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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. The DOJ maybe releasing the list of

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Well, that really happen.

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Speaker 1: It's sitting on my desk right now to review.

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Speaker 2: That's been a directive by President Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm reviewing.

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Speaker 2: After months of promises to release more of the files

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Speaker 2: associated with the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the Department of

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Speaker 2: Justice and the FBI release a joint statement claiming there

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Speaker 2: isn't anything else to publish in a rumored client list

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Speaker 2: does not exist. The FBI says searches of their records

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Speaker 2: revealed more than three hundred gigabytes of data, but most

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Speaker 2: of that accounts for photos of Epstein, images and videos

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Speaker 2: of minor victims in over ten thousand videos and images

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Speaker 2: of child sex abuse material and other pornography. The DOJ

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Speaker 2: insists that any further releases would only harm Jeffrey Epstein's victims,

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Speaker 2: who number more than one thousand. This is reports surface

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Speaker 2: that President Trump was informed there were no more files

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Speaker 2: to release back in May, along with being briefed that

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Speaker 2: his name among several other high profile individuals were mentioned

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Speaker 2: in the documents. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the mentions

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Speaker 2: do not constitute any evidence of wrongdoing. However, Epstein's answers

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Speaker 2: regarding his relationship with Trump in a twenty ten deposition

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Speaker 2: are leading many to believe otherwise.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean the personal relationships? Have you socialized

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Speaker 1: with him? Yes, sir, Yes, yes, sir. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under

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Speaker 1: the age of eighteen?

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Speaker 2: Though I'd like to answer that question at least today,

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Speaker 2: I'm going I'd have to assert by fifth, sixth and

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Speaker 2: fourteenth amend the rightser. Despite the seemingly dead end with

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Speaker 2: the FBI releases, there is one more unexplored avenue to

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Speaker 2: achieve the clarity the public and government officials seek. Deputy

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Speaker 2: US Attorney General Todd Blanche responded to the Department of

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Speaker 2: Justice and FBI statement on Tuesday, agreeing with their decision

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Speaker 2: to protect the remainder of the evidence against Epstein, but wrote, quote,

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Speaker 2: until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had

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Speaker 2: inquired about Glaine Maxwell's willingness to meet with the government.

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Speaker 2: That changes now. Blanche explained that BONDI has given him

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Speaker 2: the green light to seek a meeting with Maxwell, who

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Speaker 2: may be willing to provide new evidence after five years

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Speaker 2: in prison for her part in recruiting and abusing miners.

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Speaker 2: According to Maxwell's brother, Ian, the sixty three year old

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Speaker 2: convicted sex trafficker is very open to meeting with Deputy

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Speaker 2: Attorney General Todd Blanche. Maxwell has never told her side

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Speaker 2: of the story, giving no interviews, refusing to speak with

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Speaker 2: prosecutors in declining to take the stand in her own defense.

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Speaker 2: Ian Maxwell claims his sister is preparing new evidence ahead

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Speaker 2: of the meeting, items he says were not available at

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Speaker 2: the time time of her trial and would have had

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Speaker 2: a significant impact on the outcome. Yesterday, just two days

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Speaker 2: after Blanche announced plans for a meeting with Glene Maxwell,

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Speaker 2: the Disgrace Socialite was transported to the US Attorney's office

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Speaker 2: at the Tallahassee Federal Courthouse just after noon. When Maxwell's attorney,

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Speaker 2: David Marcus emerged from the building four hours later, he

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Speaker 2: commented that the meeting was extremely productive. Marcus says Maxwell

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Speaker 2: answered each of Blanche's questions truthfully and to the best

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Speaker 2: of her ability, never invoking privilege or refusing to answer.

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Speaker 2: Blanche confirmed the meeting on x later in the afternoon,

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Speaker 2: saying they will continue their discussions today and the information

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Speaker 2: gathered during the meetings will be shared at the appropriate time.

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Speaker 2: Maxwell is also set to testify in front of the

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Speaker 2: House Oversight Committee next month. Representative James Comer, the committee chair,

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Speaker 2: announced that Maxwell will be subpoena, saying his fellow representatives

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Speaker 2: echo the public's cry for transparency and at this point

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Speaker 2: Maxwell may be the only person alive who can. Comer

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Speaker 2: makes it clear that Maxwell will not be receiving any

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Speaker 2: kind of pardon or immunity in exchange for her testimony.

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Speaker 2: The jailhouse deposition has been tentatively scheduled for August eleventh.

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Speaker 2: Though the government seems confident that Gilene Maxwell may provide

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Speaker 2: new evidence regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, many of

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Speaker 2: her victims are not sure the disgrace socialite will bring

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Speaker 2: any more clarity to the table. The late Virginia Geffrey,

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Speaker 2: a former Epstein's sex slave, always pointed to Maxwell as

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Speaker 2: the cruler of the couple. It kind of worked like

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Speaker 2: a pyramid scheme. Gilan brought me in, I brought other

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Speaker 2: girls in those girls brought other girls and they said,

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Speaker 2: take off your clothes. I had these little girl undies on,

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Speaker 2: like little hearts on them, I remember, and they were

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Speaker 2: laughing at that because they like that the younger you look,

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Speaker 2: the better it is.

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Speaker 1: It turns into it turns very sexual, and.

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Speaker 2: It was abuse straightway from both of them. Giffrey called

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Speaker 2: Maxwell vicious, evil and the geppetto to Epstein's Pinocchio. Maxwell

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Speaker 2: was heavily criticized for playing dumb in a twenty sixteen deposition,

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Speaker 2: asking the deposer to explain a sex toy to her.

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Speaker 2: At one point in the interview. Maxwell also publicly denied

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Speaker 2: that Gufrey ever met Prince Andrew, despite standing next to

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Speaker 2: her with the royal and heavily circulated photos.

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Speaker 1: I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.

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Speaker 1: The photograph is taken upstairs, and I don't think I

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Speaker 1: have a went upstairs in Glen's house.

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Speaker 2: Victim Teresa Helm echoes other's concerns that Maxwell will not

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Speaker 2: provide any more truth on the situation. Helm describes Maxwell

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Speaker 2: as crafty and extremely articulate. Helm worries Maxwell will walk

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Speaker 2: away from these meetings with a sweetheart deal, and the

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Speaker 2: public will be left wanting. Helm says if Maxwell negotiates

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Speaker 2: anything like Epstein's two thousand and seven slap on the wrist,

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Speaker 2: it would be a tragic day for those who survived

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Speaker 2: her horrific abuse. While the Department of Justice and FBI

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Speaker 2: seemingly hope to end the demand for answers with their

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Speaker 2: latest statement on the Jeffrey Epstein case, no one seems

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Speaker 2: to be backing down from the call for transparency. Will

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Speaker 2: Maxwell provide it. For the latest crime and justice breaking news,

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