Transcript of Andrew Weissmann excoriating Todd Blanche on the Epstein Document release

Andrew, we've been talking um
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theoretically you've been reading. Uh
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anything strike you in terms of what the
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Department of Justice has made public?
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Um I want to turn to something that you
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said at the outset, which is that we're
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going to look for what's in there, but
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we're going to also look for what's not
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in there. And I just want to talk for a
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moment what Todd Blanch said today
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because it is outrageous. It is to me
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this is just a huge joke that is
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basically treating the MAGA base as a
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bunch of fools. Um so Todd Blanch said
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today that Donald Trump for years has
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wanted to make all of this public. Well,
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we know that's not true because if he
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wanted to do it, he could have done it
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on day one of his presidency and he
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hasn't. two, he said, well, as you've
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reported that he's going to have
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produced hundreds of thousands about
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three few hundred thousand uh documents
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today and a few hundred,000 he expects
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later. Well, the law as you've said
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required it to be produced today. So, he
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is saying right now is there in
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violation of the law. That's point two.
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And then I did a little math because in
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September of this year, the Department
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of Justice put out an official statement
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that said there's nothing to see here.
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And they've gone through the 300
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um gigabytes of information. Well, um a
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few hundred thousand and a few hundred
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thousand does not equal 300 gigabytes.
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Um that is just not possible. It's not
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plausible. And so the question is where
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are the what what is not being produced?
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I mean to me this is just going to
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scream cover up because you have them
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not complying with the law lying in my
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view to the American people about the
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president's wishes and then the ultimate
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doing the math doesn't equal the number.
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I mean there's no way that you get to
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300 gigabytes with a few hundred
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thousand or a few hundred thousand no
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matter how big those documents are. To
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me, that is a huge part of this story is
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what is not being produced. And to the
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congressman's point, a responsible DOJ
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would actually have had a press
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conference and they would have talked
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through the measures they took. They
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would say, "This is what we've done.
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Here's the procedures. Here is what we
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did." Instead, you know that there is a
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problem with what they're doing when
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they do this through a sort of short
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form announcement on Fox News that
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doesn't answer any of that. Um, to me,
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that's the story right now.
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Well, and on your your point about
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volume, I mean, I think the person who
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first started talking in press
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interviews about 300 gigabytes of data
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was Cash Patel on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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And when Cash Patel um I think in his
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own confirmation hearing said no, he
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didn't traffic to anyone. No one else
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was involved and there's nothing to see
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here. Um I think it was Joe Dur Rogan
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who said what do they think we're all
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babies? I mean the the lies that have
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been told about the volume and the
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substance um will either be proven as
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lies or the truth will come out today.
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And it seems, Andrew, that what you're
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seeing so far in terms of the lack of
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volume that is being released is that
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the cover up continues.
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Yeah. I mean, look, there's only one
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reason Todd Blanch went on TV now is
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because somebody had to be the fall guy
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um for like explaining why they're not
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complying with the law and saying, you
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know, this is what we're doing. But it
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is it is just unbelievable but that
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nobody at the Department of Justice felt
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like a that they're public servants
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working for us and thus owe us answers.
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Um and two we're just going to be you
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know give a sort of thorough recitation
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what congressman said if there's delays
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at least explaining that but saying what
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exactly is being produced and what is
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not being produced. One of the things
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that I'm going to be looking for is I've
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been very focused on the quality of the
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investigation that was even done in this
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case because Todd Blanch has said
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another thing which is that the
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documents that we have so far that came
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from the estate are ones that the
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Department of Justice did not have. Um
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that that I mean Mayor McCord and I
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talked about this because we're sort of
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career D. That is investigation 101 that
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you would have the documents from the
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Epstein estate. I mean, it's just
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unbelievable they didn't have them. And
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so, you're going to be thinking, what
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else did they not get? And who did they
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not interview? For instance, is there an
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interview report of Donald Trump? Um,
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among many others, you not just him, but
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why wouldn't you interview him? And so
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that's one of the things that if it's
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not in there, you're going to be asking
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yourself either A, does it exist but not
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been turned over? or B, if he wasn't
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interviewed, why on God's green earth
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wasn't he?

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