Rep. Garcia Discusses New Epstein Videos and Photos

0:00Ben Meiselas:This summer, FanDuel is the best place to bet on goals. Including equalizers? Uh-huh. Balls? Yep. Headers? Every goal is worth more on FanDuel. So, let there be goals. New customers get$350 in bonus bets guaranteed when you bet$5 for seven days. 21 plus in present and select states. First online real money wager only. Minimum$5 wager required for seven consecutive days. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as non-withdrawable bonus bets, which expires seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms at fanduel.com slash sportsbook. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or 1-800-MY-RESET.

0:30Ben Meiselas:This podcast is brought to you by Carvana. Selling your car should feel like one less thing on your list, not one more. With Carvana, it is. Just go to Carvana.com, enter your license plate or VIN, and get a real offer down to the penny. No back and forth, no surprises, just an experience you can trust. Like your offer? Accept it. Schedule a pickup, and we'll come to you with a check in hand. Your car, your timeline, your terms. Visit Carvana.com to sell your car today. Carvana. Delivery fees and terms may apply. The grill is shot. The chairs are held together by optimism. And what happened to the rug?

1:05Sounds like your outdoor setup is not ready for patio season. Fix it all with Wayfair. Shop Wayfair for grills, rugs, furniture, and more. With 20 million five-star reviews, room of choice delivery, and experts set up on qualifying orders, it's never been easier to do more for less. Get 10 % off your first eligible purchase. Hurry to Wayfair.com or download the app now.

1:30Ben Meiselas:Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile, with a message for everyone paying big wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just$15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying, no judgments, but that's weird. Okay, one judgment. Anyway, give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of$45 for a three-month plan, equivalent to$15 per month required. Intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available. taxes and fees extra see full terms at mintmobile.com we've got the video we've got the tapes thanks to the great work of the democrats in the house oversight committee donald trump is panicking as democrats in the house oversight committee have got their hands on new photos inside jeffrey epstein's home on the despicable island and they've got videos of it as well i mean these videos and photos are absolutely uh creepy as it kind of tore the area it has like dental chairs bizarre statues, you know, in the outside area is just a sight to behold in these videos.

2:35Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, you have Democratic lawmakers reaching out to Attorney General Pam Bondi that has sent a letter and said, all right, December 19th, that's when the files are going to be released, right? Right. Tell us what you're going to do because we don't want to have December 19th come around. And then you raise all of these objections and you claim that, oh, it's not lawful to turn this over and that over and by the way trump could have turned these overs without the law being passed let's be very clear about that and separately there is a house oversight subpoena that's been out and pending for a very long time i think you see the formation of the plan right now from these uh mega republicans based on what cash patel said yesterday let's just play that quickly anything given his past uh mr director our our viewers also are just they're chomping at the bit on why it took the Epstein files so long to be released.

3:28Any regrets there? Was that an unforced error? Just should we have gotten them out earlier? Just get them all out there. Just thought I'd give you a chance to react to that. Yeah, look, this FBI has produced 40 ,000 pages of documents to Congress. To put that in comparison, Ray put out 13 ,000 in seven years and Comey put out 3 ,000. We're committed to transparency. We're putting out as much as we can that is lawful and that is not prohibited by court orders. And those are the things the DOJ is fighting still with judges in court to make sure we can reveal everything without breaking the law. And that's what we're committed to doing.

4:04We're doing it as fast as we can and we're going to keep doing it.

4:06Ben Meiselas:Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. And since Congressmember Garcia has been in charge, the ranking member of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, that's where we've gotten all of these emails from the epstein estate the videos i know you've also subpoenaed financial records that you now have you're going through from jp morgan chase and deutsche bank you it's obvious what they're doing right i mean like we're not stupid i mean isn't isn't it pretty clear where trump and the doj are going to go or do you think they're actually going to produce these records well there's no question that of course donald trump is leading a cover-up on the EPSU files.

4:44And Pam Bondi and the DOJ are taking orders directly from the president. That's our belief. It certainly appears that way. And they have been so committed to not releasing these files after campaigning on them. And now to have all this back and forth and the president fighting the legislation that was on the floor, not responding to our oversight subpoena. So it's pretty clear they don't want the documents released no matter what Kasper Teller, anybody else says. And so we expect them to continue to try to slow or stop our investigation. But we're, of course, focused not just on getting these documents from the DOJ, but we're going anywhere the information exists.

5:22So if that is the Epson estate, which of course helped us release those documents and those emails from a couple of weeks ago, whether it's getting the birthday book that we got, whether it's these new videos and documents, some of these some of these pictures and videos that we received of course are new they've never been seen before others have been already released to the public um financial records that we hope to put out in the next hopefully weeks ahead uh whatever we're able to to produce this is the work of our committee to get justice for the survivors and we're gonna continue to push forward and anything

5:53Ben Meiselas:that we release we're gonna put out to the public yeah i mean i think you putting out the photos today. I think it's important that people can visually see how creepy this island was where the child sex trafficking ring. I think visuals are important to see like these were the areas where children were raped and this was where Epstein would bring these wealthy men as part of the sex trafficking ring that's being covered up. I also thought that you releasing today is kind of a kind of a statement also to your colleagues and others like we're not stopping like look what we've got and we're gonna we're on the island now we have eyes on what's happening and you better be transparent because we're gonna get this one way or another so that was kind of my reading of it as well but you were the one from the house dems who released it what what was your what was the strategy i think that's exactly right you know when we receive something we're gonna put it out that picture that you which i think is the most disturbing one the dentist chair with the masks We don't think that photo has ever been seen before, that image of that bizarre room.

6:57And so when we receive something like that, that is clearly a place and a space where so many children and women were abused, we need to put that out to the public, even if it's hard to see. And it certainly is disturbing and creepy to see these images. We obviously put out some images today. today. We're putting out more images and videos as we go through those, and those will be coming out in the days ahead. And what's important at this moment is that the president has the power to release all of the files now and just refuses to do so. And so I think you're right. They're going to continue this cover-up.

7:34They're going to use some sham investigation to try to get around it. But we will continue fighting to ensure that we release these files and get justice for all survivors.

7:44Ben Meiselas:You know, I'll tell the editor, just pull the photo up of that dental chair one more time, because I want people to really look at like these masks in there. And, you know, I think that one can reasonably infer that this was a room that was not simply used for dental hygienic work. And when you see the masks there, the scene of horror that victims must have gone through to be put in a chair like that if that's how that room was used. It's the stuff of nightmares, and it's the stuff that Republicans continue to cover up. I mean, did you ever think that your colleagues on the other side would frankly spend their time not legislating, they were talking about showerheads today or whatever the hell they were talking about, but actually focus their priorities on covering up a child sex trafficking ring?

8:36It's been hard to see Republicans essentially being dragged to support disclosure and supporting the survivors. I mean, you saw the effort in Congress. We only had not even a handful of Republicans initially sign that discharge petition, and it was only until that actual vote came forward that you had all other Republicans break with the president and then begin this wave of support to get those files released. on the Oversight Committee. There has been some areas where Republicans have joined us, but mostly it's been us pushing. It's been us demanding. It's been us forcing votes to get information.

9:14This could end today if Donald Trump just released the files, and yet they're refusing to do so. I think we're going to continue every single day reminding the White House that we are going to get to the bottom of what happened and all the powerful men that abuse these women and children are going to be held accountable.

9:32Ben Meiselas:It just seems everything that these Republicans in the House, Senate, White House are doing is a cover up. There's always, I mean, if you just even look at an example like Jack Smith, and I know this isn't your committee per se, but like Jack Smith, someone is like, yeah, I want to testify in public. And the Republicans are like, nope, we just want to talk about you on Fox. We don't want to do that. We don't want to do that in public. And just, it seems that everything they do, it's like behind closed doors and they, and they hide. And it's just like, just let the American people see it. No matter who's on this list, who's in it, just, just, just, just let people see, I guess on that note too, tell us what else you're focused on the House Oversight Committee, because obviously you've had a, you know, put a lot of focus here, but there's so many other areas that I know you've been focused on because there's literally billions of dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars, potentially trillions, that seem to be part of a broader scam that this Trump regime is doing.

10:33Absolutely. I mean, look, obviously, the Epstein investigation is incredibly important. I think, you know, we're right now, there's millions and millions of girls and women that are looking at what we're doing and asking themselves, is the government going to cover up abuse of women in our country? And I think that's why that investigation is critical. But broadly speaking, there's so much work ahead of us. I mean, the corruption was happening in DHS and ICE, for example, the loss of due process, not just for people that are here that are non-citizens that are working hard, that have no criminal records in most cases, but also for U.S.

11:07citizens. We have over 170 U.S. citizens that we know of that have been detained, that were somehow brought in by ICE into a detention center with no due process in many cases. That is horrific. It should not be happening to U.S. citizens because what were maybe brown or hispanic and so the investigations around ice are really important we're doing hearings and getting getting information and doing interviews we're also right now looking at hhs and the destruction of our vaccine program in this country by by bobby kennedy which has been i think clear that he is out to radically change our health systems and we should not stand for that and of course broader corruption in the trump administration these real estate deals that are happening in other parts of the world with his family, the work of Donald Trump in enriching himself through this kind of meme coin foreign investment tool that he has somehow created with no transparency, just the blatant abuse of power as it relates to the demolition of the East Wing, the Qatar plane.

12:14There's endless amounts of investigations that are happening right now, and we're working really hard to get through them all because we want to be ready when we have the evidence and we have these investigations in place that we give it to the public and that we work to get accountability for these for these act not just actions but honestly they are attacks on our constitution well congressman garcia the american people appreciate

12:38Ben Meiselas:the work that you're doing and really since since you've become the ranking member i mean you can see cause and effect and all these documents going out and so obviously there's a reason that james Comer keeps on lobbying ad hominem attacks your way because they're scared. So we appreciate everything you're doing. Thanks so much. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.

13:15Ben Meiselas:Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this, but anyone can get the same premium wireless for$15 a month plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did and have one of your assistant's assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do at mintmobile.com slash switch. Upfront payment of$45 for three month plan equivalent to$15 per month required. Intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. Default terms at mintmobile.com.