Ron Filipkowski (6:04)

Play this clip I submitted to Colmer a letter with six or seven questions. Things like who were the other co conspirators? Who were the other men who raped these underage girls? Did she have any conversations about a deal with Donald Trump? She's taken a blanket fifth Amendment on any question and my view is that many of my questions don't in any way incriminate her. So we'll see what she does. But there are seven questions that I have specifically asked and the assumption is she's pleading the Fifth to each one of those and the American people will see that there's an inconsistency. Why did she not plead the Fifth when Blanch asked her questions and now she's pleading the Fifth about things that don't implicate her but may implicate many of the other powerful people in the Epstein class that committed these crimes.

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Here's what Congresswoman Stansberry, Democrat had to say.

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Play this clip the United States government is engaged in an active cover up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States States and Donald Trump is right at the center of it and the person who is living to provide the evidence, who knows what is going on, is trying to invoke the Fifth to buy her clemency. So let's be clear on what we saw here today. This was an effort to essentially try to secure her pardon by keeping her mouth shut. And we will not allow this silence to stand.

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More from Democratic Congresswoman Stansberry. Let's play it.

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We know that there are multiple administration officials including Howard Lutnick, Elon Musk who served as the appointee for the DOGE efforts in the White House. We know that the Secretary of Navy we know that there that Steve Bannon we know that there are more than three dozen associates, family members and individuals directly associated with Donald Trump named in those files. Now there are now at least nine or 10 other countries across the world that have opened investigations or forced their leaders to step down because of their mere association with Jeffrey Epstein.

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And here's Congresswoman Stansberry again. Let's play this clip.

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Now we have a lot of questions for Ms. Maxwell with regards to what actually happened in Epstein's affairs, who was directly involved in the sex trafficking, money laundering and influence peddling scheme that she and Je Jeffrey Epstein were involved in, how Donald Trump was involved, and whether or not he committed any crimes himself, as did his many associates who are named in the Department of Justice files. Let us be clear that Donald Trump is not only named thousands of times in the latest release from the Department of Justice, he is named over 38,000 times in the files that were released two weeks ago alone. And we know that that only represents half of the files that the Department of Justice has in its possession, including files that were used for direct investigations of perpetrators, people who committed crimes, people who were co conspirators in those crimes, and individuals who knew of those crimes.

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Ron Filipkowski (10:43)

To reiterate, Ghislaine Maxwell should have no hope of ever getting out of prison. But today she, through her lawyer, explicitly stated that she wants to be out of prison through a clemency that this president would grant. And she's campaigning over and over again to get that pardon from President Trump. And this president has not ruled it out. And so that is why she's continuing to not cooperate with our investigation. The reality is that she is a monster. She should be behind bars. She should stay there. She should answer our questions, but she is not willing to do so because she is looking for that pardon and looking to absolve any people related to this administration. So we will continue to call for this president to completely rule out a pardon.

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And here's Democratic Congress member Walkinshaw.

Ron Filipkowski (11:31)

Let's play it Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster. She facilitated, aided and abetted Epstein's crimes, engaged in those crimes. She was the enforcer who threatened the victims and the survivors of those crimes. And today we looked into the eyes of that monster in the deposition. What we did not get were any substantive answers to the questions that were asked that would advance our investigation, to help us learn who were the other men involved in these crimes, to help us learn who were the others who knew about these crimes, to help us learn what exactly was said between Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell that led her to be transferred to a minimum security prison. What we did get was another episode in her long running campaign for clemency from President Trump. And President Trump could end that today. He could rule out clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, the monster. He could rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the monster. The question for all of us today is why hasn't he done that and why won't he do that?

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Here's Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Here's what she had to say.

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Level so the fact that this woman is continuing to invoke the Fifth Amendment tells us exactly what my colleagues have already stated. She is a monster. She does not care. She has no remorse. She is not seeking to bring about some kind of closure for these women. She doesn't care. And frankly, it seems like this administration overall does not care. All they care about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles. They will do anything to distract from that, including deciding to put up in the middle of Black History Month the most racist thing that we've ever seen come out of a white House. But I am here to tell you that House Democrats, specifically on the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee, as we do have Pam Bondi coming before us here in a minute. We will not be deterred. We will not be distracted. We know who it is that needs to be held accountable. And we will go in and we will make sure that we continue to dig. This will not stop us because his co conspirator decided that she was going to try to play games with us this morning. I got news for you, Ms. Maxwell. We're not done. We're going to continue to go.

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Now. Next you have Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's national economic advisor. He wants to talk about, well, he's there to talk about the economy. So he's going on CNBC this morning. And while he laughs and mocks the American people, he says that basically we should be expecting job losses because AI is going to replace American jobs. Let's play it.

Ron Filipkowski (14:31)

The other thing is that there's a pretty big decline in the labor force because illegals leaving the country. And so the break even job number is quite a bit lower than it was under Joe Biden when there were people, you know, you know, basically coming across the border willy nilly. And so I think that you should expect slightly smaller job numbers that are consistent with high GDP growth right now and that one shouldn't panic if you see a sequence of numbers that are lower than you're used to because again, population growth is going down and productivity growth is skyrocketing. It's an unusual set of circumstances, Kevin.

Narrator/Host (15:08)

And then he also says this morning that there's a good chance that job creation is going to be lagging. In other words, we should prepare for another horrible jobs report coming out this week. Play this clip.

Ron Filipkowski (15:19)

That the open question really is what's going to happen to jobs as productivity goes up? And I think that there's a chance that job creation lags, productivity skyrockets, profits skyrocket, GDP skyrocket. But then all of a sudden, like you were making 20 widgets and you can make 20 widgets with a fewer person and then that person has to find a new job. I think that that kind of transition could happen.

Narrator/Host (15:45)

And so no wonder you're seeing polls like this. This was from CNN this morning as Harry Enton describes that Trump's base with non college voters is absolutely collapsing. Let's play it through this.

Ron Filipkowski (15:57)

Yeah. Okay.

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So you know, if you know anything.

Ron Filipkowski (15:59)

About Donald Trump, you know that his two presidential victories on winning voters without a college degree while Donald Trump's base with non college voters is absolutely collapsing. What are we talking about here? Well, why don't we just take a look. Voters without a college degree on Donald Trump. Look at this. Back in 2024, he won those voters over Kamala Harris by 14 points. You come over to this side of the screen. What's his net approval rating with him? He is underwater by nine points. That's a 23 point switcheroo with his base of non college voters. He is absolutely collapsing with a group of voters that helped put him into the way.

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And finally we have Congressmember Steele, Republican Congressmember, who's saying that it is unfair to request that ICE remove their masks and actual actually issue judicial warrants instead of made up administrative warrants. Here, play it.

Ron Filipkowski (16:52)

I think the area where we could reach agreement is things in place like body cameras. I think that's a spot where Democrats and Republicans can come to the table. One of the Democratic demands, I think some of the other Democratic demands put at risk and jeopardize the safety of the members of law enforcement who are out there doing an incredibly difficult job.

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Would you be like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are?

Ron Filipkowski (17:13)

Well, they're known obviously to their supervisors. I think if we look at what plays out in many South American countries when these individuals are doxed, often they'll get a video that'll say that'll show them or their wife or their children is a pretty clear threat. And so the environment that many of these men and women are in is an incredibly difficult.

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