00:00:44.020Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
00:00:46.160We have new video in the case of Nancy Guthrie.
00:00:48.680We will break down whether it is providing any promising leads in the investigation with Fitz and Maureen just a bit.
00:00:54.700And a legend in the legal community, discovered to be carrying on a double life, convicted on the charges against—I'm sorry, but my legal world has been rocked by the conviction of this guy, Tom Goldstein.
00:01:07.900He is truly one of the most respected lawyers in America, one of the elite members of the Supreme Court bar, which is not easy to get into, the founder of SCOTUS blog, where all lawyers go whenever there is a big Supreme Court case.
00:01:38.500He was using women off of some website for, like, sugar daddies.
00:01:42.180He is, like, about 5'7", bald, as dweeby, legal-looking as you get, you know, just like your quintessential—like, what you picture when you picture, like, geeky Supreme Court lawyer.
00:01:56.460Guarantee all the nine justices know him and have probably socialized with him.
00:02:00.620And the whole while in the past seven, eight years, he's been flying all over the world.
00:02:07.080He's been winning and losing fortunes at every turn.
00:02:10.820He was convicted of lying about it all on his tax returns, understating his income on the winning years so he didn't have to pay taxes on it, not disclosing his debts when he applied for mortgages, which is a serious problem.
00:02:23.620You're $15 million in debt and you want to get a $3 million loan for a home.
00:05:05.260So Bill Clinton goes from that right after Lewinsky to palling around with Jeffrey Epstein in 2000 through 2000, like four or five around there in that man's hot tub with all these women.
00:05:58.940It was just, you know, you know who the one was who didn't belong there because she had absolutely no journalism chops and got the job because her last name was Clinton.
00:06:07.280So Bill Clinton is up there now under oath.
00:06:11.140And unlike his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he had lots of connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:08:55.260You and your crazy ass wife used George Stephanopoulos and James Carville to create whole war rooms to destroy the young women who were accusing you.
00:09:06.140Of far less than Jeffrey Epstein was ever accused of.
00:10:05.180There comes a time in every person's life where they have to decide if they're going to roll over for this fascistic government or whether they're prepared to fight.
00:11:47.500So that's how they got here under protest.
00:11:49.500But now Bill Clinton says the reason I am here is that the girls and women whose lives Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing.
00:12:12.100Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I'm here to offer what little I know so that it might prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
00:12:32.000No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos.
00:12:38.860I know what I saw and, more importantly, what I didn't see.
00:12:41.260I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do.
00:12:44.200I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.
00:12:47.180You'll often hear me say that I don't recall.
00:12:49.260Oh, he's setting the table before he says anything.
00:12:51.500That might be unsatisfying, but I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of.
00:15:23.420There's a lot to go over on them, on Epstein in general, and where we think the disclosures thus far have led us.
00:15:29.520And we didn't think there was a better person to talk to about that than Mike Benz, who's never been on the program, but who I've admired on his testimonials elsewhere.
00:15:36.380He's a former State Department official and executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online.
00:15:41.720Let's talk about what's really happening right now.
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01:40:35.280She did not find that in any way controversial.
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01:40:57.600And she is jealous that they are in the spotlight and she's not.
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01:42:58.440Imagine if today was the day your idea changed someone's life.
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01:44:31.320A couple more items for you before we go.
01:44:36.780Mayor Mamdani continues to downplay what happened to the NYPD officers who were pelted by a mob with snow, ice, and rocks after this big snowstorm that we had on Sunday into Monday.
01:44:50.200And his complicit DA, Alvin Bragg, who would love to throw 34 felony charges at Donald Trump for a bookkeeping error, does not really want to bring charges against these people at all, just like his mayor.
01:45:05.360The mayor said it was a bunch of kids, and he really didn't want to see charges brought.
01:45:08.880Well, the cops insisted on it, and they arrested, they're starting to arrest the perpetrators, including this one guy who we reported to you about yesterday,
01:45:17.860Ghazmaine Kolubali, 27, one of the so-called kids, nothing of the kind.
01:45:23.260By the way, the guy's had other legal troubles that he's already been dealing with.
01:45:26.960And he was arrested two weeks ago for trying to rob a confused subway rider in what he claimed was a social media prank.
01:45:47.280But the DA already downgraded the charges.
01:45:50.900He was initially arrested and charged with assault on a police officer, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct.
01:46:00.060They've dropped the assault on a police officer charge.
01:46:03.700They are only pursuing the obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct, which are much lesser and non-serious crimes that they're going after this guy.
01:46:16.420Now, you may just think, oh, what do you mean?
01:46:22.860B, because there are reports, as we mentioned to you the other day, that, well, the president of the police union said that the suspects knowingly packed the snow with ice and rocks before launching their so-called snowballs at cops.
01:46:38.780And clearly one officer, he said, has an obvious injury below his eye.
01:46:45.820They said he suffered redness, tenderness, and pain to the left side of his face near his eye.
01:46:50.100We were told earlier by the union that at least one, if not more, had to go to the hospital for treatment of the injuries, which will happen when you're hit in the face with ice or a rock or even a very hard-packed snowball if it hits you with enough force.
01:47:05.860So the first one charged gets charged over the objections of the mayor.
01:47:10.920And then as soon as he gets in the hands of Alvin Bragg, they dismiss the most serious charge.
01:47:16.160And now it's just a disorderly conduct case, basically, which is a nothing.
01:47:24.760And this person will have no punishment because they don't believe in punishing crime in New York anymore now that the communist regime has taken over.
01:47:33.000And Alvin Bragg, as you know, is a George Soros-funded prosecutor who doesn't believe in funding in pursuing crime at all unless your name is Donald Trump.
01:47:41.760That's the state of the state in New York City.
01:48:09.100Remember, already he's been saying he wants to send non-cops to domestic violence calls so a woman gets the shit kicked out of her by her husband.
01:48:18.660And he wants to send some 70-year-old overweight female social worker with her little bifocal glasses to go intermediate the dispute.
01:48:39.060And each one of these, the Momdani calling this a snowball fight, oh, I'm not going to get involved in kids, as if those of us who wanted to see some justice here just saw little, like, toddlers throwing snowballs at one another and wanted somebody charged.
01:49:10.400Lie to the public's face about what actually happened.
01:49:12.800And then, when the cops charge them anyway, because they do have some authority here, you bounce past it over to the DA, who's complicit, and says, nah, don't worry.
01:50:15.100There's a guy named Tom Goldstein about whom you care nothing and you don't need to care anything.
01:50:21.720But it's an interesting story for the reasons I stated at the top of the show.
01:50:25.660This elite guy in the most elite circles you can run in.
01:50:29.000I mean, Supreme Court bar hanging out with Supreme Court justices.
01:50:31.480I mean, how many of us can say that every single Supreme Court justice knows our name if we're not on TV every day or, like, in the news, you know?
01:50:44.600Unlike virtually everybody who gets admitted into the Supreme Court bar, Tom Goldstein did not have some super elite education.
01:50:52.020He went to, I think, American law school.
01:50:54.960He went to University of North Carolina undergrad.
01:50:56.840He did not clerk for a Supreme Court justice, which is sort of the path you go if you want to wind up being a star in the Supreme Court bar.
01:51:06.600He was not Solicitor General of the United States.
01:51:25.380He actually worked at my old law firm for a stint, Jones Day, among other places.
01:51:30.380And he, in his Supreme Court practice, did something most people weren't doing, which is he started calling people who had lost at the circuit courts of appeal and making a case that he would be clever about getting the Supreme Court to take the case, that he had a pretty good track record of getting cert granted, certiorari.
01:51:47.100And that was looked down on when he first started doing it.
01:51:50.960But he increased the firm's practice, like, threefold, the Supreme Court practice.
01:51:55.260And then the cases at Jones Day reportedly kept getting taken away from him because he wasn't that experienced.
01:51:59.480And eventually he left the firm and opened up his own shop with his wife, Amy Howe.
01:52:04.240And they built an incredible Supreme Court practice.
01:52:12.000And he, like, he became the go-to shop.
01:52:17.280Like, I think only two others have more experience arguing in front of the Supreme Court than Tom Goldstein.
01:52:22.560So, I mean, self-made, to his credit, great story, very well-respected.
01:52:26.920And then in 2002, I think that was the year, he started SCOTUSblog, you know, SCOTUS is Supreme Court of the United States.
01:52:33.140SCOTUSblog, which became a go-to destination for all of us who had a foothold in the law at all, whether you were on television or not, or just in the legal profession, that's where you go.
01:52:42.620As soon as the Supreme Court issues an opinion, you go there.
01:52:46.160And they did great write-ups in advance of the cases.
01:52:48.920I used them heavily when I was a Supreme Court correspondent.
01:52:51.240Very, very efficient write-ups of the cases before the cases would go up with links to the briefs if you wanted them.
01:52:58.580And then immediately upon the decision coming down, they would be ready with a quick summary because they were steeped in knowledge about every case going up before the high court.
01:53:07.960Takes a lot of work and takes a good legal brain to process quickly.
01:53:11.820I mentioned when we covered this story on AM Update, they got the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare correct when everybody was getting it wrong.
01:53:23.180It was like, remember when everybody got Bush v. Gore wrong?
01:53:25.440They thought the high court had ruled in favor of Gore because they didn't read through the opinion because, in fact, they had ruled in favor of Bush.
01:53:31.580The same thing happened on Obamacare when that went up.
01:53:34.920And the whole question was whether Congress had the power under the Commerce Clause to pass this sweeping law that changed one-seventh of the U.S. economy.
01:53:45.040Are they going to uphold Congress's power under the Commerce Clause or not?
01:53:48.000And the top of the decision said, no, Congress does not have this power under the Commerce Clause.
01:53:53.440And those of us who went to SCOTUSblog, including yours truly, did not get embarrassed because SCOTUSblog understood, as did yours truly because I'd been following the case closely,
01:54:02.900that there was another argument on behalf of President Obama and those defending Obamacare saying it was like a catch-all.
01:54:09.540It was like a throwaway. It was barely discussed, saying, we also have the power under the Tax Clause.
01:54:16.680And sure enough, the Supreme Court, thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld that law under the Tax Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
01:54:23.240And so Obamacare stood. That's the reason we still have it to this day.
01:54:28.020And I went to SCOTUSblog. I was on the air live. Fox News was calling it wrong, too.
01:54:32.920And I was on the air, and I said, hold on.
01:54:34.960And the only reason Fox did not embarrass itself, like CNN and the others did, is because I knew about SCOTUSblog.
01:54:41.860And we saved ourselves from a lot of embarrassment, thanks to Tom Goldstein and his quick reporting over there.
01:54:48.660So I had nothing but respect for him. I had him on my show later that day.
01:54:52.880He came on, I think it was that day or within a day or two.
01:54:55.660We pulled a clip from, you know, what seems like 200 years ago, but here it is.
01:55:00.360I owe you my thanks because I was on your blog this morning as this ruling came down and we were getting conflicting reports and you, as expected and as always, had it right.
01:55:11.900The high court upheld the individual mandate, but not on the grounds most of us expected.
01:55:18.920Not on the grounds that most of us expected, not on the principal argument based that the Obama administration had offered.
01:55:26.360The Affordable Care Act was saved by the conservative chief justice, John Roberts, applying maybe not a conservative result, but a conservative judicial philosophy saying,
01:55:35.360it's my job if I can find a way to uphold what the people across the street have decided to do as the elected representatives.
01:55:59.020He was leading a whole double life, you guys, not just professionally, but personally too.
01:56:06.900For the listening audience, like with respect, the guy's, you know, he's kind of dweeby.
01:56:10.320He's a kind of like a dweeby Supreme Court lawyer.
01:56:12.240He looks kind of short, very bald, nothing to, you know, not, not homely, but like nothing, you know, whatever, nothing to like write home about.
01:56:22.240But I'm just saying he looks like your quintessential dweeby lawyer.
01:56:27.160And that guy had a life of Bentleys, Ferraris, prostitutes.
01:56:37.920I don't think they'd call themselves that, but if you sleep with a man for money, that's what you are.
01:56:43.880Multiple women in one house, like he'd snap his fingers and they'd come and fall all over him and God knows what else they were doing to him.
01:56:50.680All while married, stealing from his law firm to pay off debts, not declaring his actual income on his tax returns,
01:57:01.720understating his income to the IRS and understating his debt to the mortgage application lenders, to the banks,
01:57:13.040because he didn't want his wife to know reportedly that he had, like, given, you know, any given week or month,
01:57:20.080some 12, 15 million dollars that he owed thanks to these high stake poker games.
01:59:07.940Four out of eight counts found guilty on of aiding and assisting in preparation of a false tax return.
01:59:15.820Seven men, five women heard 15 days of evidence over six weeks, including testimony from Goldstein in his own defense.
01:59:22.220He made clear that he was going to, through his lawyer, say to the jury, like, this is either a very good man who made some mistakes or this is a very bad man who's nefarious.
01:59:48.020And the jury believed the latter entirely.
01:59:52.220The jury does not believe Tom Goldstein is a good man.
01:59:54.640And I have to be honest, neither do I.
01:59:56.500It's like a lot of people have affairs on their marriage and they get divorced and they find love again in a second marriage or a third marriage or whatever it is.
02:00:03.860That's really between the two spouses.
02:00:06.560I don't know if that makes you a bad person.
02:02:02.380So Jeffrey Toobin, yeah, that Jeffrey Toobin, who notwithstanding his issues when it comes to whipping out his dick, I'm sorry,
02:02:10.700and jerking off in front of a whole Zoom full of colleagues.
02:02:17.100What is our legal profession coming to?
02:02:20.840Had been a very well-respected lawyer and legal reporter at CNN, and he sat down with Tom Goldstein shortly after these charges broke.
02:02:33.040We did a long report about this when the charges broke because I'm just obsessed with this story.
02:02:36.880And in December, late December, he sat down with Jeffrey Toobin, Tom Goldstein did, which was dumb, dumb.
02:02:43.680And his admission that the reason he didn't declare how much debt he was in when he applied for the mortgage was because he didn't want his wife to know, because they were both co-applicants, came back to haunt him in the trial.
02:03:01.720Do you think, you know, Bank of America would care if you were like, oh, I didn't state my debt because I just felt so shamed about having it?
02:03:12.280They gave you a $3 million home loan for your beautiful estate in the Washington, D.C. area, and you were a very, very high risk, none of which was disclosed.
02:03:22.840We're all going to get charged for that kind of behavior.
02:03:26.020So this was a dumb thing to do, to sit with Jeffrey Toobin, but hey, what the hell?
02:03:29.860It was his risk to take, and as we've seen with Tom Goldstein, he is not risk averse.
02:03:35.720Okay, let's go through some of the highlights because you're not going to believe this.
02:03:39.560Okay, Toobin writes, he'd been leading a secret life of ultra-high-stakes gambling and sugar-daddy relationships with multiple young women, a life so sheltered from those around him that no one knew the full extent of it, least of all his wife.
02:03:51.880When it came to light, his life unraveled.
02:03:54.380His friends have largely abandoned him.
02:03:56.060His marriage of three decades is ending.
02:04:09.560Um, outside the front door of his home, his $3 million home, are two Bentleys, writes Toobin, among other family vehicles, or at least that's what was there.
02:04:20.360Now, writes Toobin, they're gone, replaced by a Honda.
02:04:33.960I have never, ever believed I did anything wrong, he told me.
02:04:38.120And for defensive trial, he's planning the same kind of bold all-in strategy that he used at the Supreme Court, this time with his own freedom on the line.
02:04:45.980His fall has been as precipitous as his rise was meteoric.
02:04:50.160And he goes on to talk about some of that background, how he actually worked for David Boies and Lawrence Tribe, ugh, on Bush v. Gore.
02:04:59.180And, uh, that he mastered Supreme Court practice, made a name for himself in the ways that I just described.
02:05:08.120And then talks about how he started, he started gambling, um, because in the early 2000s, ESPN began broadcasting poker.
02:05:21.240He had never played it, but he loved watching.
02:05:23.360I think of it as a pretty intellectual thing, he says.
02:05:26.860But he quickly graduated from games around the kitchen table with jars of quarters to tables of high rollers in D.C. and New York.
02:05:33.880I would play in home games where you could win and lose $100,000.
02:07:47.460He's come up with a Supreme Court strategy where, like, you, if your argument is failing, you abandon it and you go for another one and you kiss off the first argument, even if it was your primary in the breach, because that's what wins.
02:07:59.360You get to the poker table and you intimidate the hell out of everybody, but not even looking at your cards.
02:08:05.280And that's so wild and crazy and reckless.
02:08:11.600That's when he met somebody named Dan Bilzeriar, an heir to a family fortune who became famous for his extravagant and ridiculous lifestyle as a professional poker player in Vegas and later for being a social media influencer who often featured guns and women in bikinis.
02:08:35.540Bilzerian recalled Goldstein's antics that night.
02:08:37.780People were all watching the game and talking about what an effing maniac he was.
02:08:42.440The two got super tight, and suddenly Goldstein started wearing chunky silver jewelry and, like Bilzerian, sporting a thick, full beard.
02:08:53.500He wanted you to do all kinds of bets.
02:08:55.980The TV show that Goldstein decided might be a great idea around poker and crazy things never came to fruition, but they did make one famous non-poker bet.
02:09:05.340Goldstein bought a Ferrari worth about $300,000.
02:09:09.440Bilzerian had a 1965 Shelby Cobra, and he bet Goldstein that his Cobra could beat the Ferrari in a race.
02:09:18.440They agreed to a quarter-mile showdown at a drag racing track in Vegas.
02:09:57.360During a photo shoot for Hustler magazine, Bilzerian, his BFF, threw a naked porn actress named Janice Griffith off a roof in Los Angeles into a swimming pool.
02:10:27.820Goldstein had law clients in the poker world, and that helped him explain to his wife his increasingly long absences from Washington.
02:10:34.500He had actively misled his wife and friends about how much he was gambling.
02:10:39.980Once he started playing in public tournaments like the World Series of Poker, the size of the stakes unnerved those who cared about him, including Nina Totenberg of NPR.
02:10:47.960She's, like, this very uptight Supreme Court reporter over at NPR.
02:10:52.440She thinks she's the goddess of the Supreme Court.
02:11:08.680Why don't you get back to me once you've passed three bars like I have?
02:11:11.300Anyway, not a fan, but she and he appeared close, so much so that they named a kid after her, and I think she might have been a godmother or something like that.
02:11:21.860Okay, so she saw that he was huge into gambling, but she says he lied to us about it.
02:11:27.600In 2010, he promised Nina he wasn't going to gamble anymore, but he did.
02:11:37.520He said, okay, he quickly realized that even with his successful law practice, he didn't have the cash to compete.
02:11:43.920The idea was to be able to play very, very, very deep and not be out of money.
02:11:48.160So he took out a $10 million line of credit from a guy named Stuart Resnick, a California billionaire.
02:11:53.520He owned the parent company of Palm Juice, who was a former client of Tom's, and that guy started backing him.
02:12:00.540In 2014, he met a Malaysian businessman who would bring his poker career to the next level.
02:12:05.200That guy, Paul Fuwa, he's been called the world's biggest bookie.
02:12:09.660He owned one of the leading sports betting sites in Asia, and he was also an inveterate gambler.
02:12:14.220He traveled the world looking for high-stakes poker games.
02:12:17.260The FBI raided Fuwa's villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and so on and so forth, but he had his own trouble.
02:12:24.020But these two became great friends, and Fuwa introduced Goldstein to the kind of poker that made his contests with Bilzerian look like penny ante by comparison.
02:12:32.660With Fuwa, Goldstein no longer flew commercial.
02:12:35.720They took Fuwa's jet to Hong Kong and Manila.
02:12:38.060Goldstein increasingly operated in hushed private suites or homes.
02:17:17.220He's got the three ladies hauled up there and, like, pops in like a pimp to have sex with them whenever he wants.
02:17:24.740He was facing a big poker game at the Beverly Hills home of Alec Gores, which included, among others, Leonardo DiCaprio and a big gambler known as Big Al DeCarolis.
02:17:37.120Al Pacino came to watch but did not play.
02:17:39.220So he's going to listen to this little dweeb going to hang out with Leo and Pacino and Kevin Hart.
02:17:44.420And this guy, DeCarolis, then invited Goldstein to a poker game in Costa Rica where some guy, this big mark, as Tom Goldstein saw him, called the Southerner, was going to be playing.
02:17:55.180He wanted to play the Southerner who liked those heads-up games, too, one-on-one.
02:17:59.020He had a reputation, the Southerner, as an inveterate womanizer.
02:18:03.840So Goldstein thought he would impress him by showing that he was a kindred spirit, and he brought four of his girlfriends with him to Costa Rica.
02:18:11.040He found this to be the most interesting thing in the world, Goldstein recalled.
02:18:18.400They struck up a friendship as well as a poker rivalry, and Goldstein began flying to play against him, usually successfully, traveling back and forth so often that he rented an apartment in the city where the man lived, which is undisclosed to protect this guy's identity.
02:18:30.440And so he's going to get those three gals out of the house, as well as a fourth who lives someplace else, to come around like a harem, hanging all over him, praising his every move, rubbing his bald head.
02:18:45.420I'm editorializing, but you get the point.
02:18:47.540And this guy was some sort of a mark and fell for a hook, line, and sinker.
02:18:51.920I was beating him, Goldstein said, and that was just a way more interesting life than his Supreme Court practice.
02:18:59.620He won roughly $50 million from the Southerner, netting $15 million for himself after paying out his investors.
02:19:08.140And then, writes Steuben, he got the worst break of his life, the tax investigation, which had drifted inconclusively for years, but was taken over by an aggressive federal prosecutor named Stanley Okula.
02:19:21.920They hit him with 300-plus subpoenas, they interviewed dozens of people, and the formal charges came down January of 2025, four days before the end of the Biden administration.
02:19:36.140He used funds from his law firm to pay several million bucks in personal expenses, including poker debts, reducing his taxable income, errors by his office management, and so on and so forth.
02:19:45.320I outlined for you what they accused him of.
02:19:47.340They allege that he briefly hired four of the women that he met on his travels, but they did no work for his firm.
02:19:55.280Thus, according to the government, the payments to them were personal expenditures, but he put them on the company payroll.
02:20:00.320And they said, these are personal expenditures that you're trying to launder through your firm and make them tax-free.
02:20:07.460As the government brief put it, he met woman one, then a recent college graduate, on a dating website for individuals seeking to receive or provide financial support as part of an intimate personal relationship.
02:20:17.500He paid her 500 bucks for their first meeting.
02:20:19.760They began an intimate personal relationship.
02:20:21.840And these four women are different from the three who shared the house in California, the ones who went on his company payroll, his law firm payroll.
02:21:11.580He told me, writes Toobin, that overall he was a net loser with a deficit of between 10 million and 15 million, but denies he's addicted to gambling.
02:21:19.140As my brother Pete always says, you know who's calling the Gamblers Anonymous lines?
02:21:25.840You know who calls themselves a gambling addict?
02:22:48.620And his strategy of, quote, my strategy is going to come down to am I a good guy or a bad guy, did not work.
02:22:58.420The jury took one look at him, listened to him testify in the stand, and reached its own decision about the guy who bought the Bentleys and the Ferrari and the women and his silver jewelry.
02:23:21.460I credit the aggressive prosecutor at the DOJ under Joe Biden who said I'm going to do something about this, even though this guy is at the top of my profession and probably has connections to a Supreme Court that I don't.
02:23:51.560But, you know, you get lay people, a jury of 12 sitting there, and more times than not, they will see through a liar no matter how skilled and experienced he is.