On today's show, host Alex Blumberg is joined by Fox News' senior White House correspondent and long-time friend, Peter Bergen, to discuss the Epstein scandal and why it's so important to have a thorough investigation into it.
00:00:24.180And so you're kind of in this in the middle of the thing where last week, I'm not sure if you can speak on it or not.
00:00:32.720Obviously, we're going to open up with the story because it's you, Fox, Trump.
00:00:36.080And we've been talking about this whole Epstein thing for a minute.
00:00:41.040Trump, while everyone's talking about everything that's going on, you post this message last week on all the victories that most people are not looking.
00:00:49.780They're overlooking. Rob, if you can play this clip real quick and you're going to react to yourself real quick.
00:00:55.800I have been a longtime friend and supporter.
00:00:59.300I've been very transparent of President Trump.
00:01:01.740But even I am frankly amazed at what he has been able to do against all odds in such a very short period of time.
00:01:10.160What we're living through, you better take, you know, really close notes because you most likely will never see this again in your lifetime.
00:01:17.660The single most consequential transformational presidency in our lifetime.
00:01:22.280And without a doubt, the underlying theme of the White House promises made right promises kept.
00:01:27.540Okay, so the different victories that he's had, President Trump, we've seen and we follow it very closely on what he's done.
00:01:36.800Then all of a sudden, Wall Street Journal releases a story last week.
00:01:40.720I want to say, is it last week, Tuesday?
00:04:13.560You know, one of the things – my first thought is, on the Epstein files, is if there was something so damning in there about Donald Trump and the weaponized Department of Justice of Joe Biden had it, does anyone here doubt they would have released it?
00:04:31.220Just once, Sean, if they're all on it, too.
00:04:33.660If Bill Clinton and all that group is in there, they're like, we really want to, but we can't because we're in with him.
00:04:40.520It could have selectively leaked, though.
00:04:41.980I mean, they're more sophisticated than that.
00:04:43.780True, but then the investigation opens up, Sean.
00:04:45.500I see where you're coming from, but that's what it felt like to the – I'm just like you.
00:05:02.240Okay, so add one more piece to the puzzle, Craig, because to me it's a puzzle, people trying to put it together.
00:05:08.14020-plus years ago, he threw his ass out of Mar-a-Lago.
00:05:11.780Okay, now, if you got something on somebody, you're going to throw him out of your club in a spectacular fashion and embarrass the hell out of the guy and not expect that that guy's going to come back at you with information if he had it?
00:07:32.740I'm on the air the day that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution comes out with he fits the profile of the lone bomber because he lives with his mother.
00:08:31.620That's why I said when people start going in and, you know, racing out there and they're trying to outdo each other and they want to be first and they got their theory.
00:08:38.780And I kind of feel a little bit like this on the Epstein story, but if you go through my list of issues I got right over the years and everyone else in the corrupt legacy, state-run media mob got wrong, I was right about Duke La Crosse.
00:09:03.360I had so many police contacts that were telling me, Sean, there are multiple African-American eyewitnesses that will corroborate Darren Wilson's story.
00:09:22.980I got Freddie Gray in Baltimore right.
00:09:24.760I got George Zimmerman right because I went down.
00:09:27.120And I also had a law enforcement contact that told me, no, there's going to be testimony from an eyewitness that says that George Zimmerman was on the ground and there was a ground and pound and his head was being pounded into the cement.
00:09:41.140Then I can go to Russia collusion, the FISA warrants, the impeachment one, impeachment two, you know, all of these other witch hunts against Trump.
00:14:28.120So I feel the way they got into this debacle is they did it to themselves.
00:14:33.420Now, there's plenty of research, independent journalists that I've done to find out stuff about Epstein that they're not too comfortable about.
00:14:40.500And there's plenty of stuff out there.
00:14:42.200I mean, I was watching his deposition this morning on, hey, have you ever gotten a felony before?
00:15:46.660And there's going to be a handful of massive announcements being made at the Vault Conference.
00:15:50.880If you're somebody that's running a business owner, the great thing about the Vault is you'll be having a conversation with somebody at the event and you just run into them at the store and they're an aspiring entrepreneur.
00:16:00.780Then you go to talk to somebody else that they're an executive of a Fortune 500 company.
00:16:04.980Then you go talk to somebody else who just exited their company and sold it for $700 million.
00:16:08.900Then you go talk to somebody else that's still with a big private equity company that's trying to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:16:14.820Then you go talk to somebody else from Goldman Sachs that's a money manager.
00:16:18.860Then you go talk to somebody else that's a podcaster, YouTuber that you recognize their faces.
00:16:23.100The types of people that show up to the Vault makes it a reason why this is becoming a number one business conference in America.
00:16:30.300That you go to actually get strategies that you leave, you implement, you can win in life, business, all of it combined together.
00:16:36.440So the three speakers that we have are the following.
00:16:38.140Number one, speaker, for me, you guys know I'm a big fan of the movie Air and you guys know I'm a big fan of anybody that's a strong negotiator that's done some of the biggest deals ever.
00:16:50.400We were able to get David Falk, Michael Jordan's agent, manager, who signed the Nike deal.
00:16:57.200Who, by the way, in 1982, he was the first person to sign a multimillion dollar deal for James Ward.
00:17:02.200He was the first agent to sign a $100 million deal with Alonzo Mourning.
00:17:05.840Michael Jordan gives him so much credit.
00:17:07.260I can't wait to sit down and talk to him.
00:17:09.700He was one of the most entertaining characters in the movie.
00:17:14.220Number two speaker that we'll have at the Vault Conference is the OG, content creator, brand person, influencer, who became a billionaire in 1999, who understood what it looked like to be in front of a camera.
00:17:26.900Martha Stewart will be at the Vault Conference.
00:17:31.900She had one of the best documentaries that everybody talks about.
00:17:36.800And I'll be sitting down with her, interviewing her at the Vault Conference.
00:17:39.960A lot of you fellas that want to bring your wives down, just let them know Martha Stewart's going to be there.
00:17:44.280They're going to want to come in here and see what she has to say.
00:17:47.200And last but not least, the keynote speaker at the Vault Conference that won't be speaking for 30 minutes, not 45 minutes, not an hour, not an hour and 15 minutes.
00:17:53.960But for two hours, the one and only Tony Robbins will be at the Vault Conference.
00:17:58.080Tony Robbins will be at the Vault Conference.
00:18:40.780Literally, we're shutting down the entire Universal Studios at the end for all the COs to have some fun.
00:18:45.100You're going to see 58-year-olds act like they're 16 years old, and we're doing business at the same time, which makes it kind of exciting.
00:18:50.180Again, go to thevaultconference.com website, thevaultconference.com.