8/4/25: Trump Rages Over Jobs Report, AI Bubble, Ghislaine Sent To Cozy Prison, Mystery Figure In Epstein Tapes

23:56This was an interesting statement from the previous commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who actually was nominated and served under Donald Trump in 2017. He says, quote, today, President Trump called into question the integrity of the employment situation report that the BLS were police. He accused the commissioner of deliberate reporting false numbers to reflect poorly on the administration. Quote, this baseless, damaging claim undermines a valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month. This escalates the unprecedented attack on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system.

24:27The president seeks to blame someone else for unwelcome economic news. The commissioner does not determine what the numbers are, but simply reports what the data shows. The process of obtaining them is decentralized by design to avoid opportunities for interference. and they use the same proven, transparent, reliable process to produce estimates every month. Every month, the BLS provides prior two-month employment estimates to reflect slower arriving, more accurate information. So that's what we have from somebody who was literally nominated and worked from Trump previously. By the way, can I just say this?

24:55Mr. Lutnick, please undoge the commission to modernize the BLS statistics and let's do that. Except the problem is now you're going to be tainted by the fact that they fired the current BLS commissioner. And then the business community and others are going to say, I'm not so sure about this. Who really knows what the numbers are? And in fact, perhaps that's part of my design is if you have uncertainty within the numbers, then nobody can firmly trade or make decisions based on them. But to be honest, we're worse off for it because lack of confidence in those numbers. I know this all sounds very squishy, but we are the capital of the global empire, the world's reserve currency, our federal reserve and other.

25:34I mean, literally all of our monetary policy decides the fate of the globe. And I don't even think that that's really an exaggeration. Well, that's the type of stuff they make their decisions on. I'm not saying it should work that way, but it does. It has immense impact for our economy, stock market, firing, et cetera. And so lack of confidence within that, it's just one more step down, in my opinion, in a better direction. And so with that, I don't know. I don't know how this will work out. Maybe it could be fine, but it doesn't look good. I mean, it does harken back to like, you know, the Soviet Union where it was like they didn't want to convey negative results to the leadership.

26:09So they would just make stuff up and then you're unable to like actually, you know, plan. And there was also a sense of like, oh, we don't we're in this competition with the U.S. We don't want to expose any of our dirty laundry. So we want our like the public facing numbers to look really good. And yeah, what happens is then no one can make good decisions. No one can plan. There's no sense of trust in anything that's coming out of the government, and it's not a good place to be. So this is part and parcel not only with Trump's reality distortion. It's also with the way that he has made even the baseline assumption that the government should be a sort of neutral entity.

26:47He has thrown that out the window, and that might be one of the most revolutionary things that he has done, and I mean that in a negative way in this context, since coming back into power. And that's not to say that there weren't government agencies that were politicized in the past. But those were considered scandals and one-offs with the assumption that when treating tax designations and certainly BLS jobs numbers, that these things were being crafted by bureaucrats who were meant to be approaching it in a politically neutral manner. This will come up again when we do our free speech conversation about the all-out assault on the university system over, quote-unquote, anti-Semitism.

27:26Trump has decided to use all of the federal government as a political weapon and explicitly politicize every single agency as much as he possibly can. And so this also fits in that direction where he has taken the federal government.

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29:10Hey, everybody. This is Kevin. This is Nick. Hey, this is Joe. From Hey Jonas. You know, I recently learned that every 36 minutes, another child in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer. Think about that for a second. some of the bravest warriors you will ever meet aren't professional athletes or superheroes. They're kids in this fight. And every day, these young warriors face challenges most adults couldn't imagine. Yet they continue to show up with incredible courage, determination, and hope. That's why we're proud to support Hyundai Hope on Wheels. The past 28 years, with support from Hyundai, their dealers, and every new Hyundai sold, Hope on Wheels has contributed over$300 million to childhood cancer research, helping save more than 40 ,000 kids.

29:48But we're not done yet. We need your help. Together, let's bring every warrior home. Learn more at HyundaiUSA.com slash Hope on Wheels or ask about Hope on Wheels at your local Hyundai dealer. So let's get to a bigger economic story. This is one, again, part of the reason why the numbers, or at least other numbers that we can look to, are painting, you know, kind of a dire picture. And everyone's, you know, on the tariff thing. Initially, the Trump and MAGA response was, look at all of these panicans. They were wrong. The jobs numbers are fine. The GDP numbers are fine. And then the job numbers get revised and everybody's very silent, right?

30:27Now everybody's actually a BLS scholar in terms of the way. Chamath, I'm looking at you. Let's go and put this one up there on the screen from the Financial Times. Well, this is Federal Reserve Bank data from Atlanta. It says, quote, wage growth for the lowest paid quartile of workers, people earning roughly less than$806 a week, slowed to an annual rate of 3.7 % in June, down from a peak of 7.5 % in late 2022, when post-pandemic labor shortage in industries such as hospitality were most acute. Wage growth has also slowed for higher earners, but to a lesser extent. Pay for the top 25 % is up 4.7 % in the year to June, and for overall workforce by 4.3%.

31:10Those in the highest quartile earn more than$1 ,800 per week. But the figures come after the president's office corps sacked the head of the country's Labor Statistics Agency. But this data, which links again to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, just says that the lowest paid workers are suffering a sharper slowdown in wage growth than their richer peers. and obviously not only is this an inequality problem, but really I think it is a story of where, you know, you can always see both patterns of political, like basically economic precarity always leads to some sort of political radicalism. Much of that has been MAGA in the past.

31:49Don't forget, you know, many of these people actually did vote for Donald Trump. I'm not gonna say the vast majority, but lower quintile, you know, it's not an insignificant number of people who actually voted for Trump We're making less than$100 ,000 per year. And obviously, when we broadly look at kind of where that is going for wage growth, what you want to see is wage growth continue to actually go down. So you want the percentage increased to always be at the lowest quintile and up from there to the middle class. So the problem that I see here is that it's like poor people are getting poorer compared to their richer compatriots.

32:24And also that you see the way that the economy is now currently structured, which we'll get to in a little bit, around AI and others, is vastly accruing to the top 5 % to 10 % of the public. It's an American story now of, what, the last 25 years? But it is just getting worse, and that's the problem. I would say even, I mean, the AI boom is really, I mean, top 1%, top 0.1%. I mean, the consolidation of wealth that is likely to be achieved through the AI revolution is going to be more uneven than I think anything we've ever seen in history. And so when you have this poor wage growth at the bottom quintile here, it means that in many instances they're not keeping up with inflation.

33:07So it continues falling further and further behind. And then when you think of how much housing costs go up, education costs go up, health care costs go up, you know, if you look specifically at those baskets of goods that really make up that sort of stable middle class life, you can see how people are just screwed and hopeless. And, yeah, it is going to fuel political radicalization. I mean, I think probably nothing has been more destabilizing to this country than the vast inequality, level of inequality that has exploded, especially since like, you know, 80s, 90s timeframe when we had the embrace of neoliberalism by both parties.

33:43And so, you know, we're living through the consequences of that. And the really dire warning here is that it is about to very likely get much, much worse. Yeah. And that fits actually with this next one. Let's go and put the next one, please, up on the screen. This is actually probably even more troubling. This is about the unemployed Americans enduring longer job searches in a cooling market. And what they say is that, quote, number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks now tops 1.8 million, with one person saying, quote, I'm considering myself semi-retired at this point. And this fits with some of those job numbers earlier.

34:17Job seekers are out in the cold this summer, especially ones who have been hunting for a while. Behind headline-grabbing top-line numbers in the Drops Report is a striking piece of data. The number of people unemployed for at least 27 weeks is now nearly 2 million, the highest level since 2017, not counting the pandemic unemployment surge. The median length of unemployment in the U.S. has ticked up from a seasonally adjusted 9.5 weeks to 10.2 just last month. Job hunting highlights a significant undercurrent in the labor market jolted by tariffs and cautious businesses. And the latest numbers show job growth has been sluggish for months, while the unemployment rate at 4.2 % remains low by historical standards.

34:57This is always the issue with unemployment rate. I remember this during 2012 when Obama would be like, look, we dropped the unemployment rate. And actually, one of the ways that Romney was correct, he's like, yeah, but that's because a ton of people are dropped out of the labor force and are just not working anymore. That's bad, right? Especially if they don't have any money and they're descending into poverty, losing their house. Same problem that we see here. So the more people that drop out of the labor force or are not seeking work or are seasonally adjusted for longer periods in unemployment, considering themselves like semi-retired.

35:29I mean one of the people we're talking about here is like a 46-year-old person years ahead if they want to and if they don't have the finances to continue work. I would also say that you're going to continue seeing this for colleges because we've had a full summer now of graduation. and from what I've heard and some of the data backs this up as well. New graduates are having a very tough time, mostly because a lot of, at both, you have cautious businesses. And second, a lot of entry-level work is bullshit. And you know what is really good at bullshit? AI. Like, in fact, I was talking with somebody who works in consulting and they were like, you know, a lot of the early grunt work is just familiarization and you take minutes of meetings and you do stuff like that and you schedule, et cetera.

36:09Guess what Microsoft Teams with OpenAI is really good at that. You know, they don't need you anymore. And they don't necessarily need to add somebody, pay healthcare benefits. So you have those two things that come together over a summer. And it's a big question for a lot of these new graduates. What are you going to do and how is that going to work? Yeah. No, I mean, I used to work in government consulting when I first came out of college. And the first thing I did was work on like a help desk for, you know, it was the US federal courts when they would have issue with their enterprise software.

36:36And the other thing I would do is just, is like, yeah, spreadsheet jockeying, like, you know, analysis of this or that and compiling in the data and create a presentation, like that's exactly the sort of thing AI can do. And for many of these companies, even if they haven't fully implemented AI, they're looking at the landscape and they're figuring out how. So they're reluctant to bring in those new hires, those entry-level individuals, not only because of the insanity of the tariff regime all over the place, but also because they're trying to figure out, okay, how can I use AI to render these people irrelevant.

37:11And you have CEOs out there who say they're very excited to be able to lay people off. They're very excited to work with robots instead of human beings, because they don't take sick days. They don't require vacation. They don't organize labor unions. So that's very, you know, I think those factors are really going to play into the unemployment rate among new college graduates. We're also at a point now with these jobs numbers where we can start to assess, OK, the stated goals of the tariff regime versus the results, And one of the stated goals, there were a variety of stated goals that's always been sort of all over the place.

37:44But one of the stated goals was to bring back manufacturing jobs. And over the past, in the past three months, every single month we have lost manufacturing jobs. So there you go. Most of the job growth that did occur was actually in health care because we have a population that's getting older. So that's where the, you know, most of the job growth came. And effectively, in every other sector, you've seen job losses over the past three months. So, you know, that's not exactly what was sold as the promise of the new golden era, the new golden age for America and the rebirth of American manufacturing.

38:17In reality, we're going in the polar opposite direction. And that is actually different from under Biden. There was there was an improvement in manufacturing jobs gains through the industrial policy of the Infrastructure Act and the the CHIPS Act. So so not not good. A good sign there for the direction that we're heading in. Yeah, exactly. And last piece here, can we put please A11 on the screen? This is kind of the thing I was flagging about GDP and AI. So you can look here from Derek Thompson. I love this graph. AI capex, as in capital expenditure, now accounts for a larger share of GDP than basically any technology since the railroad in the 1800s.

38:59Basically, it's a mini wartime economy, he says, but the guns are chips and the tanks are databases. 1.2 % of all infrastructure capex as a percent of US GDP is now literally AI data center. Also, there are some crazy stories across the country right now that I encourage everybody to tune into. I'm talking about people who live near meta data processing centers that can't get water anymore because of cooling or people who live near data centers are seeing massive spikes in electricity prices. I mean, it's crazy. let alone the fact that farmland and all these other things all of a sudden have wildly different valuations because people are willing to come in and they're like, oh, no zoning regs or any of that?

39:42I can build whatever the hell I want here. We're talking about massive, big data centers on top of that. So look, if we don't get some cheap and abundant energy, a.k.a. nuclear, anytime soon, this is going to be a serious problem. And of course, what's the investment timeline on that? It takes 10 years to get a reactor online. I don't see a single progress, by the way, despite some promises on that. And so in the interim, oh, my God. If you're living in Texas and you're on that sole power grid, good luck, folks. Yeah. Because you're going to see some – on top of the deregulated market down there plus all those data centers, it's going to be – not on top of the 110-degree heat during the summer.

40:20It's bad. It's going to be bad. I mean between – with the water and the power, you know who's going to get prioritized. Yeah, of course. It's not going to be you. It's going to be these AI data centers, you know, with these multi-billion dollar investments. And, you know, their bet, we talked about this last week with that Sam Altman, if you have on interview. Their bet is that they don't completely suck up all the resources and the energy before AI figures out how to do like fission energy or something. That's basically their bet is that they can build these things out fast enough and develop the AI quick enough that it's going to just miraculously solve all of these problems for us.

40:59I mean, it feels like more of a religious faith than a science, to be honest with you. Yeah, it's it's dangerous stuff out there.

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41:48Oh, so we're doing that today. Well, I'll be shopping online and suddenly I'm like, well, technically this counts as self-care. You're definitely not alone there. That's why Klarna stands out. It's about smarter tools that help you feel more confident with your money. Klarna brings payments, cashback, and money management together in one place with flexible ways to pay. It helps you make smarter money moves without the stress. That's the goal, right? having tools that make your money work with you. Download the Klarna app today or visit Klarna.com to learn more. California resident loans made or arranged pursuant to a California finance law license.

42:25NMLS number 1353190. Klarna balance account required to be eligible for cash back points. Limitations, terms and conditions apply. Hey everybody, this is Kevin. This is Nick. Hey, this is Joe. From Hey Jonas. You know, I recently learned that every 36 minutes, another child in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer. Think about that for a second. Some of the bravest warriors you will ever meet aren't professional athletes or superheroes. They're kids in this fight. And every day, these young warriors face challenges most adults couldn't imagine. Yet they continue to show up with incredible courage, determination, and hope.

42:57That's why we're proud to support Hyundai Hope on Wheels. The past 28 years, with support from Hyundai, their dealers, and every new Hyundai sold, Hope on Wheels has contributed over$300 million to childhood cancer research, helping save more than 40 ,000 kids. But we're not done yet. We need your help. Together, let's bring every warrior home. Learn more at HyundaiUSA.com slash Hope on Wheels or ask about Hope on Wheels at your local Hyundai dealer. All right, let's get to the Epstein story. Trump continues to keep the door open for his Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. He says, I'm allowed to do it.

43:33We know you're allowed to do it. The question is, are you going to do it? Let's take a listen. Is clemency on the table for her in exchange for testimony? I'm allowed to do it, but nobody's asked me to do it. I know nothing about it. I don't know anything about the case, but I know I have the right to do it. I have the right to give pardons. I've given pardons to people before, but nobody's even asked me to do it. Nobody's questioning that. It's not true nobody's asked you to do it. Glane's Maxwell's team has certainly asked you to do it. We're going to get to that in a second. But before we do, we of course have to play this clip of Trump.

44:04Will you pardon Diddy? And listen to the justification he gives. Let's take a listen. Sean Diddy Combs. Right. Would you consider pardoning him? Well, he was essentially, I guess, sort of half innocent. Yes. I don't know what they do. He's still in jail or something. Yeah. He was celebrating a victory, but he seems, I guess, it wasn't as good as a victory.

44:27Probably, you know, I was very friendly with him. I got along with him. Great. and seemed like a nice guy. I didn't know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile. He said some not-so-nice things about you, sir. Yeah, and it's hard, you know, like you, we're human beings. Right. And we don't like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone and you were fine, and then you run for office, and he made some terrible statements. So I don't know. It's more difficult. But it makes it more, I'm being honest, it makes it more difficult to do. But more likely a no for Combs, it sounds like.

45:08I would say so. OK. Mm, got it. And some of it is about nasty things for Trump. That's the... I mean, it's just wild that he just out and out and it's like, well, he didn't support me. So I don't think I'll probably give him a part. Like, it just is, it's so naked. He doesn't even pretend that, oh, he was unjustly prosecuted. No, it's like, well, you know, I used to, we used to be friends. But then he was, said some nasty things about me. So I don't know. I'm not really feeling that way. It's just it's just insane. And there's a bunch of new reporting, too, for The New York Times about just like the brazen corruption, including the payoffs, the bribes in order to secure these pardons.

45:42And people around Diddy are trying to work the system right now, trying to get in with various MAGA figures and like pay off whoever they need to effectively to try to secure this part. And I mean, this is just the way this White House functions. It's crazy to see. So with that and the Ghislaine story, let's continue. Let's put this up there on the screen. Ghislaine Maxwell has now been moved to, quote, a cushy new club-fed prison as she pushes for a deal to tell all on Epstein. That prison is in Bryan, Texas, the town I was literally born in, and it is a minimum security prison camp. For those of you not familiar, these prison camps are like the lowest level security in the federal system.

46:21They barely even have, like, fences or security measures, like there's photos of Elizabeth Holmes running around the track. Just to show you. People are like photographers can get close enough to take pictures of Elizabeth Holmes, a Theranos woman who is in the facility. Now, there's a lot of actually open questions about how she even got this. Number one, she wasn't supposed to be transferred. Ghislaine was previously housed at a federal correctional institute, low security prison, which is traditionally what you're supposed to do with sex offenders. Sex offenders are not supposed to be moved to federal prison camps because it's a privilege to be able to be housed there.

46:53So it's an open question for why the BOP felt the need to transfer. It's not an open question. I'm just saying, though. We know why. All right, listen, FOIA guys, by the way, FOIA people out there, let's get some records. This is all out, you know, should be there in the open. Who ordered it? You know, was it the head of the BOP, the Department of Justice in exchange for what? Because this all gets to what is the deal being struck here between Ghislaine and the Trump administration in these extraordinary proffer sessions or whatever, where she's naming some 100 individuals. Who are those individuals?

47:25To what end are you naming these people? The Ghislaine Maxwell team obviously is saying, you know, we want our whole conviction thrown out. They're trying to appeal to the Supreme Court. Will the Justice Department fight her on that? That's still an open question. So, listen, I mean, this is all, like, very sketchy behavior because if the door is now open to a pardon, and let's say she comes out and she has a lot to say but none of it is about Donald Trump, can anybody really trust, you know, that this is legitimate? And see, that's the problem. This is why you need an independent special prosecutor, somebody with no skin, like actual political skin in the game to ensure that this stands up to some sort of legal scrutiny.

48:03Because if this lady walks free, it will be one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, it's disgusting. She's a monster. And she shouldn't even be in this prison. No, not at all. I mean she shouldn't be there. By the way, typically these sorts of transfers are done by U.S. Marshals. It was done directly by Bureau of Prisons officials instead. So just, you know, another anomaly here. But no, I mean, we can all see what's happening. It's happening right in front of our eyes. They had that meeting. You know, there were those leaks to the Wall Street Journal, which may have come from Ghislaine and her team about the birthday book and whatever.

48:35Then immediately, the Todd Blanche meets with Ghislaine. And lo and behold, next thing you know, she's getting moved to this cushy like, I mean, listen, I don't think being in federal prison is ever like really some vacation the way it's portrayed. But the places that they portray as like club fed, this is the type of place, right? It's the best you can get within the federal prison system, not saying that that's like a great experience for anyone anyway. But, you know, that that session, that proffer session was not just about, OK, what do you have on other people? Because I don't think Trump cares about what do you have on other people?

49:08What he cares about is what do you have on me? What do you have on me? And the fact that she had enough to apparently at least secure this little nice transfer for herself over the, you know, the protocols, like she should not have been transferred. She was not actually eligible to be transferred. They had to make an exception for her to get this transfer. Means she had something that made him nervous enough that like, OK, well, let's at least go this far. And then we'll see if they if she actually gets the pardon, if the federal government stops fighting her appeal at the Supreme Court. but, you know, I think we can all see what's happening, like what's happening on the surface level and interpret what is going on behind the scenes.

49:49Yeah, it's just more sketchy than anything else, especially whenever you have Trump continuing to open the door for a pardon. So, yeah, that's where we are all currently at. Ghislaine is sitting pretty in the federal prison camp system and the so-called club fed. Let's go ahead and go to the next one, please. Let's put it up there on the screen. The FBI has redacted Trump's name now in the Epstein files. This is from Jason Leopold. Jason Leopold, just so people don't know, is really one of the preeminent kind of FOIA reporters of our time. If anybody recalls on this Epstein story, I previously referenced the CIA inspector general who was covering up sex crimes and pedophilia.

50:30That was all because really of Leopold's work through a tremendous amount of FOIA victory that he had actually over the CIA and eventually getting his hands on those documents. So what he was able to find in the report is basically how they were redacting Trump's name along with, by the way, several other names. It would be nice to know who some of those people were. But officially it's the redaction that is from – he was able to learn through FOIA. Not only that, but the order itself came down from this current administration. And it's one, too, where in a certain way, I think they were really their own worst enemy.

51:10Because what happened prior, based on everything I've read now so far in the open record, is these 100 ,000 documents were scattered all over the government. Nobody had actually compiled them together. So Kash Patel and these other people were like, all right, put it all together. And then slowly but surely they're like, you know, Trump is in here. So it starts to float up to the White House as of two months before the memo comes in. And then the order at some point gets, hey, let's go and miss you, redactions, et cetera. And somewhere around that time of redaction and knowledge by Trump that his name is in there, that is when the infamous memo comes out from the administration of nothing to see here.

51:47He killed himself. We will do no more further releases. And look, you can draw your own conclusions. And again, part of the reason why I think this is such a foolish decision by the administration is that what's happening now are all of these leaks from inside of the DOJ. The birthday book, it only came from two places. It came from the FBI or it came from Ghislaine. I still think it came from the FBI because they haven't released the letter. And the only reason not to release the letter is because it's scanned. And they haven't even acknowledged in the story down in the 50th paragraph or so that the scans of the book are available in the Epstein files.

52:22And that's one of the ways that you'd be able to get it. But similarly with some of the other letters that they didn't release of Bill Clinton and others, same thing. They referenced scans being made of that. Of course it could be available to Ghislaine's legal defense team. So that's certainly possible as well. But if you look at other stories like at the New York Times, the scans of the book where Trump wrote to Epstein in 1997, same thing. it's a scan. It's not a picture of the actual book. And they say, again, if you read further, scans of the book are available in the Epstein file. So it's just open season in terms of leaks on the administration.

52:54And he's currently the only story on it. And it could be 150 other stories, but I guess he's scared of whatever that story is, or is just doing a stupid job at covering up. He can answer that problem at any time by actually releasing it and killing this entire story, but that's what they've chosen not to do. Yeah. Well, and at this point, it's really too late Because like you said, you could never trust what came out of them from them at this point. Like there's no way that you're going to be able to get some sort of full accounting from these people because they've invested a whole lot in a cover up.

53:23And we're going to cover the also some video irregularities, too. And that video that they really because remember when they put out the memo, the he killed himself, nothing to see here. We're moving on. Case closed. Prince Andrew, you're vindicated. when that memo went out, the only proof that they offered was this video evidence, which was supposed to demonstrate conclusively to all of us that, no, there was no funny business on the night that Jeffrey Epstein was killed. It was just a series of unfortunate incidents where the cameras were not functioning and the guards were asleep. And here's the video and let's all move on.

53:59Right. OK, let's get to that then. So CBS News actually did a great job. They did almost a 10 minute investigation into this. And they compiled some of the stuff that we've talked about here, about the camera angles and others, but they did a very good job of showing some of the graphics. And they brought in some more metadata analyses to show both a third person that's available and visible in the video, actually down in the background, and just to debunk how preposterous the one released by the DOJ is. Let's take a listen. CBS News has reviewed the tape, and this is what it shows. The primary entrance is here.

54:30The pathway from the entrance to the stairs is completely out of view of the camera, leaving ample room for someone to enter unseen. This is the last time Epstein is believed to have been seen on camera, but we don't see him walking up the stairs to his cell. Bongino also said none of this video was doctored. It was the original raw footage from the camera. We're going to give the original so you don't think there were any shenanigans. But a review by multiple video forensic experts found several indications this may not be raw footage. For example, at 1121 p.m., a cursor appears briefly indicating the video may have actually been a recording of a computer screen.

55:07Experts told CBS News the video's metadata, which tracks how a file is created and changed, shows it's made from two clips edited together. Then at 1158 p.m., the video suddenly jumps to midnight and the aspect ratio shifts. And every night should have the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night. But a government source familiar with the probe told CBS News the FBI and other agencies are in possession of a copy of a video that records with no interruption. Well, what do you got? All right. I mean, pretty convincing to me, don't you think?

55:44Funny how they never released that video showing, oh, every night the same minute is missing. We're going to get that to you. Still waiting on that one. We talked about it. It's like, it is theoretically possible that some 1990s era system does that, but then you're going to have to release a lot of evidence. And as, I mean, again, the metadata there doesn't lie as they show. They also have this recording. It's like, what are we doing? Potato quality now from the government where we're going to record our photo stories? Like, what are we doing here? You know? It's like, that's the boomerest move I've ever heard.

56:14The degradation in this government to not even be able to do the basics of an effective cover-up saga. I thought about that during Venezuela. What have we come to? I kept thinking about that during the Juan Guaido thing. I'm like, what? We can't even do a coup? Can't even do a coup? It's our own backyard. A South American coup? Just kill him and put the guy on the thing. We don't need to recognize some fake government. Let's all just do it properly. I don't know if you saw this as well. I think it was from CBS, too, because they did the most thorough analysis. There's also a part where you see a mystery figure in orange.

56:47Exactly, yes. Which is also really significant because they claim, oh, there's no one in this video. And then there is that appears at a certain point. And I think another outlet had reported sources indicating that, no, this whole, like, oh, there's always a minute missing thing is just bullshit. That's just not true. So, and not to mention, this camera angle, and this is part of what CBS is pointing out, doesn't even show what they purport to show. Like they claim that this, if you have your eyes on this camera, this means no one could go in or come out of the cell without you seeing it there.

57:20And that's also just not true. So the way they portrayed the video was a lie. The explanation that, oh, this is raw footage and this hasn't been altered, that's a lie. The idea there was no other figures in the film, that's a lie. The missing minute thing, that's a lie. So you're like, okay, well, so what are you hiding here given that this is the only piece of evidence? Like, it's completely legitimate for people to parse this minute by minute since the only piece of evidence that the government has put out to back up their claim that there was nothing to see there, nothing untoward happened on the night that Jeffrey Epstein, quote unquote, killed himself.

57:55And lo and behold, we've now got, you know, increasingly a lengthy list of inconsistencies and question marks and lies about this one video they put out. Yes, that's exactly right. And finally, B6, please. What do we have here from the Maxwell prison? The new prison in Texas, quietly that she's been transferred to, prohibits cameras and recording devices, very few surveillance and footage, no public visibility. They moved her into a facility where transparency is actually significantly reduced, quote, banned by design right as she starts cooperating with the DOJ. So let's see. No way. Good luck, Elaine.

58:31Let's keep our eyes open, shall we, down in my hometown of Bryan, Texas.

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