B (5:37)

I call my counterpart in the Senate Leader Thune and I talked him through this with him and shared our deep concerns. And of course they share those concerns as well. And so I'm very confident that when this moves forward in the process, if and when it is processed in the Senate, which is no certainty that that will be, that they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House, to amend this discharge petition and to make sure that these protections are there. The authors of the discharge did not allow us to do that here. That's the rules here. But in the Senate they can correct it.

C (6:11)

So under that circumstance because of that.

B (6:13)

We know there's serious deficiencies. We know that the work of our colleagues in the Senate can address that and will. They're very conscientious and concerned as we are about all this.

C (6:23)

As we've insisted from the very beginning.

B (6:24)

Republicans are the only party trying to make a material difference in ensuring maximum transparency. Oh, by the way, I'll just tell.

C (6:29)

You then, Thomas Massie, a Republican Congress member from Kentucky, he says you better not muck with this bill. You better not muck with this bill. We had the survivors here. Don't muck with it here, play this clip. Cades. That is wrong. Do not let the Senate muck this bill up. And if you are, if you're a party to that in the Senate, you are part of this cover up that we are trying to expose. I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to Rape Island. That is what they have coming. In fact, they need to be on the other side of bars. A lot of them, some of them will be embarrassed, but some of them need to go to prison and the survivors know that. So how will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men in handcuffs being perp walked to the jail. And until then this is still a cover up. Then after Massie spoke, we heard from Senator Leader Thune who says that they'll move quickly on the House past Epstein bill. Well, my assumption is that the President sounds like he's prepared to sign it, so I assume it'll move fairly quickly over here. Thune also says that he's aware Speaker Johnson wants some changes to the bill, but says that with 427 to 1 margin, changes are not likely to happen in. And then Democratic Senate Leader Schumer, he made that move, put him on the spot, called out the MAGA Republican bluff in the Senate and said, who's going to object to this? Nobody objected. It's passed in the Senate. Without further ado, I want to bring in Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer to talk to him about that maneuver. Senator Schumer, it seems like you moved at lightning speed after the House passed the resolution to to release the Epstein files, to bring this unanimous consent before the United States Senate and no one objected to it. It seems like you called their bluff in the Senate and now it's passed in the Senate. Can you tell us about that maneuver?

B (8:32)

Yes. What it means is the Senate has virtually approved it. Once the House sends it over to us, it goes right to the President. No amendments, no delays, no anything. It's called deemed passing, and it means that it's passed. It's deemed to have passed even before it was sent to us. So this is very good news. Look, we told the Republicans we were going to make them block it and they were afraid of that. They knew the power. They saw the vote in the House, they had a bunch of discussions and I said, look, five o' clock is the deadline here. I'm going to the floor and asking unanimous consent to pass this to Dean. Passing it, you can block it if you want and do that at your peril. And they relented. So the great news is now the House has passed it, the Senate has virtually passed it. It goes to the President's desk. I was going to say we have a lot more work to do. First, who knows how long the House will try to hold it. We should put pressure on Johnson to send it right over to us. Second, the President has said he'll sign it, but who the hell knows with him he can change his mind on a whim. But third, and maybe most important, and I just had a meeting of 10 senators to discuss this, we got to make sure we get all of the Epste files, all. They can't fuck around with this. They can't say, oh, we'll give you this, but there are legal reasons we can't give you that. And we are going to be pursuing them relentlessly to get everything. Because I don't trust this administration. I don't trust Bondi, I don't trust Keshe Patel, I don't trust the President. And they could Screw around with this, it'll be all of our jobs to be on them and make sure that we get everything right.

C (10:08)

Because you had Mike Johnson saying earlier in the day he was speaking to Senate Leader Thune and they were going to make changes, but there was strategy going on behind the scenes of what you were doing, saying, absolutely not. We're going to make you put it on the record, talk a little bit about that because you put them on the spot in a big way.

B (10:25)

Yeah. The original plan was to do amendments, but if they did amendments, if they were allowed to do amendments, it would go back to the House and who knows what the hell would happen that could have been, you know, putting it into file 13, the garbage can. And so we said, we're not allowed. If you want to do that, we're going to force you, force you to publicly say you're delaying and screwing up the bill. And they backed off.

C (10:48)

Now, the transmittal process, that's where we're in now. So MAGA Mike has to send it over to the Senate. Is there any time frame with that? What happens? What?

B (10:58)

No, he can try to delay, but if he doesn't send it over by tonight, you'll see the heat on him tomorrow. Starting. Not starting full blast. I don't think he can effort the revote where only one person voted against it. He can hold it. And he has no excuse to now because the amendment thing is out the window because of what we did. We, we stopped them from doing any amendments.

C (11:21)

And then just lastly, you touched on this before, but now this has to be signed by Trump. Is there.

B (11:27)

That has. Yes, Ben, that has to be signed by Trump. You're, you know, he said he would. He also, you know, told the Republicans to vote for it, but who knows where he's at? Obviously, let's conclude this way, he has something to hide. Everyone knows it. Every American. Just about every American who follows any of this knows it. If he didn't have anything to hide, why wouldn't he release them long ago? Why wouldn't he? Why? If he didn't have anything to hide, then why is he lying about them? Why is he telling his people, Bondi and others to lie about it? So obviously there's something there that he doesn't.

C (12:03)

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