In this episode, Alex Blumberg talks about Jeffrey Epstein's secret audio recordings and why the FBI and DOJ should have access to them. Alex also discusses the possibility that the FBI may have a secret recording of Jeffrey Epstein that could be used against the DOJ and FBI.
00:00:46.820I didn't know the fact that that recording is not.
00:00:49.500So Bannon couldn't sell it if he tried.
00:00:51.120So if he wanted to do a documentary, he would never be able to use those hours in a documentary.
00:00:55.420Yes, and again, let me stress that although Steve, who I am personally fond of,
00:01:03.360but Steve's cover here that he was making a documentary about Epstein is 100% not true.
00:01:12.080I know this because I was there and I'm fully aware and actually have it on tape of what transpired here.
00:01:22.220And that was Bannon's effort to help Epstein with his legal problems.
00:01:28.960And this would be in 2019 when the law was closing in on Epstein and Bannon's suggestion was that Epstein go on national TV to try to perform a mea culpa or explain or humanize himself in some way.
00:01:50.320And then Bannon offered to help prepare him.
00:01:54.300So essentially what Bannon was doing was media training.
00:01:58.740He was tutoring Epstein in how to face a hostile interview on a hypothetical 60 minutes.
00:02:09.900So more of a training, a PR than anything else.
00:02:13.660So let's talk about your 100 hours that you have with him.
00:02:16.020How much information is in there that it's bombshell, you know, earth-shattering type of information where the public should know about out of the 100 hours you have with him?
00:02:29.340Well, you know, it's a funny aspect of this.
00:02:34.460And, you know, people call me up now, you know, people of significant standing and say, is there, you know, on the tapes, does Epstein promise Trump young girls?
00:02:51.160Or does Epstein promise Bannon younger?
00:04:40.340Would the FBI or the DOJ, if they're trying to get to the bottom of this, would they get anything?
00:04:45.400Well, I think it's a question of what they're trying to get to the bottom of.
00:04:49.920If they are trying to get to the bottom of who Jeffrey Epstein was, about the real nature of Jeffrey Epstein's personality, about Jeffrey Epstein's, not only his weaknesses, but his strengths.
00:05:05.160If the FBI and the DOJ were biographers, as I am, they would find it interesting.
00:05:16.440Since they are not biographers, I think that they would probably be less interested than certainly I am.
00:05:27.080The FBI's job, you know, different than CIA, CIA is international, foreign, FBI is domestic.
00:05:34.920Their job is to make sure, you know, families in America are going to be safe, Americans are going to be safe.
00:05:39.700So anybody that's tied to this or to even eliminate or address a future next Epstein, they would probably benefit from studying the patterns of how this guy communicates.
00:05:49.500And if that's the case, has the FBI, has the Department of Justice, have they at all reached out to you since you've had these for six years, whether it's under Biden or Obama, Biden or Trump, to say, hey, Michael, we think we need access to this recording that you have?
00:06:58.220She's in jail and is now headed toward a pardon.
00:07:01.480So I don't think that there is, that there is any, any issue there.
00:07:06.540So again, crossing these disciplines of, of, of someone who has been interested in, someone has material that, that, that reflects the full life of this, of this man.
00:07:23.820And then the, the FBI and the DOJ, who are not interested in the full life of this man, they're interested in only their, from their, their highly segmented view of any given person.
00:07:41.040Yeah, but not even a doorknock, right?
00:07:42.440You've not even gotten a doorknock on them.