EXCLUSIVE: The Epstein Files John Kerry Doesn’t Want You to See
Tara Palmeri
0:00 There's a powerful man whose relationship
0:02 with Jeffrey Epstein has shockingly escaped scrutiny.
0:06 And that's the man in this picture with Epstein's housekeepers.
0:10 John Kerry, a former senator, a presidential nominee, a secretary of state,
0:15 a climate envoy, and a member of Biden's National Security Council.
0:21 He has held these titles at the highest levels
0:24 of US government and intelligence apparatuses for the past three decades.
0:29 And yet here's Carrie in a Facebook picture posted
0:34 by Epstein's housekeeper Joan Lun Fontineia in Epstein's home.
0:39 So why is this important?
0:41 Well, what drew me to Carrie was my initial shock when I learned
0:44 from Virginia Dufra that she encountered him
0:47 during the height of Epstein's sex trafficking operation.
0:50 Virginia accused Governor Bill Richardson,
0:53 former Prince Andrew, Maine Senator George Mitchell,
0:57 and the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehood Barack, of sexual abuse.
1:02 She met Carrie just years before he ran for president in 2004.
1:07 Virginia and I became close when I traveled around the country
1:10 with her, finding witnesses who could speak to the abuse
1:13 that she and so many others suffered under Epste and his rich
1:17 and powerful friends who have faced no accountability for their crimes.
1:22 Everybody who went into Jeffrey's house knew what was going on.
1:26 You couldn't be a pizza delivery boy and walk
1:29 in Epstein's houses and not know what's going on.
1:31 You walk into the houses, naked pictures everywhere,
1:35 young girls everywhere, old dude, not married.
1:38 Like, it's not hard to just put two and two together, really.
1:42 She told me about Carrie and three others.
1:45 So, I dove into the files.
1:47 It took me 10 months.
1:49 I looked through thousands of documents, and what I found was a paper trail
1:54 that painted an intricate web between Epstein and Carrie.
1:57 one in which John Kerry was not only present
1:59 at his home and on his plane according to sworn testimony,
2:03 but where Epstein was offering to introduce a number
2:05 of rogue characters like Trump's adviser Steve Bannon,
2:09 a disgraced Norwegian diplomat, Ter Rod Larson,
2:13 who's being investigated by Norway's economic crimes unit,
2:16 and a tred Emirati shipping tycoon,
2:19 who wrote an email to Epstein about how much he loved the torture video.
2:24 It's a long and complicated trail that I
2:26 plan to lay out for you in this episode.
2:28 Although you can look through all the documents
2:30 yourself if you go to terara palmary.com.
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2:40 This has never been reported before by mainstream
2:43 media because they've missed the crux of the Epstein
2:46 story and it's one that the survivors have held the keys to for so long.
2:51 I keep saying it.
2:52 Listen to the women.
2:54 They know what happened.
2:56 Because of my investigation,
2:58 Democratic Congressman Ro Con Kana said he'll call John Kerry
3:01 to testify before the House Oversight
3:04 Committee about his relationship with Epstein.
3:06 So far, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
3:09 have been called along with Trump's commerce secretary,
3:11 Howard Lutnik, and his former attorney general, Bill Barr, among many others.
3:16 I want to start by saying that back
3:17 in 2019 when Epstein was arrested for the second time,
3:21 John Kerry's spokesperson maintained that the former
3:24 Secretary of State did not know him personally.
3:26 But now we have a much more clear
3:28 picture thanks to the release of the Epstein files.
3:31 Well, at least some of them.
3:32 Remember, at least 2.5 million we haven't seen for national security reasons.
3:38 And this story may explain why.
3:40 This investigation is not only based on the files and Virginia's words to me,
3:46 but also the sworn testimony of Epstein's former chef, David Richard Mullen.
3:52 When he spoke to the FBI in 2006,
3:55 he said that he recalled seeing Carrie on Epstein's plane.
3:59 And of course, Carrie was in Epstein's little black book.
4:02 But there's more.
4:03 Epstein seemed to have put a bet on Carrie
4:05 a long time ago that his political star would be lasting.
4:08 He donated $2,000 to his Senate campaigns in 1991
4:13 and then again to his presidential campaign in 2002.
4:17 Something which Carrie's spokesperson, who didn't want to be named, by the way,
4:21 called a negligible amount compared to the $28
4:24 million Carrie has raised over his political career.
4:28 There are emails in which Epstein is straight up fantasizing
4:32 about Carrie reemerging into national politics as late as 2016.
4:38 He wrote an email to himself with the subject Carrie scheme
4:42 about a scenario in which Hillary Clinton gets indicted and Carrie
4:46 jumps into the race at the last minute because he has
4:49 the money to do it and he won more states than Biden.
4:52 He then fantasized about this scheme with others
4:55 like Obama's former deputy counsel Kathy Rumler.
4:58 But here's the thing,
4:59 it goes even further back to when Kerry was
5:01 Secretary of State at the height of his power.
5:04 Epste was acting as an unofficial broker to him.
5:06 He tried to connect him with a disgraced Norwegian diplomat,
5:10 Ter Rod Larson, who helped Epstein get visas for victims,
5:14 borrowed money from him,
5:16 and Epste planned to give his two children $10 million in his will.
5:22 Sadly, Terres's son, his 25-year-old son,
5:26 died last month by suicide as both of his parents
5:29 are being investigated for their ties to Epstein.
5:32 This was all happening as Carrie was negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.
5:36 And Rod Larson had a lot of interest in it and how it turned out.
5:40 In fact, he was tracking it every day in emails with Jeffrey Epstein.
5:44 They were sending emails daily almost about John Ky and what he was doing.
5:49 Notably, Rod Larson was the main architect of the Oslo Accords,
5:54 the first agreement between Israel and Palestine in 1991,
5:58 which many have seen as favoring Israel.
6:00 Israel was paying very close attention to the Iran deal.
6:03 And as we know, Epstein was very close to Israeli Prime
6:07 Minister Ehoud Barack and donated to a number of pro-settlement foundations.
6:12 And then there's just the controversy that's been
6:14 hanging over the Oslo Accords and the missing files.
6:18 They're still missing to this day.
6:20 And now we know that the person who was at the center of it all,
6:25 Rod Larson and his wife, he had poor judgment.
6:28 He was willing to accept money from Jeffrey Epstein, from shady people like him,
6:34 which if he was doing that back in 1991,
6:37 could have left him vulnerable to outside influence.
6:39 And then there's the Emirati shipping executive Sultan
6:42 Ahmed bin Solomon who asked Epstein to connect
6:46 him to Carrie when Kerry was visiting
6:48 the United Arab Emirates as Secretary of State.
6:52 You'll remember him.
6:53 He was the one who loved the torture video.
6:57 And at first that email was redacted.
7:00 His name was redacted by the Department of Justice
7:02 until US lawmakers called it out and said,
7:06 "Why is this man's name redacted?" That is not for national security reasons.
7:10 It wasn't just Carrie.
7:11 Epste appeared to be working.
7:13 Car's deputy secretary of state, too, William Burns,
7:16 who went on to serve as CIA director under Biden.
7:19 So Epste wasn't just grooming his victims,
7:22 but the powerful men who he tried to move
7:23 around like chess pieces by offering proximity to power,
7:28 jobs, money, and influence.
7:30 Burns met with Epstein twice while he was deputy secretary of state.
7:34 once in Washington and then again at his home in New York.
7:37 Both times after Epstein was a sex offender.
7:40 By the way, if you know anything about the State Department,
7:43 it's deeply tied to the CIA.
7:46 Diplomats often run assets for the CIA from their official postings abroad.
7:50 Now, Burn's spokesperson said he
7:52 discussed potential business opportunities with Epstein
7:54 as he was getting ready to leave for the private sector.
7:58 But their relationship, it appeared to be even closer than that.
8:01 Epste invited him and his wife to his island
8:04 where so much of the depravity happened.
8:07 Burns turned him down because he had to go
8:08 on another assignment abroad as deputy secretary of state.
8:12 Burns's spokesperson said they had no relationship outside of the two meetings,
8:16 but admitted that Epstein may have connected
8:19 Burns to tech billionaire Peter Teal over email.
8:22 Epste also tried to connect him with LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman.
8:26 In one email, Epstein claims that he's planning to have Peter Teal, Bill Burns,
8:30 and the former prime minister of Israel, Ehu Barack, at his home in New York.
8:35 Burns spokesperson said he didn't attend that meeting.
8:37 But it didn't stop there.
8:39 As late as 2018, when Steve Bannon was a Trump adviser,
8:44 Epstein was offering to introduce him to John Kerry in Washington.
8:48 He sent a text message to Bannon saying Carrie
8:50 was coming to Washington if he wanted to meet him.
8:52 He then learned Carrie was no longer visiting DC and offered burns instead.
8:57 I tried to reach Carrie personally to talk about this.
9:00 He didn't pick up.
9:02 His housekeeper did though.
9:03 Can I leave a message for him?
9:05 This is Terara Palm Mary.
9:07 I'm writing a piece about him.
9:10 Um, do you mind to call him like probably in two hours?
9:14 Okay, I can.
9:16 Okay, I'll try him back in two hours.
9:17 Thank you.
9:18 Since then, I have not heard back from Car's
9:20 spokesperson as to whether Carrie would willingly testify before
9:23 the House Oversight and Government Reforms Committee now
9:26 that Roana says that he's going to call for it.
9:29 But I can tell you this, his spokesperson
9:32 refused to give me his name on the record.
9:35 And when I read you his statement to me,
9:38 you will see that it is entirely tonedeaf.
9:42 This is a man who represents the former Secretary of State,
9:45 and this is a statement to me.
9:48 Quote, "We'd need an Ouija board to guess why Epstein
9:51 suggested Steve Bannon meet Kerry in Washington DC in 2018.
9:55 Secretary Kerry went home to Boston after the Obama administration ended.
9:59 He wasn't in Washington DC, was never scheduled to be in Washington,
10:02 and did not have a meeting or meeting request from that cast of characters,
10:06 period, which isn't surprising since he didn't
10:08 have a relationship with Bannon or Epstein,
10:09 and wasn't in contact with either of them.
10:12 John Kerry wasn't in Washington ever in 2018.
10:16 It's a pretty definitive statement.
10:17 When I asked Carrie's spokesperson what they received from Epstein
10:21 in the FedEx that he sent to Carrie days
10:24 after he launched a super PAC when his campaign
10:27 for presidency failed and he needed a vehicle for relevance.
10:31 They were even more obtuse.
10:34 FedEx no clue what it was.
10:36 In the year following his presidential election,
10:38 both his pack office and his Senate
10:40 office were bombarded with people mailing unsolicited books,
10:43 articles, memos, letters, all kinds of materials.
10:46 I remember how vividly our Senate mail room was
10:48 with people mailing him stuff from all over the world.
10:52 Well, this wasn't the Senate mail room.
10:53 It was his pack, by the way.
10:56 And just days after he launched it,
10:58 so he must have gotten the inside scoop on that one.
11:00 After all, what would Epstein be sending Carrie after his campaign fell apart,
11:04 unless he saw Carrie as someone who was going to have
11:07 outsized influence for the next two decades, which he did.
11:13 and Epstein in turned pedled access to that influence
11:17 and that access is currency in Washington and everywhere really.
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11:56 I want to thank Abby Baker who contributed reporting and producing.
12:01 I want to thank Dan Schiffmaker who produced this video,
12:04 Adam Stewart who did the thumbnails, and Dan Rosen, my manager.
12:08 Couldn't do it without my team.
12:09 I will see you soon and we'll hopefully have an update on this story.