A gunman opened fire inside a Manhattan office building and killed four people, including a New York City police officer. President Trump talks about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for more food and medical supplies for the starving people there.
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00:01:50.080We are very worried about the humanitarian problem in Gaza.
00:04:31.240And then you have a president like Trump who comes out and just says it.
00:04:34.640And of course, nobody pays any attention to it.
00:04:37.320Also, the trade deal with the EU, fantastic work there.
00:04:41.640And everybody, I think, is completely silenced.
00:04:45.200The critics, the panikins about the tariffs.
00:04:47.340I remember a few arguments that I got into about that one with people.
00:04:50.640They are completely silent now because, oh, look, the stock market has not crashed.
00:04:55.100And I'm sorry if your NVIDIA stock was hit, but actually everyone else is just doing much, much fine, doing perfectly fine.
00:05:01.820But then there was the subject yesterday that came up of Israel and the conflict in Gaza, the Gaza Strip, as President Trump reminds us.
00:05:09.940And President Trump breaking with Bibi Netanyahu, J.D. Vance coming out as well.
00:05:14.820So Netanyahu said, and has been saying over and over and over, that there's no starvation in Gaza.
00:05:20.060And yet every single day on social media and mainstream media, there are a slew of images that come out and new images every single day about what's happening in, particularly it seems to be in these camps, in these refugee camps that were set up early on.
00:05:35.760Human Events Daily covered this in great detail when the war began, talking about how displacement camps were set up so that military operations by the IDF could take place within the Strip itself going after Hamas.
00:05:45.820It is these refugee conditions and these displacement camps that have come under fire and where the starvation conditions now, as President Trump has said, these are exhibited.
00:05:57.760And the question of aid and food, here's what it all comes down to, folks.
00:06:01.580You don't have to be pro-Israel or pro-Hamas to be pro-humanity, okay?
00:06:08.780You don't have to come in and say all of this and all of that.
00:06:13.000But what you do want to be able to say is it's war.
00:06:17.360The war is what's driving all of this.
00:06:22.380And the best way to end all of this is to get an end point for that war, a ceasefire, and then some way of brokering a peace deal so that the civilians can get the help.
00:06:33.540This is the same problem that America ran into in the global war on terror.
00:06:39.100They completely ignored the issues with the populace while focusing on, oh, we have to have mission accomplished in George W. Bush-style policies.
00:10:05.020Well, we know that Ghislaine was given limited immunity to give up about 100 names to the DOJ.
00:10:13.260And this is being touted as a kind of client list substitute, at least in messaging.
00:10:21.680This appears to be a kind of backdoor way to try to get at the spider web of contacts that Epstein had.
00:10:29.420And, you know, it's one of these stink bombs, the Ghislaine Maxwell testimony ever since I think the Daily Mail broke about two weeks ago
00:10:39.300that Ghislaine wanted to testify to Congress, but that Republicans were blocking it.
00:10:43.980I think that the force of MAGA fury about this issue has made it politically difficult to say no to.
00:10:52.220Mike Johnson, the Speaker, came out and quickly said that Republicans were not blocking it.
00:10:57.860And now there appears to be forward motion on it moving forward.
00:11:02.220We see Democrats who were trying to kind of take this issue and use it as a kind of wedge of the Trump White House against the base.
00:11:13.700We saw Jamie Raskin and the like trying to pick this up as a football.
00:11:19.600And now it looks like the Maxwell testimony in front of Congress will likely diffuse any of that energy.
00:11:27.380Although there are lingering questions about why it is happening now, of course, whether or not Ghislaine may be getting a pardon
00:11:36.400and whether or not there may be some gerrymandering of the story that Ghislaine tells in order to try to make her own case for a pardon stronger.
00:11:46.560That is, will she shield certain aspects of Trump world from the story she tells or will it really be the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
00:11:57.460And of course, we're now seeing so she is she's made her offer.
00:12:01.820And that's I want people to understand what the latest is on this.
00:12:03.960This is just as of about 52 minutes ago that so Ghislaine Maxwell, through her lawyers, has put forward her potential offer.
00:12:11.860And of course, this is a a a Maxwell maximalism, if you will, list of demands.
00:12:17.600So she wants to grant a formal immunity for any or anything she testifies to under Congress, says the interview cannot happen at the correctional facility where she's serving her sentence.
00:12:27.960Oh, she wants to come to Capitol Hill.
00:12:30.660And they're asking to prepare adequately for any congressional deposition and to ensure accuracy, we would require the committee's questions in advance and is saying that the interview could only be scheduled after the resolution of her Supreme Court petition, where, of course, she's filed for an appeal.
00:12:49.120So they're they're making a splashy headline.
00:12:51.520But I'm not getting the impression that with demands like this, that this is something they're rushing into.
00:12:59.600I think that everyone is on every side of the political aisle is a little afraid of what she she has to say if she's given a total unfettered podium to say it.
00:13:11.200And there's, you know, again, the question of the unreliable narrator here, given that the sort of Damocles hangs over her head in terms of, you know, what is what is effectively a kind of life in prison, you know, whether or not she will be would be telling an honest story or giving honest answers, even under immunity.
00:13:30.580As I said, you know, there's there's a clear goal, I think, by all parties involved in this for Maxwell, it's to do do a favor in exchange for a potential pardon or commuting of the sentence for Republicans.
00:13:45.460It's to satiate the base and shield, I think, the Republican side of the Epstein story.
00:13:51.700And for Democrats, it's to it's to try to find the dirt on Trump world to use that for the 2026 midterms.
00:14:04.300But at the same time, for a situation that's been litigated and relitigated so many times, I just have to say that I still don't.
00:14:13.740And I've said this throughout the entire, you know, carnival that this has turned into and that I don't think that if if there was anything on Trump, they would have put it out already.
00:14:24.400It would have been out. We would have had it years ago.
00:14:26.140It wouldn't have had to make up all this Russia stuff.
00:14:27.860They wouldn't have had to, you know, go to such great lengths to try to, quote, unquote, get him on something if they had an easy, you know, political kill shot or political headshot like you could over something with Epstein.
00:14:40.580And you even hear President Trump being, I think, a little bit more cavalier about talking about this now when he says, yes, there was an island.
00:14:49.340Yes, Larry Summers from Harvard did go to the island.
00:14:56.200I'd love to get that list, Mr. President, and all the information on that island, Reid Hoffman, so many others, because, Ben, the work that you've done, the work that we've done has really pushed this from a story that I think was very great.
00:15:10.280This has been very grassroots driven all the way forward to now where you've got the president of the United States on overseas trips being asked about that and, in fact, responding to it at length.
00:15:22.700So, you know, I always think of this as being a kind of mutually assured destruction kind of button.
00:15:28.860There's the sort of the, you know, weapons of mass destruction element of the Epstein story, which is that if one side uses it against the other, the other, there's something about the Epstein story that can always be used in a double-edged way.
00:15:43.780The fact is, is I think Bill Clinton has become kind of the go-to talking point for the Trump administration because he evidently went to the island, according to Trump, 28 times.
00:15:55.320We know that Epstein was in the White House visitor logs for the Clinton White House 17 times.
00:16:00.580We know that Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers testified that Jeffrey Epstein co-founded the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:16:09.540We know that Jeffrey Epstein shepherded Bill Clinton around Africa in 2002, right when his presidency ended, right when Clinton was setting up the Clinton Foundation.
00:16:18.120He was being essentially air chauffeured by Jeffrey Epstein from country to country.
00:16:24.700You know, that being said, I do think there are considerable ties of Epstein to Trump world, not so much to Trump himself, although Trump is on the 1993 flight logs.
00:16:34.800But this was also a time when it was 13 years before Epstein was ever indicted the first time.
00:16:42.280And so I think that there's kind of a longer leash for things that that far back in in the distance, given that Trump is also on record having kicked Epstein out of his own Mar-a-Lago club.
00:16:55.720But the fact is, they did travel in somewhat similar circles, from the kind of Roy Cohn network story to the Adnan Khashoggi strange tie-ins, where Khashoggi was an Epstein client and then Trump ends up buying Khashoggi's yacht.
00:17:13.980There's several relatively high-level folks around the Trump administration who have their own kind of bizarre intersections with the Epstein story.
00:17:23.680But they're not as direct as something like the Clinton flying to the island or, you know, co-founding foundations together and the like.
00:17:33.480But, you know, I mean, and the fact is, as you mentioned, that the case has been litigated and relitigated so many times.
00:17:39.880But the nature of that litigation is also under secrecy and seal.
00:17:44.340The Justice Department just tried to unseal grand jury evidence and the court denied it.
00:17:50.740That case was run by Maureen Comey, daughter of James Comey, who set up the whole Russiagate affair.
00:17:58.620The same prosecutor who bizarrely handled or mishandled the Diddy prosecution, where you have another kind of Epstein kind of adjacent storyline.
00:18:12.280So the fact is, though, to me, pressure really can't relent on this until we have answers about Epstein's intelligence ties.