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Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks, did It's Thursday, February twenty six and shocker,

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Speaker 1: some Epstein files are missing. But there are three in

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Speaker 1: got the Trump administration defending and quite frankly, robes. None

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Speaker 1: of us should be surprised by this. And with that,

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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. The three

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Speaker 1: files missing have to do with President Trump, robes, and

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Speaker 1: some pretty awful accusations being made by a woman.

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Speaker 2: That's right, a woman who is now, yes, a woman,

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Speaker 2: but claims these allegations of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and yes,

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Speaker 2: by President Trump. She claims happened when she was just

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Speaker 2: thirteen years old. So these are damning and dis disturbing

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Speaker 2: they are missing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we should start at the top with these

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Speaker 1: President Trump is not facing any criminal accusations. He's not

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Speaker 1: facing any criminal charges, all right, we got that out

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Speaker 1: of the way. He has forever denied any wrongdoing. However, Robes. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's go to why this is such a big deal

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Speaker 1: Epstein files. We know the tropes, documents have been coming out,

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Speaker 1: there are arguments about redactions and back and forth. Is

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Speaker 1: everything out there? Fine, let's get away from all that

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Speaker 1: part of these files, Robes whereas an interview done with

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Speaker 1: The FBI goes and interviews her at les four interviews.

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Speaker 1: on those four interviews, well, three of them are missing

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Speaker 1: yes correct.

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Speaker 2: And in addition to those three separate conversations, NBR did

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Speaker 2: They actually have serial numbers and they can say, hey,

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Speaker 2: going through all of this, and notably those three documents

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Speaker 2: are missing. Now, this woman claims that this assault happened

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Speaker 2: in Hiltonhead Island when she was thirteen, and yes, the

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Speaker 2: But there are people who have seen these documents who

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Speaker 1: So we don't know where they are, we don't know

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Speaker 1: This whole thing is an Epstein investigation. Now we're investigating

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's actually a parallel investigation. So Democrats on the

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Speaker 2: In this case, Yes, because the Justice Department was very

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Speaker 1: The Epstein Files mess continues. We are hearing from the

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Speaker 1: on this Thursday, February twenty sixth with it's never going

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Speaker 2: About this, Uh, they certainly did. So here was the

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