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House Passes Epstein Files Transparency Act as Vote Unites Left and Right · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, known
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  Speaker 1: as HR forty four oh five, with a one twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven to one vote, with five not voting at all.
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  Speaker 1: It was taken up under suspension of the rules, which
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  Speaker 1: means it needed a two thirds majority and still passed easily.
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  Speaker 1: Every Democrat and all but one Republican voted yes. The
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  Speaker 1: lone no vote was Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: who says he's worried about privacy for victims and people
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  Speaker 1: mentioned who aren't charged with crimes.
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  Speaker 2: What the bill does is passed by the House is this.
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  Speaker 1: It orders the Department of Justice to release all files,
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  Speaker 1: all records, all communications, and investigative materials related to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and associated investigations. The Department of Justice has a
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  Speaker 1: short deadline thirty in some reports, fifteen and others depending
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  Speaker 1: on version and the final texts and how that will
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  Speaker 1: be controlled to make the material public once it becomes law.
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  Speaker 1: It also allows reactions to protect the identity of victims
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  Speaker 1: and minors avoid harming ongoing investigations as well, and explicitly
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  Speaker 1: says the Department of Justice cannot withhold or redact information
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  Speaker 1: just because it's politically embarrassing, reputationally damaging, or politically sensitive
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote. So the question now is what is next. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the bill now goes to the Senate. The majority leader there,
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  Speaker 1: John Thune, has said he expects a Senate to consider
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  Speaker 1: it fairly quickly and possibly as soon as later today
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  Speaker 1: or tomorrow. But it still needs sixty votes there. And
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  Speaker 1: let's be honest, with a Senate divide the way it is,
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  Speaker 1: where you couldn't even get sixty votes to keep America's
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  Speaker 1: government open, nothing is promising now. If it passes the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: it would then go to President Donald Trump's desk for signature. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the bill is aimed at forcing the DOJ, as I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, to release a broad universe of Epstein related materials,
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  Speaker 1: including case files related to Epstein's sex trafficking investigation and
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  Speaker 1: prosecution his associate Maxwell, as well flight logs and transportation
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  Speaker 1: records where DOJ has them, internal communications and investigative notes
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  Speaker 1: files that mention public officials, government employees, and other individuals
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  Speaker 1: connected to the case. Separate from the bill, The House
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  Speaker 1: Oversight Committee already dumped more than twenty thousand pages of
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  Speaker 1: documents from the Epstein estate within the last week. That's
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  Speaker 1: obviously a lot of documents that have now gone public.
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  Speaker 1: But this new bill is meant to go further by
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  Speaker 1: targeting the Department of Justice specific files. Now, the other
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  Speaker 1: question is where does the president stand on this. Trump's
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  Speaker 1: stance has shifted well visibly over the last few days.
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  Speaker 1: His earlier stance was, why are we doing this? There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing there. Let's move on and get the work of
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  Speaker 1: the American people done. Then, when Representative Thomas Massey and
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  Speaker 1: Representative Rocanna started the discharge petition to force a vote,
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  Speaker 1: Trump and his allies pressure Republicans not to sign it.
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  Speaker 2: One administration official report.
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  Speaker 1: He called signing the petition a hostile act to the administration.
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  Speaker 1: But then Trump said, fine, you're gonna play this way
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to turn this into a democratic hoax,
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  Speaker 1: then we'll give you total transparency.
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  Speaker 2: Once it became clear that the bill was going to
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  Speaker 2: have the votes and the.
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  Speaker 1: Discharge petition crossed a two eighteen signature threshold, Trump publicly
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  Speaker 1: said to Republicans in the House they should vote to
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  Speaker 1: release the files, saying, quote, I've got nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans should support transparency and move on from what he
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  Speaker 1: said is nothing but a democratic hoax, just like Russia collusion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for it, Sure I would, was another thing
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  Speaker 1: that the President said. The White House also has a
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  Speaker 1: write up amplifying this line, telling Republicans go and do it,
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  Speaker 1: and questioned whether Democrats will equally be transparent about people
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  Speaker 1: in their orbit who might be named in the files.
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  Speaker 1: So the short version is this, Donald Trump said it
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  Speaker 1: was nothing at the beginning. Many believe that is still true.
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  Speaker 1: But now he's saying give it all to the American
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  Speaker 1: people and telling Republicans to move forward, which they've clearly done.
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  Speaker 1: There's also the political dynamics of this moving into the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a four hundred and twenty seven to
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  Speaker 1: one vote, This makes this the most bipartisan moment of
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  Speaker 1: Congress in my lifetime. The bill's sponsors and most vocal
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  Speaker 1: support include Roe Conna, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert,
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  Speaker 1: and Nancy Mace, a very ideologically mixed group that is
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  Speaker 1: clashed with leadership at times as well. Speaker Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 1: ultimately voted for the bill, but is still calling it
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  Speaker 1: a political show vote and warning that forcing the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: to to classify within a fixed timeline is dangerous. As
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  Speaker 1: he described it from an intel perspective, He's openly asking
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  Speaker 1: the Scent to change the bill to add more protections
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  Speaker 1: for victims and also four whistleblowers. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: now is clear, there is nothing to hide. It's embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: to name names for some, but they're saying let it
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  Speaker 1: all be out there. So what is next Over the
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  Speaker 1: next few days? The big question is this, does the
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  Speaker 1: Senate change the bill? And if the Senate amends or
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  Speaker 1: adds more privacy protections, the legislation would then have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the House.
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  Speaker 2: How broad will the actual release be?
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  Speaker 1: Even if it becomes law, the DJ can still redact
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  Speaker 1: the victims and active investigations. The fight will be over
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  Speaker 1: whether the DJ tries to stretch those categories or whether
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  Speaker 1: Congress pushes for a very aggressive disclosure. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: more documents to be dumped. In general, the House oversight
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  Speaker 1: already releasing twenty thousand pages from the estate. If this
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  Speaker 1: bill becomes law, DOJ production could be larger, more sensitive,
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  Speaker 1: and more directly tied to federal investigations.
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  Speaker 2: And who knew what and when?
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  Speaker 1: Now here's one other part that needs to be brought
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  Speaker 1: up and addressed as well, and that is just well
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  Speaker 1: the politics of this. Here is what James Comer had
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  Speaker 1: to say about it.
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  Speaker 2: In the House.
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  Speaker 3: They have no idea, Laura. They're just fishing. They don't
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  Speaker 3: care about the victims. They don't care about providing justice
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  Speaker 3: for the victims or giving the American people the truth.
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  Speaker 2: They only care.
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  Speaker 3: About one thing, and that's trying to embarrass Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: They hope and pray there's something in these documents that
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  Speaker 3: will embarrass Trump. I've subpoena the estate. We've produced over
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  Speaker 3: sixty five thousand pages of documents, and there's nothing in
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  Speaker 3: there about Donald Trump that hadn't already been disclosed that
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  Speaker 3: President Trump hasn't already explained. All we find are new
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  Speaker 3: problems with Democrats like Stacey Plaskett and Hakeem Jeffries.
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  Speaker 4: So why not just release the files? I mean, if
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing in there, who cares? Why not for transparency
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  Speaker 4: sake and the administration Obviously players of the administration said
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  Speaker 4: they were going to be released, and then some were released,
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  Speaker 4: but not all of them. The President said, go ahead
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  Speaker 4: and release them.
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  Speaker 2: So just get it out there.
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  Speaker 4: And have it done with.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what I've encouraged the White House to do,
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  Speaker 3: and they're working with us. They've released what they can
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  Speaker 3: legally release. There's grand jury testimony and the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: asked a judge to release that grand jury testimony, and
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  Speaker 3: the judge, who was an Obama appointee, rejected the Trump
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  Speaker 3: Department of Justice request to release the grand jury testimony,
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  Speaker 3: so a judge has to issue that. But look, I
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  Speaker 3: think the Trump administration is working with us a lot
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  Speaker 3: more than what the media has given him credit for.
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  Speaker 3: But I've encouraged the President to disclose everything. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that he's gone ahead and put this issue to borrow,
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  Speaker 3: this Dutch Art expetition behind us. This is just a
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  Speaker 3: stunt by the Democrats and a few disgruntled Republicans. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting the documents, and as soon as we get them
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  Speaker 3: on the Oversight Committee, we're making them public. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what the President wants, and hopefully we'll get
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  Speaker 3: all the documents released and we can move on to
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  Speaker 3: the issues that the American people care about.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear this is political, and that's exactly what James
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  Speaker 1: Comer was calling out.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans voted for the transparency because what the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have done is they've used the abuse of sexual assault
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  Speaker 1: victims to try to score political points against Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's backfiring. Yet again, it's all about transparency.
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  Speaker 1: That is what President Trump promised when he was elected president,
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  Speaker 1: yet again exposing much that the government was hiding from
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  Speaker 1: all of us. We now know that it's moving forward
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  Speaker 1: with the Epstein papers. I call them papers because it
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  Speaker 1: is a lie to say that there is an Epstein file.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of documents to deal with Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not a file in the way that
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  Speaker 1: it was described before Donald Trump became president. You know
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  Speaker 1: when the Democrats were trying to weaponize it. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: we know we're going to get to see those files
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  Speaker 1: or those papers.
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  Speaker 2: As a Speaker of.
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  Speaker 1: The House, Mike Johnson led the way with a House
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  Speaker 1: vote in favor of disclosing exactly what we have at
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ. He stated publicly a press conference, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to vote to move this forward.
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  Speaker 2: Despite describing the bill as.
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  Speaker 1: A recklessly flawed bill, Johnson also said that the measure
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  Speaker 1: is a way to demonstrate transparency and there's nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically in the context of responding to allegations that the
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  Speaker 1: files might implicate Donald Trumper be used as a political weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Johnson went to the floor of the House.
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  Speaker 1: And repeatedly called the bill dangerously flawed because he believes
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  Speaker 1: it lacks sufficient protection for victims, whistle blowers, and innocent
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  Speaker 1: third parties whose names might appear in the files. He
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  Speaker 1: criticized how the bill was drafted, for example, pointing out
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  Speaker 1: that the authors of the discharge petition had sided the
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  Speaker 1: wrong section of the US Code and that the legislation
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  Speaker 1: could force the release of child sexual abuse material due
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  Speaker 1: to imprecise language. Johnson also emphasized that the House cannot
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  Speaker 1: amend the bill under the discharge petition sets, so he
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  Speaker 1: wants to senate via the majority of Leader John Thum
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  Speaker 1: to make corrections before final passage. He said he's been
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  Speaker 1: working with a small army of lawyers on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: He also accused Democrats forcing what he called a political
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  Speaker 1: show vote on this issue and said it was irresponsible
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  Speaker 1: how it is happening. I want you to hear Speaker
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  Speaker 1: Johnson in his own words from the House talking about
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  Speaker 1: this before the vote.
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  Speaker 5: Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that
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  Speaker 5: this guy committed with his trafficking ring, and all of
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  Speaker 5: the abuses that they that they made these young women
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  Speaker 5: go through. They're using that as a political weapon to
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  Speaker 5: try to distract from their failures as a party and
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  Speaker 5: to try their best to try to tie President Trump
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  Speaker 5: somehow into this wretched scandal.
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  Speaker 2: The President had nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 5: He's been very clear and he has nothing to hide,
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  Speaker 5: and that's why he's endorsed the vote today. I suspect
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  Speaker 5: this vote will be probably unanimous. But here's the important
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  Speaker 5: point that everybody needs to understand. We have been advocates
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  Speaker 5: of maximum transparency, but we have also insisted that the
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  Speaker 5: victims be carefully protected. The Oversight Committee has been doing
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  Speaker 5: extraordinary work, and we've got some of the most vigorous
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  Speaker 5: advocates on the Republican and Democrat side on the Oversight Committee.
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  Speaker 5: They've been working in earnest to deliver transparency for the
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  Speaker 5: American people and to do it in a responsible manner.
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  Speaker 5: What do we mean by that the bypart is an
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  Speaker 5: effort over there is already producing all the results that
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  Speaker 5: the discharged petition seeks and much much more. Chairman Comer
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  Speaker 5: and all of these advocates over there have been releasing
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  Speaker 5: thousands of documents, for example from the Epstein estate.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, in my view.
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  Speaker 5: That's been the greatest treasure trove of information because it's
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  Speaker 5: yielded for us Epstein's own personal flight logs, his financial records,
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  Speaker 5: his daily calendars, and so much more. But importantly, none
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  Speaker 5: of that was addressed or is addressed in the legislation
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  Speaker 5: that's being voted on today. The estate files wouldn't even
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  Speaker 5: have been encompassed in that, and so it goes to
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  Speaker 5: show that the Oversight Committee is doing it from the
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  Speaker 5: direct way. From the very beginning, we've been insistent that
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  Speaker 5: this matter be handled carefully, with the utmost caution and
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  Speaker 5: care for the people who have been harmed. They should
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  Speaker 5: not be made to suffer any longer. We're talking about
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  Speaker 5: real people's lives at stake here and young victims who
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be dragged into this political game that
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  Speaker 5: could get hurt further. But the Democrats are rushing the
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  Speaker 5: release of thousands of unsubstantiated documents that may be included
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  Speaker 5: in this that are going to be in the public
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  Speaker 5: domain with the passage of this bill. And there are
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  Speaker 5: serious deficiencies in the legislation that I have noted at length,
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  Speaker 5: and Republicans have to work to address those deficiencies in
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  Speaker 5: the Senate if and when this legislation is advanced. I
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  Speaker 5: stood before the American public today at our press conference,
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  Speaker 5: and I explained in detail that the dangers of the
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  Speaker 5: discharge petition. We have posted at my website Speaker dot
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  Speaker 5: gov a summary. The legal council, a small army of
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  Speaker 5: lawyers put this together. I used to be a federal
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  Speaker 5: court litigator. Many of my colleagues who have spoken today
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  Speaker 5: were we understand the dangers of how this was haphazardly
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  Speaker 5: drawn up and among them. By the way, mister Speaker,
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  Speaker 5: before I forget seeking AMAS consent to enter into this
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  Speaker 5: document of the record, it is that. It's on the website.
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  Speaker 5: It's entitled how the flaws of HR forty four h
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  Speaker 5: five could revictimize Epstein's victims, create new victims, and damage
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  Speaker 5: the judicial system.
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  Speaker 2: It is dated today, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And it summarizes just five or six of the major concerns.
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  Speaker 5: Among them, it fails to fully protect victim privacy, It
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  Speaker 5: could create new categories of victims. It potentially jeopardizes grand
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  Speaker 5: jury secrecy. It fails to prohibit release of child sexual
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  Speaker 5: abuse materials that are not appropriately defined in the legislation.
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  Speaker 5: It jeopardizes future federal investigations, and we have National security
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  Speaker 5: currncerns regarding classified information. We'll put this in the record
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  Speaker 5: because we need the legislative record to reflect what is
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  Speaker 5: the legislative intent behind this vote.
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  Speaker 2: I used to litigate cases.
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  Speaker 5: We would litigate federal statutes and whether or not they
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  Speaker 5: could survive, and legislative intent is important and we need
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  Speaker 5: to say clearly for the record. As a Speaker of
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  Speaker 5: the House, I'm saying to you, this legislation that will
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  Speaker 5: pass today is flawed and it must be amended. The
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  Speaker 5: question is why didn't we amend it here before we
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  Speaker 5: passed it because the authors won't allow it because under
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  Speaker 5: the rules of the House in or discharge petition, they
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  Speaker 5: have to agree to consent for the legislation to be amended,
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  Speaker 5: and they are not doing that. So now we rely
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  Speaker 5: upon our partners in the other chamber to get that done,
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  Speaker 5: and they need to do that. The victims deserve our
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  Speaker 5: utmost respect. In fact, they should be saluted for their courage.
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  Speaker 5: And the young women who have not come forward who
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  Speaker 5: are now some of them are middle h women who
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  Speaker 5: have not come forward, also deserve our respect and they
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  Speaker 5: deserve to be protected. Republicans support transparency. We want maximum transparency,
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  Speaker 5: especially when it comes to disclosing the names of anybody
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  Speaker 5: who had anything to do with these evils, anybody who
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  Speaker 5: conspired with or aided in any way Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: They must be brought to justice.
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  Speaker 5: We want the bill to be amended so it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: at the same time violate victim p privacy, create new victims,
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  Speaker 5: disclose the names of any whistleblower or informant cause the
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  Speaker 5: release of grand jury materials or child sexual abuse materials,
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  Speaker 5: or under minor national security. And if and when the
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  Speaker 5: Senate takes this up, we will work with our colleagues
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  Speaker 5: over there to make sure that these things are corrected.
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  Speaker 5: I'll I'll just close with this simple thought. We've been
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  Speaker 5: at this a while, it's drug on for a while,
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  Speaker 5: but it's time for this to come to light. We
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  Speaker 5: are I I expect that this will be a unanimous
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  Speaker 5: vote and it will reflect what I think every member
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  Speaker 5: in this chamber. And I'll say this now, at least
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  Speaker 5: in recent days, every member of the chamber on the
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  Speaker 5: Democrats side, they didn't say anything for four years, but
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  Speaker 5: they're for maximum transparency now and so is this side.
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  Speaker 5: But we want to do it in a respectful and
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  Speaker 5: careful manner so that we don't subject innocent people to
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  Speaker 5: further harm. And that has been the whole thing. I
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  Speaker 5: told all my members today, I'll be voting yes on this,
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  Speaker 5: and I suspect almost everyone will. We'll send it to
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  Speaker 5: the Senate and we hope it's corrected.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the time. I'm speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Now you bet you listen to what he just said there,
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  Speaker 1: and it really shows you just how sick the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party is. They don't care who they hurt. The Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party just wants us to be a political issue. They
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  Speaker 1: want it to be a political issue. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it again. They want it to be a political
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  Speaker 1: issue to hurt Donald Trump. That's it. That's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally the whole ballgame. It's the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: they care about. It's sad because there are flaws. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Republican, as the speaker described there, and
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  Speaker 1: you vote against this, it would be used and weaponized
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  Speaker 1: against you. That is one of the sad and sick
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  Speaker 1: problems of all of this. The final point that the
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  Speaker 1: President made about this is fine, go ahead and make
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  Speaker 1: it public. Why so it's clear there is nothing that
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  Speaker 1: we as Republicans are trying to hide put it all
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  Speaker 1: out there so that everyone can see it. It's also
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  Speaker 1: sad that the Democrats can't even do that the responsible way,
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  Speaker 1: and the only thing they want to do is try
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  Speaker 1: to put Republicans in a corner and they don't care
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  Speaker 1: what victims they hurt in the process.
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  Speaker 2: There was a major meeting in the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to have a big impact on many Americans
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  Speaker 1: and more than one trillion dollars of new investment in
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. This news comes as the
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Crown Prince told President Donald Trump on Tuesday that
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia will be upping its investment commitment in the
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  Speaker 1: US to nearly one trillion. That is up from six
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  Speaker 1: hundred billion that it was pledged in May. Trump received
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  Speaker 1: the Crown Prince on the South Lawn with plenty of
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  Speaker 1: well pomp, culminating with three F thirty fives and three
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  Speaker 1: F fifteen flying over the White House. After giving the
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  Speaker 1: Crown Prince a tour of the president Ya Walk of
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  Speaker 1: Fame along the West Wing Colonnade in a photo opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: they held a bilateral meeting before reporters in the Oval
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  Speaker 1: Office quote, I believe, mister President, today and tomorrow we're going
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  Speaker 1: to announce that we are going to increase the six
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  Speaker 1: hundred billion to almost one trillion of investment, real investment
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  Speaker 1: and real opportunity by details in many areas, and the
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  Speaker 1: agreement that we are signing today in many areas of technology,
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and materials, magnets, etc. Will create a lot
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  Speaker 1: of domestic opportunities. He went on to add Trump, who
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  Speaker 1: moments earlier said he would like to see the Saudi
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  Speaker 1: investment rise to one trillion and joked he would need
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  Speaker 1: to work on the Crown prints. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to what the President had to say
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  Speaker 1: as he introduced the Crown Prince to the media inside
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office.
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  Speaker 6: Extremely respected man in the Oval Office today and a
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  Speaker 6: friend of mine for a long time, a very good
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  Speaker 6: friend of mine.
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  Speaker 7: I'm very proud of the job he's done.
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  Speaker 6: When he's done is incredible in terms of human rights
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  Speaker 6: and everything else.
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  Speaker 7: And he's the Crown Prince, the.
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  Speaker 6: Future King, and I just want to pay my greatest
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  Speaker 6: respect to your father King, who was an amazing man.
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  Speaker 7: I met him early on. He freed him at the
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  Speaker 7: airport at an age it.
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  Speaker 6: Was pretty high up there, and it was about one
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  Speaker 6: hundred and seventeen degrees that he was standing in the
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  Speaker 6: red carpet as I came out of the plane, and
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  Speaker 6: he's amazing. And when I met his brilliant son, who
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  Speaker 6: was at the Oval office. Shortly thereafter you came in
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  Speaker 6: representing the country, and I called the father.
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  Speaker 7: I said, this guy is fantastic. And I don't know if.
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  Speaker 6: That helped you or hurt you, but obviously it couldn't
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  Speaker 6: have hurt too much because here you are right for
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: we had a great mating and the office has changed
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  Speaker 6: quite a bit, and we inherited a mess. You actually
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  Speaker 6: told me you thought the country was in big trouble.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to use the exact word that you use.
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  Speaker 6: I refused to say that you thought our country was
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  Speaker 6: dead a year and a half two years ago, but
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  Speaker 6: a country was in trouble. And now we have the
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  Speaker 6: hottest country in the world. You said that also, and
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  Speaker 6: we do we have. The United States is right now
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  Speaker 6: the hottest country in the world. And between the tariffs
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  Speaker 6: and the election November fifth election, we've done things that
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  Speaker 6: nobody can believe.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty one trillion dollars will be the.
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  Speaker 6: Amount invested in the United States or committed to invest
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  Speaker 6: in one year. So I mere nine months worked to
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  Speaker 6: almost eighteen trillion dollars. Biden as an example the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 6: if you call it that shot to me, it was
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  Speaker 6: the Biden lack of administration. Less than one trillion for
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  Speaker 6: four years. We're going to be twenty one trillion for
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  Speaker 6: one year. I think that's hard to believe. The biggest
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  Speaker 6: in history was a certain country three trillion. We're going
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  Speaker 6: to be twenty one trillion. On top of that, prices
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  Speaker 6: are coming down. We inherited a mess with high prices.
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  Speaker 6: The worst inflation in the history of our country. We
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: had inflation that was a single four years, the worst
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  Speaker 6: inflation in the history of the United States.
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  Speaker 7: Gas prices through the route.
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  Speaker 6: And that's after destroying our petroleum reserve, which was meant
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  Speaker 6: for wars and big emergencies, not to try and win
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  Speaker 6: an election. They opened up the reserve so that people
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: get three dollars less than gasoline, and it didn't work.
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  Speaker 7: They got about three cents less.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Because as big as those reserves are, the peanuts when
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: you're talking about that kind of traffic and we're rebuilding
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: the reserves.
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  Speaker 7: We're doing all of this, and we've done.
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  Speaker 6: We're also bringing down prices very substantially, and we've already
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: brought them down very very substantially.
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  Speaker 7: Gasoline is way down.
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  Speaker 6: I think you'll be seeing two dollars gasoline, but we're
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  Speaker 6: now at two fifty to forty five, somewhere lower than that.
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  Speaker 6: It was four fifty five dollars, six dollars, three fifty three,
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  Speaker 6: seventy five under by no all different numbers, but way high.
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  Speaker 6: And we have energy way down. But the biggest thing
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  Speaker 6: to me, because I know what it means in jobs,
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  Speaker 6: is the fact that we're at over seventeen trillion dollars
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  Speaker 6: scott and we expect to be around twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 6: trillion dollars in one year. And that's many times bigger
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  Speaker 6: than in history. The highest number was three trillion dollars,
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  Speaker 6: and we're going to be a twenty one trillion.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: That means new plants, new AI, new auto plants.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: We have auto plants coming in from Canada and from Mexico,
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  Speaker 6: from Germany, from Japan. Toyota just agreed to invest ten
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  Speaker 6: billion dollars on new auto plants, all American workers.
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  Speaker 7: We've never been in a position like this. You can
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: go back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 6: Our country has never been in a position like this,
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  Speaker 6: and it really is because of the fact that we
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: use tariffs to bring all this money in. And you're
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  Speaker 6: going to see the results in a year where these
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  Speaker 6: plans start to open up. We have more plants under
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  Speaker 6: construction now than at any time in the history of
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  Speaker 6: our country. And these are big plants. These are the
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  Speaker 6: biggest plants anywhere in the world. And I want to
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  Speaker 6: thank you because you've agreed to invest six hundred billion
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  Speaker 6: dollars into the United States.
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  Speaker 7: And because my friends, he might make it a trillion,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm going to have to work on him. But
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  Speaker 7: it's six hundred We can count on six hundred billion.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: But that number could go up a little bit higher. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, we'll see, but we appreciate it very much.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: So Sadia is going to be investing at least six
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  Speaker 6: hundred billion dollars, and that means investments in plants, in companies,
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: money on Wall Street, and what it really means for
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: everybody that really counts as jobs, a lot of jobs.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: We have a lot of jobs. So I just want
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  Speaker 6: to thank you. We've been really good friends for a
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  Speaker 6: long period of time. We've always been on the same
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  Speaker 6: side of every issue.
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  Speaker 7: I think we've done a great job.
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  Speaker 6: In wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else
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  Speaker 6: could have done that, No other president would have done it.
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  Speaker 6: We had the pilots in the Oval office right here.
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  Speaker 6: We were celebrating a very successful attack. So I had
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  Speaker 6: them in with that beautiful be too bomber that's over there,
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  Speaker 6: and they said, Sir, for twenty two years we practiced
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  Speaker 6: this attack.
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  Speaker 7: Our predecessors. These were very young guys.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: So twenty two years they said, our predecessors and us
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: practice the attack on Iran. But no president ever gave
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  Speaker 6: us the go ahead. Three times a year they went
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: out and they practiced the attack. Nobody let us do
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: it until you came along. And I let them do
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: it because the right things to do. You can't have
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  Speaker 6: a nuclear rn and so we put you in a
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: very good position. But I just want to say, it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: an honor to be your friend, and it's an honor
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  Speaker 6: that you're here, and if you'd like to say a
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: few words, but thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear the present there making it clear that
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: we have an ally in Saudi Arabia when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to fighting terrorism, something of the President wanted to point out,
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  Speaker 1: also talking about how they work together to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they took out that Iran nuclear plant and one trillion
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  Speaker 1: dollars of investment coming into the United States of America
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