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Epstein survivors took the fight directly to Republicans today in Congress and, well, it's working. Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing is a complete and utter mess. He does not have the votes to be confirmed, and it's not clear if he will be confirmed. It's not clear if the vote is even moving forward because of the survivors. I was just on Capitol Hill in front of Congress with multiple survivors, over 10 of them. We went into the offices of multiple Republican senators, heard from Senator Thom Tillis, who is demanding more from Todd Blanche. John Cornyn canceled his meeting with Todd Blanche because Todd Blanche is not doing enough to get his vote. Right now, Todd Blanche doesn't have the votes. It is complete chaos and madness inside the Republican Senate because Donald Trump's pick to be the next Attorney General, he may not actually get there, and it's all because of the survivors. I have been there in the room. I want to tell you what's happening. Make sure to subscribe if you can, to get to. We're on the road to a million subscribers. I feel like I'm one of the only ones who continues on this Epstein stuff. People have unsubscribed from my account saying, you talk about Epstein too much. Well, let me tell you something. I don't talk about it enough, honestly, because these survivors need justice and accountability. So let me give you a behind the scenes of look of what happened today. We were on Capitol Hill with me, about 10 other Epstein survivors, and they had. Here's a picture I took. I want to show you. As you can see, their hands, it's binders, the binders of our redacted Epstein files. They went door to door to Republicans on a Judiciary Committee giving them these files because they're like, well, if you're not going to take the time to actually read the files, then we're going to confront you with them. So this is them putting together the files, giving them each to one of the survivors. And then this is a picture I took. It was us in Senator John Cornyn's office. He's a key swing vote. I was inside the office. The media outside were kind of freaking out. They were like, why am I there? But I was there with the survivors, covering what was happening inside that office. They were able to get a meeting with Cornyn staff, which is significant because they hadn't been able to do that before. But what we learned during this meeting is that John Cornyn was scheduled to meet with Todd Blanche today to get. He said he wants to get to. Yes, he wants to vote for Blanche, he wanted to figure it out. But John Cornyn has an issue, and the issue is, is that Todd Blanche refuses to put in writing that the weaponization fund, $1.776 billion that they want to give to January 6th insurrectionists that he won't put in writing that it's over, it's done with. Well, Cornyn has canceled that meeting. That meeting is not happening anymore, saying that Todd Blanche and Department of justice, they have not done enough. They have not done enough. And so right now, Blanche's confirmation is in major limbo. Cornyn is a no. Tillis is a no. Blanche has not satisfied their request. With Mitch McConnell in the hospital or in his rehab facility, anything's possible, right? Well, here's more video footage of me from Capitol Hill. I wanted to show you kind behind the scenes of what we were doing. We have some big news right now. Epstein news. We're on Capitol Hill right now. I'm with over 10 survivors and they're delivering the Epstein files to Republican and Democratic senators who are voting on Todd Blanche's confirmation tomorrow. Republicans don't want, want to read these files. And while they're going door to door to Republican offices, handing them the files to read. Let me show you right now they're at Senator Britt's office. I'm going to show you inside, even though they get mad at me for filming. Todd Blanche's confirmation is tomorrow and the survivors are literally putting the files in front of the Republicans who refuse to read them, specifically the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee. We have Katie Britt right in front of me. We're just went to Mike Lee's office, Josh Hawley's office, John Kennedy's office, and more. And the goal is simple. They want to get these senators to vote no. Well, this is a story that's not going away. Even if Todd Blanche is confirmed, these survivors are not going to let it go away. So spread the word. Spread the word. And I'll have more updates for you soon. As always, follow along for all the news. That's me on Capitol Hill. I got the binders. We were going door to door. The booklets. Now leaving the meeting with Cornyn's team, one survivor, Danny Bensky, said something very significant. She said Todd Blanche, during their private meeting, essentially told survivors, quote, get to the point. Watch this. When you say he was condescending, can
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you give us an example? Yeah. I mean, he actually said the words get to the point to us where survivors who've been waiting to meet with him for nine months Eight months we've been asking for meetings and he very much said, can you get to the point already? Like, what are you getting at? Right. So to treat us with that sort of. There was no integrity, there was no understanding that he's dealing with the largest sex trafficking ring that we've seen in the US Ever. Instead, it was like, you have an Epstein problem. Right.
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That's pretty significant. But it's not just that. Here's what Bensky said, leaving her meeting with Cornyn.
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They were very pleasant. Yeah. Wonderful and willing to hear, like our argument in our cases. We talked about the meeting. Meeting. We talked about the hopes and, and we really respected the senator for building his career on standing with survivors. And we hope that, that he will end his career doing the same thing as standing with survivors all over this country. It was a productive meeting and they were very open and very honest with us. And, you know, that's all we can do is reach across the aisle.
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And you spoke to Tillis, Senator Tillis,
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this morning as well.
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How did that.
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What happened?
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Yeah, he was coming off the elevator. I think we were both pretty surprised to see each other. But yeah, he said that he would love to meet with survivors. So we're hoping that that means.
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That's really important. So I spoke with Chris Pappas who's running for Senate in the state of New Hampshire. I want you to hear what he had to say. He said he would vote no. He were in the United States. And on top, Blanche's confirmation. He spoke about the Epstein files and his John Sununu, his opponent, who's actually in the file. So as always, make sure to like, comment, share, get the word out, subscribe, get us to a million subscribers. Here's my interview with the senator. With the potential future senator, Chris Pappas excited today to be joined by Chris Pappas who's running for Senate in New Hampshire. Chris, great to be here with you. Once again, I want to kind of get started because a lot of folks aren't talking about the New Hampshire Senate race. So tell me why people should be talking about the New Hampshire Senate race.
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Well, this is a decidedly purple state. It's always been a close fight in New Hampshire for U.S. senate for President. We have Republican control at the state level and they have a five point registration advantage on Democrats right now. And they recruited a Republican to run who's been in the Senate before. He's got a big family name, Sununu, that's very familiar to the voters of New Hampshire. So we've Got some work to do to be able to define the terms of this debate, to fight back against the influx of outside special interest money that's flooding into New Hampshire right now. They're spending tens of millions of dollars on the airwaves to try to flip this seat red and expand Donald Trump's majority in the Senate. So this is just a state with a lot of independent voters where you gotta work incredibly hard to connect with people. The good news is I represent half the state, and this is a change election. People are feeling incredibly unsettled about the economy, about the direction of things in Washington, about Donald Trump's leadership. And my opponent, John Sununu, stands with Trump and all the issues that are making people's lives worse and are making this economy less fair. So I think we've got a great message to deliver. As long as we can get the word out and not be totally swamped by special interests and super PACs, we've got a path to victory here in a tough state in New Hampshire.
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You mentioned the PAC spending. Are you taking any corporate PAC money as part of your campaign?
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No, I'm refusing corporate PAC money in my campaign. That's what I have done throughout my time running for Congress. I think it's such an important value to be able to state clearly to voters that you want to change the way our campaign finance system works. We have seen an explosion in the wake of Citizens United of billions of dollars of dark money that's spent now, election after election. And it, you know, is tilting the playing field so far away from everyday voters and drowning out the kinds of messages that are going to make their lives better. So we're seeing it already in our race, whether it's groups like Americans for Prosperity who represent Big Oil and an energy policy that's making life more expensive right now. Special interests that represent Wall street and pharma. We have got to break the linkage between political spending and our ability to get things done for people, to build a fairer economy, to lower costs, to provide health care for Americans. And so I don't just talk the talk, I walk the. And we gotta figure out ways to change a broken system in Washington. I think we've got to focus on the corruption that is rampant, that is out in the open. Donald Trump, who's padded his bottom line with billions of dollars. He and members of Congress are trading stocks on a regular basis, profiting off of inside information. We have to clean all this up and turn the page to a moment where the challenges that people are experiencing in their day to day lives are front and center and where we can focus on actually getting things done that are going to make life better.
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Now you're in the House of Representatives right now. Why do you want to head over to the Senate? I feel like when people talk about the United States Senate, they talk about it's like a geriatric facility. It's a lot of old folks. Nothing really gets done in the Senate. Things move very slow. Why do you want to go over there?
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Generational change. We need to see a passing of the torch. We need new voices around the table in the Senate, in the House, in government, all across the country, from state legislatures to city halls. The fact is, this is a moment of great urgency. Our democracy is under attack every day. We have a president who disregards the Constitution, who's running roughshod over the law and our political norms. And we just can't, you know, expect that these are normal times. We've got to fight back with the urgency that the moment requires to. And so I think that this is a time where we all should be thinking about how we can add value, what we can do to defend what's really critical at this moment, making sure that we're fighting to lower costs and build a fair economy, to take on a corrupt president, to defend personal freedoms. We can't do that with one hand tied behind our back or if we're not putting our best, most authentic voices front and center. So this is about me knowing New Hampshire, understanding the values of this state, knowing how we can build a coalition of Democrats, Independents and Republicans to hold a tough Senate seat and change the dynamics in Washington. So that's why I wanted to take on this fight. And I think this can't just be about confronting Trump. It has to fundamentally be about how we get to a better place in our politics, how we reform a broken political system, how we fix and unrig the economy. We can't do that if we're just shuffling the deck chairs around the Titanic.
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When we talk about a broken political system, something that's front and center to me are the Epstein files. And I reviewed over 100,000 Epstein files myself. I was just with the survivors on Capitol Hill. Your opponent's name comes up in the Epstein files. John Sununu. Now, there has been recent reporting about a false answer he gave about a trip to Qatar. And do you believe that your opponent has been, I guess, clear enough on his potential links to Epstein and his name being in the Epstein files thus far?
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Well, he hasn't been honest with the voters of New Hampshire. He was caught in a lie by the Washington Post. He traveled to a conference in Qatar as part of the World Economic Forum. He said on camera that he hadn't ever been to Qatar. But the fact is, in the Epstein emails, there's one between Epstein and his associate Boris Nicola, who attended that same conference, who was asking Jeffrey Epstein, who should I see at this conference who would be interesting for me to meet? And Epstein responded, John Sununu. He has good stories. So there's more that we need to learn about this. It's clear that Sununu wants to just skirt past this and not acknowledge the fact that he lied on camera, that he's trying to misrepresent the truth. I think voters here in New Hampshire deserve to know everything that he knows about this while we continue to work to push this administration to put everything out on the table. I mean, what Congress passed, a really significant bipartisan vote was not a suggestion to the administration. It's a legal requirement for them to produce the documents. They're continuing to stonewall and not giving Americans the full picture and certainly not working to provide the kind of justice that the survivors deserve. So I hope people will continue speaking out on this. But people who are members of this Epstein class, they've got to come clean and tell us what they know.
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If you were in the United States, would you vote to confirm Todd Blanche, given how he has handled or rather mishandled the Epstein files?
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No. And for that reason, but for many other reasons too, because he pretends to be the President's lawyer and not the head of an independent Department of Justice, which is traditionally how the Attorney General has operated. So I don't see how, you know, any of these nominees from the President have the right credibility or the right sort of vision of where our government needs to go. And Todd Blanch is a great example of this. He's someone who's going to carry water for Donald Trump each and every day. He's not going to be providing the kind of transparency that the American people deserve. Certainly on the Epstein files issue, based on what we already know, I guess he, he had a brief meeting with some of the survivors and they certainly were not happy with the interaction that they had with him. So he's not fit for this position. The fact is there's a loyalty test for all these nominations, whether it's someone to be a federal judge, whether it's a cabinet position or a lower level position in the federal government. Everyone is selected just based on whether or not, they'll be loyal to the very end for Donald Trump, not based on their competence, their experience, the strengths that they bring to the job. And so we have to continue to hold the line against nominees like this that just have no business serving in a position like this. We have to work to repair the damage that's being done right now. And one of the reasons why taking back the Senate is so important is that we will be able to stop these sort of reckless nominations from being passed and, you know, approved by the Senate. We'll be able to shed sunlight on what's going on within our government. We'll be able to hold hearings and call witnesses and issue subpoenas. And so this, the oversight, the accountability, it has to happen. But it can only happen in a meaningful way if we flip the majority in the Senate.
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Congressman, thanks so much for the time. Thanks, Aaron. Hey, folks, thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere you watch for the latest breaking news and daily hits throughout the day. Make sure to follow subscribe. See you soon for more.