Paul (3:19)

But the Epstein thing is a complete red herring. It's a distraction from what's going on right now and then causing harm to the American people with the shutdown. The Epstein estate documents are out. The Epstein files are out. 43,000 pages so far.

Ron Filipkowski (3:32)

And then when Donald Trump was returning from his. Whatever the hell you want to call that, Mar a Lago, Great Gatsby. What was the roaring twenties? You know what happened at the end of the 1920s, you idiot? It was called the Great Depression, Donald. And what was the. The theme, the slogan for the party is a little bit of partying never killed nobody, as Americans are quite literally starving to death right now. Elise. Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake. Donald Trump says, let them starve to death while I take away American people's care and kill them. By the way, no wonder why in the latest YouGov poll, I digress for a second. Amongst 18 to 29 year olds, they disapproved by Donald Trump by up to 75% of people, 18 to 29 year olds disapprove of Donald Trump. Anyway, I digress. While Donald Trump was on the airplane heading back to Washington, D.C. he was talking about how he felt very bad for the. Not the victims of Epstein, not the victims of Prince Andrew, who now lost his titles and he's been kicked out of the Royal Family. Purportedly, he feels very bad for the Royal family, what they're going through. You feel bad for them, what they're going through, that as a result of Prince Andrew being involved in the Epstein ring, that's who you feel bad for them. How about you just say you feel bad for the victims? How about you show a shred of empathy? Oh, no, you're covering up the sex pedo trafficking ring. Here's what Donald Trump had to say while on the plane. Play this clip. Prince Andrew in the UK has had his royal titles stripped away because of the Epstein scandal. I know you're close to the royal family there. Do you have any thoughts on. I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation and it's too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family. And then again, just show you what was going down at this party right here. You'll just see like a guy and, and it looks like it may be his son, but someone who looks younger. They're like, looking at the girls dancing, they're like, hey, baby, hey, baby. Look at him just. It's grotesque. Like, watch this here, play this clip. Don't do it to him. I'm just warming up tonight. Oh my God, it's Halloween 25. The hell is even going down there? And then you have the lady on the, on the, in the glass. I don't know how to describe this. She's in a shot glass. She's in a martini glass or something and, and her legs are spread open or something. Here, just play what's going down there? What am I, what is even going on here? Here, play this clip back to Mega Mike Johnson for a second where he talks about, you know, look, we're, we're, we're clearly not, not swearing in Adelita Greehalva because we're worried about the Epstein stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no. We're following Nancy Pelosi's precedent. Everybody remembers when Nancy Pelosi shut down the government and wouldn' Congresswoman elect for the longest time in the history of the United States.

Ron Filipkowski (7:01)

The poll.

Ron Filipkowski (7:02)

Let's just blame Nancy Pelosi. We'll call it the Pelosi precedent because make stuff up. The only time Nancy Pelosi didn't swear someone in right away is because the person asked to be sworn in later so that their family could join them. They said, hey, can we just wait a few weeks? I'm, we're good. I just want my family to be able to be there. These people are liars. But more nefariously, they're covering up a pedo sex trafficking ring. Maga. Mike is here.

Ron Filipkowski (7:28)

He is play this clip Seated representative of Elect Adelita Grijalva. There's now a lawsuit about this. They say there's no dispute about her election or her qualifications. And add this, Speaker Johnson wishes to delay seating Ms. Grijalva to prevent her from signing a discharge petition that would force a vote on the release of the Epstein files and or to strengthen his hand in the ongoing budget and appropriations negotiations. Why hasn't she been sworn in? What's your response to the lawsuit?

Paul (7:52)

Paul, this is so ridiculous. And we could take 30 minutes and talk about all this, but Graham let Graham will be sworn in as soon as we get back to regular session. Remember, it's the Democrats who shut the Congress down, so we can't do that.

Ron Filipkowski (8:03)

Can you not swear her in though, when you're not operating in regular.

Paul (8:07)

There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we're not engaging in regular business right now. And what I'm doing is following the Pelosi precedent. And Pat, in the past when she was speaker and you had representatives elected during special elections, special situations, when Congress was on recess or out, she would wait until the regular session to do it. I'm doing the exact same thing now.

Ron Filipkowski (8:28)

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Ron Filipkowski (10:14)

Right?

Ron Filipkowski (10:14)

What, what the hell's going on in there? My gosh. And then you have the release of these files, these SARS 4700s car suspicious activity reports from JP Morgan Chase that got released because the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal did a docu, did a request for the release of these records. Then when you look down here, look at the bottom. What it talks about $1 billion in potential money laundering Epstein was involved in. He was being investigated by, you guessed it, Alex Acosta, Donald Trump's former Labor secretary, who was the main federal prosecutor in 2007, who gave the sweetheart deal, not only the sweetheart deal regarding the sex trafficking, but a sweetheart deal on a billion dollars in money laundering. Likely shifting around all of this money of these billionaire men who were paying for these underage girls and young girls and women and other people. You take a look at all of these entities that are listed. But it talks about the following in the this I'm reading you right now from the JP Morgan Chase suspicious activity reports. It talks about involving alleged sex trafficking of minors, allegations that Epstein misappropriated funds while employed as a money manager, the use of multiple accounts, the high risk jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and politically exposed persons, Russian money. And by the way, who was involved in the 2008 purchase of the West Palm beach property that Donald Trump got in 2004 from Abe Gossman's foreclosure sale. Trump bought it for 40 million. Four years later sold it for 95 million. Rybalov Russian oligarch was involved in this as well. And in the Epstein Ghislaine emails that Bloomberg got their hands on, it says they meaning the feds have probably already talked to Trump gossiping and got the wpb, the West Palm beach documents. It also mentions a guy named Pascal, a real estate guy. You take a look over here too. This is in 08-15-2007AML Investigation Report from the bankers at Bear Stearns. And here they talk about also the how Epstein would give $1,000 Christmas bonuses to different girls, a hundred thousand dollar donation to a massage Parlor. A thousand dollars to one or more females referenced as Christmas gifts. The hell is going on there now. The Epstein survivor, Well, I would say survivors, but Virginia Giuffre died by suicide after the stress and dep this and the toll this took being sex trafficked. So her family spoke out this weekend. Her brother and her sister in law had this message to maga. Mike Johnson, play this clip. When you say gaslit and slapped in the face, what do you mean by those comments?

Ron Filipkowski (13:18)

Our country, our government, our president, our Department of Justice, our speaker of the House has consistently gaslit survivors called it a ho. Mike Johnson said, oh well. Only 20 survivors showed up on the steps of Washington D.C. to make sure that their voices were heard. Only 21 is one too many. And it's quite disgusting and shameful the way that our administration has treated our sister's trauma, the survivor's trauma. They dangled it like a political toy that they could use to get votes. And we're here now and they kick this hornet's nest and now they're surprised that the hornets are stinging them.

Ron Filipkowski (13:58)

You're nodding there, Sky. What do you think this action by the King here in the UK may or may not do in regards to the situation in the US and furthering this search, this fight for justice that you're looking for?

Sky (14:14)

Yeah, it's a really good question. And I think the answer is that the King is setting a roadmap. He's setting a precedent to the rest of the world to say I do stand with survivors, I am going even my brother to account. But it's, but it's still, it's not enough in the sense that he's still walking around a free man. I mean, let's not be naive that he's not going to be living on the side of the road here. He's, you know, he's still in a very, let's say, kush spot where he should be, he should be, he should be investigated, let's put it that way. And I think that our government, to Amanda's point, is safeguarding these documents. They have it locked away in this little Pandora's box of people that are implicated and we need to fully investigate them because Prince Andrew is just one of many that need to be investigated thoroughly. And so I think the King should put pressure on our government. He should put pressure on President Trump. He should tell President Trump verbatim, President Trump, put your big boy pants on and let's get these Epstein files released so that we can go after these monsters properly.

Ron Filipkowski (15:26)

Then A group of 20 Epstein victims urged MAGA Mike Johnson and Trump immediately swear in, please. Adelita Grijalva. This is the letter from the Epstein survivors. We, the survivors of the Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell abuse, call on the speaker of the House to immediately move forward with the swearing and of Representative Grijalva. Grijalva was duly elected and certified in the United States House of Representatives. Her constituents have spoken and their voice deserves representation without further delay. The continued refusal to cedar and is an unacceptable breach of Democrat democratic norms and a disservice to the American people. Even more concerning to us as survivors, this delay appears to be a deliberate attempt to block her her participation in the discharge of the petition that would force a vote to unseal the Epstein Maxwell files. The American public has a right to transparency and accountability and we as survivors deserve justice. Any attempt to obstruct a vote on this matter by manipulating the House procedure or denying members their seats is a direct affront to that right and adds insult to our trauma. Speaker Johnson must stop using procedural tactics to protect the powerful and instead uphold the integrity of our democratic institutions. Our trauma is not a pawn in your political games. Every day you stall as another day survivors are denied justice and the American people are denied the truth. Truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak. Meanwhile, you have the Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Congressmember Robert Garcia, talking about how Alex Acosta during his deposition with the House Oversight Committee apparently did not mention the financial investigation of a billion dollar money laundering into Epstein and the Russian Federation and, and all these other billionaires that may have been involved where this money was moving about. Congressmember Garcia is like what they chose not to prosecute and he didn't even talk about it during the deposition. Here's what Congressmember Garcia has to say. Here, play this clip.

Congressmember Robert Garcia (17:30)

And this is a huge problem. I mean, first, it's a revelation to us. We were not aware that the U.S. attorney's office had actually opened up and was looking at the bank records and the financial records that would connect many of the men that were paying for these horrific crimes, these abuses of children, women and girls to Jeffrey Epstein. And the fact that Alex Acosta's office was actually investigating these crimes, the fact that the line prosecutor was actually presenting information to that department and to that office, and yet Alex Acosta couldn't remember if actually they were actually doing that part of the investigation is incredibly troubling. It really shines a light to his whole testimony. What was he not Being honest about what is Alex Acosta hiding? And it's clear in these reporting and in these documents that Acosta was actually cc'd in numerous of these conversations and in these emails about these bank and financial records. We have been demanding that the Attorney General, that the President hand over the files, including all of these bank records. We think it's past time that the bank records also be subpoenaed. But it's also clear that Alex Acosta may not have been truthful in his deposition to us in Congress. And that's a huge, huge concern.

Ron Filipkowski (18:48)

And then Congressmember Garcia has this message as well to the MAGA Republicans. It's been three months since Oversight Democrats forced the subpoena of the Epstein files. What the hell are you doing, MAGA Mike? Other than covering up for a pedo sex trafficking ring? MAGA Mike. Here, play this clip.

Congressmember Robert Garcia (19:04)

It's now been over three months since Democrats forced a subpoena at the Oversight Committee to get the Epstein files released to us. And still the Department of Justice continues to stonewall. Pam Bondi, what are you hiding? Why are you involved in this White House cover up? We know that 97% of the documents you sent over to us were already released to the public. We need the Epstein files now. And House Republicans and Oversight Republicans might be okay with the stonewalling, with hiding the truth, with protecting billionaires and pedophiles, but we are not. We need the files now to bring justice to the survivors and to the victims. Pam Bondi, it's time to stop this cover up and release the full files now.

Ron Filipkowski (19:51)

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