00:00:00.000So ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak apologized for maintaining Epstein relationship since 2008 conviction, after the 2008 conviction.
00:00:10.800Rob, do you have the story? He wrote about it, right? It's not a video interview that happened.
00:00:15.560So the recently released, where's the, it says page 8 or page 7? What page is that on? Ehud Barak, page 7.
00:00:24.040Okay. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak apologized for a years-long friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included regular correspondence on multiple visits to the disgraced financier's Manhattan apartment, as well as visit to his private island.
00:00:38.800The former Israeli leader had not been implicated in Epstein sexual abuse of underage girls and faces no accusations of wrongdoing.
00:00:45.640But in an exclusive interview with Israel's Channel 12 on Thursday, he said he regretted ever having known Epstein and apologized to all who feel deeply uncomfortable.
00:00:54.240I'm responsible for all my actions and decisions, and there's definitely room to ask if there wasn't room for more in-depth judgment on my part and a more thorough examination of what the details really are, what exactly happened there.
00:01:09.540Sure. Of course, he's going to say that because his friend is dead, and that's what he's going to do.
00:01:16.020But I'm going to give you a different argument on this, Pat, so allow me a couple seconds to roll this out.
00:01:22.480We all, a lot of people want accountability here. People want heads to roll. I just don't see it happening.
00:01:28.680Because what I'm doing is removing emotion completely from this situation, and I totally empathize and understand why you would get emotional about this.
00:01:39.860There's underage girls. What's going on on the island? Oh, my God.
00:01:43.300The flip side to it is I'm wondering, I'm asking questions.
00:01:46.700Is Epstein, are they making him into the boogeyman? Are they making him into the devil?
00:01:55.340You know, we've interviewed people on this show. Andrew Tate, he's a sex traffic guy.
00:02:00.460He wasn't accused of it. I'm sorry. He was accused of it. He wasn't found guilty of it.
00:02:05.880So we interviewed a lot. Russell Brand, what happened with him? Johnny Depp.
00:02:09.040I'm just asking, because Epstein is dead, has the story taken a life of its own?
00:02:17.360I'm just asking this, because I watched a great episode yesterday from a guy who I think does a great job.
00:02:22.920This guy, Coleman Hughes. You know who that is? No.
00:02:25.540Conversations with Coleman. If you see him, you know who it is.
00:02:28.580He had a conversation on his show debunking Epstein hysteria and the moral panic.
00:02:36.680You ever seen this guy? Oh, yeah. I have seen this guy.
00:02:38.600This guy is cold-blooded, facts, logic, reason, no emotion.
00:02:45.500And that's what you need in these situations.
00:02:47.140He dismantled Dave Smith. Now he's having a conversation with this guy, Michael Tracy.
00:02:53.040Michael Tracy is basically, in my opinion, the anti-Whitney Webb.
00:02:59.100He's saying, look, I'm just following facts, reason, and logic.
00:03:02.720Everyone is so hysterical about what happened here.
00:03:04.940So let me just go down the facts here.
00:03:06.700Do you know what, I'm not saying what he should have been, what he could have been, what maybe, what Jeffrey Epstein was actually convicted of?
00:04:11.260So the other thing is, Jelaine Maxwell, so if they're going to kill Jeffrey Epstein because he knew all this stuff, and she's his right-hand woman, how is she still alive?
00:04:24.380If he has all these secrets, and he knows all the black book and all these things, and he knows everything, why haven't they killed her?
00:04:32.020So if she knows everything, if she's the assistant to the devil, the devil incarnate, how's she still talking?
00:04:54.160I'm simply asking questions of, and it's this.
00:04:56.340Is he, have we made Jeffrey Epstein the boogeyman and devil, when you look in a court of law, he's never been found guilty of these things.
00:05:07.560So we're all speculating, we're using wild emotions, and it's taken a life of its own, and I get it.
00:15:47.340Building a billion-dollar megastate in Palm Beach.
00:15:49.840Yeah, Mar-a-Lago's only worth $18 million.
00:15:51.360You have to realize, like, these are the things that people are quick to forget.
00:15:56.560So, for me, as they're going through this, you know, and you wonder, Andy Fursilla, who's very good at what he does, successful entrepreneur, said something.
00:16:04.520He says, I believe he's doing this because, and I'm paraphrasing what he said, you know, almost causing Democrats to come out and to, like, hey, he's baiting them, right?
00:16:17.460Almost like to come out and say, hey, we want to see the fouls and we want to do this.
00:16:21.200And I've heard that conversation in the last six months.
00:16:23.420A lot of people have talked about that.
00:16:25.020But he explains what he thinks he's intentionally infuriating the masses.
00:16:29.680Andy's a guy that's a successful entrepreneur himself.
00:17:05.740She said two weeks before the election, there were Democrat operatives that she knew that were nervous because in 2016, the size of the Trump crowds and the lack of size of the Hillary crowds.
00:18:18.540The answer was, that's why Jeffrey Epstein got the sweet plea deal, because the names that were on those girls' lips, those women that worked there, was long and distinguished.
00:18:30.900And that's how he got the sweetheart deal, because someone dropped the dime on Acosta and told him, wait a minute.
00:19:06.980I read Hillary and the Dems, if they had it, they would have used it.
00:19:10.740And that plea deal was just a ticking, it wasn't a plea deal, it was a ticking time bomb.
00:19:16.660So I'll agree with Tom on one point, and then maybe push back on another.
00:19:20.120I fully agree that if the Democrats had something on Trump, they would use it now.
00:19:24.820By the way, every single name, and correct me if I'm wrong, from Bill Clinton to Ehud Barak, to every other person, are they on the left, center, or right?
00:20:20.320And if you can't prove it in court, it is what it is.
00:20:23.420And this is my, this is ultimately why I don't think everybody, all these names that were worked up about, I just don't see anything happening.