Bannon's War Room - Episode 4752： Epstein Files Transparency Act Presser; Trump Meets With President Of Poland

00:00:00.000 For months, I had to avoid Jeffrey, but he told me that if I wanted to succeed as a Ford model, he could make it happen.

00:00:08.520 And he was right. He introduced me to Katie Ford, and many others in the entertainment business.

00:00:16.060 His grip on the modeling business was undeniable.

00:00:19.600 Not just the Ford family, but Victoria's Secret, Faith Cates, Jean-Luc Brunel, Victoria's Secret.

00:00:26.340 Everett, Epstein's reach went to the very top of fashion.

00:00:31.400 He could make a model's career.

00:00:34.020 What I didn't realize then was that once he lured someone like me in, he could also destroy my career if I did not do what he wanted me to do.

00:00:43.860 In New York City, countless young women were abused by him.

00:00:48.460 Everyone in the industry knew, yet he was too powerful to stop.

00:00:53.040 He had friends in all of our entertainment and arts, and his value to those friends made him untouchable.

00:01:02.260 But I ask you why.

00:01:04.540 Who was he to our government that he was allowed to operate openly for decades?

00:01:09.780 Why was he allowed to sponsor visas for young models, using their immigration status as leverage to abuse them, and silence them?

00:01:21.680 Epstein was not just a serial predator.

00:01:24.540 He was an international human trafficker.

00:01:27.100 And many around him knew this, many participated, and many profited.

00:01:34.500 And yet he was protected.

00:01:37.720 I know what it's like to be trafficked to others.

00:01:40.840 I know that the files contain the names of powerful men who have been shielded because of their fame or their fortune.

00:01:47.300 So I stand here today, not just for myself, but for every woman who has been silenced, exploited, and dismissed.

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00:02:02.040 And we are not asking for pity.

00:02:04.140 We are demanding accountability.

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00:02:07.320 All right.

00:02:09.300 Congress must choose.

00:02:12.720 Will you continue to protect predators, or will you finally protect survivors?

00:02:19.680 Transparency is justice.

00:02:21.460 Release the files.

00:02:22.920 End the secrecy.

00:02:23.980 And stand with us in declaring that no one, no billionaires, no politicians, not world leaders, is above the law.

00:02:37.440 And let me announce now.

00:02:39.600 Several of us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names.

00:02:50.860 We know the names.

00:02:55.800 Many of us were abused by them.

00:02:58.640 Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know we're regularly in the Epstein world.

00:03:05.580 And it will be done by survivors and for survivors.

00:03:12.680 No one else is involved.

00:03:14.960 Stay tuned for more details on that.

00:03:18.700 Because history is watching, and so are the women who will come after us.

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00:03:35.580 If that's not bravery, I do not know what is.

00:03:41.580 Okay.

00:03:42.580 We're bringing up another group of women.

00:03:46.580 Ashley, Danny, Jess, Haley, and Wendy.

00:03:50.580 Come on up.

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00:03:52.580 We are watching live from Capitol Hill.

00:03:55.580 It's been moved up a little bit.

00:03:56.580 It's supposed to be 1030.

00:03:57.580 The victims, this is the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking.

00:04:02.580 They're on Capitol Hill today.

00:04:04.580 Let's cut back to where I covered this in its entirety.

00:04:07.580 Then probably go to the White House for the arrival of the Polish president.

00:04:11.580 Let's go back to Capitol Hill.

00:04:12.580 I am a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:04:17.580 Some things I want to say.

00:04:20.580 To any survivors out there who feel like they don't matter, it doesn't matter if you went

00:04:26.580 once or countless times.

00:04:28.580 We were groomed, we were manipulated, and we were taken advantage of.

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00:04:34.580 For decades, survivors have been suffocated by speculation.

00:04:38.580 We've been mocked.

00:04:39.580 We've been doubted.

00:04:40.580 We've been re-traumatized.

00:04:42.580 While those responsible hide in secrecy, why don't we deserve justice?

00:04:50.580 This is not partisan.

00:04:52.580 However, this is very political, as the only path to justice is through our political system.

00:05:00.580 And this is about justice.

00:05:02.580 This is about accountability.

00:05:04.580 This is about protecting the innocence of our children and honoring the dignity of survivors.

00:05:10.580 Everywhere we turn, the story follows us.

00:05:13.580 It's in headlines, jokes, music, grocery store checkout lines, random conversations that

00:05:20.580 you hear people having in restaurants.

00:05:22.580 For more than 20 years, we've been unable to escape it.

00:05:26.580 And every time new promises are made, our sparks of hope are lit, only to be extinguished again.

00:05:33.580 We are tired.

00:05:36.580 However, we are not going away.

00:05:43.580 We will not stop or give up.

00:05:49.580 And we will be on the front lines of this battle.

00:05:52.580 We are no longer scared.

00:05:55.580 And let's be clear.

00:05:56.580 There were so many enabling adults.

00:06:02.580 Those enablers actively turned a blind eye.

00:06:05.580 And they are the greatest danger.

00:06:07.580 Yes.

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00:06:10.580 Come on.

00:06:11.580 You know who you are.

00:06:12.580 Yes.

00:06:13.580 As do we.

00:06:14.580 You allowed us to be abused for a fat check and a cushy life, which you still have.

00:06:20.580 And to those in power, hear us clearly.

00:06:24.580 Do your job.

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00:06:27.580 Release what needs to be released.

00:06:29.580 Yes.

00:06:30.580 And hold those responsible accountable.

00:06:33.580 Survivors deserve peace.

00:06:46.580 Survivors deserve truth.

00:06:48.580 Survivors deserve justice.

00:06:50.580 And to my fellow survivors.

00:06:53.580 Your voice matters.

00:06:54.580 Your story matters.

00:06:56.580 And you matter.

00:06:58.580 Together, we are louder than the silence.

00:07:01.580 Together, we will not stop until justice is done.

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00:07:07.580 Thank you.

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00:07:13.580 Good journey.

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00:07:36.580 My name is Haley Robson. I came out in 2019 on the documentary Filthy Rich. I have been very focused on bringing more awareness to all of the survivors. I am so proud to stand with them. I am so proud to be up here to support them because they deserve all the love and support.

00:07:54.580 And I just want to say to the women who chose this moment to come out for the very first time about your abuse, I cannot think of a more important, greater purpose in life than to stand in solidarity when time is against us, when the politicians have made us an enemy, when the world is watching and everybody is hoping for some type of result.

00:08:18.220 Thank you for choosing this moment for the first time to be so brave to come out and stand in solidarity. I prayed for a moment. I prayed for this moment where God would fill us with reinforcements.

00:08:35.680 I want to acknowledge all the women, unfortunately, that couldn't be here today because I think that is the only list of real great importance. And we should never forget the voices that were not only silenced, but that are not here today. We should never forget the sacrifices that they made.

00:08:53.180 So today I would like to take a moment for Virginia, Sky, Danielle and Carolyn. Their voices were just as powerful and they were silenced just as much. And for some reason, I can feel their spirit, especially Virginia's today.

00:09:11.720 She would be so proud and she would be so beside herself to see this one moment. We have all came together to unite and for our government and for the politicians who have taken our trauma and have weaponized it against us, making it unbearable, making it unlivable, making it hard to move on in a life that we wish to live in happiness and joy and peace and injustice that can only come from within at this point.

00:09:37.640 And we have gotten to this point. Shame on you.

00:09:41.720 Shame on you for using our trauma to weaponize this moment. We are not going to be fooled by your trickery. We are not going to be fooled by the lies, by the conspiracy theories. We are the keys to this situation. We have the truth. And the FBI knows the truth. The government knows the truth. You may pull the wool over the sheep's eyes, but we are the keys.

00:10:09.120 We know who was involved. We know who was involved. We know the game. We know the players. And we are sitting here for 20 years waiting for you to get up and do something.

00:10:19.880 Well, guess what? Your time is up and now we're doing it.

00:10:23.880 How do you follow that? Hello, everybody. My name is Wendy Passante and I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein when I was 14 years old.

00:10:42.940 I'm not here to relive what happened. I'm here to be counted and to make sure others are counted, too.

00:10:51.220 I once believed my silence was strength. Hold it together. Don't draw attention.

00:10:58.360 Today, I know that strength sounds like my voice. It sounds like everybody's voice is up here.

00:11:03.800 Silence only protects creditors, not children. People ask, what about the victims? We're here. We're here today. And there's more of us.

00:11:19.080 I stand with many who are still finding their words. I live in a world where being understood is a struggle,

00:11:26.200 where people in power would rather sweep us under the rug in hopes that we'll go away. We won't.

00:11:36.560 Being a survivor is not a headline. It's our life. We have to live it. It's panic in a grocery store.

00:11:44.040 It's smiling at work while my hands tremble. It's waking up at 3 a.m. with my heart racing and not knowing why.

00:11:51.040 It's living with PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and your nervous system's on guard at all times,

00:11:56.840 even in the safest room around the safest people.

00:12:02.560 Healing isn't tidy. It's therapy. It's wait lists. It's trying a medication and trying again over and over for years.

00:12:13.000 It's setting boundaries with some people who won't understand.

00:12:16.200 Survival isn't weakness. It's wisdom we've earned.

00:12:20.620 If you are a survivor hearing me, your voice is never too late, too much, or too little.

00:12:26.680 If all you could do was show up today, you're already trying to make a difference.

00:12:32.360 You do not owe anyone your story.

00:12:36.460 You are owed safety, care, and belief.

00:12:40.180 Your breath is proof that harm does not get the last word.

00:12:43.660 I'm not asking anyone to take a political side.

00:12:48.040 I really don't even follow a lot of politics.

00:12:52.100 I'm asking you to take a stand in solidarity.

00:12:55.700 Protect the vulnerable, not the powerful.

00:12:59.020 Protect children and survivors, not titles and reputations.

00:13:04.400 Our silence doesn't keep us safe.

00:13:09.520 And I hope today's courage from all of us ladies can help someone else be safer tomorrow.

00:13:18.320 We are here, and we refuse to be erased.

00:13:21.780 So, thank you guys for listening to all of us and being here today.

00:13:28.660 Hello, everybody. Thank you for being here.

00:13:46.620 As I stand here today and look around, I want to acknowledge what it feels like to be in the presence of these incredibly brave, powerful women that I stand up here with.

00:14:03.440 I am so empowered by each and every one of your fortitude, and I am following in the brave footsteps of those that came before me.

00:14:13.580 While we each have our own stories and walk down different paths of life, we are bonded together as survivors.

00:14:19.880 When I look into these beautiful faces, I am reminded that we all started our journeys with big hopes and dreams.

00:14:31.300 Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, stole and systematically destroyed those dreams.

00:14:39.320 We are a mosaic of shattered hopes and dreams at their hands.

00:14:43.840 As an aspiring dancer, the manipulation came in forms of offering me dance studio space, discussing opportunities to meet with ballet masters, and aiding a very ill family member of mine, none of which would ever come to pass.

00:14:58.360 Instead, I was left in a cycle of abuse that wore me down and broke me.

00:15:06.640 When it happened, I would have to completely disassociate.

00:15:09.940 Similar to a coma, my brain would need to protect itself, so I would retreat and choreographing in my own head to escape the cruel acts that were being carried out on my body.

00:15:20.160 After, I would go to the studio bundled in giant, baggy clothing.

00:15:24.540 I remember standing there, staring in the mirror as if it were an empty void.

00:15:30.300 I was past the point of tears.

00:15:32.600 There was nothing left.

00:15:33.720 I was a hollow shell of myself.

00:15:35.580 I could no longer watch my body move, let alone dance.

00:15:41.160 He had taken something sacred from me.

00:15:44.340 Two decades later, I am still experiencing lingering effects of what happened to me as a teenager.

00:15:50.520 I am just one story in the mosaic of women taking back their power by confronting the horrific truths of their pasts due to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:16:02.740 We stand here today in the nation's capital for no other reason than to say that women's voices will not be marginalized.

00:16:14.640 We stand together as a mosaic of stories, but we're also finding our way back to ourselves.

00:16:20.400 We are reclaiming the fragmented shards of the hopes and dreams of our past to paint a better future for the next generation of women.

00:16:30.500 This story has come to Washington to be told.

00:16:34.660 We will be heard.

00:16:36.040 Thank you.

00:16:36.500 My name is Jess Michaels, and I'm a 1991 Jeffrey Epstein survivor.

00:16:55.560 27 years.

00:16:57.680 For 27 years, I thought I was the only one that Jeffrey Epstein raped.

00:17:02.780 I believed I was alone, and I was kept silent by the shame that was inside me, and by the fear outside in the world.

00:17:12.920 But I wasn't the only one.

00:17:15.740 None of us were.

00:17:17.820 And what once kept us silent now fuels that fire and the power of our voices.

00:17:23.460 We are not the footnotes in some infamous Predator's tabloid article.

00:17:32.540 We are the experts and the subjects of this story.

00:17:37.920 We are the proof that fear did not break us.

00:17:41.380 And we don't just speak for ourselves, but for every survivor whose story is still unspoken.

00:17:49.520 For those not with us today.

00:17:52.920 For Virginia, whose courage lit the path and opened the door for us to walk through.

00:18:00.700 This is what power looks like.

00:18:03.440 Survivors united, voices joined, refusing to be dismissed.

00:18:08.240 Know this.

00:18:11.540 Justice and accountability are not favors from the powerful.

00:18:16.420 They are obligations decades overdue.

00:18:22.020 This moment began with Epstein's crimes, but it's going to be remembered for survivors demanding justice,

00:18:29.700 demanding truth, demanding accountability.

00:18:32.440 And we will not stop until survivor voices shape justice, transform culture, and define the future.

00:18:46.060 We are no longer whispers.

00:18:49.320 We are one powerful voice too loud to ignore.

00:18:53.200 And we will never be silenced again.

00:18:56.260 Thank you.

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00:19:27.760 Press conference.

00:19:28.900 What's going to happen?

00:19:29.880 They're going to migrate now over to the, to the, let's see if we can pick up anything from the microphone right there.

00:19:37.620 Who is a lawyer.

00:19:40.060 Sometimes survivors are ready to be seen.

00:19:43.240 They're not ready to be heard.

00:19:44.400 And so we would love to bring you up because you represent so many survivors who are so critical to this story.

00:19:57.260 Good morning, everyone.

00:20:03.600 My name is Eric Fudali, and I've had the privilege of representing up to 11 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:20:12.320 And one of them is standing next to me here today.

00:20:15.440 This is Rosa.

00:20:17.400 We love you, baby.

00:20:20.420 It's okay.

00:20:20.900 You may not realize this, but what I just did is the first time anyone has ever said Rosa's name publicly as being attached and being abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

00:20:32.080 And this is also the first time she has ever appeared publicly as a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:20:47.640 And I say that because it was last night that she flew into Washington, D.C., inspired by the solidarity of all of you, by the compassion of all of you, and by the courage of all of you to be here today.

00:21:09.280 And I'm so proud of Rosa, and I'm so proud of all of you.

00:21:13.240 But the truth is, Rosa shouldn't be here today.

00:21:16.000 Rosa shouldn't have to be here today, and I'm going to tell you why.

00:21:20.600 Because Rosa was trafficked from Uzbekistan under the guise of a modeling contract in 2009.

00:21:30.240 That means that Rosa wouldn't be here today if Alex Acosta hadn't had Jeffrey Epstein in his grasp,

00:21:38.660 had what every single law enforcement officer dreams of, to stop a predator in his tracks.

00:21:46.200 And what did he do?

00:21:48.160 He gave him a slap on the wrist and let him to continue to abuse.

00:21:52.380 And had he not, Epstein never would have met Rosa, and Rosa would not have to be here today.

00:21:57.340 But none of you should have to be here today.

00:22:02.260 None of you should have to be there today because if when Jeffrey Epstein was finally arrested in 2016,

00:22:07.600 and under federal custody, he wouldn't have been allowed to take his own life and avoid the accountability and justice you all deserve.

00:22:15.680 And none of you should be here today because Ghislaine Maxwell should not have been given a platform to deny the crimes against her,

00:22:26.320 who was convicted of trafficking and tricking 14-year-old girls.

00:22:36.000 She should not have been given a platform, and she should not have been rewarded after that platform in a minimum security resort.

00:22:48.100 And none of you should have to be here today because they should just release the files.

00:22:54.920 No more slow rolling, no more meetings, no more strategy, no more interviews behind closed doors.

00:23:00.880 Release the files and give you all, and Rosa, the accountability, the exposure, and most importantly, the closure you all deserve.

00:23:10.840 Thank you.

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00:23:22.880 Our last speaker this morning is no stranger to the plight of survivors.

00:23:27.880 And so with that, I'd love to welcome Gloria Allred to wrap us up here.

00:23:43.120 Give a big round of applause to all the survivors and all the victims and all the supporters today.

00:23:52.020 I commend you, and it matters that you're here.

00:23:54.500 Let me just say, your voice is important, but power only recognizes power.

00:24:04.060 And for many years, we have not exercised our power in a way that helped win change.

00:24:13.440 And you all, and we all, have been betrayed.

00:24:17.020 I represent Alicia Arden and 26 other brave survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and some of Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:24:26.580 Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:24:27.460 And in 1997, my client Alicia Arden went to the police in Santa Monica and said that she had been the victim of sexually inappropriate conduct by Jeffrey Epstein when he invited her to be auditioning for Victoria's Secret catalog.

00:24:48.020 And she went to the police, and they said, why don't you think about it before you file a police report.

00:24:56.580 She thought about it and came back the following week and filed the first documented police report against Jeffrey Epstein in 1997.

00:25:05.580 And you all were betrayed because there was no prosecution.

00:25:10.600 Believe women.

00:25:11.640 Let's hear it.

00:25:12.560 Believe women.

00:25:14.320 Believe women.

00:25:16.100 Believe women.

00:25:17.740 And then the victims and all of us were betrayed when?

00:25:23.540 In Florida.

00:25:25.700 Mr. Acosta made that deal.

00:25:28.100 U.S. Attorney is for the Southern District of Florida.

00:25:31.800 Made that deal that instead of 60 felony counts that could have been filed by the United States Attorney,

00:25:39.000 two counts were filed by the state attorney and Jeffrey Epstein without having a trial

00:25:48.180 was able to go to his office every day as part of the sentence and just sleep in the

00:25:54.980 jail at night for 13 months. Is that justice? No. You were betrayed.

00:26:00.500 Betrayed. And then of course there was New York. New York where Jeffrey Epstein was

00:26:08.760 brought in, arrested. I saw him at the last hearing in federal court. And so many victims

00:26:15.540 and so many survivors thought at last there's justice. But instead of justice there was a

00:26:21.860 dead body, the Metropolitan Correctional Center. And questions are still being asked. Was it

00:26:28.200 suicide? Was it homicide? But the victims never got to testify at trial and confront that sexual

00:26:35.840 predator. Was that justice? This is, we're overdue for justice. We're not going to be waiting

00:26:44.080 for justice. We are fighting for justice. And let me tell you no more talk of the word pedophiles,

00:26:55.760 which only means a man who is attracted to children. We're not talking about pedophiles. We're talking

00:27:02.960 about sexual predators and child molesters. Let's get the word in about what the crime was that they

00:27:10.560 committed. Do you agree? Yes. And finally, let me just say, they took, these predators took advantage

00:27:20.960 of vulnerable children, of vulnerable adults. We know how vulnerable women can be.

00:27:26.960 And they abuse their power. And they abuse their trust. And it's time to meet power with power.

00:27:34.320 There are three stages of evolution. The first is victim. The second is survivor. And the third

00:27:41.520 is fighter for change. Are you going to be fighters for change? Not just today, but every day.

00:27:49.760 Every day. Not just in politics and Congress, but in lawsuits, in speaking to people, your coworkers,

00:27:59.440 your children, your mothers. Help them, support them to stand up to win justice. Because nobody has

00:28:07.440 ever given women and children any rights. We've always had to fight to win them. We've had to fight to

00:28:13.760 keep them. Will you fight that fight? And I leave you with this. One of my favorite sayings. Pray for the

00:28:23.440 dead. And that's for Virginia Roberts and all those who didn't make it here today. Pray for the dead.

00:28:30.080 But fight like hell for the living. Keep up the fight. Let me hear it. Keep up the fight. Keep up the fight.

00:28:39.440 Keep up the fight. Keep up the fight. Thank you very much.

00:28:54.480 Thank you, everybody, for coming. One last unbelievable rallying cheer for all the survivors here.

00:29:02.160 What do we want? When do we want it? Now. Okay, everybody, there's the press conference

00:29:10.560 starting in a few minutes. Do you want to just go on over and we'll meet you over there? Whoever

00:29:17.120 wants to. Okay, we're going to go live. Also, you have Tom Massey and Rokahana. The reason this is

00:29:23.600 happening today, there's a discharge petition. What a discharge petition means that they can

00:29:29.120 actually take it to the floor for a vote. They got all the Democrats in 212. Massey has, he says,

00:29:35.920 four Republicans. So I think there are three other Republicans that are 216. And I believe MTG and

00:29:44.160 Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert are the three. They're looking for more. They got to get to 218 to pass it.

00:29:51.920 This press conference is going to start momentarily. They will also have additional victims

00:29:55.840 up there for Epstein. Of course, maybe a couple of the lawyers representing them.

00:30:01.920 Very big day on this on Capitol Hill, forced by Rokahana's and Tom Massey's discharge petition.

00:30:09.920 There is a ton of other stuff going on that we're going to try to get to.

00:30:13.600 By the way, as soon as they're at the podium, let's go and cut to it.

00:30:16.160 I got Dr. Bradley Thayer in standby. This parade last night actually was much bigger. It was a

00:30:24.880 geopolitical flex. President Trump did not respond well to it. President Trump actually called out,

00:30:30.880 as we mentioned yesterday on the show, that the Chinese Communist Party didn't do a whole lot of

00:30:36.080 fighting in World War II and that it was essentially American blood in the Pacific that drove to the

00:30:42.960 and also Laobai Jing, Chinese civilians, Chinese civilians who were not tied to the Chinese Communist

00:30:50.640 Party. So President Trump put out a pretty brutal tweet last night. Dr. Thayer is is going to join us.

00:30:56.560 Also huge developments in the Google case. I think Google slipped the, you know, got out of a massive,

00:31:05.600 you know, government trying to break them up. Google slipped it. There's all types of things

00:31:09.520 going on in the court. Mike, in the courts, Mike Davis is over at the National Conservative

00:31:15.520 Conference right now giving a speech. Mike Davis hopefully will join us. We are going to cut

00:31:20.560 to the White House. The Polish president is supposed to be there, talk to President Trump about Ukraine.

00:31:26.560 Very important meeting. I'm sure President Trump is going to give a press avail and I'm sure there'll be

00:31:30.880 a couple of three questions about what just occurred outside the Capitol across from the Supreme Court

00:31:37.120 on this pre-press conference with the victims. Like I said, Ro Khanna and Tom Massey doing a discharge

00:31:44.240 petition today. I don't remember ever a discharge petition working, but this one I think might have

00:31:49.520 some traction. Let's go. Let's cut live to the second press conference and we'll jump in right afterwards.

00:31:54.080 And yes, you're back at supporters. The demand for the approval of Ukraine is a nation that

00:32:05.040 allows rich and powerful men to congratulate young girls without consequence. It's a nation that has

00:32:13.920 lost lost its moral and spirit. America, I'm going to ask you a very simple question. How is it possible

00:32:24.400 that in the richest, most powerful country in the world, there are corrupt special interest forces,

00:32:33.280 both foreign or domestic, that are preventing the release. Young girls without consequence.

00:32:42.160 We are preventing the release of the Paul Epstein files. There is something that is rotten in Washington.

00:32:50.240 Less than one percent of these files have been released. We are demanding today on the discharge

00:32:56.000 petition that all of the files be released. We know we have 200 in South Democrats and we have

00:33:03.920 four Republicans, courageous Republicans like Thomas Massey, Nancy Mace of the Paul Epstein files.

00:33:10.240 We are demanding today on the discharge petition that all of the files be released.

00:33:24.000 We know we have 212 Democrats and we have four Republicans, courageous Republicans like Thomas Massey,

00:33:32.800 Nancy Mace, who was so emotional yesterday after talking to the survivors, Congresswoman Boebert

00:33:40.560 and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. We need just two more signatures to force the release.

00:33:46.640 So we gather here on the steps of the Capitol to confront these corrupt forces.

00:33:53.120 Today we stand with survivors. We stand against big money. We stand to protect America's children.

00:34:02.160 That is really what this is about. I now want to bring up my Republican colleague, Thomas Massey.

00:34:09.200 He has shown so much courage, so much leadership. And I saw some people, I say the same thing about

00:34:15.520 Marjorie Taylor Greene. She has shown so much courage on this issue. I saw some people when I was coming here,

00:34:20.400 calling her names. We've got to stop that. We've got to stop the partisanship on this issue. This is an

00:34:27.600 issue where they both have shown real courage and leadership. And I appreciate them joining us today.

00:34:33.520 Congressman Massey.

00:34:34.480 Congressman Massey

00:34:37.120 I want to thank my colleague Ro Khanna for co-leading this effort to bring transparency

00:34:41.920 and justice for these victims. I hope my colleagues are watching this press conference.

00:34:47.600 I want them to think, what if this was your sister? What if this was your daughter?

00:34:52.320 When these survivors speak, the Washington establishment is asking the American public to

00:34:58.400 believe something that is not believable. They're asking you to believe that two individuals created

00:35:05.920 hundreds of victims and they acted alone. And that the DOJ has no idea of who else might have been

00:35:12.400 involved. That nobody else did anything that rose to a criminal enterprise. The American people know

00:35:19.520 that's not true. Now, the Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're going to

00:35:25.280 vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing. I appreciate the efforts of

00:35:32.720 my colleague, James Comer, who's leading the oversight committee. They may find some information,

00:35:38.720 but they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them.

00:35:45.360 If you've looked at the pages they've released so far, they're heavily redacted. Some pages are

00:35:50.480 entirely redacted. And 97% of this is already in the public domain. So I'm calling on my colleagues. Be

00:35:59.920 one of the next two who sponsors this discharge petition. I think it's shameful that this has been

00:36:07.840 called a hoax. Hopefully today we can clear that up. This is not a hoax. This is real. There are real

00:36:15.520 survivors. There are real victims to this criminal enterprise. And the perpetrators are being protected

00:36:23.360 because they're rich and powerful and political donors to the establishment here in Washington, D.C.

00:36:31.680 So today we're standing with these survivors and we're giving them a voice. And I want to close by

00:36:37.280 thanking them. They are brave. I hope they encourage other survivors to come forward

00:36:43.040 and to tell their stories. Not just of Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, but anywhere in the country. This

00:36:51.760 is a message that we are sending. This is a litmus test. Can we drain the swamp? Are there people who

00:37:00.160 are outside of the reach of the law? I don't think there should be. So hopefully today we'll get two more

00:37:08.560 signatures on the discharge petition. That's all we need. And with that, I want to introduce the

00:37:14.240 bravest woman in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene. I find it interesting that the three Republican

00:37:22.560 co-sponsors are women. These are women standing up for women. And Marjorie was the first to do it.

00:37:28.880 And I think she deserves all of our gratitude for breaking that barrier and leading the way for the

00:37:34.560 other Republicans. Hopefully they can find their spines as well. And with that, I give you Marjorie

00:37:40.080 Taylor Greene. Good morning. This is my fifth year in Congress and this is the largest press conference

00:37:50.400 that I've seen since I've been here. And this is because this is an issue that matters so much to

00:37:55.920 Americans. This is an issue that doesn't have political boundaries. It's an issue that Republicans

00:38:03.280 and Democrats should never fight about. As a matter of fact, it's such an important issue

00:38:08.560 that it should bring us all together. It's grieved me to watch the arguments and debates take place

00:38:15.680 among my colleagues and even the administration. I think this is something that was worth fighting for.

00:38:23.280 You see, the women behind me are going to tell you stories that you've never heard before.

00:38:29.120 These are unimaginable horrors that they've lived with for their entire lives since they were very,

00:38:36.320 very young. But these are also similar stories that many children, teenagers, women, and even men

00:38:43.840 are enduring nightmares right now as we speak. You see, these women have been fighting since the 1990s. I

00:38:52.960 heard one woman tell us yesterday since 1996. And they have carried with them shame. But I want to

00:39:00.800 tell you something. The shame does not fall on these brave, courageous women. The shame falls on every

00:39:09.520 single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse. The shame falls on every single person that

00:39:18.880 that took money to continue it. And the shame falls on the people in power over the past several decades

00:39:31.280 that protected the monster Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal that continued a nightmare. Those people

00:39:40.080 deserve the shame. And today we are coming forward and we are going to fight like hell for these women

00:39:46.720 because we have to fight like hell for those that are enduring sexual abuse and are living in a prison

00:39:54.240 of shame. Anyone that is being abused, it is not your fault. You should live with no guilt or fear or shame.

00:40:04.160 All of the fault belongs to the evil people that do these things to the innocent. This is the most important

00:40:13.280 fight we can wage here in Congress is fighting for innocent people that never received justice. And the

00:40:20.320 women behind me have never received justice. And do you want to know why? It's because Jeffrey Epstein

00:40:27.680 somehow was able to walk among the most rich, powerful people not only in America but foreign countries.

00:40:35.920 Yesterday I heard countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia and even Israel and other countries.

00:40:43.280 The truth needs to come out. And the government holds the truth. The cases that are sealed hold

00:40:52.800 the truth. Jeffrey Epstein's estate holds the truth. The FBI, the DOJ and the CIA holds the truth. And the

00:41:03.200 truth we are demanding come out on behalf of these women but also as a strong message to every innocent

00:41:11.200 child teenager woman and man that is being held captive in abuse. This should never happen in America and it

00:41:20.000 should never be a political issue that divides us. And I want to thank Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey

00:41:28.080 for doing something brave. Crossing political boundaries for a very important fight. And I'm honored to join

00:41:36.560 both of them. And I'm honored that Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert signed the discharge petition along with

00:41:44.000 myself. And I asked my Republican colleagues not to choose just one path for justice and transparency and

00:41:52.320 accountability. But I asked my Republican colleagues to choose every path for justice and accountability and

00:42:00.800 transparency. And with that, I'd like to bring back Congressman Ro Khanna to start this important press

00:42:08.320 conference. Thank you very much. Thank you, Congresswoman Green for your courage and for being here. And thank you

00:42:18.400 again to Congressman Massey for co-leading it. I now would like to introduce two people who've been fighting this for decades.

00:42:26.160 They haven't had their voice heard. The victims haven't been heard. They haven't just been on this

00:42:30.720 in the last few months. They've been doing this in the wilderness for years. And they are really models

00:42:36.320 of courage. Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, who are the attorneys for the victims. Thank you for being here.

00:42:47.600 Thank you, Ro and Thomas Massey. I really appreciate you putting forth this discharge petition.

00:42:57.040 It's tough to understand that we have to be here because this doesn't seem like a partisan issue.

00:43:02.400 This is an issue. Sex trafficking and sexual abuse transcends politics. We as Americans expect

00:43:09.360 equal protection under the law. And there can be no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein received

00:43:13.840 far greater protection than any of the victims that he abused for years.

00:43:17.680 In 2008, Courtney Wilde walked into my office because she was a part of a federal investigation

00:43:26.800 into Jeffrey Epstein, where all she wanted was the government to talk to her. Little did she know,

00:43:32.000 the government had worked out a secret immunity deal for Jeffrey Epstein. And we had to file

00:43:36.800 Jane Doe's versus United States of America to prove that Jeffrey Epstein worked out an illegal

00:43:45.040 non-prosecution agreement with the government. That was 2008. It took us 10 years battling the

00:43:50.400 government pro bono for the judge to ultimately determine that the victim's rights were violated.

00:43:56.240 The government has mistreated them after Jeffrey Epstein mistreated them. We then filed civil

00:44:01.360 lawsuits against Ghislaine Maxwell, which has resulted in her being in prison. Our civil lawsuits led to

00:44:06.960 her prosecution. We filed lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein, against his estate, and against two

00:44:13.920 financial institutions, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, that proved that they provided, knowingly provided,

00:44:21.040 the financial infrastructure for a sex trafficking operation. Unfortunately, all of the documents and

00:44:26.800 evidence that we have worked so hard to gather, hide behind protective orders, confidentiality agreements,

00:44:33.040 and bank secrecy laws. That is why this discharge petition is so important. While we have seen the

00:44:38.960 documents, you have it. And when you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. And the American

00:44:44.560 people deserve to see everything. When you sign this discharge petition, it should mean nothing is off

00:44:51.840 limits. That means the documents in the possession of the CIA should be made available. Those in the

00:44:57.840 possession of the FBI going back decades should be made available. The SEC, financial records in the

00:45:03.280 possession of FinCEN should be made available. Everybody knows that evil, evil flourishes in the

00:45:10.320 darkness. Corruption flourishes in secrecy. It is time right now to make a difference for the women that

00:45:17.920 are behind me right now. They have been courageous and fought through this whole thing. Whether you're

00:45:23.040 a Republican or you're a Democrat, this one is an easy call. You're an American who cares about

00:45:29.520 equal rights and equal protection under the law. If you care about these women, if you care about our

00:45:34.640 country and you care about this issue, this should pass with flying colors. I really appreciate everybody

00:45:40.560 being here. Hi, good morning. My name is Brittany Henderson. And I think in addition to thanking the

00:45:52.080 wonderful congressmen and women who are here today, we need to thank the women. And not just the women

00:45:57.040 who are going to speak, but the other women who are standing behind them, along with other lawyers,

00:46:00.960 Sigurd McCauley, and people who have been fighting for a very, very long time for the world to give this

00:46:06.320 kind of attention to an issue that it should have had forever. This administration has the opportunity

00:46:12.800 to do what the past administrations did not do. This administration can either stand with the victims

00:46:18.400 and stand for the victims, or it can continue to hurt the victims like has happened in the past.

00:46:23.840 We aren't here just to ask for transparency, though. We're here, too, to ask for protection.

00:46:28.720 The women here represent hundreds of other women who we have spoken to, many of whom were trafficked

00:46:34.960 from other countries, from Eastern European countries, where women don't have the rights

00:46:39.680 that we have here. Women don't have the protections that we have here. And those women are terrified

00:46:45.520 that their names will be released in these files. The government won't know that they're victims to

00:46:50.240 redact and protect them. So we ask that you please, whoever is going to be in charge of redacting these

00:46:55.680 files and in charge of this transparency, do it in a way that protects the women brave enough to be here,

00:47:01.280 but also protects the women who are terrified that every day when they turn the TV on, something bad

00:47:06.720 is going to happen to them in Ukraine, in Russia, in whatever country they live in, because no one

00:47:11.520 is listening to them there. So thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. And please protect

00:47:16.480 these women while we seek transparency. Good morning. My name is Anushka DiGiorgio, and I stand before you

00:47:26.480 today as a survivor of both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I want to thank Congressman Massey

00:47:32.880 and Kana for their role in putting together this very, very important bill. Every day of this journey

00:47:40.560 toward healing has come at a profound cost to my mental health. But I am here. I chose to come

00:47:48.160 because this bill really matters. I speak today not only in service of my own recovery

00:47:55.360 from trauma inflicted by Maxwell and Epstein, but to honor the lives, the courage and sacrifices

00:48:01.840 of Virginia Giuffre, Caroline Andriano, and others who could not continue. Their voices mattered.

00:48:11.360 Their stories must not be forgotten. Accountability is what makes a society civilized. Equal opportunity

00:48:21.360 and equal consequence for all. Consequences are not about punishment alone. They exist to deter future

00:48:28.800 harm, to protect vulnerable, and to set a standard of justice. If Ghislaine Maxwell were pardoned,

00:48:37.520 it would undermine all the sacrifices I made to testify and make mockery of mine and all survivors

00:48:43.920 suffering. That is why the Epstein Files Transparency Act is so essential. It requires

00:48:52.240 the Department of Justice release all the records related to Epstein and Maxwell investigations, flight

00:48:57.920 logs, immunity deals, internal communications, and even the records surrounding Epstein's detention and death.

00:49:05.040 And crucially, it forbids withholding documents simply because of embarrassment, reputational harm,

00:49:11.200 or political sensitivity. This is about ending secrecy wherever abuse of power takes root.

00:49:18.640 But transparency alone is not enough. Survivors need protection, resources, and legal support.

00:49:26.400 If this Congress is serious about justice, then let this moment also affirm your commitment

00:49:32.000 to provide victims with the legal aid they need to confront abusers, to navigate complex systems,

00:49:38.080 and to reclaim their power. Transparency must be matched by support, or else too many victims

00:49:44.400 will remain silent out of fear and lack of access. The statistics demand action. Nearly one in five

00:49:52.640 women in America will experience rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. Every 74 seconds, someone is

00:50:00.480 sexually assaulted. Every nine minutes, that person is a child. These are not numbers. They are people.

00:50:09.600 They are your daughters, your sons, your constituents, your friends. Statistically, one in five of your

00:50:16.960 families will face this nightmare. The days of sweeping this under the rug are over. We, the survivors, say no more.

00:50:30.160 I want to help create a world where survivors of sexual abuse and abuse of power can come forward safely.

00:50:36.480 And I ask Congress to join me in that effort. Not only by passing this bill, but by ensuring

00:50:42.880 that those who step forward have legal support to face their abusers and see justice done.

00:50:51.840 When Judge Berman gave Epstein survivors the chance to finally speak, the world listened.

00:50:57.520 After so many years, survivors were heard. That moment was historic. And so is this moment.

00:51:04.240 For me, the turning point was when I had my daughter and on the day she was born,

00:51:15.120 I knew I had a responsibility to protect her and to practice to protect all children.

00:51:23.440 I have to use my voice, the voice that had been silenced by fear and shame for so many years.

00:51:29.680 I have to use my voice. Make no mistake. My polished exterior is a shield hiding a wound that still

00:51:36.400 bleeds. But through this wound, I have found purpose. To be part of lasting change in how we confront

00:51:45.360 exploitation and abuse. And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal

00:51:52.000 your wrongdoing. You have a choice. Stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.

00:52:03.440 I am no longer weak. I am no longer powerless. And I'm no longer alone.

00:52:13.600 And with your vote, neither will the next generation be.

00:52:16.320 President Trump, you have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use that influence

00:52:24.400 and power to help us. Because we need it now and this country needs it now. Thank you.

00:52:37.200 Hello. My name is Annie Farmer and I was 16 years old when I was flown to New Mexico to spend a weekend

00:52:45.920 with Epstein and Maxwell. That same year, 1996, my sister Maria Farmer reported what happened to me there,

00:52:55.520 along with reporting her own assault at their hands and their theft of sensitive photos of herself,

00:53:02.480 of me, and our younger sister that she had taken for her work as a figurative painter.

00:53:07.280 I am now 46 years old. 30 years later, we still do not know why that report wasn't properly investigated

00:53:14.640 or why Epstein and his associates were allowed to harm hundreds, if not thousands, of other girls and

00:53:20.720 young women. We have never been told whether those images were found when they discovered

00:53:26.480 a large amount of child sexual abuse material on his property. As a psychologist, I understand that when

00:53:33.520 the systems meant to protect us, recreate the abuse cycle, the betrayal that occurs can be just as

00:53:39.760 damaging as the original trauma. This happens when survivors of these crimes are not believed,

00:53:47.120 when our well-being is not weighed as heavily as those who have more resources or more privilege,

00:53:53.360 and when perpetrators of these crimes are given a platform rather than the survivors of them.

00:53:59.440 For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret.

00:54:04.240 Not only did many others participate in the abuse, it is clear that many were aware of his interest in

00:54:11.840 girls and very young women and chose to look the other way because it benefited them to do so.

00:54:17.920 They wanted access to his circle and his money. Their choice to align with his power left those of

00:54:25.600 us who had been harmed by this man and his associates feeling very isolated.

00:54:30.080 I could never have imagined being here today and this chorus of support that we have all received.

00:54:39.440 I have been sent so many notes and messages from people with no direct connection to this case,

00:54:45.920 who have expressed their solidarity with us. And I believe that is because, in part, as Anoushka

00:54:50.640 explained so well, this is an extremely widespread issue of child sexual abuse, of sexual exploitation,

00:54:57.440 of sexual violence. This affects almost every family in some way.

00:55:05.680 From my conversations with women in these last few days and from all of the support that we've

00:55:10.720 received, it's very clear to me that we are not going away, we are not going to be quiet,

00:55:15.760 and we are not going to give up. And I ask the American public to stand with us and not give up.

00:55:21.680 At a time with record high levels of distrust in our institutions and a perception that there are

00:55:27.520 two Americas, one for those with power and privilege and one for everyone else, passing this Epstein

00:55:33.360 Transparency Bill is one important step that can be taken to prove to Americans that the government

00:55:39.040 does not side with sexual perpetrators. A thorough public review of this information is an important

00:55:45.600 step in preventing the type of systemic failures that have occurred in this case and harmed all of us.

00:55:53.360 An important step towards healing for those involved. Thank you.

00:56:03.360 Hello everyone. I'd like to say thank you everyone for being here today on this very powerful

00:56:08.640 and special day for all of us here. My name is Marina Lacerda. I was minor victim one in federal

00:56:18.560 indictment of Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2019. I was one of dozens of girls that I personally know

00:56:24.880 who were forced into Jeffrey's mansion on 9 East 71 street in New York City when we were just kids.

00:56:32.800 Today is the first time that I ever speak publicly about what happened to me.

00:56:36.960 I never thought that I would find myself here. The only reason that I am here is because it feels like

00:56:44.640 the people who matter in this country finally care about what we have to say. As an immigrant from

00:56:50.240 Brazil, I feel empowered knowing that the little girl struggling to get by at 14 and 15 years old

00:56:56.800 finally has a voice. For the first time, I feel like I matter as an American. I was only 14 years old

00:57:04.560 when I met Jeffrey. It was the summer of high school. I was working three jobs to try to support my mom

00:57:11.440 and my sister when a friend of mine in the neighborhood told me that I could make $300 to give

00:57:17.440 another guy a massage. It went from a dream job to the worst nightmare. Jeffrey assistant Leslie Groff

00:57:26.960 would call me and tell me that I needed to be at the house so often that I ended up dropping out of high

00:57:33.120 school before 9th grade and I never went back. From 14 to 17 years old, I went and worked for Jeffrey

00:57:42.240 instead of receiving an education. Every day I hoped that he would offer me a real job

00:57:47.520 as one of his assistants or something, something important. I would finally have made it big as,

00:57:56.800 like we say, the American dream. That day never came. I had no way, I had no way out. I was,

00:58:05.840 until he finally told me that I was too old. There are many pieces of my story that I can't remember,

00:58:12.240 no matter how hard I try. The constant state of wonder causes me so much fear and so much confusion.

00:58:20.000 My therapist says that my brain is just trying to protect itself, but it's so hard to begin to heal

00:58:26.080 knowing that there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do. The worst part is that

00:58:35.200 the government is still in possession right now

00:58:44.160 of the documents and information about the con that could help me remember and get over all of

00:58:51.440 this maybe and help me heal. They have documents with my name on them that were confiscated from

00:58:58.000 Jeffrey Epstein's house and could help me put the pieces of my own life back together, but I don't have

00:59:04.080 any of it. And I know the same is true for many of these women.

00:59:15.440 We are here to support this bill today, not only for transparency, but for the American people.

00:59:26.480 If the government is going to release these documents to the public

00:59:29.760 describing the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and others, the least they can do is give me my

00:59:35.760 documents that they have about me. The other survivors deserve the same respect from our government.

00:59:43.120 While identifying information must be redacted to the public, it is equally important to provide the

00:59:49.520 victims themselves with unredacted information. I will never forget when the FBI

00:59:55.280 agents showed up in my door in 2008. Jeffrey Epstein hired a lawyer to represent me, or more like to

01:00:03.280 represent him, I like to say. I couldn't ask any questions and I had no idea what was going on.

01:00:09.840 I was terrified. Until today, I think most of us are still terrified. I thought somebody was going to kill me.

01:00:18.320 I thought something was going to happen to my sister or my mother. It went further out to even maybe

01:00:24.240 thinking something would happen in Brazil with my family. And then one day, the lawyer said that

01:00:32.400 everything was just going to go away. Like nothing happened. I didn't need to testify. When I asked him

01:00:39.280 why, he gave no explanation. That was it. So why? Why was I never called to testify then? We could have

01:00:49.040 saved so many women. We could have saved so many lives from being abused. Why did he get away with it

01:00:57.200 in 2008? Why was he able to go on in the abuse with hundreds of girls after the Florida investigation?

01:01:05.440 Why didn't they let me testify to help stop him? Our government couldn't have saved, could have saved

01:01:13.120 so many women. But Jeffrey Epstein was too important and those women didn't matter. Why?

01:01:20.720 Well, we matter now. We are here today and we are speaking and we are not going to stop speaking.

01:01:27.120 Today, I stand here with the women who have really helped me to find the strength to come out

01:01:39.440 and come forward to share my story for the very first time. Together, we are stronger than ever.

01:01:46.320 While she may not be with us, Virginia Roberts, we will continue to use our voices to strengthen

01:01:54.160 our voices to strengthen our voices. Thank you.

01:02:07.040 Hi, my name is Courtney Wilde. I just wanted to take a second and just have a moment of silence for

01:02:13.760 all the women survivors that aren't here with us today that passed away due to anxiety, depression,

01:02:20.560 trying to keep up with this case. A moment of silence, please.

01:02:30.640 Thank you. My name is Courtney Wilde. I was only 14 years old when I was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein

01:02:37.440 by a 13-year-old friend of mine. The details of the abuse that he inflicted on me for years

01:02:43.120 is not important today. In 2028, I was cooperating with the federal government

01:02:48.800 government and the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. They sent me a letter telling me to be patient

01:02:55.520 because this was going to be a lengthy investigation, but at the same time,

01:03:00.720 they refused to talk to me and tell me what was going on. So I hired an attorney, Brad Edwards,

01:03:06.720 because I was hopeful to get some answers. When I walked into his office at 19 years old,

01:03:12.160 Brad sued the government for refusing to tell me what was going on under the Crime Victims Rights Act.

01:03:17.760 The only reason anyone ever found out that the government had already given Jeffrey Epstein

01:03:22.640 immunity through the non-prosecution agreement was because our lawsuit forced the government to tell us.

01:03:30.240 Otherwise, nobody would even know that today. Sometimes it's hard to believe that I had to

01:03:35.760 sue the United States just to learn that my abuser was given immunity. I started as Jane Doe,

01:03:42.960 but I decided I was proud enough to take on our country and I was on the right side of history.

01:03:50.320 We fought the government for 10 years to prove that the government violated our rights as crime

01:03:54.720 victims and the crime victims' rights in order to protect a pedophile. We had to win the 11th Circuit

01:04:01.760 Court appeals to force the government to turn over thousands of pages of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and

01:04:07.680 the government. Those emails provided the proof that the government worked very hard with Jeffrey Epstein

01:04:15.520 to violate our rights. Why? Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey and not so hard to

01:04:24.400 protect me and my other innocent friends? Why was Jeffrey so important to the government and why was I so

01:04:32.160 insignificant? Why did nobody but our lawyers care before now? It seems people have only started to care

01:04:40.080 because of Twitter because of Twitter and politics. But I would like to say this has nothing to do with

01:04:45.200 politics. This is not a blue thing or a red thing. This is an everyone thing. We can all agree on this,

01:04:52.560 the injustice that has happened here, multiple over and over. Everybody that talks about this

01:04:59.360 just seems to make it worse. We need transparency. It's time for us to see beyond the curtain. Why was Jeffrey

01:05:08.800 Epstein so protected? Who is still being protected and who protected them all so the world can understand

01:05:15.600 how Jeffrey was able to abuse so many of us for so long? I was lucky to have Brad Edwards,

01:05:21.520 Brittany Henderson and Paul Cassell take on my case pro bono and fight fearlessly over 20 years time.

01:05:31.200 I would like to thank them and I'd also like to ask the Trump administration to please sign off on

01:05:36.560 the Crime Victims Rights Reform Act, the Courtney Wilde Crime Victims Rights Reform Act that we're

01:05:44.480 trying to get past here so we can close the loopholes in the CVRA case that Epstein's attorney

01:05:50.000 use to their benefit to get to get away with this. Thank you so much.

01:06:05.920 Good morning. First and foremost, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to Brad and Brittany Edwards,

01:06:23.840 Congressman Massey and Connor, and above all the brave survivors who have entrusted us with the

01:06:30.960 privilege of speaking today on behalf of Virginia, Robert Joufray as her family.

01:06:40.480 We are here today because we support H.res.581, the Epstein Files Transparency Act in its entirety.

01:06:49.680 But as much as this bill is about shining a light on truth, it's not just about the bill.

01:06:54.320 This is about justice. This is about survivors. This is about justice against the rich and powerful

01:07:02.320 who have stolen something from these women and many children at the time. Their freedom.

01:07:09.120 The freedom to live their life without mental and physical scars that have been inflicted upon them

01:07:14.240 by those who thought they were untouchable. The same freedom that these monsters took from these

01:07:19.760 survivors, they should never be afforded. They should never be allowed to continue their lives

01:07:26.560 with impunity. Let's be clear. This is not a political issue. This is not about left or right.

01:07:34.880 This is about humanity. This is about doing what's right. And this is about ensuring that the future

01:07:41.040 we leave behind isn't one where the powerful can hide behind their wealth, their influence,

01:07:46.480 and their money to evade justice. I plead to you, whether you're a dad, a mom, a brother,

01:07:54.160 or a sister, look your young ones in the face. Look them in the eye and tell them you didn't stand

01:08:02.400 against the very people who raped, molested, and preyed upon children and young women. Tell them you were

01:08:10.000 willing to negotiate a deal. Money should never be what makes something right or wrong. If you vote no,

01:08:18.560 your stance will be clear. You will be choosing to stand on the side of the rich and powerful,

01:08:23.920 allowing money to buy your way out of the consequence. But here's my one ask. Look these

01:08:30.080 survivors in the eye and tell them why. Then look the people of the United States in the eye and tell them

01:08:36.560 why. And then when you're alone, look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself why. Virginia said it best,

01:08:45.840 and I quote, I have physical and mental scars that will never heal. I have memories that will never go

01:08:52.800 away. They say time can heal, but this won't. Not until the justice system makes an example out of these

01:08:59.680 people with so-called privileges. I just call it money. The only time I can begin to heal is when their

01:09:06.960 freedom is taken from them, just like they did to me and literally thousands of other victims. The

01:09:13.760 survivors of this horrific abuse are watching. The American people are watching. And history is watching.

01:09:21.360 Which side will you be on? Thank you.

01:09:34.960 Hello. My name is Jenna Lisa Jones, and I was only 14 years old when my friend

01:09:42.480 brought me over to Jeffrey Epstein's house in Palm Beach in 2003. I had a terrible home life,

01:09:48.880 but I was such an innocent kid then. I always did my best in school, and I had such a positive outlook

01:09:57.040 on life. Until that day that I met Jeffrey, I have never been more scared in my life than I was that

01:10:04.080 first time that he hurt me. I remember crying the entire way home, thinking about how I couldn't ever

01:10:10.640 tell anyone about what actually happened in that house. This guy was so rich and had so many pictures

01:10:19.280 with so many famous people, and no one would have ever believed me if I told them. I want to thank

01:10:25.760 Congressman Rowe and Congressman Thomas Massey for having me here today. It was really hard for me to

01:10:32.160 to find my voice and to become strong enough to speak about my abuse. I didn't come forward until

01:10:40.240 2019. And even when

01:10:45.120 and even then it was like I was afraid of a ghost.

01:10:50.560 I know that I was just a little kid, but sometimes I still feel like it is my fault that this happened.

01:10:57.040 Being given the opportunity to speak at the United States Capitol building about something that is so

01:11:01.520 important, not just to me and the women before you, but to the entire country.

01:11:09.680 Together we can finally make a change. And that is thanks to the people like these two congressmen

01:11:17.440 and their teams who actually care about the victims. If you are a member of Congress and

01:11:21.920 you are listening to all of us speak here today, please really listen to us. Please vote for this bill

01:11:28.000 to be passed. Please recognize how important it is for transparency relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

01:11:35.280 Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, this does not matter. This is not about sides.

01:11:42.000 You are an American and you are a person who has chosen to serve in an elected position

01:11:46.400 to stand up for those you represent who cannot always stand up for themselves.

01:11:51.280 We are those people. We are the Americans that you promised to protect and you and we need your help.

01:12:00.320 Please, President Trump, pass this bill and help us. Make us feel like our voices are finally being heard.

01:12:08.240 Good afternoon. My name is Haley Robson.

01:12:29.520 I was a 16 year old high school student athlete who made good grades and had high aspirations for college

01:12:37.280 when I was recruited and asked by a classmate of mine, alongside with a 20 year old male,

01:12:41.200 if I wanted to give an old rich guy a massage. But what high school girl would not want to do that?

01:12:47.360 That day changed my life forever. And when I got into the massage room, Jeffrey Epstein

01:12:51.600 and asked me to do things to him. My eyes welled up with tears and I have never been more scared in my life.

01:13:05.040 When it was over, he paid me $200 and requested in exchange that I bring

01:13:12.320 a girl each time to make another $200. I told him I did not want to do that and then he gave me an ultimatum.

01:13:18.400 Either you come here and massage me when I call you or you bring me friends of yours to massage

01:13:22.720 and I will give you $200 per girl for each time she comes. I felt and hoped to never hear from him

01:13:28.160 again, but he called me every day. He was so wealthy and powerful and he would not let me go.

01:13:33.440 I felt I had no choice. If I disobeyed him, I knew something bad would happen.

01:13:38.160 So knowing I did not want to be sexually abused, I started to bring him other girls from my high school

01:13:46.240 and he paid me $200, $200 for bringing them. I just hoped each time it would be the last time.

01:13:53.120 One day the stepmom of one of the girls brought him and called the police on Jeffrey Epstein.

01:13:57.680 The police then called me, called me in for questioning. I had told them the truth despite

01:14:03.600 the fact that I was a teenager and a minor and I was able to tell the police the names of all the other

01:14:08.880 victims. The police treated me like a criminal. I had by this time had turned 18. I had been with

01:14:15.680 Jeffrey since I was 16 and for two years. So they had told me I distribute I distributed to the

01:14:23.680 so they told me I was going to be arrested. My name was then distributed to the press as a co-conspirator

01:14:28.880 of my abuser who I detested. My entire world was crashing in around me and I started being threatened

01:14:35.280 and bullied till this day still receiving death threats. I was singled out and for many years had

01:14:41.680 to suffer a smear campaign of lies about me because of the way that I was portrayed by the press.

01:14:51.520 The press made me out to be a predator when I was just a 16 year old little girl who was sexually

01:14:56.080 abused by a powerful man and an evil man. For years I had no friends. My boyfriend was murdered

01:15:02.080 and there was nowhere to turn. The government after investigating more learned that I was true a victim

01:15:08.800 but the damage was done and it was too late. There was no way to undo the harm the press had caused me.

01:15:15.120 In 2019 I met Brad and Brittany, I met Brad Edwards and Brittany Henderson.

01:15:19.840 They changed my life and they believed in me and have helped me to finally heal.

01:15:27.840 Healing is a process and I may never get there. But the passage of this bill requiring the government

01:15:34.640 to produce all the evidence that it has gathered on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is a huge

01:15:39.840 component of healing for me and for the many other women who have suffered for so long.

01:15:44.400 For many reasons. First, we and the rest of the world need answers. Why was he so protected?

01:15:52.160 And why didn't anyone ever care to stop him? It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that if

01:15:57.360 he is spending thousands of dollars a day paying high school girls he abuses and other access tool and

01:16:03.120 had a lot of access to cash. I learned through my attorneys and the JPM, uh, JPMorgan class action case

01:16:10.320 that there were years when his staff withdrew over a million dollars in cash a year.

01:16:18.080 Was that not a big enough red flag? There were wire transfers to other victims and the government

01:16:24.240 and the government did not protect us. The banks did not protect us. So lift the curtain on these files

01:16:31.360 and be transparent. Every single time a new conspiracy gets circulated in the media,

01:16:38.240 whether he is still alive, what powerful person had him murdered, who was on the Epstein client list,

01:16:44.400 and there are names going around on TikTok and Instagram. We the survivors are suffering severely.

01:16:51.760 We take our kids to school and everyone is talking about it. We can't read the news or do anything

01:16:56.560 without hearing crazy stories that are only able to live on because the government continues to hide the

01:17:01.280 evidence and the truth. So people just make up stories. Those stories hurt. They hurt real people,

01:17:08.080 real people who have already been hurt. And we have lost so many Epstein victims to suicide and

01:17:13.440 maintaining the real truth. And secrecy only allows for conspiracy theorists to tell lies that

01:17:18.800 drives up our anxiety and fears and will continue to lead to more pain, more suffering,

01:17:25.200 and honestly more deaths of innocent victims. It's time you do is right by us. Unseal all the documents.

01:17:32.480 We are requesting transparency and I am requesting every congressman and woman

01:17:38.160 that goes against this bill be outed. I want to know. Thank you.

01:17:52.560 Hi there. My name is Lisa Phillips and I'm the host of award-nominated podcasts called From Now On,

01:18:04.480 a platform supporting survivors. I want to thank all of my survivor sisters who came before me today.

01:18:12.320 I'll be very short. In the year 2000, I was taken to Jeffrey Epstein's island while on a photo shoot

01:18:19.120 on a nearby island. Who I saw and what I experienced there was this was a glimpse into a very dark and

01:18:27.520 disturbing world. For years after, I tried to avoid Jeffrey, but he had introduced me to Katie Ford,

01:18:35.760 the owner of the Ford Modeling Agency. Epstein's reach went to the very top of fashion, arts, and entertainment.

01:18:42.960 This did not just happen to underage girls in Florida. In New York City, hundreds of young ambitious

01:18:50.320 women were abused by him. Epstein was not just a serial predator. He was an international human

01:18:57.200 trafficker. And many around him knew, many participated, and many profited. And yet he was protected.

01:19:06.160 So I stand here today for every woman who has been silenced, exploited, and dismissed. We are not

01:19:14.400 asking for pity. We are here demanding accountability. And I'm demanding justice.

01:19:22.080 Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators or will you finally protect survivors?

01:19:28.080 And also, I would like to announce here today, us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating

01:19:36.480 our own list. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now together as survivors,

01:19:44.000 we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who are regularly in the Epstein world.

01:19:52.960 And it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details.

01:20:15.600 Hello, my name is Shantae Davies, and I'm here before you today as a survivor,

01:20:20.880 a survivor of decades of pain, the trauma, and betrayal at the hands of Ghislaine Maxwell

01:20:25.920 and Jeffrey Epstein, and the people who enabled them, and a government that for far too long

01:20:31.120 refused to help. In 2002, I was living in California, a young woman with high aspirations

01:20:36.960 of becoming an actress. I was already beginning to make a name for myself in the industry.

01:20:40.960 A person I trusted, someone I thought was a friend, invited me to meet a powerful woman

01:20:45.360 who could help advance my career. That woman happened to be Ghislaine Maxwell.

01:20:50.320 I was asked to give her a massage, though I had almost no experience, and when I did,

01:20:54.960 she praised me and promised introductions to someone enormously powerful, someone who could

01:20:59.360 change the course of my life, and that man was Jeffrey Epstein. At first, I was an excited young

01:21:04.640 woman on top of the world. Epstein flew me to his private island. He listened to my dreams,

01:21:09.440 promised to help, but his promises came with a catch. The abuse began. He told me to keep it secret.

01:21:15.920 He manipulated me with quid pro quo I did not consent to, but I felt I had no one to turn to.

01:21:22.400 He was too powerful. I was just one of the many young women trapped in his orbit. I was even taken

01:21:28.000 on a trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton and other notable figures. In those moments,

01:21:33.600 I realized how powerless I was. If I spoke out, who would believe me? Who would protect me?

01:21:40.000 Epstein himself was the most powerful leader of our country. Epstein surrounded himself,

01:21:45.200 I'm sorry, with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world.

01:21:48.000 He abused not only me, but countless others, and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is,

01:21:54.320 Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president,

01:21:59.520 Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually. And while what I endured will haunt me forever,

01:22:08.080 I live every day with PTSD. I live as a mother trying to raise my child while distrusting a world

01:22:14.880 that has betrayed me. This kind of trauma never leaves you. It breaks families apart. It shapes

01:22:20.240 the way we see everyone around us. But one thing is certain. Unless we learn from this history,

01:22:26.000 monsters like Epstein will rise again. There are files, government files, that hold the truth about

01:22:31.920 Epstein, who he knew, who owed him, who protected him, and why he was allowed to operate

01:22:37.440 for so long without consequence. Why was Maxwell the only one held accountable when so many others

01:22:42.880 played a role? Why does the government hide this information from the public?

01:22:49.680 This secrecy is not protection. It's complicity. And as long as the truth is buried, justice will

01:22:55.120 remain out of reach. That is why this bill matters. Passing it will, bless you, endure, ensure

01:23:02.560 that the suffering of survivors is not in vain. Passing it will bring accountability,

01:23:06.960 transparency, and prevention. It will help protect the next generation of predators

01:23:11.840 who seek to place themselves above the law through wealth, influence, and connections.

01:23:17.440 This is not just my story. It is about every survivor who carries invisible scars.

01:23:22.400 It's about the weight we live with daily. It is about the families broken and the futures stolen.

01:23:29.200 So I ask you, President Trump and members of Congress,

01:23:34.560 why do we continue to cover up sexual abuse and assault? Who are we covering for?

01:23:40.640 Let the public know the truth. We cannot heal without justice. We cannot protect the future

01:23:46.240 if we refuse to confront the past. Thank you.

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01:28:09.540 Me or Congresswoman Green in the hallways and other places, if you have questions for us,

01:28:15.880 that's fine. But I wanted to see first if you have questions for the lawyers and the survivors.

01:28:21.360 And Brad will facilitate any of the questions to the survivors. Yes.

01:28:26.100 This question would be for the survivors. The president has said that this Epstein issue

01:28:33.300 is a hoax is the words that he used. Can we get your reactions to what you think when you hear him

01:28:40.200 say that? I'll answer that. Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican. Not that that

01:28:51.280 matters because this is not political. However, I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in

01:28:56.260 person so you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings. This is real trauma.

01:29:02.000 What does it feel like emotionally to hear that?

01:29:06.380 It's being gutted from the inside out. Not that I would know what that feels like, but I imagine

01:29:11.500 it's the anxiety buildup with the depression and the survival mode. And then your nervous system

01:29:17.940 goes limp and ironically is shot. And it feels like you just want to explode inside because nobody

01:29:24.660 again is understanding that this is a real situation. These women are real. We're here in

01:29:30.000 person to say that it's a hoax is just not. Please humanize us. I would like Donald J. Trump and every

01:29:38.380 person in America and around the world to humanize us to see us for who we are and to hear us for what

01:29:43.880 we have to say. There is no hoax. The abuse was real. Now, what goes on behind closed doors? I

01:29:49.980 can't speak for that. What happens around the world politically? I cannot speak for that. But I am

01:29:55.380 here with all of these women, including our attorneys, and I would be more than happy to

01:30:00.100 meet with him and meet with him. And I will meet him halfway.

01:30:05.980 I wonder if any of the victims could respond to the news from recently about Ghislaine Maxwell being

01:30:10.900 transferred to a lower security prison in the aftermath of speaking to Todd Plyant.

01:30:15.580 What that one?

01:30:18.820 Yeah, I'm happy to speak to that. Uh, we were horrified to learn that she had been transferred

01:30:26.120 to a prison camp um she is someone who was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking she not only

01:30:35.800 we often hear that she procured women for jeffrey which i think is a very sort of polite and

01:30:40.760 minimizing term she also participated in the abuse she was a major architect of the scheme

01:30:47.400 and the fact that she's painted herself as a victim i think is is disgusting and it was horrifying

01:30:52.120 i think to us that we were not told about her prison transfer we found out about it in the news

01:30:59.640 one minute i think so um anushka de giorgio um i testified alongside annie at the trial of

01:31:08.040 gillen maxwell we're going to stream this on our other stream go live to the white house

01:31:21.480 so

01:31:38.360 so

01:31:44.040 That's the president there with the president of Poland.

01:32:00.160 They are about to, there's a massive flyover of many different types of aircraft.

01:32:08.240 I think the president will be out there for a few minutes.

01:32:10.000 We're going to cover the slide.

01:32:10.800 The president is going to go inside.

01:32:11.940 He will go up to the Oval Office.

01:32:15.800 Brian Glenn's there in the press pool.

01:32:17.220 We're going to let him in.

01:32:17.800 I think he's going to have the bilat and open that up immediately.

01:32:21.540 On our other stream right now is the continuation of the question and answer period in the press conference for the discharge petition.

01:32:31.820 Keep in mind, the White House put out last night and to the media that they consider support of the discharge petition to be a hostile act to the White House.

01:32:45.800 That's where there is only four.

01:32:47.580 Here comes more of the flyover right now.

01:32:50.680 Magnificent.

01:32:51.440 I think we can say that the president was less than enthusiastic about the parade he saw last night.

01:33:10.640 That new federal state of China up on Getter and up on Rumble had full coverage.

01:33:16.120 There's a president going into the White House.

01:33:17.960 He's on the south lawn to receive the Polish president so that he could get a full view of the flyover.

01:33:24.740 And up on Capitol Hill, you could really hear the thunder of the flyover as they streak down.

01:33:30.420 Brian Glenn, our own Brian Glenn, is in the White House.

01:33:36.060 They're going to go up to a, just lost our feed right there.

01:33:39.640 Let's cut back to the press conference.

01:33:41.140 We'll go back to the White House in a moment.

01:33:44.420 We're reaching out to survivors that are scared.

01:33:47.160 So come on.

01:33:48.660 We're reaching out to survivors that are scared to come forward and that also know who they were trafficked to.

01:33:54.240 So that's the list that we're compiling.

01:33:56.060 We're not quite sure, you know, how we're going to release that or even if we're going to.

01:34:01.100 The Department of Justice needs to release the list.

01:34:03.500 Right.

01:34:03.680 Because for folks at home, they might be confused.

01:34:06.720 You know, the survivors know the names.

01:34:08.320 You've seen these powerful people.

01:34:10.720 Why can't you say the names?

01:34:12.520 Could you just explain for folks?

01:34:14.120 Why do we have to say the names when the government knows the names?

01:34:17.500 And we're also scared to do so.

01:34:19.780 Look what's happened to so many of the survivors that have revealed names.

01:34:22.960 I find the question about the bill.

01:34:24.460 I think it's also worth saying that having represented, I think, between our firm and Boyce Schiller, hundreds of victims.

01:34:31.280 And we've talked to them about the various people that they were farmed out to.

01:34:34.920 So we've created somewhat of a list.

01:34:37.660 Most of these individuals, the victims, are very scared to say these names because they could get sued.

01:34:43.980 They're going to get attacked.

01:34:45.220 And nobody protected them the first time.

01:34:47.100 And that was against one person.

01:34:48.560 So is there a list?

01:34:50.380 There is a list.

01:34:51.340 But just to dispel kind of the common theme here, every one of these women was abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

01:34:57.480 And his scheme was to personally abuse women.

01:35:00.380 When they reached a certain age, he did farm a section of them, some of them, out to some of his friends.

01:35:07.380 That doesn't mean all of his friends.

01:35:08.840 With that said, I'm more than happy to assist in helping create the list behind the scenes and see what we do with it.

01:35:16.820 But if someone's interested in prosecuting, they may have something different to say about sharing a list.

01:35:24.060 But they're not sharing a list for nothing to happen.

01:35:26.520 And that's the experience that they've had for all of these years.

01:35:28.680 We're waiting to see the fate of this discharge petition right now as we're here.

01:35:34.760 The speaker and others have said that the people he met with yesterday had concerns about your names being released if this bill were passed.

01:35:43.960 And some people I talked to today are not signing the discharge petition because they say you don't want them to.

01:35:48.900 Can you clarify if that is accurate?

01:35:51.580 Do any of the survivors here not want the bill to pass?

01:35:54.500 First of all, our legislation, Ro Khanna and I went through this.

01:36:00.740 We talked about this.

01:36:01.720 And we were very careful to make sure that there is an exception so that personally identifiable information, not just their names, but anything they could be identified by, would not be disclosed.

01:36:12.620 And can you speak to that as survivors yourself?

01:36:14.760 I think all of them are on the same page.

01:36:16.960 They want everything released.

01:36:18.220 You want the bill to pass.

01:36:19.420 You want the bill to pass.

01:36:19.940 Yes, unequivocally redact personally identifying information and release everything else.

01:36:26.000 Okay.

01:36:29.040 It's your first time speaking.

01:36:31.500 I'll go to Marina if we can.

01:36:32.760 Yeah, sure.

01:36:33.360 Marina, you have stayed silent for so many years.

01:36:35.920 Today, this is the first time, if we understand correctly, you have never before gone public with your story and to share this.

01:36:41.720 Can you help us understand why today, why now and why here?

01:36:45.240 Well, it is not okay for us to be silenced.

01:36:50.880 And it's not okay for Jeffrey Epstein and everybody else to be put on a pedestal.

01:36:57.100 I think everybody needs to hear from us because we know what went on, right?

01:37:01.680 And there is not only me who has been silenced.

01:37:04.340 There are hundreds of women that are silenced.

01:37:06.360 My hope is to stop this abuse for the future, right, for people that are coming up for women.

01:37:14.140 My daughter, for example, these people have, these women have daughters.

01:37:17.920 They most definitely don't want that anymore.

01:37:21.000 And I think mainly it is, it is, this is therapy for all of us too.

01:37:27.440 You know, we want to be heard.

01:37:29.900 Nobody also has never asked me to speak.

01:37:32.480 That's also another thing.

01:37:33.660 So, I can say for all of us here, we are here.

01:37:37.880 We want this bill to pass.

01:37:39.080 It is very important, okay?

01:37:40.620 And we need transparency.

01:37:41.620 We are tired of looking at the news and seeing Jeffrey Epstein's name and saying that this is a hoax.

01:37:46.820 We are tired of it.

01:37:48.720 We are done.

01:37:49.840 We are not going to be silenced.

01:37:51.080 And I hope that my voice will bring other survivors and other victims to come along and speak up so that we can be more of a stronger voice and louder.

01:37:59.500 And so, what is your message to President Trump on this moment?

01:38:03.540 Listen, I don't like to, I don't want to send a direct message to him.

01:38:09.260 I'm already scared enough.

01:38:11.940 Just, just pass the vote.

01:38:13.960 Listen to us.

01:38:14.780 This is not a hoax.

01:38:15.880 Like, it's not going to go away.

01:38:18.680 And like I said on my speech earlier, we are not going to be, we're not going to be silenced anymore.

01:38:23.600 We will be speaking, moving forward, wherever we need to be.

01:38:27.200 We will be, and we need to pass this.

01:38:30.100 Go ahead.

01:38:30.440 You know, for years, we've heard that there was an Epstein client list or some kind of list.

01:38:38.040 And now we hear from the DOJ that there's no list.

01:38:40.720 Question for all the victims.

01:38:42.100 What do you guys think?

01:38:42.860 I know you're working on your own list, but do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein had a list?

01:38:46.700 Yeah, so there's not a list.

01:38:48.880 So, here's what it was.

01:38:50.160 Just like you heard everybody today, Jeffrey Epstein created, through an organization, that, of enablers, of people that were on his payroll.

01:38:58.480 It was a complicated scheme where others should still be investigated because they helped to enable him and operate this scheme.

01:39:05.700 Without those people, he could not have done this.

01:39:07.640 But the purpose was for him to personally abuse people.

01:39:11.520 With that being said, certain of his friends, he farmed out certain of the women that he was exploiting, too.

01:39:20.620 But that wasn't the primary purpose of that scheme.

01:39:22.720 And I don't think he wrote the names of those people down.

01:39:24.960 There's not a list of, hey, here's all of the people that I sent females to.

01:39:29.960 That's just not how that organization worked.

01:39:31.560 Mr. Edwards.

01:39:32.000 Agreed?

01:39:32.380 Is there any other questions that Jeffrey Epstein was involved with or tied to the CIA or a foreign intelligence operation?

01:39:38.620 I think that the safest thing for me to say is all files should come out, whether it is with the CIA, FinCEN, SEC, FBI.

01:39:47.580 I'm not just making these up haphazardly.

01:39:50.680 I'm giving you a roadmap where to look.

01:39:52.580 Go ahead.

01:39:54.740 The White House has said that this is a very hostile act.

01:40:01.080 What's your response and victim's response?

01:40:02.640 And thank you all for being here.

01:40:03.520 I'll go first and then I'll let them.

01:40:05.180 They're much more important than me.

01:40:06.160 But I don't understand why it's a hostile act.

01:40:08.460 I can tell you that I talked to President Clinton.

01:40:10.860 I'm sorry, President Trump back in 2009.

01:40:13.580 And several times after that, he didn't think that it was a hoax then.

01:40:16.980 In fact, he helped me.

01:40:18.200 He got on the phone.

01:40:18.980 He told me things that were helping our investigation.

01:40:21.860 Now, our investigation wasn't looking into him, but he was helping us then.

01:40:24.860 He didn't treat this as a hoax.

01:40:26.140 So at this point in time, I would hope that he would revert back to what he was saying

01:40:29.880 to get elected, which is, I want transparency.

01:40:33.180 This about face that occurred, none of us understand it.

01:40:36.460 In fact, I don't understand how this is an issue that's even up for debate.

01:40:41.260 How do you not stand behind these women after you've heard their stories

01:40:45.660 and know that hundreds of them were abused

01:40:48.060 and it was only because files are being kept in secrecy?

01:40:51.720 The world should know who he is, who protected him,

01:40:54.180 and the other people that are out there to be investigated need to be investigated.

01:40:59.720 Are there any people who are currently serving in government

01:41:03.960 who are named, who you know of, are in these files,

01:41:07.460 who you had relations with, anything of that sort,

01:41:09.980 who Jeffrey Epstein connected you with?

01:41:11.660 Are you willing to say yes or no?

01:41:13.360 I don't think I can answer that.

01:41:15.760 Mr. Edwards, you represent Virginia Roberts-Dufresne, correct?

01:41:22.760 I'm speaking.

01:41:23.600 Mr. Edwards, you're speaking.

01:41:23.640 Have you been saying that?

01:41:26.080 Because they're saying they're being scared to talk.

01:41:28.300 I think she's referring to my speech.

01:41:29.180 She's very good.

01:41:31.160 Hi, Anushka DiGiorgio.

01:41:33.080 I have been threatened.

01:41:35.040 I was threatened by phone.

01:41:37.280 My daughter was threatened when I was volunteering to participate

01:41:41.160 by means of being a witness in a civil lawsuit

01:41:45.320 that Virginia Giuffre was bringing against Ghislaine Maxwell.

01:41:47.900 I have been followed.

01:41:50.680 I have been stalked.

01:41:52.380 I have been followed not only by journalists,

01:41:54.640 but by people who do not get out of the car

01:41:57.040 and do not try and talk to me

01:41:58.980 and just drive behind me as I drive my daughter to school.

01:42:03.220 So the fear is very real for us.

01:42:05.700 I have also been in multiple situations

01:42:07.940 with both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

01:42:10.400 where they have been direct and indirect

01:42:13.500 about implying and saying

01:42:16.280 that if I was to talk,

01:42:19.460 if I was to bring any kind of trouble,

01:42:22.300 then there would be severe consequence,

01:42:25.420 including death.

01:42:28.400 Just to add to that,

01:42:30.520 you know, Maxwell also threatened my sister Maria Farmer.

01:42:34.780 You know, when the FBI did nothing about her initial report,

01:42:37.420 you know, we did, she reported individually at that time,

01:42:40.860 and then in 2002, we spoke to a reporter at Vanity Fair

01:42:44.540 telling our stories,

01:42:45.720 fearful that perhaps other people were being harmed.

01:42:47.960 You know, we were not,

01:42:49.280 we believed that was going to make a difference.

01:42:51.300 We believed that would be put in print,

01:42:52.820 and that story was crushed,

01:42:54.520 and it was because of their power.

01:42:57.100 And the message that we got from that

01:43:00.060 was direct threats from Maxwell to my sister

01:43:02.820 about her well-being and her safety

01:43:04.880 and that of our family.

01:43:06.120 So there have, I think, many people

01:43:07.760 have similar stories of threats.

01:43:09.300 That has been a very real part of this case.

01:43:10.980 Annie, Annie, go ahead, over here.

01:43:13.020 Do any of today's survivors speaking,

01:43:15.100 did anybody here ever have any connection

01:43:17.240 or interaction with Epstein's alleged financier Leslie Wexner?

01:43:21.920 No.

01:43:23.420 No.

01:43:24.440 No.

01:43:25.400 I just want to say,

01:43:28.320 one thing that's very clear,

01:43:30.560 when people say, you know,

01:43:31.540 please share names,

01:43:32.580 there are names that are very well-known,

01:43:34.940 like that of Les Wexner,

01:43:36.120 who everyone knows supplied an enormous amount

01:43:38.580 of Epstein's, you know, financial wealth

01:43:41.900 and allowed this operation to happen.

01:43:43.880 So it's, I think, confusing to many of us

01:43:45.760 why there have not been more ramifications for him

01:43:48.920 and he's been seen as a victim

01:43:50.720 when clearly, I believe there's more to it.

01:43:54.300 Right here, please.

01:43:55.540 Yeah.

01:43:56.280 So you represented Virginia Roberts

01:43:58.420 with Bray for many years.

01:44:00.180 She eventually had to recant

01:44:01.560 the allegations that she made

01:44:02.940 against Alan Dershowitz.

01:44:04.600 She alleged that on at least six...

01:44:06.560 We're not answering.

01:44:07.980 All right, next question.

01:44:09.060 Next question.

01:44:09.980 Thank you.

01:44:10.680 Next.

01:44:10.960 Why is it that she should be...

01:44:12.620 Yeah, no, we're not answering your question.

01:44:14.580 Anybody else?

01:44:15.980 How did the victims feel about the interview

01:44:19.120 that was given to Ghislaine Maxwell

01:44:20.540 by Todd Blanch?

01:44:21.600 Why aren't you going to answer your question?

01:44:23.080 Okay, ma'am, I think that you had a question.

01:44:26.260 When you've talked in the past on MSNBC...

01:44:28.480 When you've talked in the past on MSNBC

01:44:31.180 about the existence of the Epstein birthday book,

01:44:34.740 have you and yourself,

01:44:35.560 in the course of litigation, seen it?

01:44:37.340 I don't know that we're able to reveal

01:44:41.720 what we've seen and what we have not seen

01:44:43.540 by way of protective order,

01:44:44.760 but my point being in that circumstance was

01:44:47.380 if anybody wants answers,

01:44:49.760 there's an easy place to get it.

01:44:51.100 I told you where to get it.

01:44:52.200 I said the estate of Jeffrey Epstein has it.

01:44:54.480 Serve a subpoena on them.

01:44:55.680 They'll turn it over.

01:44:56.960 And if we had served a subpoena on them in the past,

01:44:59.220 they would have turned it over

01:45:00.400 and we would have seen it,

01:45:01.760 which I don't usually miss subpoenas like that.

01:45:03.840 So there we go.

01:45:05.640 Go ahead.

01:45:06.200 You know, to your question about the allegations,

01:45:12.200 there's a simple answer.

01:45:13.760 Release the files.

01:45:15.220 Let the American public decide.

01:45:17.260 Instead of harassing...

01:45:19.080 Instead of...

01:45:20.000 I gave you your say.

01:45:21.240 Look, look.

01:45:23.000 Against a prominent individual among others.

01:45:25.100 You're hired by Dershowitz.

01:45:26.460 And then I have to admit,

01:45:27.240 that works with other counsel.

01:45:28.680 You know, even...

01:45:29.920 He knows what I'm talking about.

01:45:31.720 That contains...

01:45:32.860 You've been heard.

01:45:35.780 You've been heard.

01:45:36.600 Shouldn't you tell the public about this?

01:45:37.880 You've been heard.

01:45:38.960 And even Alan Dershowitz...

01:45:40.360 Even Alan Dershowitz says,

01:45:41.760 release the files.

01:45:42.660 Release the files.

01:45:43.560 Because that is the answer.

01:45:45.240 And that's what we're here for.

01:45:46.280 And that is...

01:45:47.280 You've got to go.

01:45:49.840 You've got to go.

01:45:51.020 You said that Donald Trump gave you help in 2009.

01:46:04.920 Can you elaborate on your interactions with Donald Trump back in 2009?

01:46:09.040 In front of the victims,

01:46:09.860 did anyone ever see the president with them?

01:46:12.420 Not president yet.

01:46:13.400 But did anyone ever see Trump with Epstein in any way?

01:46:16.540 I don't know who's...

01:46:17.620 I don't think that we can answer that question.

01:46:20.020 Did anybody see Trump with Epstein back then?

01:46:22.380 This is really not a political thing.

01:46:23.900 We want the passage of the bill,

01:46:25.020 and this is not to call out President Trump.

01:46:26.800 What about your interaction with Trump?

01:46:27.840 My point was that he was friendly back then,

01:46:30.740 did not think that it was a hoax,

01:46:31.980 and was trying to help.

01:46:33.120 And now it seems like all of the sudden,

01:46:35.300 somebody's in his ear and he's not.

01:46:36.700 So I'm hoping he'll come back to where he was back in 2009,

01:46:40.940 be on the side of the victims,

01:46:42.060 and stand with us.

01:46:42.720 On the passage of the bill...

01:46:43.740 Go ahead.

01:46:44.080 I wanted to ask the victims what they thought of the interview with Todd Lynch,

01:46:48.800 with the Deputy Attorney General on the EOJ.

01:46:51.220 Did you answer that?

01:46:52.680 Did you answer that?

01:46:53.560 Did you answer that?

01:46:53.900 How do you deserve to...

01:46:54.900 Did you want to answer it?

01:46:55.620 I would...

01:46:56.120 Teresa will step up.

01:46:56.980 I would...

01:46:57.620 Teresa J. Holm.

01:46:59.980 Okay.

01:47:00.760 I'm happy to speak on that

01:47:02.420 because what I will say is

01:47:05.500 she got this airtime and platform.

01:47:08.380 Her voice was elevated

01:47:09.580 way before our voices were elevated here today.

01:47:15.000 And that same calm, manipulative voice

01:47:21.800 that she had so polite there that day with Todd Blanche

01:47:27.080 was the same polite, coercive, manipulative voice

01:47:32.480 that I heard as she was grooming me

01:47:36.900 to then send me off to the home of Jeffrey Epstein

01:47:40.060 where he would assault me.

01:47:42.100 So that's what she was doing for hours,

01:47:44.720 speaking with me, building relationship with me,

01:47:47.260 building trust with me,

01:47:49.320 allowing me to believe that I was going to get this job,

01:47:53.140 a dream job that I had been recruited from my college,

01:47:56.840 flown across the country from Los Angeles to New York City

01:47:59.500 to interview, so I thought.

01:48:02.260 So her voice that day

01:48:04.260 was the same voice that sent me off to a monster.

01:48:08.600 So nothing can be believed from what she says

01:48:14.200 because she's been charged with perjury.

01:48:19.880 I myself could sit there and listen,

01:48:22.020 and as I did, I sat there and listened

01:48:23.780 to this woman's voice lie.

01:48:27.160 And there was no pushback from Todd Blanche

01:48:29.700 because does he even have the facts

01:48:31.860 to be able to push back on her?

01:48:34.780 We could sit there and push back.

01:48:37.000 Why didn't we get to attend that?

01:48:39.480 Why weren't we there that day?

01:48:41.140 Or why wasn't even one of us consulted

01:48:43.780 prior to that day in that meeting?

01:48:47.220 And why on earth has she been moved from Florida

01:48:50.080 to her, it basically is prison spa.

01:48:55.900 I mean, you know, let's be real.

01:48:58.700 None of us were consulted.

01:49:00.440 I found out just like everyone here.

01:49:01.720 Back to the Oval Office, President Trump

01:49:02.840 and the Polish president.

01:49:04.040 We'll carry this through Charlie Kirk,

01:49:06.180 who's going to follow us on our other stream.

01:49:08.880 Stay right now with the press conference.

01:49:11.420 They're in the Q&A.

01:49:12.160 And the Q&A part of where,

01:49:14.800 let's go to the Oval Office and the president.

01:49:17.980 Even more popular as they got to know him

01:49:19.920 and know him better.

01:49:20.800 He's doing a really fantastic job.

01:49:22.520 So it's an honor to,

01:49:23.920 I also endorsed him,

01:49:24.920 so I'm very proud of that.

01:49:26.320 I don't endorse too many people,

01:49:28.160 but I endorsed him,

01:49:28.940 and I was very proud of that,

01:49:30.080 the job he's done.

01:49:30.860 And I want to thank Vince Haley

01:49:32.120 for that recommendation.

01:49:33.980 Vince was fantastic.

01:49:35.360 And I appreciate it.

01:49:36.900 And I can tell you who really appreciates it, Poland,

01:49:39.840 because they're very happy with their president.

01:49:41.820 And I just want to say it's an honor to have you.

01:49:43.800 We'll be discussing trade and various other things,

01:49:46.900 the things that you discuss.

01:49:48.080 We'll have a few questions from you,

01:49:50.000 and then we'll get onto a discussion.

01:49:52.660 Then we'll have lunch,

01:49:53.620 and then he goes and he meets with the Pope.

01:49:56.520 And that'll be very exciting.

01:49:58.180 And say hello to the Pope for me.

01:50:00.000 Yeah, I will.

01:50:01.060 Thank you very much.

01:50:02.160 Thank you very much.

01:50:02.960 Thank you very much, Mr. President.

01:50:04.460 Thank you very much,

01:50:05.280 and I would like to express my gratitude

01:50:07.760 for your invitation.

01:50:09.460 Only after one month from my sworn,

01:50:13.880 in sworn and from celebration for my inauguration,

01:50:17.660 it means that Polish-American relations

01:50:20.580 are very important, very strong.

01:50:24.200 I think that we have so strong relations

01:50:27.700 that we have never had.

01:50:30.880 And it's very important for me.

01:50:32.780 Our relations are based, of course, on the values.

01:50:35.700 Thank you very much for your support,

01:50:37.800 for your endorsement during my very hard campaign.

01:50:41.180 I remember it, and I'm very grateful for your support.

01:50:46.700 It was the fight me against others,

01:50:49.820 so your support was very important.

01:50:51.920 And the support of Polish people,

01:50:53.520 Polish diaspora in the United States of America.

01:50:57.060 We have almost more than 10 million people here,

01:51:00.940 and they voted for Donald Trump.

01:51:02.900 You voted for me.

01:51:03.580 And the vast majority, they voted also for me,

01:51:07.460 so I would like to say hello

01:51:08.840 to Polish diaspora in the United States of America.

01:51:12.900 Those relations for me, for Poland, for Poles,

01:51:16.560 are very important with the United States of America,

01:51:19.800 and they are based on values

01:51:21.260 of independence, sovereignty, democracy.

01:51:24.360 And I think, Mr. President,

01:51:25.620 that those values are epitomized

01:51:28.500 by our common heroes,

01:51:31.380 Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko.

01:51:34.240 So, thank you very much,

01:51:36.140 and I hope it will be very thoughtful discussion

01:51:39.740 around the energy,

01:51:41.300 around the economy and military service.

01:51:43.980 And the flyover was very much in honor

01:51:46.640 of your great pilot who just passed away recently,

01:51:49.560 who was a legend in Poland.

01:51:51.060 You might want to say something about him?

01:51:52.940 Yes, of course.

01:51:53.660 It was a terrific accident in Poland.

01:51:56.940 Thank you for this gesture

01:51:58.340 that F-35 opened our meeting.

01:52:03.700 Major Krakowian was one of the best Polish pilots,

01:52:08.940 well-honed Polish pilots,

01:52:10.640 and he died.

01:52:12.120 He lost two children.

01:52:15.060 So, it was a great tragedy.

01:52:19.600 He was a legend in Poland, actually.

01:52:21.420 A legend as a pilot.

01:52:22.840 He was an incredible pilot.

01:52:24.060 And I think he went to the Air Force Academy, actually.

01:52:27.560 But he was a fantastic pilot,

01:52:29.880 and it was a big setback.

01:52:32.780 The people of Poland are very, very sad.

01:52:35.340 So, we thought we'd do that.

01:52:37.000 That was the single plane that swooped up.

01:52:39.160 Yeah, and machines, American machines,

01:52:41.320 opened our meeting.

01:52:42.760 I think it was great.

01:52:44.360 And we are waiting for 32 F-35s in Poland.

01:52:48.740 So, it also shows that we have great relations

01:52:51.660 according to the best military equipment

01:52:54.480 on the world, American equipment,

01:52:56.860 which built Polish security to...

01:52:59.900 Well, Poland, we've had a tremendous relationship.

01:53:02.500 I think now it's better than ever

01:53:03.880 because of this relationship.

01:53:05.300 It's a little special.

01:53:06.820 Because we fought together.

01:53:08.680 But we've always been very good,

01:53:11.300 and we have some wonderful people,

01:53:14.400 as you know, Duda, my friend.

01:53:16.680 He's a good man and still a big fan of yours, very much so.

01:53:21.040 So, it's a great honor,

01:53:22.140 and we're going to talk about trade.

01:53:23.420 We'll talk about some other things.

01:53:24.640 We'll take a couple of questions from the media.

01:53:27.080 Yeah, I think so.

01:53:37.060 I mean, do you know something I don't?

01:53:38.680 I don't know.

01:53:39.660 Yeah, we're very happy.

01:53:40.880 If anything, we'll put more there if they want.

01:53:43.080 But they've long wanted to have a larger presence.

01:53:46.640 We have some countries that have more, not too many.

01:53:49.380 But, no, they'll be staying in Poland.

01:53:51.700 We're very much aligned with Poland.

01:53:53.940 Sir, on Russia and China,

01:53:56.320 Sir, can we ask about,

01:53:57.600 we saw a dramatic picture

01:53:58.820 of where we saw the leaders of Russia

01:54:00.080 and North Korea and China together,

01:54:01.840 the first time the leaders of those three countries

01:54:03.660 have been together in this sort of show of solidarity.

01:54:06.660 You said that they're conspiring against the United States.

01:54:09.540 What do you think they're conspiring to do?

01:54:11.600 And given this, is it reason why you should slap

01:54:14.600 or would consider slapping secondary sanctions on Russia

01:54:17.380 if they're conspiring against the U.S. now?

01:54:19.960 Well, I've already done that with regard to India,

01:54:22.320 and we're doing it with regard to other things.

01:54:24.220 And I put out a truth last night.

01:54:27.560 You saw that.

01:54:28.780 And I was the one that brought it up.

01:54:30.600 I said, they're only doing this.

01:54:32.720 They're really there looking to,

01:54:35.240 when they did what they did,

01:54:36.880 I thought it was a beautiful ceremony.

01:54:38.320 I thought it was very, very impressive.

01:54:40.320 But I understood the reason they were doing it,

01:54:42.500 and they were hoping I was watching,

01:54:44.060 and I was watching.

01:54:45.560 My relationship with all of them is very good.

01:54:48.300 We're going to find out how good it is over the next week or two.

01:54:52.560 I think that we helped China very much, as you know,

01:54:57.360 when they talk about freedom.

01:54:59.820 And I don't believe that, and maybe I'm wrong.

01:55:02.640 I hope I'm wrong.

01:55:03.360 But I don't believe that America,

01:55:06.180 that the United States was acknowledged

01:55:07.840 for helping China to get, to gain its freedom.

01:55:11.920 But perhaps that was just a, that was a sleight of hand.

01:55:17.400 I mean, I was very, I was very surprised.

01:55:19.860 I watched the speech last night.

01:55:21.840 President Xi is a friend of mine.

01:55:23.700 But I thought that the United States

01:55:25.660 should have been mentioned last night during that speech

01:55:28.080 because we helped China very, very much.

01:55:31.220 What was the reason?

01:55:31.800 They should have been invited, Mr. President.

01:55:33.280 What was the reason?

01:55:34.140 Mr. President, do you think they should have invited?

01:55:36.000 Go ahead.

01:55:36.640 You've expressed many times your frustration

01:55:39.280 and disappointment with Putin.

01:55:41.060 But there's no action since you took your office.

01:55:45.160 How do you know there's no, how do you know there's no action?

01:55:48.020 Really?

01:55:48.800 Wait, wait, who, who, who are you with?

01:55:51.740 I'm with Polish radio.

01:55:52.780 Okay.

01:55:53.260 How do you know there's no action?

01:55:55.000 Would you say that putting secondary sanctions on India,

01:55:59.740 the largest purchaser outside of China, they're almost equal,

01:56:03.340 would you say there was no action?

01:56:05.820 That cost hundreds of billions of dollars to Russia.

01:56:09.080 You call that no action?

01:56:11.060 And I haven't done phase two yet or phase three.

01:56:14.200 But when you say there's no action,

01:56:15.840 I think you ought to get yourself a new job.

01:56:17.420 Because if you remember, two weeks ago, I did,

01:56:19.980 I said, if India buys, India's got big problems.

01:56:23.720 And that's what happens.

01:56:25.000 So don't tell me about that.

01:56:26.400 Go ahead.

01:56:27.000 Mr. President, right now there have been survivors of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill.

01:56:37.600 They're calling for these case files, these documents to be released.

01:56:40.980 And Thomas Massey, who is sponsoring a discharge position to get the House to vulnerabilities those documents,

01:56:48.080 says he doesn't believe you're implicated in these files, but many of your friends and donors may be.

01:56:53.240 And he says that's why the Justice Department is redacting them and slow-walking the release.

01:56:58.200 Is the Justice Department protecting any friends or donors, sir?

01:57:01.680 So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends.

01:57:06.320 You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation.

01:57:09.900 We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied.

01:57:14.880 But from what I understand, I could check.

01:57:17.660 But from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given.

01:57:22.560 But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something

01:57:27.700 that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president.

01:57:33.240 Even if you look at D.C. right now, D.C., it's a totally safe zone.

01:57:38.540 It's called a safe zone.

01:57:39.700 That's a term.

01:57:41.220 It's a term of art.

01:57:42.180 It's a safe zone because it's very safe.

01:57:45.240 You can walk down the street now and nothing's going to happen.

01:57:48.280 No crime, no murders, no nothing.

01:57:50.640 Because we had a lot of problems with certain places, and we still do.

01:57:56.020 All run by Democrats, or for the most part, run by Democrats.

01:57:59.840 So what they're trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that

01:58:03.860 instead of speaking about the tremendous success like ending seven wars.

01:58:07.500 I ended seven wars.

01:58:08.900 Nobody's going to talk about it because they're going to talk about the Epstein, whatever.

01:58:12.900 I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we've given thousands

01:58:17.680 of pages of files.

01:58:19.100 And I know that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going.

01:58:23.780 And I think it's, I think, really, I think it's enough because I think we should talk about

01:58:28.200 the greatness of our country and the success that we're having.

01:58:31.580 I think we're probably having, according to what I read, even from two people in this room,

01:58:36.460 we're having the most successful eight months of any president ever.

01:58:40.300 And that's what I want to talk about.

01:58:42.520 That's what we should be talking about, not the Epstein hoax.

01:58:45.520 When are you going to make a decision on Ukraine, Mr. President?

01:58:49.040 Why not, Mr. President?

01:58:50.140 I'm trying to react to you, sir.

01:58:52.300 I have no message to President Putin.

01:58:54.980 He knows where I stand, and he'll make a decision one way or the other, whatever his decision is.

01:59:00.480 We'll either be happy about it or unhappy.

01:59:02.920 And if we're unhappy about it, you'll see things happen.

01:59:05.880 Can you give us a sense of what the U.S. policy or what you're trying to achieve

01:59:12.340 with the aircraft carriers or the boats, I should say, in near Venezuela?

01:59:18.140 And also the boat that you mentioned yesterday where 11 people were killed.

01:59:21.460 What was found on that boat, and why were the men killed instead of taking it?

01:59:24.740 On the boat, you had massive amounts of drugs.

01:59:27.180 We have tapes of them speaking.

01:59:28.800 It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people.

01:59:32.840 And everybody fully understands that.

01:59:36.100 In fact, you see it.

01:59:36.760 You see the bags of drugs all over the boat.

01:59:39.180 And they were hit.

01:59:40.400 Obviously, they won't be doing it again.

01:59:42.040 And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they watch that tape.

01:59:45.580 They're going to say, let's not do this.

01:59:47.780 We have to protect our country, and we're going to.

01:59:50.560 Venezuela has been a very bad actor.

01:59:52.560 They've been, as you know, they've been sending millions of people into our country.

01:59:56.860 Many of them, Tren de Aragua, some of the worst gangs, some of the worst people anywhere in

02:00:03.620 the world in terms of gangs.

02:00:06.080 And we had some in Washington, D.C.

02:00:07.980 We took care of them very quickly, but they're out of here.

02:00:10.420 They've gone.

02:00:11.600 But Venezuela has been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some of the worst criminals

02:00:16.660 anywhere in the world into our country.

02:00:18.860 They emptied out, you don't know this, but they emptied out their prisons in Venezuela,

02:00:22.720 and they emptied them out into the United States of America.

02:00:26.240 And that's part of the problem we have.

02:00:28.120 We're getting them out.

02:00:28.760 We're getting them out rapidly, but it's caused a tremendous problem.

02:00:32.800 And Pete and all of the people that are working very hard to rectify the stupidity of the Biden

02:00:38.300 administration, allowing these people to pour into our country with open borders.

02:00:43.540 We are paying a big price as a country for the incompetence of the Biden administration.

02:00:48.440 But think of it, opened up prisons, drug dealers, drug lords, everything coming out of Venezuela,

02:00:56.040 they said, and we said, we're not going to put up with it anymore.

02:00:58.520 So Venezuela has been one of the worst actors in the whole group, and we have a group of

02:01:03.100 pretty bad actors.

02:01:03.960 Are you wanting, Mr. President, anybody to force a barrage?

02:01:07.760 Yeah, thank you, Mr. President.

02:01:09.680 At the end of this month, the government or the Congress has to pass a budget.

02:01:13.740 Do you think we can avoid a government shutdown?

02:01:15.940 Yeah, I do.

02:01:17.080 I think the Republicans will vote for an extension.

02:01:19.780 We won't have any Democrat votes.

02:01:21.640 We could give the greatest budget ever, a tax cut of 50 percent, everybody taken care

02:01:27.400 of, perfect for women, perfect for men, perfect for minorities, perfect for everything, and

02:01:32.420 we wouldn't get one vote for the Democrats because they've lost their mind.

02:01:36.160 They are so deranged.

02:01:37.420 They have Trump derangement syndrome.

02:01:39.300 And I don't want to burden the Republican Party with it, but they really are.

02:01:44.380 They've become almost sick.

02:01:47.980 You know, they actually think there is a disease.

02:01:50.520 It's called Trump derangement syndrome.

02:01:52.940 They've got it.

02:01:53.820 No matter what we did, no matter how good, you could give them everything that they've ever

02:02:00.080 dreamed of, and you wouldn't get one vote.

02:02:02.520 So these are sick people, and I think we're going to have a tremendous midterm.

02:02:06.680 We just approved the largest tax decrease in the history of our country.

02:02:11.260 We have things, if you think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on social security for our

02:02:16.460 seniors, no tax on overtime, deductions when you buy a car and you borrow money to buy a

02:02:22.820 car.

02:02:23.120 First time they've ever seen a thing like this.

02:02:25.500 Middle-income people get deductions.

02:02:27.380 You get a deduction when you buy a car.

02:02:28.980 Nobody's ever seen.

02:02:30.200 And, by the way, they're selling cars like crazy.

02:02:32.660 Cars are pouring back because of the fact that we have tariffs.

02:02:35.960 Cars are pouring back into our car plants, are pouring back into our nation.

02:02:41.140 They're coming from all over the world.

02:02:42.620 They're coming back.

02:02:43.340 You know, we lost about 54 percent of automobile manufacturing over a 30-year period, 35-year

02:02:49.380 period.

02:02:50.340 They're all coming back.

02:02:51.420 I think they're coming back higher than ever before.

02:02:53.860 We have AI going up.

02:02:55.720 What we've done is amazing.

02:02:56.880 And what we've passed is amazing.

02:02:59.320 But the Democrats, I don't believe, will get one vote.

02:03:04.520 It's very anti-crime.

02:03:06.180 We want anti-crime.

02:03:07.680 They're in favor of crime.

02:03:09.560 We're against crime.

02:03:10.640 You know, they gave us things like men playing in women's sports, open borders for

02:03:16.080 everybody, transgender for everybody.

02:03:19.120 I mean, they want to transgender for all of the crazy things that they were saying.

02:03:22.760 And, you know, people would say they're 80, 20 issues.

02:03:25.740 I say they were 97 to 3.

02:03:27.480 I always say 97 to 3.

02:03:28.800 And nobody knows who the 3 are.

02:03:31.040 This is the best issue of all.

02:03:33.060 They are against preventing crime.

02:03:35.560 They are fighting us.

02:03:37.260 I want to go into Chicago and have this incompetent governor that doesn't want us.

02:03:42.660 Do you know that this weekend, 72 people were shot in Chicago?

02:03:46.740 I'm embarrassed to say it in front of the president of Poland.

02:03:49.980 11 people were killed.

02:03:51.840 72 people were shot.

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Bannon's War Room - September 03, 2025

Episode 4752： Epstein Files Transparency Act Presser; Trump Meets With President Of Poland

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