Rep. Moskowitz Discusses Trump's Failed Epstein Cover-Up
2/15/202619 mincomplete
0:00Donald Trump is losing his base.
0:02The MAGA podcasters are running for the hill.
0:05You don't get much more MAGA than Liz Wheeler.
0:08How MAGA is Liz Wheeler?
0:09She was one of the people who showed up at the White House back in
0:13February and held up the Epstein files binder.
0:16And she goes, I've got the Epstein files exclusive.
0:19She held it up with all those other influencers showing what they got.
0:24And now here's what she posted.
0:25Pam Bondi's testimony was a total disaster.
0:28In one exchange, Congressman Jerry Nadler asked Bondi some very straightforward questions.
0:34How many of Epstein's co -conspirators have you indicted?
0:37How many perpetrators are you even investigating?
0:39And in response, Bondi lost it.
0:42I didn't hear any number.
0:43I didn't hear any explanation.
0:45All I heard was a raised tone of voice, hurled insults, a flustered demeanor, and
0:52filibustering. And she goes, I don't think the Democrats were acting in good faith, whatever.
0:57But she goes, but Bondi's catastrophic showing yesterday and her entire handling of the Epstein
1:02files for the last year are exactly what not to do as attorney general.
1:05You were literally there holding the binder.
1:08You were one of the people she had back in February.
1:11And by the way, here is what Liz Wheeler said on her podcast the other
1:14day. Let's play it. Jamie Raskin jumps in and says, I told you attorney general
1:18beforehand not to filibuster. And Pam Bondi then responds very combatively.
1:23You don't tell me things you washed up.
1:26And then whether she's talking to Raskin, whether she's back to talking to Nadler, she
1:31says, you're not even a lawyer.
1:34I mean, you want to talk about theatrics here?
1:36Here's the thing. She goes, you don't like my answer.
1:38Then you have, here's what Joe Rogan had to say.
1:40Let's play it. So we know Sultan Ahmed bin Suleyman, Suleyem sent the torture video
1:48to Epstein. This is in 2009.
1:54So Epstein was saying that, where are you?
1:57Are you okay? I love the torture video.
2:01Jeez. I am in China.
2:03I'll be in the US second week of May.
2:05What the fuck, man? And why is his name redacted?
2:08Why would your name be redacted if you're not a victim?
2:12Like, this is what's crazy about all this.
2:15Andrew Schultz, let's play it.
2:17So now that we know that everybody from Trump, Patel, Bondi, Bongino, like everybody that
2:25was involved in this, ah, this is just a hoax.
2:27We don't have anything. Like they're all on record saying versions of this, right?
2:33With the latest tranche, all of that is a lie.
2:35Has it been proven effectively that it is a complete falsehood?
2:41What exactly is a falsehood?
2:42The statements that this is just a Democrat hoax and this is, I don't even
2:46know what that means. And then you have the Tommy Lawrence podcast and Marjorie Taylor
2:53Greene. Let's play it. We have the leader of our party and our president attacking
2:56Taylor Swift, their favorite artist.
3:01That's not very good. Um, it's things like that, that are ridiculous.
3:06Like. Okay. I want to show you one of my favorite parts of the Bondi
3:10hearing though. It was Moskowitz's question of Bondi.
3:13Let's just play that. Now I'm at a return jail.
3:14I have like 25 seconds left.
3:16So because I'm curious, uh, and I just, I'd like to see you flip to
3:20the Jared Moskowitz section of the binder.
3:23I'm interested to see what staff provided on the, on the oppo on me.
3:27And because we're in the Olympics, I'm going to give it a grade.
3:29I just want to see how, how, how good it is.
3:32So give me your best one.
3:33So first of all, nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a
3:38Trump Bible. That's what you did.
3:40You made a joke and I find offense for that.
3:42That's all I have to say.
3:43I want it from the burn book.
3:44I want it from the burn book, which is the best one.
3:46What you got? Has expired.
3:49The gentleman from Wisconsin's recognition.
3:51I want to bring in right now, Congress member Jared Moskowitz.
3:55Congressman, it's a great to see you.
3:57I showed you these videos of all these right -wing podcasters who were like, uh,
4:01even they can't cover this up anymore.
4:03Your questioning of Bondi was incredible.
4:06Just if you can walk us through first though, just your, your questioning what you
4:11observed there. Like what's your perspective being in that room?
4:16Well, first of all, I have a different take, uh, than a lot of people,
4:19then I actually think it went very well, uh, for her.
4:23Um, um, I mean, don't you, you don't think it didn't, I thought it went
4:26well. No, look, I think that if she was positioning herself for secretary of state
4:32or department of defense, it's a, it's she, she's definitely next in line to the
4:37Peter principle. Yeah. I mean, listen, we saw this week, uh, perhaps she was spending
4:42time with secretary Kennedy, um, and, and boosting her immune, uh, system by, you know,
4:50snorting cocaine off a toilet seat like Kennedy did in order to make sure he
4:53doesn't get any germs. Uh, I, I have no idea what that hearing was.
4:59I mean, she obviously came in with a tactic, um, and maybe it would have
5:02worked sparingly here and there, but you know, to ask every Republican for 20 seconds
5:09to respond to the Democrat.
5:11And then they didn't respond.
5:13They just read from the burn book.
5:15That's why I was like, she doesn't need to yield 20 seconds or ask for
5:1820 seconds from one of my colleagues.
5:20I'll give her 20 seconds of my time.
5:21Like, let's, let's do it.
5:23Like, let's hear the stuff from from the burn book.
5:27I don't think it worked for her.
5:30You know, I think the American people wanted to hear some answers on Epstein, at
5:34least some answers on Epstein.
5:36Right. I mean, she could have just defended the president, which we would have expected
5:40because it's an audience of one and then said, look, these other people, we're going
5:45to relook at this stuff.
5:47We're going to relook at these co -conspirators.
5:49We're going to relook at these unredacted names.
5:52We're going to relook at these photos.
5:53And and if there's enough evidence, we're going to we're going to prosecute.
5:57And she could have blamed Merrick Garland and all that other stuff.
5:59But you're the attorney general now, like start attorney generaling, you know, and and it
6:05didn't. And only it worked because she provided no answers.
6:08And it just looked like she was providing cover.
6:11Now, now, what we don't know, of course, is what were her instructions?
6:14Perhaps she was put into a box in fairness to her for a second.
6:18And maybe the president said, this is what you do.
6:21This is what you're going to do.
6:22We don't know that. Right.
6:23We don't know if that was her strategy or that was a strategy given to
6:26her or what what she's allowed to do.
6:29I mean, let's not pretend for a second that the attorney general's office, the Department
6:34of Justice in this administration is a separate arm of the executive branch doing what
6:40they think is right. No, they're doing what they're told to do.
6:43I mean, the president, you know, thinks he's sending a DM to the attorney general.
6:47Right. And he's he's putting it on true social his instructions on on what to
6:52do. I mean, the latest one, obviously, is they're trying to indict, you know, two
6:57senators and four House members for freedom of speech.
7:01You know, we got, you know, box wine aficionado Janine Pirro, you know, leading that
7:07whole thing. And thankfully, they didn't get the grand jury to indict them because there's
7:14no evidence, by the way.
7:15But but the rumor is they're trying again.
7:17So it's it's it's crazy times.
7:20We're living in the upside down.
7:23And but real damage is being done to our institutions, to Congress, long term damage
7:28being done to the Article One branch of government.
7:31And the American people are suffering through all of this.
7:36So, you know, one year down, Ben, three more to go.
7:39No, Janine Pirro just filed a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar slip and fall
7:44case in New York. And I wonder if the wine box connoisseur aspect of it
7:51will become a defense by the city.
7:54I believe it's a slip and fall case.
7:55Was she carrying it at the time?
7:57Ben, those things can be heavy.
7:58Right. So she was carrying it.
8:00She might have been like a little off off kilter.
8:02You know, we'll see if the defense sends a private investigator to track that down.
8:07Ben, you've been able to get access, I believe, to that DOJ special secure facility
8:14where they have the unredacted files, which are actually still redacted and which should have
8:20been produced. What was that experience like and what can you share?
8:25So you get to the one of the Department of Justice buildings, you go through
8:29security. They, you know, and and originally we were allowed to bring a staff member
8:35with us up to the up to the 10th floor.
8:38You get to the 10th floor.
8:39There's nobody on the 10th floor.
8:40All the offices, all the cubicles are empty.
8:42They put our staff member in an office.
8:45By the way, they later changed that policy later on during the day that we
8:49were no longer allowed to bring a staff member.
8:51But anyways, you get into a room.
8:52There are four computers. They log you in with a separate login for each congressman.
8:57So that was obviously peculiar.
8:58These weren't just terminals that were open for us.
9:01Everyone had a specific login with a specific password.
9:03Why would we need that?
9:04And so we now know, obviously, because they were tracking our search history, which isn't
9:08fine. Like, you know, you can look at what we're looking at.
9:11In fact, the American people want to know this.
9:13It's not a secret. So it's not embarrassing to track us should have just told
9:17us, you know, like our queries are, you know, you're going to be able to
9:20see our queries. I figured they would.
9:23But anyways, you sit down, they log you in, and it's, you know, 2 .7
9:27million documents. They're not organized in any specific way.
9:32You can't really find anything.
9:34The names of the documents are all, you know, file, HTTP dash, whatever, you know.
9:40So the only real way to do it is to go to the redacted files,
9:46figure out what that batch number is for that file, and then go find it
9:50in the unredacted files. The system they have has a 25 -page manual sitting next
9:55to you on the desk just in case, you know, you need help on figuring
9:58out how to use the system.
10:00And so that's what we did.
10:02We went in with batch numbers to look for documents.
10:04And originally, the staff was like, what are you doing?
10:06You can't do that. It's like, what do you mean you can't do that?
10:07Otherwise, how do you find stuff?
10:10And so, you know, look, that's how a lot of us were able to read
10:14what's in the files. Ben, I can tell you it's beyond disgusting what's in the
10:19files. A worldwide sex trafficking ring.
10:23Epstein was getting girls from Poland and Russia and Czech.
10:28Paris modeling agencies were sending him girls.
10:30He had a relationship with a summer camp.
10:33He was grooming 14 -year -olds at a picnic table.
10:36Obviously, this was for him and for others.
10:38This wasn't just for him.
10:39And we know that, right?
10:40Because there are photos now, there are emails with unredacted names, there are co -conspirators.
10:45And so, you know, after a year of the American people pounding the table, and
10:51Congress, on an almost completely bipartisan basis, every member of the House except one and
10:57the entire Senate, forcing the administration to release these files, were finally starting to make
11:01headway for the victims. You know, I did a video on Friday where I went
11:06through prime ministers of foreign countries who are now being criminally investigated or charged, national
11:12security advisors, business leaders, you know, resigning or being investigated.
11:18And what just strikes me is, you know, here in the United States, when you're
11:23confronted with things like, you know, Howard Lutnick bringing children, you know, to the island
11:29after Lutnick says, I knew Epstein was a bad guy.
11:32I never saw him again, because I knew what he was up to.
11:36So I got out of there.
11:37And you bring your children.
11:38What he said is, what he said is, I knew he was blackmailing people.
11:41He was the world's greatest blackmailer.
11:43So I decided I would go have lunch with him on his island.
11:45On the island. And then Trump is asked about it.
11:48Well, what do you make about that?
11:49And Donald's like, I heard he brought his children.
11:52And he's like, yeah, that's the issue.
11:54Like, that's the problem. And, you know, I don't know the right words to capture
12:00it, like demented, like, like, it is a parody of a parody.
12:05But these are the people who are who are who are in charge right now.
12:10And in a bit, I want to talk about just some other aspects, because it
12:13was it was the lie that was told.
12:16Right. You know, like, he now he's he lied, or he's backtracking, or he had
12:25his recollection, you know, his memory, you know, recalled by the documents.
12:30But I mean, why not just tell people in advance?
12:33Because now now that's where the problem is.
12:35It's the same thing for Kash Patel.
12:36I mean, Kash under oath, said his name was in the documents less than 100
12:41times, either Kash didn't know the real answer.
12:45Okay, and spoke too soon, or he was lying.
12:48Because obviously, Donald Trump's name is in there 10s of 1000s of times, not less
12:52than 100 times. Kash also said under oath that there was nobody else that were
12:57getting girls trafficked to them.
12:59But Epstein was all for Epstein, nobody else.
13:01Well, we know that's not true.
13:02So either he didn't know, or that was a lie.
13:06And so like, that's where now, you know, as we move forward, and maybe they
13:10thought the documents would never come out, you know, but but at the end of
13:14the day, that's now we're okay, now there's more threads to pull, because now they,
13:18they said one thing. And now it's clear, the truth is different.
13:23Probably saw the new reporting on Kristi Noem, how they would like fire pilots, when
13:30she would be out with Lewandowski, if they would like leave her blankie behind.
13:34Yeah, they didn't fire, they didn't fire the officers, right, that shot two Americans and
13:40killed them. But they fired the pilot that, you know, didn't have her blankie ready.
13:47She's going to be testifying soon.
13:49You've called for her resignation, which is probably the easiest, you know, it's like the
13:54easiest call to make. What, what, what, what, what are you expecting?
13:57You know, the last time she testified, she pretended she had to leave because there
14:03was a meeting with FEMA that was going to gut FEMA that, and that meeting
14:08never happened. So she lied to like leave an hour into it.
14:12And it was a disaster.
14:13What, what, what, what should we look forward to when she, when she testifies before
14:17your committee? Well, she's coming in three weeks.
14:21If DHS is not open by then, I expect her to use that as an
14:24excuse and not come. We'll see if I'm right or wrong there.
14:28But look, I mean, it's gonna be a very tough hearing for her.
14:30I have a lot of questions.
14:31The Wall Street Journal article that came out today is extremely troubling.
14:34There's lots of rumors of what's going on at DHS, a lot of pay to
14:38play rumors that are going on there.
14:40I'm deeply concerned about FEMA being the only former emergency management director in Congress.
14:46FEMA did need reform. Right.
14:48The president was right about that.
14:49I've said that many times.
14:50There was reform that was needed.
14:52One of those reforms was getting FEMA out of Homeland because Homeland was disabusing FEMA,
14:56using them to run the grants of 22 other agencies.
14:59They weren't focused on response anymore.
15:01They became a bureaucratic mess.
15:02But that's not what Noam did.
15:04What Noam did is she destroyed it.
15:05She ruined it even further.
15:06She made it even slower.
15:08She made it even more bureaucratic.
15:10Everything that is $100 ,000 or more has to go to her desk.
15:14That's more bureaucracy. That's slowing things down.
15:16That's not reform. That's not efficiency.
15:20And there's really good people at FEMA.
15:22Not every agency is perfect.
15:23Of course, there's people there that have made mistakes in every agency.
15:28But these are people who come and help Americans in their time of need.
15:32By the way, what I don't understand is, is that by the president's own metrics,
15:36not mine, but by the president's own metrics, what accomplishments does she have?
15:40She's holding up 200 miles of border wall.
15:43Again, that's not my metric.
15:44That would be the president's.
15:45So she's failing at that.
15:46She's deported less people than Barack Obama.
15:49So again, not my metric, but the president's metric.
15:51So she's failing at that.
15:53She can't get any of these grants out of her office, the largest FEMA backlog
15:57in American history. She's not helping any of these red state governors when any of
16:01their disasters. So like, what are her accomplishments?
16:04I mean, if this were the show apprentice, which the president I mean, if there
16:07are some great. it. you know, was very successful on, was much CTV, you know,
16:11was very popular. He had people on and he would fire them.
16:14You know, Eric on the right, Junior on the left, Ivanka would come sometimes and
16:18he would say, listen, you know, you sucked.
16:20You're the weakest member of the team.
16:22You're fired. I mean, who's the weakest member of his team now?
16:24It's definitely Kristi Noem. Why hasn't he fired her?
16:27Listen, I'll make him a proposition.
16:29I guarantee you his ratings would improve if he brought her into the cabinet room,
16:36you know, his boardroom, okay, got everyone around the table and said, you know, Kristi,
16:41you're not building any border wall.
16:42Barack Obama deported more people.
16:44You're not doing a really good job.
16:45You're fired. I mean, the ratings would, people would pay to watch that.
16:51But I don't know why it hasn't happened.
16:53I think it needs to happen for the people at DHS and all the agencies
16:57there. I think it would actually do the president a lot of good.
17:00And I think it would be helpful to the American people.
17:02We need policy changes at DHS, but who's going to implement those policy changes?
17:06Kristi Noem? I mean, that's a joke.
17:10RFK. Let's play the clip of him.
17:12And I said, I'm not scared of a germ.
17:15You know, I used to snort cocaine off a toilet seat.
17:19And I know this disease will kill me.
17:22And that's his pitch not to be fired.
17:24I mean, you have him, you have Theo Von Sittner like, yeah, man, I've been
17:27there. I've been there. Pete Hegseth.
17:30We've all done that. Pete Hegseth using lasers to shoot down birthday balloons and close
17:36out the airspace over El Paso, getting into a fight with Sean from Real World
17:42Road Rules Challenge, who runs the Department of Transportation.
17:45So there's a lot of contenders, Moskowitz.
17:47Before we go, what's your final word to our six million subscribers out there?
17:54I mean, listen, at this point, Kristi Noem should just come out and say that
17:58she's had a brainworm like Kennedy.
18:00And that's been the excuse for the last year.
18:02Bold words to conclude there, Moskowitz.
18:07Hang in there. Let's get to seven million viewers.
18:10Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to six million first.
18:12Thanks. Okay. I got ahead of myself.
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