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Youtube transcript 0:01 Welcome back. The Justice Department 0:03 missed the December 19th deadline to 0:06 release the Epstein files. Legislators 0:09 argue the redactions and pace of release 0:12 undermine the statute's intent for 0:14 transparency. The DOJ maintains it is 0:18 working around the clock. That's a 0:20 quote. Even as uncertainties remain 0:22 about how many documents are left to 0:25 disclose. So for more, let's welcome in 0:27 our legal experts, criminal defense 0:30 attorney and former prosecutor Randy 0:32 Zelen and New York trial attorney David 0:35 Schwarz, as well of course as our 0:38 special instudio guest, Dr. Tom and 0:40 Dened Burlli. Welcome to all of you. 0:43 Randy, 0:44 good morning. 0:48 Randy, there you are. Good to see you. 0:51 Good morning. Did the Justice Department 0:53 violate the law by missing the deadline? 0:57 Technically, yes. Realistically, 1:00 it was probably impossible for the DOJ 1:05 to meet any kind of deadline, 1:07 particularly in the face of what we've 1:09 been told is another million files. 1:13 Assuming that the DOJ is the clearing 1:16 house for all of this potential 1:18 evidence, data, information, and the DOJ 1:22 has the obligation to determine whether 1:24 or not there's any criminal offense 1:27 conduct that can be prosecuted and to 1:29 protect the identity of the victims. 1:32 It's going to take a few minutes to go 1:34 through an additional million files. 1:36 You mean people didn't want to work 1:37 Christmas day on this? Let me ask you 1:40 something else. 1:42 When we see all these redactions, it 1:44 makes the ordinary person say, "What are 1:46 they releasing?" I understand they have 1:48 to protect the identities of the alleged 1:50 victims, but these twos and froms, 1:52 they're all redacted. That's protecting 1:55 government bureaucrats, not victims. 1:58 Tell us about that. 1:59 Well, assuming that they are protecting 2:03 government bureaucrats, 2:05 uh, don't those government bureaucrats 2:08 have an entitlement to not have their 2:12 reputations, 2:13 their lives potentially irrepar 2:16 irreparably harmed by being associated 2:19 with any of this. 2:20 Yeah. Certainly when there's a case of, 2:22 you know, national security or even, you 2:24 know, assets that we use to to find uh 2:27 and root out terrorism and crime, I 2:29 think that's part of it. But David, how 2:31 does the DOJ suddenly find the million 2:33 new Epstein files after the firm 2:35 deadline? It takes time to go through a 2:38 million documents as is already 2:39 mentioned, right? I mean, this people 2:41 are freaking out, but explain to me how 2:43 they come up with a million new 2:44 documents. How does that happen? 2:46 Yes, it it does take a take time to go 2:49 through these files, but these files 2:50 have been around for a long time and we 2:52 all know what the purpose of the law is 2:55 to find out if there are if there are 2:58 any other sex crimes involved in those 3:01 files and who those potential targets 3:04 are. That's the whole point of this. And 3:07 uh you know, it may be a handful and and 3:10 obviously it can't be based on 3:12 speculation, guesswork, hypothesis. This 3:15 has to be real cases. So if somebody 3:17 knew Jeffrey Epstein, that's not a 3:20 crime. It's not a crime to know someone 3:22 or to even have a drink with someone. It 3:25 is a crime to commit sex crimes, though. 3:28 So the files that contain sex crimes 3:31 should be released immediately. 3:32 That's such a good point, Denine, 3:34 though. I mean, but here here's the 3:35 reality, right? We we have Republicans 3:37 who demanded that the Epstein files be 3:40 released. They were. They set up a 3:42 deadline for it, but we've got Democrats 3:44 who had four years who did absolutely 3:46 nothing. Talk to me about the duplicity 3:49 here. And while we know more about 3:50 Epstein than we ever have before, 3:52 there's still more we want to know, but 3:53 it's a lot more than we knew four years 3:55 under Joe Biden. Correct. 3:56 Yeah, you're right. I've been saying all 3:57 along the Democrats have plenty of time 3:59 to not only try to get Trump, but also 4:02 to dominate the news because they got 4:05 Trump, but it's not working in their 4:07 favor. But what do we know? We know Bill 4:09 Clinton was half nude in a pool. That 4:12 wasn't AI and that wasn't Hillary next 4:14 to him. 4:15 Yeah, doc. Dr. Tom, I mean the the the 4:19 other BLI brings up a really good point. 4:21 How do you follow that up, Dr. Tom? One 4:22 minute for you, sir. 4:23 Top that one. I 4:24 I can't. But I think really the biggest 4:26 loser is Bill Clinton in this whole 4:28 sagos. Remember before this, he had a 4:30 reputation of being a sexual predator. 4:32 Then he's in a pool and in a hot tub 4:34 with the individuals being blacked out. 4:36 So, he's the biggest loser. But I have 4:38 to say, you know, it's partially 4:40 Congress's problem here or fault that 4:42 the DOJ is behind. They set this 4:44 artificial deadline not knowing how many 4:47 documents and knowing that the DOJ had 4:49 to be very careful in the way they 4:51 release the documents. There's a lot of 4:53 ways Congress passed legislation, they 4:56 set the DOJ up. 4:57 Yeah. No, that's a really good point 4:58 Well, Randy Zel and David Schwarz, 5:00 thanks for being with us. We're out of 5:01 time, gentlemen. Tom and Denine, don't 5:02 go too far. We've got a lot more show to 5:04 go. Thanks, guys. Happy New Year. 5:05 Thanks. 5:06 Thank you. Happy new year.

NY Trial Attorney David Schwatz ‪@NewsmaxTV‬ Talking About The Epstein Files

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