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Hello, Martin Sheen here. And it seems to me that no day of the week is without its endless barrage of bad news, even on Sunday. For God's sake, let's change that. What do you say? Together, let's make Sunday immune to bad news. Available now every Sunday, Season three of the Martin Sheen Podcast with yours truly, Martin Sheen has begun. Yeah, 10 brand new episodes are already underway. So join me, Martin sheen, for a 20 minute journey as I share my personal stories, a bit of poetry, and insightful reflections that will encourage you to take a deep breath and enjoy a relaxing moment. Of course, it's important to know and understand what's happening in the world. But I also believe there's nothing wrong with taking a step back to find strength and clarity. And Lord knows we need that now more than ever. A moment of thoughtfulness and calm may be rare these days, but it doesn't have to be. So what do you say? Say you want to take back your Sundays. So do I. And guess what? I've already done it with the Martin Sheen Podcast, season three. Available now. Don't mess with my Sunday. And thank you for listening.
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Hey, everybody, I'm Allison Gill. Welcome to the Breakdown. There was a time when tons of people, after the failed release of the Epstein files, they were asking me how to get somebody to, like a third party, an independent third party, to review the redactions in the Epstein files and the withholdings too, right? Because we haven't gotten everything. So everyone's like, how do we do that? Why isn't a judge asking for this? And my answer was always, well, you have to get it in front of a judge, which means somebody has to file a lawsuit, which means somebody has to have standing. Somebody needs to show harm. And, and you know this. It took me back to the old Mueller report days. And back then, buzzfeed and I think a media organization called EPIC sued pursuant to a Freedom of Information act request to have a judge review Bill Barr's redactions of the Mueller report. And that Judge Reggie Walton went in and reviewed everything in camera and determined that Bill Barr inappropriately redacted the Mueller report and ordered many of the redactions lifted. He said. Here's what Judge Walton said. The court cannot reconcile certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller report. The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr's statements made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller report to assess the veracity of its statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller report. That conflict with those statements caused this court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller report to the contrary. Now you can pull out all the Mueller report stuff and plug in the Epstein files. And it's, you know, just, it's so similar what the Attorney General is withholding, what the Attorney General is redacting. It goes against the public statements that they've been making and that the government's been making. And so somebody needs to review that. But in order to get a judge to review it, you've got to get it in front of a judge. Means you have to file a lawsuit. Well, somebody filed a lawsuit. And that's what we're going to talk about today on the breakdown. Hey, everybody, welcome. I'm Alison Gill. Joining me today, the amazing person who has filed the lawsuit to try to get at what is in the redacted parts and the withheld parts of the Epstein files. We know we only have about 50% of them out there. Please welcome Katie Fang. Hi, Katie.
