Michael Popak (10:48)
Now, Jordan, we don't want to see you talking about it. We want to see the videotape. Here's what Lanny Brewer and Peter Koski, representing Jack Smith, wrote to Jamie Raskin, the Democratic ranking member. And Jim Jordan, our client testified before the committee for approximately nine hours regarding his investigation into President Trump's alleged unlawful retention of classified documents, obstruction of justice, and role in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. He, Mr. Smith welcomed this opportunity and to correct the many mischaracterizations about the work of the special counsel's office. And by the way, he's the special counsel. He's not the alleged purported supposed in, quote, special counsel that the Department of Justice likes to troll Jack Smith about in their filings. Mr. Smith respectfully request the prompt public release of the full videotape. There it is. Of the deposition. Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, not through secondhand accounts like Jim Jordan that we just heard. And he stands by his decision to prosecute. We need that transparency. It's not just about Epstein files transparency. It's about all of it. Now, what's going to happen is we're going to get the ranking Democrat on the committee, like Jamie Raskin, writing a letter to the House, to the Judiciary Committee's. Sorry. To the Department of Justice's inspector general demanding a full investigation about this, about the release of the videotape and why the reports shouldn't all be released. We've got Judge Cannon still sitting on volume two of the Mar A Lago report. Right. Which deals with Mar A Lago. Oh, I may get around to releasing it in, in, in February. I'm not quite sure yet, you know, doing the bidding of Donald Trump. But we need to hear from Jack Smith. Now, there are some ways around this. The minority Democrats can try to do some shadow hearings and bring in Jack Smith to testify. I can think of a handful of people. Erez Raveni, the whistleblower against the Department of Justice, should testify. You got 5,000 former Department of Justice personnel, 2,000 lawyers just since this administration started all chomping at the bit, champing at the bit to testify. Bring them in. Let's have a whole shadow oversight committee hearing. It Matters. You know, as I said, every special counsel but Jack Smith got the opportunity to speak directly to the American people. Except for Jack Smith. He got volume one about the D.C. election interference case. He got that out the door. That's available for reading, for your reading pleasure. That's out there along with the Jan6 report by the Jan6 committee. But just at the moment he was going to get volume two out, it was blocked by Judge Cannon. Then the, then the change in the administration happened. Merrick Garland left a love note for Pam Bondi. It's up to you now to release this file. And of course, she didn't release it. She buried it. It's not just release the Epstein files. It's release Jack Smith's volume two, a copy of it, sitting with Judge Cannon. And she's still jerking around with the American public about not releasing it. But it's important. It's an important chapter. We will finally, with pressure from this audience on Legal af, we will get this released. You know, I have on the show Senator Blumenthal, Senate Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee. You know, we've had Senator Coons, there's so many different congresspeople and senators we've had on to put pressure, but we need public pressure, public scorn of the Trump administration. That's one of the things as a lightning rod, one of the things that we do here together so well on Legal af. I'm glad you're here. Just on the eve of a lot of people's holidays. 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