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Katie Fang (0:00)
Foreign. We just received breaking news from the House floor. And to break that news for us is none other than Katie Fang. Welcome, Katie. Okay, tell us. This is exciting.
Unnamed Legal Analyst (0:15)
Yeah. So breaking news. So, as we know, Tim Burchett, who kind of always is living in a gray kind of space, he actually got a voice vote to approve his motion to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell to appear for a deposition in front of the House Oversight Committee.
Katie Fang (0:33)
And this is against Mike Johnson because he was trying to close down the session early, right?
Unnamed Legal Analyst (0:40)
Yeah. So Mike Johnson said he was going to try to shut things down, but now he's saying no, people are going to stay because we have some small things that we can get across that are non controversial. But look, this dovetails with the other news, which is Todd Blanch is planning on meeting with Ghisne Maxwell in prison over the next few weeks. I mean, suddenly, Ghislaine Maxwell and you and I talked about this last week. Ghislaine Maxwell is suddenly ratcheting up the totem pole in terms of importance. But look at this insanity that we're seeing on the screen right now from Todd Blanche, this idea that the Department of Justice is some type of, you know, let me come in White night on the white horse kind of energy that we're going to sit here and we're going to save America from what exactly? We're going to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell and she's going to tell us all, please, you and I know she ain't going to say anything unless she gets something like a pardon.
Katie Fang (1:30)
Absolutely. And we know that Trump's already talked about it before he was sworn in about giving her a pardon. My, my thoughts are twofold on this. Number one, if I'm Ghislaine Maxwell and I'm going to get a pardon, I'm going to say, oh my gosh, Trump, they weren't even good friends. I don't know anything about it. Minimize his involvement that I can get my pardon and go live my life. And two, for Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch to talk about transparency and hard doing hard things like, you all fucked this up. Like, I'm more surprised. I'm not surprised about the COVID up. I'm surprised about the incompetence of the COVID up. Because if I was unethical and amoral and worked for Trump, I would have gone completely differently. I would have produced all these documents, I would have left his name off. These people profoundly incompetent. But what do you think about Ghislaine Maxwell? In terms of her testimony, I think.
Unnamed Legal Analyst (2:30)
It'S hysterical that it's a Republican. I mean, Ro Khanna, to his credit, you know, has been pushing for this as well. But, like, I think it's hysterical that it's a Republican who's now pushing for this woman to give sworn testimony. I think the problem with Ghislaine Maxwell is where's the litmus test for her truth, though? Against what are you going to compare the truth of what she offers? When you do a pardon, you don't necessarily need to get something in return. I mean, it's a presidential power that can be exercised indiscriminately by him. But it's like, don't you think, though, people are gonna sit there and say, wait, wait, wait, if she says X, Y and Z, it's gotta be tested against something. There's gotta be something that's gonna be. The quality control that can be doing that can be applied against what she has to say. But what's kind of, kind of crazy here too is Steve Scalise said this too today. He's like, look. He says Republican leaders and others are now trying to, quote, expedite the administration's release of information over the August recess. He blames Democrats for covering up for Epstein for years. But now President Trump is in court trying to unseal the doc, and for whatever reason, the courts have sealed a lot of those records. This guy is dumb as a fucking box of rocks. It's grand jury records. These are victims of horrific crimes. And I mean, on my YouTube channel yesterday, I walked through the filings themselves and the government represents in its own filings that Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile in American history with more than 1,000 victims. So for Scalise to say, well, it must be the court's fault, it fits into this idea that it is a giant head fake by Donald Trump. Where his going to now blame the federal judges when they refuse to unseal grand jury transcripts. When you and I both know, though, that the grand jury transcripts are not going to have anything substantive. And there's a breadth and a universe of evidence that's out there that could be released to the American public. And you don't have to go to Ghislaine Maxwell of all freaking people to get the truth.
