If You Watch One Video About Trump and Epstein, Watch This One
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0:00 He also told her that if she insisted on following
0:03 through this with this, she was going to hurt his friends.
0:06 She told me the day he told her that.
0:09 Her whose friends?
0:10 Uh, the President Trump's friends.
0:13 His friends.
0:14 Um, and I suppose some of them have been hurt.
0:17 Howard Lutnick was shown to be a bald-faced liar.
0:24 You initiated discharge petition.
0:28 And to force to force a vote on this.
0:30 And what was the response you got from the White House?
0:34 Uh, so I actually had at least
0:37 a dozen co-sponsors on my Epstein Files Transparency Act.
0:41 And I thought, well,
0:44 I've got I'll get a dozen Repub- dozen By the way, dozen Republican co-sponsors.
0:48 I thought, well, this will be easy.
0:49 I've already got a dozen who'll sign the discharge petition.
0:52 Well, it turns out most of those people chickened out.
0:57 Would not sign the discharge petition under pressure from the president.
1:00 In fact, I ran into the legislative affairs director
1:04 for the White House on the street on Independence Avenue, Jeff Freeland.
1:08 Just randomly while I was trying to get more signatures
1:12 and while he was trying to keep people from signing it,
1:15 we just randomly met at a crosswalk.
1:18 And I said, listen, I know what your job I know you're just doing your job.
1:23 And I'll be with you 90% of the time,
1:25 but in this instance, I'm I'm compelled to do this.
1:30 And um, I said, and by the way, I made a mistake.
1:34 I got co-sponsors on this bill.
1:35 So now you got your whip list.
1:37 I know you're going to the 12 people who originally co-sponsored it.
1:40 If I ever do this again,
1:41 I'm not getting co-sponsors and showing you my road map.
1:45 And um, there was, you know,
1:47 there was mutual respect there as two people working on two different things.
1:51 He was He said to me, he said,
1:53 "You're moving too fast for me." Like he couldn't keep up.
1:57 There was only one of him and I was I moving around and and getting
2:01 people to put their names on it and getting people not to take their names off.
2:04 By the way, I have to give credit
2:06 to the three absolute three bravest there There's
2:10 nobody if I go back to Congress next week and somebody comes up to me and says,
2:13 "I saw you on Tucker Carlson and you didn't say
2:15 I was brave." I'll say too bad cuz you weren't.
2:19 There's [laughter] There's three women, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
2:26 and Lauren Boebert who signed their names
2:28 on that discharge petition and all suffered.
2:31 Marjorie practically gave up her political career over this.
2:35 Yes, she did.
2:36 Um she got She and her children got death threats over this.
2:40 Not from the left.
2:42 From the right.
2:44 Um and then And she went to President Trump and said my one
2:47 of my children is getting death threats and he said that's your fault.
2:49 Yeah.
2:50 Despicable.
2:50 He also told her that if she insisted on following
2:54 through this with this, she was going to hurt his friends.
2:57 She told me the day he told her that.
3:00 Hurt whose friends?
3:01 Uh the President Trump's friends.
3:04 His friends.
3:05 Um and I suppose some of them have been hurt.
3:08 Howard Lutnick was shown to be a bald-faced liar.
3:12 Right?
3:13 Um and it turns out that uh John Paulson one of the three
3:19 billionaires who've put money into MAGA Kentucky is was in Epstein's phone book.
3:25 But also was implicated in these files is doing of a fundraiser and reaching
3:30 out to Jeffrey Epstein to get money from him to honor Howard Lutnick.
3:35 Um So it's By the way,
3:38 it's just a really small world when you get into the billionaires.
3:41 Um and they're not partisans.
3:44 They're above party, right?
3:45 The Epstein class, they don't associate themselves
3:49 as Republicans or Democrats so much as they
3:51 do among a class of billionaires who are above all of that, above the judges.
3:57 They've They've They've got visa waivers, they fly private planes,
4:02 they don't mingle with the public whether it's on a plane or in a courtroom.
4:07 And um so anyways, that's my hat's off
4:10 to to Marjorie for taking on those threats.
4:13 Lauren Boebert, um they took her over to the situation room, right?
4:18 Like this is where if they're trying to kill or capture Osama bin Laden,
4:23 this is where they are.
4:24 At the White House.
4:25 They took her into the situation room and tried to whip
4:29 her into taking her name off of the discharge petition.
4:32 Over Epstein.
4:33 Over Epstein, yep.
4:34 And then the president vetoed a bill that would
4:37 have brought water to a large portion of Colorado.
4:40 Like over Epstein.
4:42 Over Epstein.
4:43 And this isn't even At this point it's not just about Lauren Boebert.
4:46 Why are people in Colorado deprived of water?
4:50 Because their representative wants to expose a sex trafficking ring.
4:55 I mean none of this makes any sense at all
4:58 because it's a losing issue for Trump and has been
5:01 That was the beginning of the end really for I
5:03 mean I think we're at the end of the 2024 campaign.
5:07 It's just total betrayal of everything.
5:08 But that that began with Epstein last summer.
5:12 And Trump's now famous attack on his own voters,
5:16 if you think this is important to know more about Epstein,
5:19 I don't want your support.
5:21 Why do you think Epstein of all issues is the one
5:25 that Donald Trump was willing to destroy his presidency over?
5:29 I don't know.
5:29 It's I mean I did it because it was the right thing to do.
5:32 I understand your motive, but the president pushed back now.
5:35 He's endorsed this campaign against you and your family.
5:40 And but really just sort of hurt himself
5:42 on behalf of the memory of Jeffrey Epstein.
5:44 Like what There's something here, no?
5:47 Like what is this?
5:48 Uh I think he's he's changed some and he's part he the promise of Donald Trump
5:56 negotiate on anything including immigration.
5:59 It's like no problem, we'll give them citizenship.
6:01 But when it comes to Epstein, it's like no.
6:04 And it does raise questions about like how
6:05 did Epstein die and who signed off on that?
6:07 And why was Epstein re-arrested actually for crimes
6:10 he'd already been convicted of and brought back
6:12 from France to the United States and then
6:14 gets murdered in prison less than 2 months later.
6:16 Like what is that?
6:18 And maybe there's a connection or I don't know, I'm just guessing.
6:20 Like what is this?
6:21 It's the people who are funding the ballroom,
6:25 the people who are funding the arch,
6:28 the people who are funding the rebranding of the Kennedy Center.
6:31 These are the people who are also funding my opponent.
6:35 These are the people who have the ear of the president.
6:37 These are the people who are changing, dominating our foreign policy decisions.
6:42 They're the billionaires and these are also
6:44 the same people who are in the Epstein files.
6:48 By large part or their friends are, their social associates.
6:51 stop and I I I want everyone to just stop and rewind the tape.
6:55 What did you say then?
6:56 Okay, maybe just answer the question.
6:58 I think I did.
7:00 I tried to answer the question.
7:03 Buh, there are my arms just went up.
7:04 Um Okay.
7:07 So By the way, by the way, you touched on something I that I want to comment on.
7:12 There there are still a lot of files that haven't been released.
7:15 I don't care whether it's 3 million files or whether
7:17 it's 300 files that they still need to get out there.
7:20 But the kind of files they haven't released,
7:22 they are uh uh breaking the law by not releasing them.
7:26 They They, you mean Department of Justice?
7:28 Department of Justice, Todd Blanche now.
7:30 And he's he he, by the way,
7:32 could be criminally prosecuted by the next Attorney General.
7:35 This is the great thing about passing a law instead of issuing a subpoena.
7:39 This They didn't do this in Watergate.
7:41 They didn't do this in Iran Contra, they had commissions, they had committees,
7:45 they had subpoenas, whether it was uh you know, Bill Clinton's issue.
7:51 This is the first time, the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
7:54 where a member of Congress, or members of Congress,
7:57 got a law passed, passed in the House and the Senate,
7:59 signed by the President, to compel the release of documents.
8:02 What does that mean?
8:03 Why is it different?
8:04 Because every subpoena from Congress expires at the end of Congress.
8:08 This law never expires.
8:10 This law, unless they can get a House and a Senate and a President to repeal it,
8:15 [laughter] is in effect for infinity.
8:18 If 50 years from now, if there's an Attorney General who is like
8:22 cleaning out a drawer and finds some Epstein files,
8:24 they have 30 days to release them.
8:26 It's It's incumbent on We didn't name Pam Bondi,
8:29 we said the Attorney General of the United States.
8:31 As long as there is an Attorney General of the United States,
8:34 that cabinet position may go away before
8:36 the Epstein Files Transparency Act goes away.
8:39 Um cuz it's forever.
8:41 But, let me tell you the category of documents that will
8:43 eventually be released that haven't been released that you touched on.
8:47 Um we said in the Epstein Files Transparency Act that you have to the DOJ, FBI,
8:54 and US Attorneys have to release internal memos and emails
8:59 about decisions on whether to prosecute or not prosecute,
9:02 about decisions on whether to investigate or not investigate.
9:06 And right now, the Attorney General is claiming
9:08 something called deliberative process privilege that they use
9:12 when they want to keep Freedom of Information
9:14 Act files from getting out or to redact them.
9:17 They say that, and it's a long-standing rule for Freedom of Information
9:22 Act that the government only has to give you the final work product.
9:26 They don't have to show you their math, the internal deliberations of a policy.
9:31 They just have to give you the end point.
9:33 But, anticipating this and having served
9:36 on the Judiciary Committee for a long time,
9:38 and having had Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray tell me,
9:43 "Well, that's the subject of an ongoing investigation,
9:45 and we don't have to give you that, or that's deliberative process,
9:48 and we don't have to give you that." Anticipating that, I
9:50 put into law that they have to give me that.
9:53 And the president signed that law.
9:55 And yet, they are asserting that my law doesn't
9:57 apply to their deliberative process privilege, and they're wrong.
10:01 It won't withstand 30 minutes in a courtroom, their legal thesis.
10:06 Every first-year law student knows that new
10:09 laws override the ones that existed before.
10:13 And so, I think eventually, there will be a forum.
10:16 Some survivor will sue the Attorney General
10:19 or the government for not releasing those particular files,
10:23 and it'll get adjudicated, and we'll get more files.
10:26 Did Do you ever ask anyone in the administration or the Congress, like,
10:30 why is this a hard thing
10:32 for a Republican administration that was elected to quote,
10:35 "Drain the swamp" to do?
10:36 Why would it be hard?
10:38 You would think, since most people identified in the Epstein
10:40 files were partisan Democrats and donors to the Democratic Party,
10:44 you'd think it'd be pretty easy for Republicans to be like, "Yeah,
10:46 this is the other guys did
10:47 this." And there were some Republicans, but not really.
10:49 It's mostly Democrats in those files.
10:51 So, why would it Why is it so hard?
10:53 Like, what the hell are we What is this?
10:56 Well, Pam Bondi, when I cross-examined
10:58 her in a hearing while she was still Attorney General,
11:01 about the Epstein files, she protested to me that you know,
11:07 this also went on under the Biden administration.
11:09 And I said, "Of course it did." And right, that's the point.
11:12 on under the Obama administration, and the Bush administration.
11:15 Like, it spanned four administrations,
11:18 five administrations, counting Trump twice.
11:20 And I told her, "You're just responsible
11:22 for this portion of the cover-up, right?" So,
11:25 the reason they I think they don't want to admit that they have covered this up,
11:30 is then they have admit that there are two
11:32 tiers of justice in this country and that every administration,
11:36 at least every attorney general, has been in on it.
11:40 That is exactly right.
11:42 There are two tiers of justice and some people seem to be immune
11:46 from law and some people are just henpecked to death by the law.
11:53 Um And And that's why I want to know
11:55 their decision process because then we'll find out in 2008 why
11:59 did they give Jeffrey Epstein a light sentence when they
12:02 had him dead to rights to lock him up and throw we will find out?
12:06 I think eventually.
12:07 Cuz the law goes forever.
12:09 And I think just by random selection
12:12 we'll eventually end up with an attorney general,
12:14 if they don't delete the files before that attorney general sits in the seat,
12:18 whoever that may be.
12:19 Do you have any sense of how much hasn't been released from that case?
12:22 Um well, I know that set of particular files haven't been released.
12:26 I know that they put some files up and took them back down.
12:30 And they've not put them back up again.
12:32 And you may say, "Well,
12:33 don't you Didn't people get archives of those files while they were up?
12:37 Why do you care that the files haven't been put up again?" Yes.
12:41 It's because I have the ability to go look at unredacted files over at the DOJ.
12:47 And some of the files that I wanted
12:49 to look at unredacted because I believe they implicate
12:52 co-conspirators with Jeffrey Epstein haven't been put back
12:55 up onto the public site nor the private site.
12:57 So, I can't go look at documents
13:00 unredacted that may contain the names of co-conspirators.
13:04 Until they put those files back in the system.
13:07 for protecting co-conspirators?
13:09 Uh well, they said they're protecting uh victims, okay?
13:13 But if you're protecting victims, and so you had to take the document down,
13:16 then what you do is you redact all the information
13:18 that would hurt the victim and then you put it back up.
13:21 But they haven't put it back up, so I haven't been able to look at that.
13:24 Then there are files over there the DOJ
13:26 claims were redacted before they came into their possession.
13:30 And so, when I try to unredact them, I can't see beyond the redactions.
13:35 And the DOJ says, "Sorry, that's just the way we received them." Well,
13:38 the fact of the matter is they need to go back to the US
13:41 attorneys and the FBI that gave them those redacted documents and said,
13:45 "Give us the unredacted documents." But, they haven't done that yet.
13:48 And then there's another category of files that are missing.
13:51 In talking to the survivors' lawyers,
13:54 uh the survivors have indicated that there's
13:57 no evidence of their testimony in these files.
14:01 Like, they know it exists.
14:02 They sat down with the FBI, they did an interview,
14:04 and the FBI agents are obligated to summarize that interview,
14:08 at least provide a summary in a 302 form.
14:11 Well, they can't even find their own 302
14:13 forms in the in the uh release of information.
14:16 So, we know not everything has been released.
14:19 And I also know they're releasing more stuff, just quietly doing it,
14:23 because when I go over there and look
14:24 for things and find that they've redacted a man's name
14:27 who may be a co-conspirator and threaten on the internet
14:31 that they've done this, then they have released files.
14:33 For instance, with Leslie Wexner.
14:36 He's the billionaire who resides in Ohio.
14:39 Pam Bondi, her when [clears throat] I pointed out
14:41 to her that she had redacted his name from the files,
14:44 she said, "Well, we've His name appears
14:46 thousands of times in the files." I said,
14:48 "Yes, but in the one instance where it appears on an FBI
14:51 document listing him as a co-conspirator in a child sex trafficking ring,
14:55 his name has been redacted.
14:56 In the only one place where it implicates him, you redacted it." And so,
15:01 I know what your question is, it was my question to her.
15:03 Who redacted it?
15:05 They're not giving interns a bucket of Sharpies
15:08 and a bunch of documents spread out and saying,
15:10 "Go draw a line through anything you don't
15:12 think should be released." It's all on a computer,
15:15 and you have to log in, and every redaction belongs to somebody.
15:19 So, what I want to know, and I asked Pam Bondi and she refused to tell
15:22 me is who particularly redacted that one instance of Leslie Wexner.
15:27 If you were going to If you were the least bit curious, you'd want to know.
15:31 Do you know if the Department of Justice
15:32 in this administration has spoken to Leslie Wexner?
15:36 Um the oversight committee called him over there and asked him some questions.
15:42 The Department of Justice did not.
15:44 They mysteriously lost interest in Leslie
15:47 Wexner after listing him as a co-conspirator.
15:51 So they never they never even talked to him.
15:53 Never.
15:54 They They had some correspondence with an attorney
15:56 and decided they didn't need to talk to him.
15:59 Even though he paid for the whole thing.
16:00 Yeah.
16:01 And um so the you know, they should be wondering like this is why I want to know
16:09 about that decision of not Why did they not talk to Leslie Wexner?
16:13 That's in an email or a memo somewhere and the clear language of the law
16:17 that I wrote requires them to release it and they won't and they haven't.
16:20 And that's That's what we need to know is why did
16:23 they and why do they continue to cover this stuff up?
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