On today's show, Alex Blumberg and Rob and Vanessa talk about the latest development in the Jeffrey Epstein case and why the FBI should release the list of Epstein's clients. They also discuss why the DOJ and FBI are taking so long to release the documents and why it is so important that they do so now.
00:00:00.000Story comes out, ABC News, DOJ-FBI review finds no Jeffrey Epstein client list, confirms suicide, that's the memo, that comes out, and Rob, I think you may have a video on this one, not just one, you got a lot of videos that we're going to be going through, folks, on this one here.
00:00:18.360So to remind folks, as we're going through this, Justice Department and FBI review ordered by President Trump, appointed leadership found no evidence that notorious deceased financier Epstein kept a client list of associates whom he blackmailed or conspired with to victimize dozens of women, stating that investigators did not cover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
00:00:45.620The review revealed, released hours of reported footage, perpetrated footage, confirming Epstein died by suicide in Manhattan jail in 2019.
00:00:55.560The DOJ memo states, perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.
00:01:05.820Now, Attorney General Pambani faced criticism from Trump supporters for delays in releasing Epstein's case files, which she attributed to tens of thousands of hours.
00:01:16.220Rob, is this one of the original videos when she talked about it?
00:01:18.560Yeah, so I have February, March, and April of this year, three different instances where Pam Bondi talks about the Jeffrey Epstein client list.
00:01:54.600And the FBI handed over a couple hundred pages of documents.
00:01:58.980But, you know, Sean, I gave them a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything, and a source had told me where the documents were being kept, Southern District of New York, shock.
00:02:10.260So we got them all by hopefully all of them, Friday at 8 a.m., thousands of pages of documents.
00:02:16.540I have the FBI going through them, and Cash is also.
00:02:19.440Now that we have Cash here, it's a game changer, of course.
00:02:21.720And Cash is going to, Director Patel, is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI.
00:08:10.460People are like, well, what do you want them to do?
00:08:12.580Is the whole system going to come down?
00:08:14.300Dan Bongino and all these people, if you're a real Christian, if you're a real person like that, Pat, I would come out and say the freaking truth and resign and leave.
00:12:01.360And I'm disgusted, and I'm really disgusted.
00:12:05.920History has allowed us to go back and look at the Warren Commission for what it was.
00:12:09.680The Warren Commission was a sham to produce a document about the Kennedy assassination.
00:12:16.900Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren chaired it, invited Alan Dulles to it, who was tight with LBJ.
00:12:22.860And now we know, we know, because certain documents have been leaked, that the CIA was with Oswald, helped Oswald in Russia.
00:12:31.340And we now see a few of these things, to the point that if you go to the National Historic Place at the sixth floor of the Book Depository in Dallas, you put on headphones, and the U.S. government, who runs the tour, tells you, you are about to hear multiple shooters and gunshots.
00:12:46.920So now they're not even on one shooter, Oswald.
00:13:08.660And I feel like, is history repeating itself?
00:13:11.780Say, okay, well, we've looked at everything, and never mind what we said publicly, never mind what you saw people do, never mind statements that have actually been made.
00:17:54.960What if he has individuals in the inside of the FBI who saw everything and chose to resign to become a whistleblower to show what's in there?
00:18:03.860If there's an enemy of the administration today that's capable of that, it's Musk.
00:20:36.400And I'll let them answer, Pat, because I want to ask you a question after, too.
00:20:38.580So I'm—I see it differently in terms of person.
00:20:44.280Everything else that you said, I agree.
00:20:45.900And I think when you bring up faith, I have faith in one thing.
00:20:51.640I have faith in the Lord God Almighty, and he's going to judge the people.
00:20:55.040And if Epstein was dirty, as the Lord said, if you cause one of these little ones to sin, it'd be better that you're bottom of the sea with a millstone around your neck.
00:21:09.320What he's saying is it would be better that you're at the bottom of the sea, hidden, where I cannot find you, where that the creator of all doesn't find you.
00:21:20.500Now, so I agree with you on the faith side.
00:21:22.400When I look at the human side here, I see dramatic—we've spent time with Dan.
00:22:12.040I think Cash is one there that has wanted to say some things.
00:22:16.100And I also think our friend, a noble servant in the Secret Service, I think what's going on there at Dan Bongino is a tremendous difference in his countenance.
00:22:28.100But I also think that Andrew Tate makes an interesting point.
00:22:31.600You know, who are they protecting and what's being protected?
00:22:36.820You know, do we want the bloodlust of knowing everything out there?
00:22:52.760The deal of what happened with Smith and Melargo when the FBI raided it some years ago.
00:23:02.160And this thing that clearly they had no standing to go against about him supposedly having classified confidential documents.
00:23:12.780When, as we have discussed, the President of the United States under the Constitution as chief diplomat and commander-in-chief has been held to have absolutely unquestionable authority as to what he declares either confidential and secret or decides to declare is not such.
00:23:33.120So my sneaking suspicion is that a lot of what he refused to turn over to the archivist, which was unconstitutional in terms of what it was trying to put in place through statutory override of constitutional authority, which is wrong,
00:23:55.880is that there was wrongdoing, that if he turned it over to the archivist, it was going to be turned over to the people who were recorded doing wrong and they would destroy it.
00:24:09.980So we had an obligation to the people.
00:24:12.420So he's basically saying that when Trump took those documents and all that stuff out and kept them a Mar-a-Lago or wherever, that a lot of that stuff had this type of stuff, the Epstein stuff, the Epstein information.
00:24:23.120And, yeah, and Pat, just really fast, and we kind of, we didn't gloss over it, but that one minute, Pat, that one minute that they showed us this video that they've been promising us, where is that minute?
00:24:34.540Why is it, like, I mean, what else could we do?
00:24:36.520Why can't we say, hold on, time out, where is that one minute that you guys are trying to bullshit us?
00:24:54.800It's so sloppy, like you almost want people to stay skeptical.
00:25:01.320Like, by the way, this is the guy that when I was talking to Jeffrey Epstein's brother, he talked about a guy that played a role of a mentor.
00:25:13.480An American businessman and a fraudster.
00:25:15.360He was the founder, CEO, president, chairman of Tower Financial Corporations, a debt collection agency, which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme.
00:25:22.380In 93, he's rescued the New York Post from bankruptcy and briefly owned the paper.
00:25:26.900Tower's financial collapsed in 93, 95.
00:25:29.620However, police pleaded guilty to, what does it say, bilking investors out of $475 million.
00:25:36.240He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine restitution.
00:25:40.500But if you go a little bit lower to what things he had problems, there it is.
00:25:44.880In 87, he met Jeffrey Epstein, a British defense contractor, Douglas Lessie, who Hoffenberg claimed was an arms dealer.
00:25:52.240Lessie was Saudi Adnan's Khashoggi and Prince Bandir bin Sultan Al Saud architect in the billion-dollar Al-Yamar arms deal.
00:26:05.080Huffenberg set up Epstein up in offices in Villers' house.
00:26:10.400They unsuccessfully tried to take over Pan Am in a corporate raid with Tower Financial and raiding vessels.
00:26:17.060Their bid failed in part of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
00:26:22.880When you see the link between, during this period, Huffenberg and Epstein were closely together and traveled everywhere on Huffenberg's private jet.
00:26:30.700He began using the Tower's financial funds to pay earlier investors.
00:26:35.180And then in the court documents, Huffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the Ponzi scheme.
00:26:41.200Epstein left Tower's financial collapse.
00:26:42.560And then Huffenberg and some of his victims sued Epstein, seeking restitution.
00:26:49.280And in July 2019, following Epstein's arrest on the charge of sex trafficking, minors and conspiracy committed sex trafficking,
00:26:54.400Huffenberg claimed that Epstein was his uncharged co-conspirator in the Ponzi scheme.
00:26:59.640So they're saying maybe he taught him some of these things.
00:27:02.420And this is coming from a brother when this name came up, out of nowhere.