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Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Congressman, are you planning on going to see the unredacted Epstein files?
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert
Absolutely. I'm going on Thursday. The DOJ has asked us to give them 24 hours notice, so the soonest appointment I was able to get was Thursday. But I look forward to it already. From what we've heard from colleagues is that there are names of potential co conspirators that were redacted that should never have been redacted, and names of rich and powerful people potentially very high up in the administration whose names were redacted that should not have been redacted. And coupled with what has been going on today with Ghislaine Maxwell deciding to plead the Fifth and publicly offering that she will reveal the truth if she's granted clemency from the President is so enraging and appalling. And I hope every American recognizes that we cannot give up until we have the full truth. Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted child sex trafficker who is a monster. And nothing she says is believable in my eyes.
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See how easy that was for her response? Now contrast that to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Molly Otakis who said that she has to go to a physician's office. So she is not going to answer if Ghislaine Maxwell should receive clemency. Here, play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify?
Host/Narrator
I gotta go to the physician's office.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Oh, got it.
Host/Narrator
Next, you had Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie, who, along with Ro Khanna, has been out there pushing for the release of the Epstein file. She's responsible for the discharge petition that led to the Epstein Transparency Act. Here's what Massie told our problem. Enriquez. Let's play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
You mentioned that there are some things that have been redacted that probably shouldn't have been redacted.
Host/Narrator
Yeah.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Is there anything. Can you elaborate on that?
Congressman Ro Khanna
Yeah.
Host/Narrator
Six men's names. One of them's listed as a Coke and Sphere.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Why would you redact his name?
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Right. There's not victim.
Host/Narrator
What I'm saying is it's not just victims names that they've redacted.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
And how can we get those names then, like, the public generally?
Host/Narrator
Well, I'm hopeful the DOJ will release.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Them now that I've pointed it out to them.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
They've either got to say, okay, we made a mistake.
Host/Narrator
Or we're not gonna unredact that.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay. And are you gonna be going back to see. I know, like, there's this sort of like a procession now of members who are going. Yeah, I'm scheduled for tomorrow morning, too. Okay. Now, what are you looking to. What are you gonna look into tomorrow that you haven't looked into today?
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It just takes a while. There's millions of files. I've still got files on my list to look at. On the other hand, you have maga, Republican Congressmember, and the lead on the Appropriations Committee, Tom Cole. And when he was asked if Ghislaine Maxwell should receive clemency to testify, he walked away and said, I have no idea. You have no idea whether a convicted child sex trafficker should get clemency? It should be a simple no. Not only should she not get clemency, she should rot in a maximum security facility. Here's what Cole has to say. Play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Mr. Chairman, real quick. Should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify?
Host/Narrator
I'm sorry?
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify? Oh, I have no earthy idea. Oh, got it. Any updates on DHS funding? Don't know yet. I mean, we've passed the bill. We're still waiting on the Senate. Got it.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Are Republicans open to any of the proposed reforms that Democrats put out?
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Now, contrast that with Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna. Here's what he told Our Pablo Monriquez. Play this clip.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Here's the point. This is bringing down the British government. It may break down the British monarchy. It's bringing down countries and the elites across the country. What are we doing here in the United States to stand up to the Epstein class? I mean, we've got a Commerce Secretary who's all over the Epstein files. Where's the outrage, where's the outrage at the billionaires in Silicon Valley, in finance in Hollywood? They're going to Epstein's Island. We need moral accountability in the United States just like they're having in so many other countries around the world.
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And here's another clip of of Congressmember Ro Khanna speaking to Pablo Manriquez. Let's play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Congressman, what can you tell us about what you saw today in the unredacted Epstein files?
Congressman Ro Khanna
I'm very concerned. First of all, most of the unredacted files were redacted. 70, 80% of the documents the DOJ got were redacted from the FBI. The FBI didn't unredact it as the law was required. The grand jury wasn't unredacted. So a lot of it was smoke and mirrors. Second, Massey and I saw that there's six men who were co conspirators, who were protected and whose names were blotted out. Those names need to be made public.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Can you say who they are?
Congressman Ro Khanna
Well, DOJ needs to say who they are and we're pushing to have them made public. But there's no excuse for releasing survivors names but protecting these six men and they're probably more. That was just in two hours that we saw that these six men were being protected.
Host/Narrator
Now contrast that to James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee. And despite the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth and refused to testify and basically gave the middle finger to the Oversight Committee, you had James Comer not sure whether or not he, she should be given clemency by Donald Trump. He's like, well, that's not up to me. We'll just see what Donald Trump does here. Play this clip.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Mr. Chairman, quick question. What are your thoughts about Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer saying she needs clemency to test.
Host/Narrator
It before she testifies?
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Well, I don't know. Initially she said month ago that she.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Would testify if we granted her immunity on the Oversight committee. And we, we discussed that after we met with the survivors and they didn't support that. So we, we never considered it after that. So this was something new today. Obviously that's not for me to sign.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
That'S for the President to sign.
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To her credit, MAGA Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert spoke to Pablo Monriquez and here's what she said. Play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Congresswoman, are you among the members who got to see the unredacted files today?
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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert
I saw some of Them, not all of them, obviously. I'll be going back tomorrow to see more.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Any reaction on what you've seen so far?
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert
I. I think that there's folks who are definitely implicated and co conspirators and you know, I don't think everyone there that was talking about underage girls being trafficked are victims.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Got it.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
And do you support any clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell? She was saying that she.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert
I do not. I think. I think Ghislaine Maxwell should get more time and she should definitely be in a harsher prison than what she's in. It's absolutely disgusting.
Host/Narrator
Right. I think what she said there's fair to her credit. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna spoke to Pablo Enriquez. Here's what she said.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Are you able to see the DOJ unredecked versions?
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I'm going to be going tomorrow. There's a. I think every member of over oversight has gone through so far or is going to be going through so far.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
So yes, tomorrow will be your first time.
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No, my second.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay. Is there anything you can share from what you saw today?
Narrator/Advertiser
I've posted about it publicly, but some of the people that are in the most egregious redactions are claiming to be victims and I don't think that they're victims if you're engaging in child sex trafficking.
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Here's also what she said. Play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
You said that you do not support at all Ghislaine Maxwell getting any clemency.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Correct.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
For her testimony. And why is it important for her to be held accountable?
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Well, because according to the files at we all saw she was engaged in the trafficking and also rape of young women and potentially children. I don't think that she deserves any special treatment. She's a monster.
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Now we also caught up with Democratic Congress member Jaron Moskowitz and he saw the files unredacted or some of them. Here's how he describes it.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Talk about at all about what you've seen in these unredacted files. I know you've been making statements but.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
I mean there's discussion, significant discussion of child trafficking. It's gross.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Jimmy Ranson said a nine year old, is that right?
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Children of all ages of child exploitation under the age of 18. And we heard people around the world.
Host/Narrator
Wow.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Participating in finding these girls.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
And are there any names that you've read that are, you know that are suspiciously redacted? I suppose so.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
A lot of the names of his co conspirators are not household names.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
A bunch of them were women.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Interesting.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
But there are also things that the administration has said that I think are not sure.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Based on what I read, somebody said that emails back and forth between Trump's legal team and Epstein's legal team were redacted. Do you have any sense of why they would reject that? That's not a victim name or anything like that.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Some of it was redacted, some of it wasn't redacted. They didn't explain to us why it was redacted because that was how it was ST5. That's how it was submitted. That's how it was submitted into the system to us.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
So like you go into a room, there's four computers, there's 2.7 million documents.
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Right.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
And so you have to search by batch number. Basically.
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Basically.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Okay, okay.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
You can't search by like keyword.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Like you can search by keyword.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay.
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
But it pulls up, you know, 10,000 documents, you know, and so, you know, you could spend an eternity down there going through this stuff.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Got it. So are you going to be, are there going to be other opportunities to take a look at these things?
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
Oh, I'm going back.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Okay. And this is going to be like a week long thing or I'm going back tomorrow. Okay, catch you tomorrow then. Thank you, Congressman. I appreciate it.
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Now again, do you see how easy that was? Speaking with clarity. Now contrast that to MAGA Republican Senator Bernie Marino. And here he was asked about what's your reaction to the fact that there are victims in the Epstein files as young as nine? And Senator Marino from Ohio turns it into like a joke. He's like, oh, well, what do you think about Obama and Biden? But Pablo Manriquez pushes back. Let's play it.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
What's your reaction to how the victims are being as young as nine in these things? I wish Obama had pursued it when it was hot and heavy.
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Right.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
I mean this goes back well, well before the Trump even entered politics. You know, I wonder why Biden, Obama didn't do anything about it. Well, Biden and Obama aren't in the Epstein files. Donald Trump's in there. President, states in charge of the Justice Department.
Congressman Ro Khanna
Right, right.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
So I'm curious why that. It seems odd though that they never took the opportunity. Yeah, thank you. It does seem odd though that they never took the opportunity to actually publish these things. Given. Yeah, they should have. Yeah, absolutely. But nine year old, that's. That's awful. I mean, I can't even imagine that that's the case. It's pretty outrageous.
Narrator/Advertiser
Yeah.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
And any reactions to the Bad Bunny? Sorry to turn the, yeah, I'm still sucking a nine year old thing.
Host/Narrator
That's pretty bad.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Yeah, I mean, look, obviously the death company wouldn't be strong enough for somebody who got involved in that. In terms of Bad Bunny, that was. I didn't watch it. I honestly. It was a decently boring Super Bowl. Thank you, Senator.
Host/Narrator
And then Pablo Manriquez asked Senator Moreno, you know, what else do you make about the fact that there's a nine year old, that there are nine year old victims? These are little children who were sexually assaulted by Epstein. And Moreno's like, what? Raskin. That's the guy with the bad haircut. You think this is a joke? You think this is a fricking joke? Here, play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
So Jamie Raskin reviewed the unredacted Epstein files earlier and said that there was a nine year old that's been a victim now that he saw for the files.
Host/Narrator
Who said that?
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Jamie Raskin. There are a bunch of House oversight folks who are seeing the unredacted files. The guy with a really bad haircut.
Host/Narrator
Then Pablo Manriquez caught up with Congresswoman McBride and here's what she had to say. Play this clip.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
So, Congressman, what do you make of DHS pying up all these warehouses across the country to Tournament of detention centers?
Congressman Jaron Moskowitz
It is a continuation of, of a disturbing, cruel, dangerous and deadly mass deportation effort that clearly is not only appalling in real time, but will wear horribly in history. I mean, these types of images, what you're describing is exactly what we have learned about in school and we should never allow it.
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He also caught up with AOC and here's what she had to say.
Interviewer/Pablo Manriquez
Congresswoman, what do you make of the DHS warehouses going up across the country? Country? They're leaving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of space.
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We're seeing what ICE is doing. I think every American should be alarmed. They are building up and have built a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and US citizens alike. So I think that where possible, this is also an area where we actually have agency to fight back. We have power in that because a lot of these warehouses require approvals on the local, municipal and state level. And so we have to be vigilant about this. Deny those permits. If your community doesn't want this in your backyard, you can stop this. You can ask your mayors, your city council, your county commissioners to deny these permits and these contracts to let that happen.
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Congressman Ro Khanna
Thank you.
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Episode Title: Trump Gets Busted for Epstein Cover Up on Capitol Hill!!!
Date: February 11, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
Special Field Correspondent: Pablo Manriquez
This compelling episode centers on explosive developments from Capitol Hill, where Democratic lawmakers gained unprecedented access to previously redacted Jeffrey Epstein files—revealing evidence of a cover-up initiated by the Trump Department of Justice. The MeidasTouch field team, led by Pablo Manriquez, interviews key lawmakers from both parties, exposing their reactions to the files and the shocking testimony (or lack thereof) from Ghislaine Maxwell—Epstein’s notorious co-conspirator. Throughout, the brothers highlight sharp distinctions between Democratic and Republican responses to the push for transparency, accountability, and possible clemency for Maxwell.
This episode underscores a watershed moment in Congressional investigation into Epstein’s network—spotlighting the Trump administration’s alleged complicity in covering up elite involvement. It vividly spotlights lawmakers’ reactions: from calls for moral reckoning and survivor justice to dodges and deflections. Through in-depth, on-the-ground reporting and sharp panel analysis, the MeidasTouch team keeps listeners both informed and electrified.
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For Listeners: If you care about transparency, elite accountability, and survivor justice—this is an episode you can’t miss.