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Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Behind me, I have three documents from the DOJ production that are emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to comply

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with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. To my right is an email that was sent by the victim's lawyers to the DOJ. It was

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a list of names not to redact or sorry, a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They

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released this email in the document production. Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did.

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And they're getting phone calls. A lot of these people didn't want to be known. And we know you touched the document because you redacted one name and you

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redacted the lawyer's name, but you left the survivor's name there. The next document I want to show you in that was in the title, the victim's survivor's

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names. All right. The title of this one is child sex trafficking co-conspirators fully redacted.

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And by the way, I'm going to unredact them here. Les Wexner is in this now. your

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assistant deputy attorney general said, "Oh, well, he appears hundreds of times in the files, but he doesn't appear in this file until

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I forced you to release it." Where he's listed as a co-conspirator, not to tax evasion, but to child sex

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trafficking, not to prostitution, not to money, child sex trafficking. And then finally, what we have here is

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the third exhibit that I have is emblematic of the FD302 release. These are the documents that we need that

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you're holding on to and overredacting because they have the names of the men who are implicated. How do we know?

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Because the the survivors gave testimony to the FBI and it's in there. And what happens when you go to the portal at the

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DOJ to look at what's behind this redaction? Another redaction. So, we can't even see them. And then there's some of these files you've pulled down

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from the website that we will never see because we can't search the redactions. So, I have several questions for you.

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Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victim's names? Are you able to track

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who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of

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accountability? >> I believe Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times about I had >> Yeah, I already told you that. This is

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where he's listed as a >> finish my answer. Come on, let me finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already You're acting

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like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's name. Reclaiming Reclaiming my time. I'm gonna answer this question. Reclaiming my time. He was Mr. Chairman. This is how this works.

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>> Can I have my time? >> He was He was Mr. Chairman. >> The gentle lady can can give her answer. The time belongs to the gentleman from >> All right. I'm reclaiming my time. Can I give my answer?

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>> I'm going to put the language of the bill up on the screen. >> Chairman, I have another question on that. >> This is a political joke and I need to

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give my answer on that. Let we'll let the we'll let the attorney general respond and then the gentleman can move to his next question. It's my time. >> Within 40 minutes, you asked me a question. Within 40 minutes,

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>> Wexner's name was added back. >> Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed. >> Red hand. [laughter] There was one redaction out

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and we invited you in. We This guy has Trump arrangement syndrome. He needs to get You're a failed politician. You need

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to watch the chairman. Please restore his time and remind the witness of there is no credible information. >> None. If there were, I would bring the

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case yesterday >> that he traffked to other individuals. >> Is that your position as well?

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>> My position is any victim who comes forward, of course, we would love to hear from them. 1800 call FBI. Did you

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ask Merritt Garland that the last four years? Did you talk about Epstein? >> I am reclaiming my time. I'm glad you're asking about Mary Garland.

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>> This is bigger than Watergate when I don't answer a question. >> This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George

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Bush. This cover up spans decades and you are responsible for this portion of it. And that's the I want to know at

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what point at what point >> did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Wesner was not a co-conspirator? Because

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our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the screen. >> He's to release the internal decision

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about whether to prosecute him or not. And it's not in the files. And it's not in the files for any of these other men. Time of the gentleman