On this episode of Final Cut: Broke, the guys talk about Akash's new relationship with his new boo. They also talk about the latest scandal surrounding his ex-wife and her new husband, and what they should do about it.
00:45:13.360And then three years fucking later, this stupid fucking dothead nigga's wife is being a whore all over fucking Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, dragging his name through the mud to do so.
00:58:30.340Congresswoman Massey, for you, as the Republican who, who led this, obviously bipartisan, but as the Republican who led this, what do you say to those members who for months refused to put their names on your discharge petition and then wound up voting for this today?
00:58:45.760All that's necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
00:58:50.240And we had good men doing nothing for five months.
00:58:53.420And really our speaker was disparaging our legislation for five months.
01:01:10.180And I think that added fuel to the fire against both parties and where it didn't need to be.
01:01:14.160When did you think that what happened today on Capitol Hill and what the congressmen here have been fighting for helps put survivors back at the forefront of this instead of politics being at the front of this?
01:01:51.300I started speaking out just because I wanted to stand up for other survivors that have gone through the same pain that we have but couldn't find their voice.
01:01:58.620So I was trying to have the courage and the bravery to stand up there to have that voice for them.
01:02:02.460And just like Wendy said, just feeling validated, feeling seen, feeling heard.
01:02:06.720That's what we really wanted, you know, was to stand up there and say, you know, this happened to us, but what are we going to do now?
01:02:34.660President Trump said he'll sign it already.
01:02:36.960Do you have concerns, Congressman, that the Justice Department's investigations that he's ordered into the Democrats who were named in these emails last week could be used as a justification for not releasing everything that the DOJ has?
01:02:46.400Well, first of all, what's going to happen next?
01:02:48.100The legislation gives the executive branch only 30 days to produce these files.
01:02:52.600And if they redact anything, they've got 15 days to explain and justify any redactions.
01:02:56.900So we drafted this legislation so that if it did pass, that's a big reason why Trump doesn't like Thomas Massey or Marjorie Taylor Greene.
01:03:02.820This Epstein file shit is the main reason why he's trying to primary both of them.
01:03:19.120There are a thousand victims and there are so many perpetrators.
01:03:21.760They can't open enough cases to block all of the Epstein files and and to protect all of these perpetrators.
01:03:27.500So even if they do these what seem to be partisan investigations, that's another thing that bothers me about the announcement the president made is he named Democrats and things that he was going to investigate.
01:04:11.720And it's actually justice career officials who have to release the files.
01:04:15.120And they are going to be subject to a criminal prosecution or contempt of Congress if they don't, whether it's Trump or a future administration.
01:04:22.660So that's why this law is so powerful.
01:04:24.940And it actually can if there was pressure on Donald Trump from his friends or donors or other.
01:04:28.940And then I know he signed the document recently.
01:04:31.940Literally, he just signed it today, made it to his desk.
01:05:22.440Americans from the far right, from the middle, from the left, all saying we believe that powerful men abusing and raping teenage girls should be held accountable.
01:05:33.340It's a vision throughout the political spectrum.
01:05:35.100And it was certainly a huge stride forward for the victims, who so courageously stood up and shared their stories.
01:05:43.780But let's keep working toward the finish line when there will be actual accountability for the perpetrators and full justice for the victims.
01:05:55.560Well, today, we've won the battle for justice.
01:05:58.340We've won the battle for these poor women that were victimized repeatedly, both by these awful elite men, as well as the Trump administration, by trying to cover up every step of the way accountability.
01:06:09.300There is still war that needs to go on.
01:06:10.480We should not be in any doubt that this president is going to take every opportunity, along with his allies, along with Attorney General Pam Bondi, to slow down, to cover up, to confuse, because at the end of the day, the truth will come out, and it will hurt this administration.
01:06:23.220So I just encourage everyone that was involved and was involved in the fight from day one to make sure that we do not fall for the same traps that he's going to continue to put down.
01:06:31.540These women deserve to be treated like any other U.S. citizen.
01:06:33.780And just because it was elite men from New York City or from Mar-a-Lago or from wherever in the world, they deserve to be brought to trial and to justice just as much as anyone else.
01:06:43.020The president needs to show that he is for us and not for them and stop trying to stop a real open investigation and a real understanding of what happened with the Epstein files.
01:06:54.540What's your reaction to this proposal from Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy to set up HSA accounts to help people afford insurance plans on the Obamacare marketplace?
01:07:13.440The president at this hour, well, we don't know if he signed the bill to release the Epstein file.
01:07:18.240Certainly no cameras invited in, any pomp and circumstance for this, no announcement that it's done.
01:07:22.040White House officials tonight are refusing to say when Trump will sign the bill, even though, of course, after fighting it for months to the nail, Trump had to cave and say that he would sign it.
01:07:30.100So, uh, I'm for any, I don't, they can do whatever they want.
01:07:46.560Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, will then have 30 days to release the more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence that it has on the convicted sex offender.
01:08:01.020But when asked if she'll actually release the files to the American public, Bondi refused again and again and again to answer the question directly.
01:08:12.800They had a big press conference earlier today, Chad.
01:08:15.360Um, I think they did like some big takedown or whatever.
01:08:19.220So that's where this question came from.
01:08:20.880This morning, like they did a press conference for, uh, someone that was smuggling in like literally tons of drugs, like tons at the ton level.
01:08:28.840And they did this big press conference.
01:08:30.380So that's probably where this question came from.
01:08:52.780I mean, when you play that response, follow the law again and again and again, it sort of speaks for itself.
01:08:57.740It leaves open the window for every possible loophole, including withholding the files because of ongoing investigations, which is key because Bondi is at this moment investigating Epstein's ties to Democrats.
01:09:08.900An investigation that flies in the face, of course, of what her Justice Department declared a little over four months ago in a two page memo.
01:09:14.580The DOJ wrote about its investigation into Epstein and his clients, quote, this systematic review revealed no incriminating client list.
01:09:22.580There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.
01:09:26.660We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
01:09:32.880They said no client list, no evidence for an investigation into anyone.
01:09:36.460Well, so in that case, might as well put all the files out there.
01:09:38.020But obviously, they didn't want to do that.
01:09:39.420And why launch an investigation only now against their own stated conclusions after months of fighting against the file's release?
01:09:45.580What changed since then that you launched this investigation?
01:09:48.900Information that has come for information.
01:09:52.200There's information that new information, additional information.
01:10:22.740Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019, not the Democrats, was a lifelong Democrat, donated thousands of dollars to Democrat politicians,
01:10:29.740and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures such as Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, sleazebag political activist, Reid Hoffman, minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat Congressman Stacey Plaskett, and many more.
01:10:42.920Perhaps the truth about these Democrats and their association with Jeffrey Epstein will soon be revealed because I have just signed the bill to release the Epstein files.
01:10:48.640As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to pass this bill in the House and Senate, respectively.
01:10:57.080Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage.
01:11:00.320At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to 50,000 pages of documents to Congress.
01:11:06.060Do not forget the Biden administration did not turn over a single file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever speak about him.
01:11:13.260Democrats have used the Epstein issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our amazing victories, including the great, big, beautiful tax cut bill.
01:11:24.600Strong borders, no men and women's sports or transgender for everyone.
01:11:27.940Ending DEI, stopping Biden's record-setting inflation, lowering prices, biggest tax and regulation cuts in history.
01:11:33.380Ending eight wars, rebuilding our military, knocking out Iran's nuclear capability, getting trillions of dollars invested in the U.S., creating the hottest country anywhere in the world,
01:11:41.240and even delivering the huge defeat to the Democrats on the recent shutdown disaster.
01:11:46.380Holy crap, this guy is the king of fucking run-on sentences.
01:11:49.060Anyway, for years, our great nation has had to endure Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two,
01:11:57.420and many other Democrat-created witch hunts and scams, all of which have been so terrible and divisive for our country,
01:12:04.320and have been done to confuse, deflect, and distract from the great job that Republicans and the Trump administration are doing.
01:12:11.380The latest hoax will backfire on the Democrats, just as all the rest have.
01:12:16.280Thank you for your attention to this matter. Make America great again.
01:12:56.480I think we're going to find embarrassing things for everybody.
01:13:03.660Forrest Hustle says, I got a bitch-ass brother 12 years older than me that hasn't let our mom see his kid in years because she voted for Trump.
01:17:15.640And now we know, you know, if you for one second thought that the police had forgotten about this
01:17:20.620and this case was not going to be solved, we now know that the police have been working diligently on this case.
01:17:26.400And here's what we have found out from our law enforcement sources.
01:17:30.400David is viewed as a suspect in this case.
01:17:33.940That may seem obvious, but remember, they have not publicly said anything like that.
01:17:38.500They have not even said publicly that he is a person of interest.
01:17:41.260We have spoken to several well-placed sources in law enforcement.
01:17:45.340And they say that in the investigation, they are viewing him as a suspect.
01:17:50.680Another thing is they are viewing this as a homicide.
01:17:53.140We told you more than a month ago that the key thing here is police were waiting to get the medical examiner report back.
01:17:59.180And they wanted to find out the manner and cause of death.
01:18:02.260They wanted that from the medical examiner because the reality is at this point, yes, they know that she, her body was decomposing, that it was chopped up.
01:24:05.480Originally enforced the notion that each man's home is his castle, okay?
01:24:08.960Secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government.
01:24:12.500It protects against arbitrary arrests and is the basis of the law regarding search warrant, stop and frisking inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance,
01:24:19.260as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy.
01:24:25.560The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,
01:24:30.500and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.
01:24:35.780So the law enforcement official, whether a special agent with the government or a detective or a police officer,
01:24:41.760and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
01:25:35.160So, the Fourth Amendment is based on R.E.P., a.k.a. reasonable expectation of privacy.
01:25:40.880The higher your reasonable expectation of privacy, the higher the government has of a burden to be able to establish facts and circumstances, a.k.a. probable cause, to search that location.
01:25:52.120So, your home typically ends up at the top of that, right?
01:25:55.340The home and wiretaps are, like, the two top things when it comes to protection from the Fourth Amendment.
01:26:47.380Anytime you see the cops executing some type of search warrant at a home, that means they had insider information that there's a high likelihood that evidence will be found at that location,
01:26:57.380and more than likely, it came from eyeballs.
01:27:31.540You find, you know, small baggies, maybe a scale, drug residue, et cetera.
01:27:37.340Well, now you have real-time information that more than likely that house is going to have drug paraphernalia,
01:27:44.000drugs themselves, or some type of maybe money proceeds of drug proceeds, et cetera.
01:27:49.560So you can use that trash run, right, as the basis for a search warrant at that home, okay?
01:27:56.080Now, it's kind of hard to build enough probable costs to search a home off of just a trash run.
01:28:00.960You'd have to find quite a bit of shit.
01:28:03.320But that's an example of where you can get a search warrant without necessarily having an informant.
01:28:07.280But most of the time, keeping it at the house with y'all, if you're going to go ahead and get a search warrant for a home or a residence or whatever,
01:28:12.200nine out of ten times you have either a cooperating witness, a confidential informant, maybe some other source,
01:28:17.300maybe a combination of all thereof, et cetera, okay?
01:28:21.440So that is the Fourth Amendment 101 on search warrants, okay, guys?
01:28:28.580Most informative podcast on the internet, by the way.
01:28:31.520Had to put on my other hat from my past life on that one.
01:28:34.840But give me ones if that makes sense and like the goddamn video because no other fucking streamer can give y'all that kind of sauce at all, okay?
01:54:54.440We don't know where Jeffrey Epstein got his gigantic oodles of money in the first place.
01:54:59.260We don't know whom he was trafficking to, if anyone besides himself.
01:55:03.360We don't know a lot of things about Jeffrey Epstein.
01:55:05.940But what I mean here is that the response to Jeffrey Epstein has been quite fascinating.
01:55:09.540Many of the figures who have been largely associated with the question-asking about Jeffrey Epstein,
01:55:13.880it turns out that some of them are, in fact, associates of Jeffrey Epstein.
01:55:18.400And this is where things start to get weird in conspiracy land.
01:55:21.460Because conspiracy land suggests that there are the people who are in on it,
01:55:25.540and then there are the people who are outside attempting to crack the code on the conspiracy.
01:55:29.020But when you are talking about a hoax, and here we're not saying that everything associated with Jeffrey Epstein is a hoax.
01:55:35.900I'm talking about the political op directed at President Trump specifically regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
01:55:40.980One of the ways you can tell when people are, quote-unquote, in on the hoax is when they themselves were close associates of the person at issue.
01:55:48.540And now they've decided to try and weaponize that same person as a weapon against the people who they are targeting.
01:56:30.260So what Ben is doing here is he's kind of bringing that up because it's not really that public knowledge.
01:56:36.860It's not that publicly known unless, like, you're in the political commentary space as an influencer or creator or whatever the fuck it is, podcaster.
01:56:46.040It's not something that really gets talked about in the mainstream.
01:56:49.340That Bannon did a several-hour-long interview with Epstein, and he never released it.
01:56:54.320I've known Steve for a very, very long time.
01:57:09.220And we'll say that he's not the easiest human being, to put it mildly.
01:57:13.780Steve Bannon has a long history of attempting to associate himself with more powerful people, glomming onto them, and then sort of making his way up the chain.
01:57:20.740So a bit of career background on Steve Bannon, at least politically, he made a documentary about then-Congresswoman Michelle Bachman.
01:57:28.660After that documentary was made, he then used that as a sort of entree card to make a documentary about Sarah Palin.
01:57:33.940After that documentary was made, he then used that as an entree card to make a documentary about Andrew Breitbart.
01:57:39.800He used that documentary in order to become a prominent person at Breitbart itself when Andrew, unfortunately, passed away.
01:57:47.140And then he used that position in order to leverage a position for himself in the first Trump administration.
01:57:51.840He, of course, ended up being ousted by the first Trump administration.
01:57:55.020President Trump called him Sloppy Steve, rather famously.
01:59:13.300I have him confused with somebody else.
01:59:14.780He's really empowered his accesses to the administration, but they're constantly using him, the media, as a sort of window into the dark side of the Trump administration, which is, of course, something that Steve really loves.
01:59:25.180Now, the reason that Steve has become an issue is because Steve, along with many other people who are attempting to wrest control of the MAGA movement away from President Trump, their assumption is that President Trump is in the waning days of his political power.
01:59:38.080That President Trump is now close to being, if he is not already, a lame duck.
01:59:41.600And that means that the future of the Republican Party is going to be fought in an internecine war, and that's going to involve a war of all against all, people who have different perspectives on foreign policy, different perspectives on economics.
01:59:54.980And Steve believes, presumably, that he is going to have a heavy voice in deciding the future of the MAGA movement without President Trump.
02:01:40.040He was a part of his first administration.
02:01:41.260Trump's not going to let him sit in fucking prison like that.
02:01:43.220And every attempt, every attempt to intellectualize or philosophize President Trump, to turn his impulses, to turn his instincts into a coherent political program, those have all failed.
02:01:57.300Because, again, the president holds a bunch of different conflicting thoughts at the same time, and then he tends to come down on the side of pragmatic populism.
02:02:05.900And by this, I mean that he will try things, and if they don't work, he will then move away from them.
02:02:25.640So Trump has went back on a lot of different things that he said before based on, you know, a multitude of different factors, right?
02:02:36.560And Trump could, at one point, articulate a version of MAGA in which support for Ukraine is bad, and then, when Russia is intransigent, he could articulate a version of MAGA in which support for Ukraine is good, just to take an obvious example.
02:02:49.900Well, yeah, I mean, he started supporting Ukraine more now since Putin's been giving him a hard time.
02:02:53.520But, again, you do need to be able to be, you know, fluid to some degree and be able to adapt to the situation.
02:02:59.360So I see Ben's point, but I also see the perspective where you do have to be adaptable and be able to change with changing climates.
02:03:06.140Do the same thing with support for particular business people.
02:03:09.960Now, you can flip on a dime, because President Trump, again, is not just the leader of MAGA.
02:03:15.680There is no MAGA aside from President Trump.
02:03:18.120He's very much like Barack Obama in this way.
02:03:19.920Barack Obama was able to kind of gloss over all of the various divisions inside the Democratic Party without necessarily a cohesive program.
02:03:27.140Now, Obama was much more intellectually consistent and ideological in his approach than Donald Trump has been.
02:03:34.300But all attempts to sort of boil Trump down into a philosophical or ideological package, which can then be transferred over to another candidate, whether that candidate is J.D. Vance or whether it is Ted Cruz or whether it is Steve Bannon or whether it is somebody else that is bound to fail because President Trump is too big for that.
02:03:51.000You can't just take what he is, sort of shrink wrap it, put it in an ideological box, and then hand it over to the next guy.
02:03:59.840So one of the things that Steve Bannon has been trying to do for years is claim that he's sort of the intellectual mover and shaker behind MAGA, which, of course, is really silly.
02:04:08.280There is no shadow president to President Trump.
02:04:10.500There is no one who is defining his program except for President Trump.
02:04:13.980The reason I bring this up is because Steve Bannon, among many other people, being opposed to some elements of Trump's agenda and trying to run a sort of bizarre op inside the Republican Party to remove support from Trump and move it over to his version of MAGA, he, among other people, has been quite vocal about the so-called Epstein scandal.
02:04:35.880Well, it turns out, again, that so much of what is happening right now is just fibbery.
02:04:41.360According to the UK Guardian, hundreds of texts over almost a year show MAGA influencer Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein workshopping legal and media strategies to protect Epstein from the legal and publicity quagmire that enveloped him in the last...
02:04:55.220Ben is gonna start going after him now.
02:04:59.160And make no mistake about it, the reason why he's going after Bannon is because Bannon has been extremely critical of Israel over the past few months.
02:05:06.180Don't think that this hijab isn't for no reason.
02:05:10.740The texts, released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, show that as early as June 2018, the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein's criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics, and academia.
02:05:47.660Where they agreed to not prosecute him.
02:05:48.840...Donald Trump hobnobbing with Jeffrey Epstein in the late 90s.
02:05:51.420We're not talking about going to parties with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in 2004.
02:05:58.560We are talking about 10 years after it was obvious to everyone that Jeffrey Epstein was, in fact, a pedophile.
02:06:05.020So, that 10 years after that, he was acting not just as a sort of friend, but as a confidant and as a PR advisor, which says something about somebody.
02:06:17.020I mean, I think he still has a connection to the president.
02:06:19.300From what I understand, Bannon went to the White House right before Trump hit Iran and pleaded with the president to push it off as long as he could.
02:07:10.320But he also has a foot with the actual establishment guys in MAGA, the actual politicians.
02:07:16.680Because sometimes when you're a Trump, a Marco Rubio, a J.D. Vance, you know, a Mike Johnson, whatever the fuck, a Pam Blondie, right, Christine Dome, you're so far removed...
02:07:26.100From the base that you don't even know what your people want sometimes.
02:07:29.480So, someone like a Bannon is almost like a go-between, right?
02:07:35.260So, from what I understand, from what I've heard, he still has a connection with the president.
02:07:40.660He still advises the president informally on the side, right?
02:07:44.560And one of the things I heard, and I think Alex Jones talked about this, was that Bannon did go to the White House shortly before Iran was bombed and tried to get a pushback a little bit.
02:07:55.980Because, as you guys know, the base, when we all found out that we were potentially going to bomb Iran after Israel did their sneak attack, it was very unpopular with the base.
02:08:05.540You know, me, Candace Owens, Dave Smith, Nick Fuentes, Ian Carroll, all of us.
02:08:12.240Like, pretty much a lot of people in Trump's support network, whether directly or indirectly, were against the war with Iran.
02:08:23.760So, Bannon kind of had his ear and was able to push it back.
02:08:31.040Mind you, maybe 24 hours, whatever it may be, but that is important to understand that, I mean, it's unheard of that we would be able to influence a president like that.
02:08:43.240Like, I mean, before social media and the rise of podcasts and influencers, et cetera, you know, the president would just make the decision to not give a fuck, right?
02:08:50.060Because mainstream media, they controlled it.
02:08:51.640So, that's the best way that I could describe Bannon.
02:08:58.240Give me a two if you disagree and tell me why.
02:09:00.460I'd love to hear your guys' opinions on this.
02:09:02.060I mean, obviously, this is just my thought.
02:09:04.160But from me, on the outside looking in, talking about Alex Jones and other individuals seeing Bannon, because I do watch The War Room every now and then.
02:09:10.160And I do look at what Bannon says, whatever.
02:09:14.040He echoes a lot of the grievances and opinions of the base in general.
02:09:17.980So, he's kind of like, he still has the presence here.
02:09:21.720I don't think he's obviously formally in the administration.