block the Pentagon from going after Democratic Senator Mark Kelly

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Speaker 1: for participating in that video that called on troops US

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Speaker 1: troops to resist unlawful orders. The judge in the case

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Speaker 1: that Pentagon officials violated Kelly's First Amendment free speech. That's,

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Speaker 1: according to the Associated Press and quote threatened the constitutional liberties

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Speaker 1: of millions of military retirees. And this is I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a judge who was nominated by President George W.

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Speaker 3: Bush.

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Speaker 1: And this judge says to say, the least our retired

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Speaker 1: veterans deserve more respect from their government, and our constitution

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Speaker 1: demands they receive it. I mean, these are this is

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Speaker 1: not small potato stuff. When a George W. Bush, a

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Speaker 1: judge comes after the Pentagon in that fashion,