WEBVTT - Hillary Clinton Exposes the Epstein Cover-Up | Angela Rye SoloPod 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.400 Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.399 Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.800 Welcome home everyone. I'm Angela Raie. I am your host 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.200 for today. This is my solo pod for Native Lampod 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.400 where we break down all things politics and culture. I'm 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.120 live on Instagram right now encouraging you all to come 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.200 over to the live stream on YouTube, and today we 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.520 are going to spend a little time talking about Jeffrey Epstein. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.680 A number of people have been asking, you know, what 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.040 do the Epstein files have to do with me? Why 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.400 should I care? And what I would say to you 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.840 all is that you may have a survivor in your community. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.320 You may have a survivor in your family. You may 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:48.599 have never met anyone who's been impacted by sexual assault, molestation, rape, 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.560 but this is this is something that hits our community 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.640 in a really, really big way. There are people all 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.880 over this country who have had experience. Is like the 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.520 young women who interacted and encountered Jeffrey Epstein and his 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:08.679 I don't know what you want to call this, lady 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.800 Julaane Maxwell, his side piece. And what I would say 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.440 to you, is that they have to find the courage, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.720 the strength to be able to come forward. And I 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.720 think what is so unfortunate about what these young women 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:32.520 have experienced is that their terror, their trauma, has been 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.920 treated like a political football. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.520 It doesn't matter who was in power. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.759 People refused to look into the case, to look into 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.200 the matter, to talk to the very the dozens of 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.240 survivors who had experiences with Jeffrey Epstein and some of 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:56.360 his most powerful friends. This crime, these crimes, no no 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:01.440 ideological bounds, no no partisan bounds. But one thing that 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.280 the Republicans that exist in this House of Representatives right 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.120 now in Congress will do is they will make something 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.960 partisan that has no business being partisan. And what I 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.480 want to call to you all's attention is on January eighth, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.360 the Government Reform the overscing Government Reform Committee, which is 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.960 chaired by James Comer, sent a letter to Hillary Clinton 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.520 and Bill Clinton's lawyers trying to compel them to testify. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.919 And so on January twelfth, just four days letter later, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.960 a letter was sent from Williams and Connolly and Jenner 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.320 and Block, which are the firms that are representing Bill 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.920 and Hillary Clinton in this matter, and they're responding to, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.440 why all of the force, why all of this interest 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.440 in wanting to hear from Bill Clinton and secretary former 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.400 Secretary of State Clinton, the same Secretary of State Clinton 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.320 who won the popular vote against Donald Trump. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.440 We shouldn't have an electoral college. But I digress. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.600 You'll see why she should have been our president when 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.680 we roll this clip. But I want to just talk 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.919 to you all, just for a moment about this. They 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.240 were trying to force them to testify. They wanted to 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:11.480 do a private hearing where they deposed the former president, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.400 the former First Lady, the former secretary of State, the 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.480 former senator representing New York about what they knew about 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.000 Jeffrey Epstein. Now there are images of Bill Clinton with 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.760 Jeffrey Epstein, but Secretary Clinton, by her own testimony, has 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.000 never met Jeffrey Epstein. But yet they wanted to talk 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.840 to them. What they mentioned is instead of talking to 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.120 the Attorney's General who had this in their purview, in 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.920 their jurisdiction to investigate, to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, you're coming 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.560 for us, and we don't understand why you're doing that. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.120 So in this letter that their lawyers sent, it is 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:50.920 a seven. Nope, it is an eighth page letter where 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.480 they talk about why this is so beyond the scope 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.720 of what they should be doing in their investigation, why 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.600 they're not the right people for them to talk to, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.920 and they said, nonetheless, we will come talk to you, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.040 but we want to ensure that these depositions are released 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.400 in total to the American public. Now, no surprises here. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.440 The Republicans are rule breakers, so of course they broke 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.520 the rules when these folks came to testify before the 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.960 House Committee on Oversight and Government from last week. And 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.880 of course Lauren Bobert took a picture of Hillary Clinton. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.600 She was very irate about that. But those aren't even 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.800 the best moments of this particular deposition. I want to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.880 direct our attention to Hillary Clinton's opening statement before the committee, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.880 which was about nine and a half minutes long, and 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.120 I want to stop along the way and tell you 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.200 all what's happening here and why what the Secretary of 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.880 State was saying was so very important. I will tell 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.919 you while watching this, I will be shocked if you 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.800 can't see why this woman should have been the president 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.920 of these United States. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.359 That's what the clip, mister Chairman, ranking member members of 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.719 the Committee. As a former United States Center Senator, I 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.240 have respect for legislative oversight, and I expect its exercise, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.240 as do the American people, to be principled and fearless 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.640 in pursuit of truth and accountability. As we all know, however, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.520 too often congressional investigations are partisan political theater, which is 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.960 an abdication of duty and an insult to the American people. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.480 This committee justified it's subpoena to me based on its 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:34.039 assumption that I have information regarding the investigations into the 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.360 criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Galaine Maxwell. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.840 Let me be as clear as I can. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.440 I do not, as I stated in my sworn declaration 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:50.640 on January thirteenth, I had no idea about their criminal activities. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.760 I do not recall ever encountering mister Epstein. I never 0:05:55.920 --> 0:06:01.120 flew on his plane or visited his island homes or offices. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.400 I have nothing to add to that. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.440 I want to stop here for two reasons. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.919 One, Hillary Clinton given all again, former First Lady of 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.800 these United States, former senator representing the state of New York, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.520 former Secretary of State, former presidential candidate, the only woman 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.720 who has ever won the popular vote in the United States, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.720 that Hillary Clinton is the one that they want to 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.440 appear before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. And she 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.840 takes the moment to say, let me actually educate you 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.120 on what is supposed to happen in a legislative process. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.760 This should not be partisan political theater. This should be 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 an opportunity for you to gather facts so you can 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.600 actually do right by these tax paying citizens who are 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.040 Jeffrey Epstein survivors of assault. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:51.200 Right. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.320 She makes it so clear what's supposed to be happening. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.320 And she says further, I don't know this man. Why 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.320 y'all got me up here. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:59.400 Let's write a clip. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.039 Like every decent person, I've been horrified by what we 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:09.800 have learned about their crimes. It's unfathomable that mister Epstein 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.360 initially got a slap on the wrist in two thousand 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.960 and eight, which allowed him to continue his predatory practices 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.960 for another decade. Mister Chairman, your investigation is supposed to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.080 be assessing the federal government's handling of the investigations and 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.880 prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes. U subpoenaed eight law 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.160 enforcement officials, all of whom ran the Department of Justice 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.760 or directed the FBI when Epstein's crimes were investigated and prosecuted. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.240 Of those eight, only one appeared before the committee. Five 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.680 of the six former attorneys general were allowed to submit 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.200 brief statements stating they had no information to provide. You 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.040 have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.760 to attend them, including today, Despite espousing the need for 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.760 transparency on dozens of occasions, you have made little effort. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.120 So what's important about this particular part of her testimony? 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.960 And this is what they also say in the letter 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.880 data January twelfth from the attorneys She's making it very 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:24.080 clear that the people who had the responsibility to investigate, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.280 to prosecute to an insured indictment of this criminal, Jeffrey Epstein. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.600 You allow them to submit written statements. Five of the 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.040 six former attorneys general who would have Again, so we're clear, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.320 the attorney general is the person who oversees the full 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.800 Department of Justice, that is, who is responsible for filing 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.800 charges against a criminal that's committed federal crimes. So she's saying, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.280 of the six, five of them were able to submit 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.959 a written statement. But y'all got me up here, what 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.160 do you expect me to tell you I don't even 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:58.880 know this man. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.160 Let's roll the clip. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.560 To call the people who show up most prominently in 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.760 the Epstein files, and when you did, not a single 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.760 Republican member showed up for less Wexner's deposition. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.400 This is a quick note just to say less Wexner 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.959 in case Syaw missed, it is Victoria's secret. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.240 Less Wexner and he. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:28.040 Was all in and through the Epstein files, So let's 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.560 just be clear about that. She's like, he's one of 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:35.400 the biggest names in these files, clearly associated with Jeffrey 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.439 Epstein in his ways and the American public who want 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.080 to hear from him. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.679 You would think, since this. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.320 Is not political theater allegedly, that the Republicans who are 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.079 on the Oversight and Government Reform. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.719 Committee would have showed up. They didn't show up that day. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:51.560 Let's roll the clip. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:56.600 This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.560 and one public official, rather than to seek truth and 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.880 justice for the victims and survivors, as well as informed 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.840 the public who want to get to the bottom of 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:11.040 this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors, and I 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.400 am furious on their behalf. I have spent my life 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.960 advocating for women and girls. I have worked hard to 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.720 stop the terrible abuses so many women and girls face 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:27.800 here and around the world, including human trafficking, forced labor, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.840 domestic violence, and sexual slavery. For too long, these have 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.920 been largely invisible crimes or not treated as crimes at all. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.480 But the survivors are real and they are entitled to justice. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.800 In Southeast Asia, I met girls as young as twelve 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.840 years old who had been forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.200 Some were dying of aids. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.920 In Eastern Europe, I met mothers who told me how 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.840 they lost their daughters to trafficking and did not know 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.160 where to turn. In settings around the world, I met 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.679 survivors trying to rebuild their lives and help rescue others, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.640 with little support from people in power, who too often turned. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.720 A blind eye and a cold shoulder. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.640 If you are new to this issue, let me tell 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:21.079 you Jeffrey Epstein was a highness individual, but he's far 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.880 from alone. This is not a one off tabloid sensation 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.160 or political scandal. It is a global scourge with an 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:35.120 unimaginable human toll. My work combating sex trafficking goes back 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.560 to my days as first Lady. I worked to pass 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.200 the first federal legislation against trafficking, and was proud that 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:47.160 my husband signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which increased 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.480 support for survivors and gave prosecutors better tools for going 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:56.640 after traffickers. As Secretary of State, I appointed a former 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:01.240 federal prosecutor, Lucy Debaca, to ramp up our global anti 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.280 trafficking efforts. I oversaw nearly one hundred and seventy anti 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:11.600 trafficking programs in seventy nations and directly pressed foreign leaders 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:16.600 to crack down on trafficking networks in their countries. Every year, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.240 we published a global report to shine a light on abuses. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.800 The findings of those reports triggered sanctions on countries failing 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.280 to make progress, so they became a powerful diplomatic tool 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:34.320 to drive concrete action. I insisted that the United States 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.160 be included in the report for the first time ever 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.080 in twenty eleven, because we must hold ourselves not just 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.400 to the same standard as the rest of the world, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.679 but to an even higher one. Sex trafficking and modern 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:53.840 slavery should have no place in America. None Infuriatingly, the 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.880 Trump administration gutted the Trafficking in Persons Office at the 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.120 State Department, cutting more than seventy percent of the career 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.080 civil and foreign service experts who worked so hard to 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:12.679 prevent trafficking crimes. The annual trafficking report required by law 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.400 was delayed for months. The message from the Trump administration 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.000 to the American people and the world could not be clearer. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.360 Combating human trafficking is no longer an American priority under 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:27.600 the Trump White House. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.280 What I think is important about this moment is Hillary 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.120 Clinton is laying the groundwork for why not only should 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.199 she not be testifying before this committee, but she also 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.120 has a historic record of doing the exact opposite of 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.600 everything Jeffrey Epstein stood for. So she talked about her 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.360 work as First Lady. She talked about her work as 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.880 Secretary of State. She talked about the law, the bill 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.720 that got signed into law under Bill Clinton's leadership under 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.120 his presidency because of the work she was doing. She 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.920 talked about one hundred and seventy pro globally that she 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.480 was responsible for overseeing as. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:04.400 Secretary of State. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.680 And the key part of what she said here, while 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.000 they have hauled her and former President Bill Clinton before 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.120 the committee to testify is that the reason you're not 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.240 seeing this kind of work being done now under this 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.240 Trump administration is because they've cut not only the funding, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.520 but seventy percent of the staff who were responsible for 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:30.040 holding that portfolio of work at the State Department. So 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.920 she talks about why is Marco Rubio not testifying before 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.360 the committee. It's not because Jeffrey Epstein's case is in 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.200 his purview. It's because he has the ability, the authority, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:46.960 the latitude to take this problem, this global issue, this 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.920 global crisis by the Horns and deploy staff and programs 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.600 to ensure that women and girls are not trafficked, people 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.840 are not trafficked. Well, he would if the Trump administration 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.960 hadn't cut the funding. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.000 Let's keep rolling. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.240 That's a tragedy, it's a scandal, and it deserves vigorous 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:12.479 investigation and oversight. A committee endeavoring to stopping human trafficking 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.760 would seek to understand what specific steps are needed to 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.320 fix a legal system that allowed Epstein to get away 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.200 with his crimes. A committee run by elected officials with 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:29.840 a commitment to transparency would ensure the full release of 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.560 all the files. It would ensure that the lawful redactions 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.880 of those files protected the victims and survivors, not powerful 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.360 men and political allies. It would get to the bottom 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:49.240 of reports that DOJ withheld FBI interviews in which a 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:54.880 survivor accuses President Trump of crimes. It would subpoena anyone 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.960 who asked on which night there would be the wildest 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:05.000 party on Epstein's island. It would demand testimony from prosecutors 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.720 from Florida, New York and the Department of Justice about 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.440 why they gave Epstein a sweetheart deal and chose not 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.520 to pursue others who may have been implicated in his crimes. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:17.880 And it would. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.960 Demand that Secretary of Rubio and Attorney General Bondie testify 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.480 about why this administration is abandoning survivors and playing into 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.320 the hands of traffickers. It would seek out advocates and 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.480 law enforcement of officials on the front lines of the 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.960 fight against human trafficking and ask them what support they need. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.640 And it would put forth legislation to provide more resources 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.240 and force this administration to act. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:48.760 But that's not happening. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.680 Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.760 I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation. In 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.400 order to distract from President Trump's actions and to cover 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:05.600 them up despite legitimate calls for answers. If this committee 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.160 is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's traffic and crimes, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.160 it would not rely on press got gaggles to get 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.840 answers from our current president on his involvement. It would 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.160 ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.200 of times he shows up in the Epstein files. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.400 What I love about what she's doing here is she's 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.040 telling them how the committee should be running its investigation. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.000 And one key fact that I skipped. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.480 Over or haven't had the opportunity to bring up Jesse yet, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.520 is Hillary Clinton didn't just pop up, y'all one. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.919 Day as the first Lady of the United States. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.840 Hillary Clinton was a former Watergate staffer. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:49.120 That's right. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:55.560 Hillary Clinton was on the Nixon impeachment committee understanding uncovering 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:00.360 what happened at Watergate. She's telling them, let me give 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.760 you the formula that break down the blueprint for how 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.359 this is actually supposed to go, instead of me testifying 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.919 because you guys think it makes for a salacious headliner 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.680 fodder on your crazy right wing blogs. You should be 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.520 talking to the people who can actually inform you on 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.399 this investigation to protect women who have been traffic and 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.760 sexually assaulted. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.919 Not wasting your time on me because y'all love to 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.960 hate Hillary. Let's roll the clue. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.800 If the majority was serious, it would not waste time 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.200 on fishing expeditions. There is too much to be done. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.640 What is being held back, who is being protected, and 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.000 why the cover up? So my challenge to you, mister Chairman, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.560 and members of this committee is the same challenge I 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.520 put to myself throughout my long service to this nation. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.400 How to be worthy of the trust of the American 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.879 people that they have given to you. They expect statesmanship, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:02.479 not damesmanship, leading not grand standing, and they expect you 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.159 to use your power to get to the truth and 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.160 to do more to help survivors of Epstein's crimes, as 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.119 well as the millions more who are victims of sex 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.680 trafficking in this country and around the world. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:19.160 Thank you, mister. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.080 Chairman, and I would also like to request that the 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.159 video of this deposition be made available within twenty four hours, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.000 as it has been for other witnesses. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.400 I don't know why this woman was not the president 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.040 of these United States, but when I tell y'all, I 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.280 am so happy to be born on October twenty sixth. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:45.160 Like Hillary rodd and Clinton, she was phenomenal, phenomenal, And 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.560 I think part of it to me is the class, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.320 the poise, the moments where she was tested to her core. 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.679 She showed up brilliantly. She should do a masterclass on 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.199 how to testify in a hostile environment, because that's exactly 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:02.720 where she was. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.120 She was on you know, in a. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.119 Battle and in that last part where she says, the 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:15.040 American people expect statesmanship, not gamesmanship. They expect leading and 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.040 not grandstanding, is exactly the point. And she's like, you 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.359 can release the tape because I know what I'm standing 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:21.120 on business. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.040 I'm clear about the fact that I don't know this man. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:32.480 Y'all about to make me know this man. But there 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.679 was a moment that tested Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.720 thought she might come across the table on this lady. Now, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.280 Nancy Mace represents a district in South Carolina. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.440 Wants to run for governor, I. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:53.320 Believe, and you know, really traffics in pissing people off. 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.560 She's masterful at it and also being on the wrong 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.480 side of history. You've seen her in a battle in 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:05.040 committee rooms against Jasmine Crockett, and she really just she 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.760 pushes things too far. I think in this moment, if 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.879 I had to extend compassion at all, it would be 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:17.280 because Nancy Mace has regularly talked about being a survivor herself, 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.280 and because of that, I wonder if you know she 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.399 was triggered by something and this was her kind of 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.560 response in the way that she goes at Hillary Clinton. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:29.120 But I want you all to be your own judge 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:30.720 of this. Let's roll the clip. We'll talk about it 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.120 on the other side to. 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.480 Your two more questions than we're going to pass it 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:38.560 to Congressman Congresswoman Luna after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted, to 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.600 concern you at all that you had taken a substantial 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:43.560 amount of money from Jeffrey Epstein. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.680 That's an inappropriate assumption. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.000 I did not take a substantial amount of money from 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:49.880 Jeffrey Epstein. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:51.000 So far as I know. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:56.080 Jeffrey Epstein contributed to the joint committee that was supporting 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.280 my Senate race, which was how much I believe I 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:00.560 was told twenty thousand dollars. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.520 You don't consider twenty thousand dollars substantial. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.119 I do not consider it relevant to me because I 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.280 had no recollection that I ever knew that he gave 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:08.800 any money. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.560 So you don't talked to your donors. They gave twenty 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:11.880 thousand dollars to your campaign. 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.560 My understanding of the rules back then is that there 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:19.200 was no coordination between the committee and the campaign. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:21.680 So no, I have no recollection. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:23.880 But that doesn't mean you can't speak to your donors. 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.040 That doesn't prohibit the dolls, not prohibit you speaking to it. 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:28.960 But I didn't know he was a donor as far 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.359 as I knew, he was not a donor until I 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:31.760 learned this. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.400 And Estima Maxwell was heavily involved with people you knew 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:36.080 and were close to. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:39.600 I knew people that I knew knew her. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.600 Yes, that's true, and you didn't you just shrug you 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.000 didn't want to look into it, or nobody question. 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:48.480 Now until her crimes were revealed and she was indicted 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:53.680 and tried and convicted. I don't think people knew very 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:54.920 much about at all. 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:56.800 And how do you know, Howard Lutnik. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:00.680 I want to pause here really quick, And the reason 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:02.480 I want to pause here really quick is because first 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:03.840 I want to just take a moment, because I know 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.560 people at home, maybe listening to this conversation about this 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.840 back and forth about this twenty thousand dollars donation, and 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:11.359 this really wasn't the point I was trying to get to. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.240 I want to get to something later, but. 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.920 This particular point is fascinating to me because there are 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.919 coordinating committees and a twenty thousand dollars donation is actually 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:27.240 not large. There are people that bundle or raise resources from, 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.520 you know, a bunch of different friends, and they could 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.880 bundle to the tune of a million, two million, three million, 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.000 five million, fifty million dollars because they have all of 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.160 their friends donate five thousand dollars. But it's like if 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.520 you were selling candy bars back in the day and 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.119 instead of you being and I used to eat my 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.600 candy bars, y'all don't tell them mama now, but you would, 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.200 you know, you would sell your candy bar, your candy 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.119 bar box. You would be responsible for your thing, to 0:23:52.200 --> 0:23:54.399