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LIVE: Popok Gives URGENT UPDATE on Epstein FILES RELEASE | 2/10/2026

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "LIVE: Popok Gives URGENT UPDATE on Epstein FILES RELEASE | 2/10/2026", an episode of MeidasTouch published February 11, 2026 (1 h 9 min, about 10,252 words). It mentions 22 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Epstein file, Howard Lutnick, Department of Justice, Leticia James.

What this episode is about

The update discusses significant developments regarding the Epstein files, highlighting potential indictments linked to high-profile individuals, including Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, while raising concerns about attempts to suppress information and deport victims. It also touches on the legal implications of Ghislaine Maxwell's recent actions and contextualizes ongoing judicial activities related to search warrants in Fulton County.

Key takeaways

  • Epstein's echoes are haunting Trump’s circle—legal webs thickening, as past secrets resurface with a vengeance.
  • Watching Ghislaine Maxwell drop names without naming names is like a magician revealing tricks—no substance, all sleight of hand.
  • Fulton County raids: when a conspiracy theorist's thoughts become FBI informants, reality flips the script on 'who to trust.'
  • Blocking funds for jobs while holding an economy hostage? Trump’s antics are a masterclass in extracting vanity from policy.
  • The DOJ’s indictment circus is losing its clowns; grand juries and judges keeping a tight lid on political bread and circus.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Donald Trump, Epstein file, Howard Lutnick, Department of Justice
  2. – 20:00: New York, New York, Epstein file, Donald Trump, Brad S. Karp
  3. – 30:00: Brad S. Karp, Congress, Donald Trump, Epstein file
  4. – 40:00: Fulton County, Donald Trump, Congress, Legal AF
  5. – 50:00: Leticia James, James Comey, Donald Trump, Legal AF
  6. – 1:00:00: Department of Justice, New York, New York, Donald Trump, James Comey
  7. – 1:08:59: Legal AF, Donald Trump, New York, New York, Damonte Cheryl

Notable quotes from "LIVE: Popok Gives URGENT UPDATE on Epstein FILES RELEASE | 2/10/2026"

  • Be giddy about it, but so many developments, fevered pitch now with the Epstein files and threats to it that it could tear down not only Donald Trump but other parts of his cabinet like my old boss Howard.
    about Epstein file · at
  • About that. And speaking of crazies, we have a update coming on the air tonight related to the Fulton County, Georgia raid. I wondered when it happened. What could they have possibly told? That's interesting. That's not the.
    about Fulton County · at
  • Appointee, is blocking along with the Second Circuit Donald Trump's efforts to take the American economy hostage. He has a he has a weird penchant hobby of killing jobs. I don't know I don't know how else to put it. He.
    about Donald Trump · at
  • And so Chuck Schumer, Corey Booker, Governor Mikey Cheryl of New Jersey, Leticia James of New York, they're fighting mad. They're winning at the district court level. Second…
    about Leticia James · at
  • And having worked with Howard Lutnik for a number of years, I know the tell when he's not telling the truth. So, let's play first four months ago when he thought we wouldn't get to the bottom of the.
    about Howard Lutnick · at
  • Billion dollars that Steven Miller was able to negotiate. Right? That's why Brad Karp is now is no longer really I don't know if he's still at Paul Weiss, but he's pretty close…
    about Brad S. Karp · at
  • The kind of the foundation for the intersection for me which is the legal afc ecosystem. So we've got a YouTube channel called legal af. The YouTube channel 12 new videos a…
    about Legal AF · at
  • These Missouri den election deniers and they from that memo forward they tried to get indictments against these people.
    about James Comey · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure / alleged cover-up beneficiary · 22 mentions · first at
    Central figure tying together claims about Epstein-file suppression, law-firm capitulation, DOJ politicization, and federal funding leverage over the Gateway tunnel project.
  • Howard Lutnick — Person · Referenced cabinet official; subject of Epstein-related allegations · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed as Commerce Secretary who allegedly misrepresented his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and later admitted to visiting Epstein’s island with family; framed as part of broader alleged Epstein-file exposure risk.
  • Leticia James — Person · Referenced political/legal target; state AG opposing Trump actions · 11 mentions · first at
    Discussed as New York Attorney General allegedly targeted by politicized DOJ efforts and also as a key figure fighting Trump over federal funding for the NY/NJ tunnel project.
  • Brad S. Karp — Person · Referenced law-firm leader; alleged facilitator of settlement/cover-up · 8 mentions · first at
    Presented as the Paul Weiss leader who negotiated a deal providing Trump $40M in free legal services and is alleged to have ties to Epstein-related efforts, including an alleged deportation tactic against a victim.
  • James Comey — Person · Referenced political/legal target; former FBI Director · 12 mentions · first at
    Portrayed as a Trump political enemy whom DOJ allegedly tried and failed to indict; used as an example of alleged weaponization and procedural defects/time-bar issues.
  • Damonte Cheryl — Person · Referenced state executive (NJ) in infrastructure litigation · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as New Jersey’s governor involved in the fight to restore federal funding for the Hudson River tunnel project; positioned as part of a rising Democratic leadership bench.
    And for those that didn't recognize it, that was Corey Booker, the senator from New Jersey, my home state, and the new governor of New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl, former helicop I think helicopter pilot in the military.
  • Chuck Schumer — Person · Referenced Senate leader; legislative advocate for survivors and funding fight · 3 mentions · first at
    Appears in the episode as a leader supporting survivor-related legislation and as a political figure opposing Trump’s alleged leverage over infrastructure funding.
    And for those that didn't recognize it, that was Corey Booker, the senator from New Jersey, my home state, and the new governor of New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl, former helicop I think helicopter pilot in the military.
  • JP Bully — Person · Referenced federal judge (Article III) in Fulton County warrant dispute · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the judge connected to ordering disclosure/unmasking of the FBI affidavit supporting a search warrant/raid related to Fulton County election materials.
    Federal magistrate judge, and we're going to see what the article 3 judge has to say about it, JP Bully, related to the affidavit that was filed. The Department of Justice has effectively admitted in one of its new filings that it can't.
  • Virginia Jeffrey — Person · Referenced survivor/advocacy namesake for legislation · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as the namesake for a companion bill related to the Epstein Transparency Act, focused on lifting statutes of limitations for civil claims by sex abuse survivors.
    Announce a new bill, sort of a companion named after Virginia Jeffrey, a companion to the Epstein Transparency Act, which would remove the statute of limitations and allow these survivors, not just of Epstein, but all sex abuse survivors.

Companies & orgs

  • Department of Justice — Company · Referenced organization · 13 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of its role in handling the Epstein files and other legal matters.
    Deep, deep crap with her boss as she takes the stand tomorrow for the Department of Justice's oversight committee hearing led by the House and Senate Democrats. that's going to…
  • Paul Weiss — Company · Referenced organization · 5 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in relation to its settlement with Donald Trump and connections to the Epstein case.
    Lutnik and lawyers at major law firms like Paul Weiss. I may now have the explanation as to why Paul Weiss was the first of a dozen law firms to settle with Donald Trump and…
  • Legal AF — Company · Business focus · 12 mentions · first at
    The podcast and YouTube channel where the discussion is taking place.
  • Goldman Sachs — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in relation to its connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
    He's not the only one. The general counsel of Goldman Sachs was so close to Jeffrey Epstein that she was the executive for his will.
  • New York Post — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in relation to its coverage of Howard Lutnik.
    Four months ago when he thought we wouldn't get to the bottom of the Epstein Files. He told on a podcast owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, he told a big lie…
  • Survivor Strategies — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as an organization working with survivors of sexual abuse.
    I'm working very closely and we're about to announce it. We're just working out the last details. I'm working with a survivor organization called Survivor Strategies out of California run by Sam Maloney and former state senator Joe Dunn.

Concepts & topics

  • Epstein file — Concept · Core topic · 11 mentions · first at
    Central theme of the episode, discussing the implications and cover-ups related to the Epstein files.
  • Epstein Transparency Act — Concept · Referenced legislation · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a legislative effort related to the Epstein case.
    Announce a new bill, sort of a companion named after Virginia Jeffrey, a companion to the Epstein Transparency Act, which would remove the statute of limitations and allow these survivors, not just of Epstein, but all sex abuse survivors.

Places & events

  • Fulton County — Place · Setting · 9 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of a legal battle over election data and search warrants.
  • New York, New York — Place · Setting · 16 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of the Gateway Project and political discussions.
    To kill an American job. And if there's a labor union attached to it, all the better. $16 billion dollar already allocated by Congress held up by Donald Trump to pay for a new…
  • Congress — Place · Setting · 14 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of legislative actions and hearings.
    And then lastly, I'll kind of round out the Epstein update for today. survivors were on Capitol Hill along with Chuck Schumer to announce a new bill, sort of a companion named after Virginia Jeffrey, a companion to the Epstein Transparency.
  • New Jersey (Jersey) — Place · Setting · 6 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of the Gateway Project and political discussions.
    To kill an American job. And if there's a labor union attached to it, all the better. $16 billion dollar already allocated by Congress held up by Donald Trump to pay for a new…
  • Second Circuit — Place · Setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of legal rulings and appeals.
    Leticia James of New York, they're fighting mad. They're winning at the district court level. Second circuit looks like it's it's going to be siding with them, at least in the…

Full transcript with timestamps

What an incredible day in Washington and courts around America. We're winning. I mean, I don't want to be giddy about it, but so many developments, fevered pitch now with the Epstein files and threats to it that it could tear down not only Donald Trump but other parts of his cabinet like my old boss Howard Lutnik and lawyers at major law firms like Paul Weiss. I may now have the explanation as to why Paul Weiss was the first of a dozen law firms to settle with Donald Trump and give him 40 million dollars worth of free legal services. Was it connected to the Epstein files and Brad Karp, the leader of Paul Weiss, trying to do a major cover up and get this, deport one of the victims in order to protect one of his own clients. Yeah.

gonna talk about that. Galain Maxwell, Howard Lutnik, six at least six men who Tom Massie, the the um leader of the bipartisan movement to release the Epstein files has said are having have basically have been indicted by the Epstein files that he's been able to look at as Trump administration continues to cover it up. uh the performative art piece of watching Galain Maxwell, who already waved her Fifth Amendment privilege when she identified quote unquote 29 men that cut sweetheart deals with the Justice Department, then refused to name them.

That's not how the Fifth Amendment works, by the way, but we will talk about that. And uh speaking of of crazies, we have a update coming on the air tonight related to the Fulton County, Georgia raid. I wondered when it happened. What could they have possibly told? That's interesting. That's not the right That's interesting. I like Judge McBurnernney. Not quite the right judge, but I I appreciate Judge McBurnernney. Um I There we go. I was wondering what they could have possibly told the federal magistrate judge to establish probable cause uh that a crime had been committed in order to get a search warrant to execute a raid on Fulton County about 2020. I was like, what could it be? Ah, the judge in the case um has um issued an order forced the Trump administration to unmask the FBI affidavit.

And boy is my head spinning. People who couldn't even make the varsity squad for team crazy in the White House during 2020 are now being used as confidential informants and witnesses. All conspiracy theorists, all rogues gallery of people whose theories have been soundly re debunked. They are the basis for the FBI agent to go into a federal magistrate and say not that there's probable cause that a crime was committed, admitting he doesn't have probable cause. At best, if these things happened and if they happened intentionally, it may violate federal law. Well, that's not how affidavits in support of a search warrant work. And this FBI agent should immediately resign. And everybody involved, and we'll be naming names here on the intersection, should be put in jail for misleading a federal magistrate judge, and we're going to see what the article 3 judge has to say about it, uh, JP Bully,

uh, related to the affidavit that was filed. The Department of Justice has effectively admitted in one of its new filings that it can't legitimately indict former FBI Director James Comey, nor New York Attorney General Leticia James. And so they're trying to revive, resuscitate the indictments that were illegally obtained by the failed um resigning and disgrace no longer in the Department of Justice prosecutor Lindseay Hall. That for me is an admission that between grand juries rejecting them, federal judges rejecting them, and them being out of time as it relates at least to James Comey that that Pam Bondi is in deep, deep crap with her boss as she takes the stand tomorrow for the Department of Justice's oversight committee hearing led by the House and Senate Democrats. that's going to be live on legal af YouTube because she's not making good on her promises to Donald Trump uh a year ago this month to

create to not only create a weaponization committee but to go after his political enemies. Uh so far not doing very well. We'll talk about that uh here at the intersection. Judge Vargas, a Biden appointee, is blocking along with the Second Circuit Donald Trump's efforts to take the American economy hostage. He has a he has a weird penchant hobby of killing jobs. I don't know I don't know how else to put it. He just he does not pass up an opportunity to kill an American job. And if there's a labor union attached to it, all the better. $16 billion dollar already allocated by Congress held up by Donald Trump to pay for a new tunnel between New Jersey and New York under the Hudson River. More importantly, it represents 20% of the American economy in the traffic that flows through that tunnel, both passenger and freight. Three months ago, Donald Trump stopped it. He recently said, "Well, if you spray paint

my name on Penn Station, New York or andor Doulles Airport, I may release the funds." This is the same guy, of course, that kept $400 million of Ukrainian money hostage when he threatened the then new president, Zalinsky, and that famous phone call. Uh, and so Chuck Schumer, Corey Booker, Governor Mikey Cheryl of New Jersey, Leticia James of New York, they're fighting mad. They're winning at the district court level. Second circuit looks like it's it's going to be siding with them, at least in the short term, and thousands and thousands of union jobs are going to be preserved. I want to talk about that particular case as well here at the intersection. Welcome everybody.

Thanks for being here. I love Tuesdays. Midas jokes that it's the day that Popac rides solo. Sometimes I have guests, but uh it's Pop Unleashed. Pop Unplugged. Can't put Pop in the corner. Um all right, enough of saying my name. I'm sure there's a drinking game now associated with that, but I appreciate each and every one of you being here. Uh let's get into Epstein, all things Epstein with an update there. Uh so let's start with Howard Lutnik. Why not? Commerce Secretary uh had to now admit under oath at an appropriations committee hearing today that Oh, yeah. I think I did go with my family and teenage children to Epstein's Island Christmas 2013 when we were quote unquote transiting with our yacht across the Caribbean as if that was the only island to stop on. Like when you're island hopping, I don't know if going to Pedo Island five years after after Jeffrey Epstein took a sweetheart plea

deal on but it was still disgusting nonetheless, which was engaging in child prostitution. I don't think is that the guy you bring your 14, 13, 12, and nineyear-old to? And how do I know those were the ages? Not because I worked with Howard Lutnik, but because he listed it in an email. I mean, I'm I'm sorry. You You You suspect that your next door neighbor seven years earlier is some sort of disgusting, depraved person who has a massage table where a dining room should be. And this is the person you bring not only your children to, but the children of one of your best friends and enlists the ages.

Seriously. But even more came out, although it didn't come out during the appropriations committee hearing, but it came out in the Epstein files that they had a nanny. Even uh Lutnik talks about his nanny, you know, as just so we can all we can all uh empathize with him, right, with all of our nanny issues. He talked about his nanny. What he forgot to mention is the nanny's resume ended up over at Epstein's house and sent over there. Why? Lutnik and his wife knew that Epstein didn't have any children. I assume the nanny was female, maybe vulnerable, and so you're going to send the nanny over to Epstein.

Um, and having worked with Howard Lutnik for a number of years, I know the tell when he's not telling the truth. So, let's play first four months ago when he thought we wouldn't get to the bottom of the Epstein Files. He told on a podcast owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, he told a big lie about his relationship and how it ended in 2005. Let's play the clip.

He was your neighbor for 10 years. How well did you know him? All right. So, we are in number 11 and he lives in number nine,

right? So, uh we renovate, we buy our house and our house is pigeons and mice, right?

Okay. That's it was derelct, right? So, we build we rebuild our house. We move in in 2005.

Okay. Jeffrey Epste is arrested in like08, I think, or something like that. Right. Right.

So, knock on the door. His assistant on like a Saturday says, "Mr. Epstein. Uh, your neighbor would like to invite you over for coffee.

So, my wife and I go next door, you know, we walk the seven steps. Yes. Right. To the next house for for coffee. We share a wall.

Right. Right. So, it's in New York City. So, he invites us in. We have coffee in this. And he says, "Do you want a tour?"

We said, "Great." Interesting. It's a really big house. Every room you went in,

he's got he's got Well, I'll tell you. So his house is like super big, really wide. And uh so he gives me a tour in the living room, big living room, and then across from it is double doors. I assume it's the dining room.

Yeah. And he opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room

and candles all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him, "Massage table in the middle of your house. how often you have a massage and he says every day. And then he like gets like weirdly close to me

and he says and the right kind of massage. Now my wife is standing here. So she looks at me and I look at her and we say, "I'm sorry. We have to go." And we left. And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

So I was never in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going.

All right. All of that is a lie. We know that from the Epstein files that came out from 2005 until as late as 2017. Epstein and Lutnik were in business together in a company related to advertising and technology called Adfin where they both invested money in it together. Um there were email exchanges between their assistants to set up drinks in 2011. Everything I'm telling you now is after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted and served time for child prostitution solicitation. Okay. Um he someone in the organization I'm sure solicited Jeffrey Epstein to make a $50,000 donation to a Jewish charity that was uh giving an award to Lutnik in 2015.

and that happened. And then we've got while the business deal is going on, we've got the Caribbean island visit because Howard is on a giant yacht with other people in his family and another couple. And of all the islands that they could visit for lunch, they visit Epstein's island with Epstein there, announcing that their arrival will include all of these children. So when you just heard Lutnik say, "I would never be in a room alone for business, for philanthropy, for social ever again," that was a lie. He hoped that that what was in the Epstein files would never see the light of day. And then he keeps going. 2017, 2018, there's a there's a museum near their homes on the upper east side of New York called the Frick. one of my favorite museums in a beautiful fifth fifth avenue mansion that was owned by a guy named Frick that's now a private collection and they were expanding and they didn't

want to lose their view of Central Park or whatever. So Lutnik contacts Epstein we got to join together WE GOT TO STOP THE WE GOT TO STOP THE MUSEUM. SO, with all of that information, putting a lie to what he said, I guess he thought one day he wouldn't have to sit in a seat under oath and have to answer for it. But today, at an appropriations committee hearing, he did. Let's play the clip.

But Nick, um, I think you understand the root of concern here. It's the way you described very emphatically your first encounter with him. in his apartment, said you were disgusted, would never have any contact with him again. Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island?

I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my four children and nannies. I had another couple with they were there as well with their children and we had lunch on the island. That is true for an hour and we left with all of my children with my nannies and my wife all together. We were on family vacation. We were not apart to suggest there was anything unoured about that in 2012. I don't I don't recall why we did it. But

Mr. Secretary again I as I said there can we put that I don't know if you can hold it can we put that back up just just let Nick testifying for a minute I want to point out something to the audience I don't know if we can do it can we do it or just or just put up put up and then and then hit stop just show just show one slide I'm stressing out my producers can we do that let me Let me see if I can do that. Okay. Yes. Thank you very much. Because Lutnik was obviously prepared for this line of questioning in the appropriations committee and he brought a special guest with him that I want to point out in the picture soon as we get it up. Got everybody on the edge of their seat right now.

Okay. Oh, so close. Let's go back to Lutnik at the microphone. Okay, because who goes to a appropriations committee meeting? We're going to roll it back. Stop right there. To Howard Lutnik's left, our right on the screen, that's his wife. Okay. What cabinet member comes to an appropriations committee meeting and has his wife Allison Lutnik, who's also on the board of the Kennedy Center, sit right behind him. Right. See, this is again using family, right? Speaking of prostitution, prostituting your family in order to try to curry some favor. I guess he thought there'd be some good photo opportunities with him, whatever, with his wife and that, you know, to give him more credibility. I think it's a disgusting display to bring your family into this.

You went to the island. You went with your family. You did it. You lied to the American people four months ago. and in any other country but in the Trump America with MAGA in Congress, he would be tossed. He would be thrown out. You know, if this was if this was our UK friends, he'd already be gone. And Ro Connor has said the exact same thing. And Thomas Massie, a Republican, has called, you can take it down, has has called for his head and his removal. That's Lutnik. Not the only one. Let me turn to Brad Karp. guy you never heard of. You might have remembered that at the very beginning of the administration, a dozen or more top law firms bent over and paid a tithe to Donald Trump and the administration under false claims of DEI and weaponization. It just because Trump couldn't get one of these major firms to touch him with a 10-ft pole. He was radioactive for various reasons including fraud, the insurrection, and

nobody wanted to represent him. That's why he had to like run around and get like Todd Blanch, a solo practitioner, and a guy named Chris Kis, another solo practitioner, and Alina Haba, nobody ever heard of, to represent him. So, his payback when he got back into office was to make these people bend the knee to him. And the first law firm that did so was Paul Weiss, which I know well. I have friends that work there. Uh it was it's one of the you know I worked at a competitor firm in New York. Brad Karp the the then leader negotiated that deal so that Paul Weiss would give the Trump administration $40 million in free legal services in return for them not uh being crushed by Donald Trump and put into the wood uh the wood chipper. Now other firms fought back and got federal judges to put a stop to that but not Paul Weiss. Now with new information that's come out that Brad Karp was a lot closer

to Jeffrey Epstein and a number of people that are in the Epstein files like Leon Black of Apollo the financeier and was working behind the scenes to cover up for the depraved child sex trafficking ring. Now the fact that Paul Weiss was the first to fall in line is making a lot more sense. Almost like it was Brad Karp using his partner's money because I'm sure he or or time a reputation because I'm sure he didn't disclose it to them like to try to convince the Trump administration not to open the Epstein files. And for a year he was pretty successful. I just don't see it as a coincidence. It just can't be that the same firm and the same guy who's covering up for Epstein, right, is the first one in to settle.

And that settlement was the template for the dozens of other law firms totaling a billion dollars that Steven Miller was able to negotiate. Right? That's why Brad Karp is now is no longer really I don't know if he's still at Paul Weiss, but he's pretty close to being uh removed. And and Brad Karp and Epstein have something else in common with Donald Trump. They love using deportation against political enemies or enemies because there is information in the three million documents that Brad Karp and Epstein were considering trying to get one of the victims, one of the predatory victims of the child sex trafficking ring deported in order to get her out of the United States. Does it sound familiar?

Yeah. And no, I'll tell you straight. as a lawyer for 35 years. I'm probably Brad Karp's contemporary. No, this is not appropriate, ethical, legal services to be providing to a client. It's just that he got caught. Um, he's not the only one. The general counsel of Goldman Sachs was so close to Jeffrey Epstein that she was the executive for his will. You see how this whole incestuous world of rich and powerful uh all sort of comes together here which brings us to the new revelations in the 3 million ep pages of Epstein files. See it's like a three millionpiece jigsaw puzzle that gets dumped out on the floor. And it takes us a while to piece things together so that the image comes into into view. That's why it's taken us a few days to see these things like Jeffrey Epste was extorting um these men by reminding them that he got them underage girls or girls or sex outside the marriage or whatever you

were going to call it. Bill Gates and others, you know, Leon Black included. This may explain where Jeffrey Epstein got a lot of his money from because no one can understand where a middle school math teacher ended up having billions of dollars under management. You know, including Les Waxner who ran the Limited and Victoria Secrets stroking major checks to Jeffrey Epstein. Which brings us to the other revelations in the 3 million, which is the um at least six men who are currently redacted, but that people in Congress have now seen are uh could be criminally indicted.

Except we don't have an FBI and a Department of Justice that's doing anything about it. While Galain Maxwell says in her hand, I was at handwritten, she produced her own rid of habius corpus because her lawyer fired her and she filed a writer her last gasp effort to get out of jail other than Donald Trump tossing her the keys in a pardon. Um, and in her petition, 50 pages in length that she did herself, she said there were 29 other men, co-conspirators who got a sweetheart deal of some sort related to Jeffrey Epstein.

I guess she's trying to use that as an excuse like, well, I got my five counts of child sex trafficking, but what about them? It's always about what aboutism. What about them? Except she doesn't identify them. Then when she's called to Congress, she takes the fifth and says, "I got my rid of Fabia's corpus petition and I can't. I'd love to, but I can't." See, that's a false bad faith assertion of the fifth amendment. And Roana and Massie and others should run to federal court and strip and get a federal judge to strip that fifth amendment away from her. She can't use it as a sword and a shield.

She can't use it as the basis for her rid of habius corpus application. But then when asked about it, she takes the fifth amendment. That's not how the fifth amendment works, you know. Uh and yeah, they're bringing everybody else in. You know, the Clintons and this and that, but you know, you really want to find out. The problem is she'll she's already lied. She already could be indicted because she lied to Todd Blanch in that nine-hour interview several months ago. We know it. We know it from emails and other documents that put a lie to most of what she said other than I am Gain Maxwell and I'm sitting in a prison in for in Florida. Really, everything else was a lie in that nine hours. I mean, we we've worked we've worked through that.

And then lastly, I'll kind of round out the Epstein update for today. survivors were on Capitol Hill along with Chuck Schumer to announce a new bill, sort of a companion named after Virginia Jeffrey, a companion to the Epstein Transparency Act, which would remove the statute of limitations and allow these survivors, not just of Epstein, but all sex abuse survivors and victims to go to court in civil cases and sue their predators without worrying about it happened 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago. Just lift the statute of limitations. Now, many states like California have opened windows to allow just such a thing.

I'm working very closely and we're about to announce it. We're just working out the last details. I'm working with a a survivor organization called Survivor Strategies out of California run by Sam Maloney and former state senator Joe Dunn. And in collaboration with the POPACH firm, we're going to be providing full resources to sex abuse survivors and victims from lobbying on their behalf for laws like the one that's being considered at the at the federal in Congress and in state houses to providing them psychological and financial resources to providing them with legal legal services to file these cases on their behalf. And uh stay tuned sometime in another couple of weeks. We're just finish putting the finishing touches on the website, which will be the place where people can call in and uh and and use a contact form to get their their matters started.

But I'm proud to do that. And Lisa Phillips, well, one of the Epstein survivors and leaders who's in Washington tonight. I tried to get her on the show, but she's meeting with other survivors um and and couldn't uh and couldn't break from that is going to work with us on that as well. So, uh let me turn next to Fulton County and let me take some questions first from our audience. Let's see what's up in our in our our list here. Okay, perfect. Uh, Kama Farc says, "Will someone please state clearly and completely including sources what evidence accompanied the FBI search warrant for Fulton County?" Okay, perfect. That segueed. Thank you for that softball. That led right into my Fulton County update. All right. So, a week or so ago, there's been this battle between Donald Trump election deniers and Fulton County since the day after the election. And as soon as they got back into power, the

Department of Justice sued civily to get voter data. Now, courts that consider this res uh res resoundingly reject the federal government getting stateun election voter data because the constitution says butt out. That's for the states. It's not for the federal government. You have no role. You can't just scratch your itch and curiosity. You have to have a proper oversight or power, you know, given to you by the constitution or a statute. And you don't. So, California federal judge Carter rejects it. Coming on the air, Michigan federal judge rejects the voter lawsuit, dismisses it. So, we had we had that going on. They they kept hitting a brick wall. So, then something we we followed recently.

Somebody entered the Trump administration several months ago and he was and he is a major election denier. Represented Carrie Lake, got sanctioned by the Arizona State uh Supreme Court for fraud on the court. Guy by the name of Kurt Olsen. He is at best the junior varsity for team crazy in 2020. Vars City's level. Cydney Powell, Ken Chespro, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani. That's right. That's the All-Star team. This guy was so nutty that even they didn't believe most of what he was saying. And he has been whispering in Donald Trump's ear apparently with direct phone calls since 2020 about seizing voting machines. So, if you wonder where Donald Trump got seizing voting machines idea from, it's from Kurt Olsen.

And then he's out representing all the other election deniers. Carrie Carrie Lake and this and that. Works with Mike Lindell. And then he's got a whole little group of other crazies, election deniers. Remember, 70 federal lawsuits rejected election fraud, outcome determinative election fraud that would have changed the election result from Biden to Trump. Okay. FBI investigation at the time, the head of cyber security at the time, you name it. Every independent trustworthy source said there may have been a little fraud.

There's always 0.01% 0.001% of fraud, but not outcome determinative. So, I wondered how' they get a magistrate judge to find probable cause to issue a search warrant to get 700 boxes of voting data, optical scanners and sheets and all of that. I said, I wonder who's cooperating. And then because Judge Bully, the article 3 judge, ordered it, the government had to file the affidavit today for the FBI agent. you Raymond Evans who says he works in the office of public corruption for the Atlanta field office. I'm like, man, this ought to be good. And then there's just a dozen names from the pantheon of election deniers and crazies that this federal FBI agent relies on to convince a magistrate judge that there has been fraud in the election.

It starts with Kurt Olsen who again has been sanctioned by a state supreme court for fraud on the court related to elections. It continues with people you've never heard of but now you'll hear nothing but as we continue to cover it. Uh analysts uh like Mr. Periq Clay Periq P A R I KH a self-taught DIY election fraud analyst who worked for this same guy Mr. Olsen who worked for Mike Lindell Pillow guy. Okay. Uh but he's and works for an organization called Election Oversight Group which is also a major conspiracy theory despite their title and uh conspiracy theory group that also counts as one of its subscribers. Clea Mitchell who's an election denier of the First Order. and just witness after witness after witness soon as I saw the phony argument about 17,000 missing ballots as alleged by the only Republican member of the Fulton County Board of Elections at the time.

She was the one that tried to hold up the certification until she she physically counted all the ballots. That 17,000 missing Fulton County ballots has been debunked by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, by the FBI, by cyber security and the under the Trump administration, by lawsuits, and yet it pops up again almost like a fact wrapped up in the FBI affidavit. He cites to chemical engineers who are un who are self-trained and self-taught in election analysis. I'm like, are you effing kidding me? My favorite one. Here it comes. You ready? Got to sit down for this one. Is um a reliance.

Let me pull Let me pull the paragraph here. Sorry, I'm thumbming through it myself. See if I can grab it quick enough. I can't uh I can there is one the FBI agent says that he also interviewed and relied on a person who used a online database that that person admits may not actually represent voter data obtained through an a uh a Freedom of Information Act request. that he himself got secondhand and then he used that to come up with some analysis about some missing ballots. I'm like, are you effing kidding me? A a person looked at an online uh database and then that he's not even sure where it came from and then made some analysis and you as the FBI agent, you're relying on it. This is on paragraph 29 of the affidavit. You ready? Witness number five, unnamed, is a data analyst. I don't know even know what that means.

Who reviewed and analyzed original ballot images and recount ballot images. He downloaded the data online from Zebra Duck. Zebra Duck and believed it believed it was from an open records request to Fulton County, but it's not positive. He was he was not part of acquiring that data. He got it secondhand. And yet it paragraph after paragraph giving credibility and credence to zebra duck. Even at the end, the best that the FBI agent can say is that if anything of any of these crazy theories was done intentionally, then maybe it would form the basis of a crime. I'm like, that's not probable cause that a crime has been committed.

Now, here's what should happen. Judge Bouley, who's the big- time federal judge over this, having now reviewed this information with Fulton County putting in front of him that these are all team crazy and crazy conspiracy theorists that are being manipulated, of course, by Donald Trump or vice versa, should toss the affidavit, should quash the subpoena as a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure in Fulton County. Plain and simple. I got a video that's up on Midas on this if you want to learn more.

That's Fulton County. Okay, let me just check another question and answer here. Okay, that's interesting. I got from my producer telling me that the uh Trump administration through Janine Piro in the District of Columbia tried to get an indictment uh in in connection with the six uh congress people and senators who were in the intelligence and military community including Aly Alisa Slackin and Mark Kelly, Senator Mark Kelly, the the now famous uh don't give up the ship um video in which in 90 seconds they reminded the military that they have their back, that they have a constitutional duty and oath, that they cannot follow unconstitutional orders or illegal orders of the commander-in-chief, plain and simple, which is frankly just a statement of fact of military justice, of the Nermberg principles. One that even Pete Hegsth in a long lost, although we found it, clip from five years ago, six years

ago when he was teaching at the military academy said the exact same thing. And now you know why Ali Slackin did not go in to voluntarily meet with Janine Piro's office last week to give an interview and because they were trying to get the indictment and she didn't want to help them with it. Now they've got First Amendment protection. They've got speech and debate privilege protection as members of Congress. and the lawsuit that Mark Kelly brought first as Pete Hexath tried to demote him, censure him because he's still a he's still a um he's a retiree as a naval captain, having been not only the space shuttle commander on a couple of missions, including the last one, but also flew dozens and dozens of successful um as a fighter pilot in in uh in the Iraq war. but they want to like take away his his commission, his pension, censure him. So, he ran into court and last week, Judge Leon, who's also the

ballroom judge, said, "I don't he hasn't issued his order yet, but he will about blocking any censure of a senator for criticizing the administration who happens to be in the military." It's coming. That is definitely coming. I want to take a break for just one second and talk about the ways to support what we do here on the intersection and then the kind of the foundation for the intersection for me which is the legal afc ecosystem. So we've got a YouTube channel called legal af. The YouTube channel 12 new videos a day. I usually do the first four. I've got contributors like Adam Klasfeld All Rise News. Uh Cindy Blumenthal and Shawn Wentz with Court of History. We've got the American Civil Liberties Union. We've got Court Accountability Action. Uh we've got the Pragmatic Optimists.

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All right, so let's go to um the Department of Justice and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals about Leticia James and James Comey. I'm going to take a swig of water. See, with no ad break, I don't get to drink water. Thank you for blocking that. So, how do we get here? Trump has an enemies list. We all know what it is. Adam Schiff, senator from California. Dr. Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Board of Governor. Leticia James, New York, New York attorney general, pardon me. Uh, James Comey, former FBI director. James Brennan, former director of the CIA. John Bolton, former UN ambassador, national security adviser, etc. etc. etc.

February of last year, Pam Bondi issued a weaponization memo, a first day memo, saying that she was going to turn the Department of Justice around and start going after Donald Trump's political enemies. They originally appointed Ed Martin from Missouri, which is now leading the Fulton County search warrant issue. All these Missouri den election deniers and uh they they from that memo forward they tried to get indictments against these people. We are now 6 months since they tried to shame and embarrass Adam Schiff for mortgage fraud and still no indictment.

Uh Lisa Cook, mortgage fraud allegations. Federal Reserve Board of Governor, no indictment. Leticia James, New York attorney general, who got a fraud judgment against Donald Trump, among other things, and former FBI director James Comey. there. He used Lindseay Halligan, the insta prosecutor. No prosecutorial experience, no federal court experience. This was a I I can't put this any sharper. She was an insurance defense lawyer. No slight on insurance defense lawyers doing slip and falls and fender bender law in Florida in state court.

and she became the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, one of the three most prestigious prosecutor's offices before Donald Trump's Department of Justice in in uh in America. And the reason she was put in there was not to have a career as a prosecutor. It was to go after in one place in Virginia, Leticia James, who bought a house in Norfuck, Virginia, and James Comey, who lived in the suburbs of Virginia. And since no career prosecutor would go after these people, no legitimate prosecutor, he created one in Lindseay Hallan who by herself, although I think people like Ed Martin were guiding her with 17 days to go on the clock before the statute of limitations on lying to Congress, which is what they got try to get Comey on, uh, was going to expire. 17 days to go. She went into two grand juries within days apart and got an indictment against James Comey and one against Leticia James. Now, Lord

knows what she told the jury in there. We know from magistrate judges who looked at the transcript that she violated the fifth amendment, the fourth amendment, and the sixth amendment in that process. That's all just the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendment. Uh so those indictments were likely to be dismissed anyway. But she comes out with the two indictments like, "Look at me, mom. I got the indictments, their dad. Okay. Right away, um, Comey and Leticia James' lawyers, two separate lawyers, two separate judges, file motions to dismiss the indictment and to declare that Lindseay Haligan was unconstitutionally and illegally appointed. It gets assigned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge to Judge Curry in South Carolina to handle it for the district.

She rules a day or two before Thanksgiving this past year uh 2025 that Lindseay Halligan is illegally and unconstitutionally appointed because uh Pam Bondi could only appoint one interim US attorney for 120 days. That guy got fired and she can't restart the clock and keep appointing successive 120day people because that violates the the appointment clause of the Constitution. You got to get a US attorney confirmed through the Senate. Yeah. Now, most of Donald Trump's but not all of his appointees get blocked, a lot of them like Alita Haba, Lindseay Halligan, and others by the uh the senators of each state who have blue slip privileges. It's a tradition in the Senate going back a couple hundred years that in order for a federal officer who needs confirmation, like a US attorney, to even advance to the confirmation process, the senators of that state for for that where that officer is located has to submit their

blue slip of approval and they both have to do it. So in states that are split, Republican and Democrat, some states are, it's hard to get the two blue slips, at least today. So Virginia is two Democratic senators. They refused to allow Lindseay Hallan to progress to confirmation. Once Curry made the decision that she um was illegally appointed, then a series of judges in the Eastern District of Virginia refused to recognize Lindseay Halligan as the US attorney, including one Novak, Judge Novak, who said, "You are impersonating a US attorney. You are masquerading as a US attorney, and I'm about to sanction you." Within a day or two of that order, she resigned in disgrace. Now, Judge Curry also ruled that her indictments of both Leticia James and James Comey were illegally obtained. Other words, the fruit of a poisonous tree. She could not create proper indictments because she was illegal herself. And those

indictments, therefore, were dismissed. Now, the Trump administration, just like we just learned, they've been trying to indict all these members of Congress for the video, tried to get a new indictment of both James Comey and Lindseay Hagan. On sorry, Leticia James on Leticia James, they failed two more times. And the grand juries were so pissed in Norfuck, Virginia that one of them did something very unusual. They announced in open court that they were not returning an indictment against Leticia James. It was so embarrassing to the government that they asked the federal judge to seal the record so that we didn't know that a grand jury had spoken that way. And the judge said, "I don't know why they returned the no bill in open court, but they did. And I can only speculate why. And no, I'm not sealing it." So, they can't get this indictment uh using a non Lindseay Holligan prosecutor. And the prosecutor they

brought in to babysit Lindseay Halligan, he got fired, walked out already, too. Robert McBride gone. So, they're having problems with that getting a new indictment to fix the problem on James Comey. They got a bigger problem if that's possible. Time's up. He's beyond five years since he testified to Congress, which was one of their issues, that he lied in response to some muddled, convoluted question from uh Ted Cruz. And the indictment didn't stop the clock because Judge Curry ruled that it was invalid. And uh I've heard the government argue, well, there's a rule, I think it's rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. If I'm wrong, you let me know, that says if there's a technical defect, like a scrivener's error in the indictment, you can fix it within 60 days. Scriveners, it's not a sc it's not a typo. It's the It's that the um It's that the prosecutor was illegal, you know, like a drive-th through prosecutor

just stepped in off the street. So, they can't reindict. They're out of time. And then they've got Judge Colar Catelli who ruled that a major feature of their presentation to the grand jury was information that the government never should have had and never should have used, which was private communication between James Comey and his lawyer Daniel Richmond. and she ruled based on a motion by Daniel Richmond that that was an illegal search and seizure without search warrant of Daniel Richmond's material and it cannot be used for the indictment unless there's a proper search warrant properly executed. That was a couple of months ago. Still no search warrant, still no proper execution. So, their last gasp is basically a confession to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump administration, Department of Justice, that they have to try to revive the old indictments because they can't get a new

indictment legitimately. And now they've told the fourth circuit that uh that Pam Bondi is allowed to keep appointing successive prosecutors even though that's not what the appointment clause of the Constitution says. And that in any event, the indictments should still be revived. They completely ignore, I mean, they don't even drop it in a footnote that the third circuit court of appeals right next door in Philadelphia ruled in the Alina Haba case exactly the opposite of what they're arguing in this case. I mean, as an advocate, and I've done appellet advocacy in federal court, you need to at least acknowledge as an officer of the court that there is a decision in another district that's against you. You can explain it. You can say they're wrong, but you can't by operation of magical thinking just ignore it. Like, well, it's a bad decision against it. I'll just ignore it and act like it didn't happen. This is

the department. This is the problem with the Department of Justice. They're going to lose at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. They are not going to overrule, I don't believe, Judge Curry because she was right. And in the interim, Lindseay Alligan didn't stick around to find out what would happen. She already resigned, which I don't think helps the appeal. In disgrace. She's not even in the Department of Justice. They couldn't even convince her. She's so abused. I mean, of her own making. I don't feel sorry for her. She's so abused that she didn't even stick around. They they couldn't even give her another job just for window dressing.

So that's the update on the fourth circuit. Now I want to end with well let me check questions because I get uh anything else in team we got anything else in questions? No I don't I don't see anything else. Let's see. Hold on one second. Having some technical difficult technical difficulties tonight. Uh, so let me move on to Judge Vargas and thank you for the uh for the 11,000 people that joined here. I got a new question in. Can uh this is from Matt N606. Can Bavino and Gnome be held criminally liable for relocating prime suspects of Good and Prey murder out of Minnesota?

You mean letting the agents leave during the investigation? I mean, anytime we talk about criminal liability, it's going to have to be the state at this point. Minnesota, led by Keith Ellison, the New York the attorney general of Minnesota, who I'm going to have the pleasure of interviewing along with 13 other attorneys general uh in about a week in San Francisco and I'll bring that up with him about where are we with his investigation. Uh but if it's obstruct it'll be obstruction of justice and states have obstruction of justice just the way that the federal system has in terms of the future department of justice. I love saying the future department of justice implicit in that statement is that it will be run by a democrat. Uh but the future department of justice you know obstruction of justice statute of limitations is it it's not going to run in time. So yes, a future DOJ can go after people like

long list of people in this administration for sure. Uh and then lastly, fact checker 9919 said, "Can citizens seriously injured by ICE uh bring legal action against Steven Miller and those implementing his daily quota orders?" I mean, if I'm a civil plaintiff's lawyer, and I am, um, and I'm working with people like Bob Simon that's suing on behalf of victims of ICE and Border Patrol, you know, do you want to do you need to sue a person like Steven Miller personally, uh, along with, you know, ICE and Border Patrol and Christine Gnome and Trump in his official capacity? You certainly could.

You certainly could. There's enough data out there that indicates that he is running the show, including Christine Nome admitting to Axios that she takes her orders from Donald Trump and Steven Miller. So, if I if I'm uh a lawyer like that, and I know a number of them, Bob, I'm looking at you. Sue Steven Miller. Why not let him let him have to struggle to get out of the case and claim that he's got uh federal officer immunity? I mean there is something called the Westfall Act which is named after a case which gives immunity for somebody in their official capacity doing certain things. It's not as broad as presidential immunity given by case law and the United States Supreme Court, but there is a statute that like if you're in your job and you're due in your job description and you injure people, you may have immunity. And so that would come into play, but I think it's worth a shot. I certainly like I I certainly

like where you're going with that. Let me wrap up here with um Judge Vargas. So Judge Vargas, Janette Vargas, a Biden appointee, super smart. She's presiding over this case involving the Gateway Project, which is to try to rehabilitate and build a new tunnel between New York and New Jersey. 20% of the nation's economy flows through this kind of tunnel. The North River tunnel severely damaged in Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They've been talking about replacing that for decades. Chris Christie came up with an idea, you know, was going to fund it and then blocked it. Even what is it with the Republicans and blocking public works that help the economy or blocking things that help labor unions?

Chris Christie runs around today as the anti-Trump, but remember he's the guy that like diverted traffic to penalize a small time a small town mayor for opposing him, you know, in vindictive manner, blocking the gateway project, you know, all that. So, but Democrats see not only tens of thousands of jobs, a generational project where where children will replace their parents and grandparents on it. got to build a tunnel under the Hudson. Takes a minute, but we need it for the economy. And it just chaps Donald Trump's ass that California represents a quarter of the of the nation's economy, if not more, and New York another you together. It's like 50% of the economy is California, New York. I'm not dissing the other states or its representatives. But let's at the same time, let's acknowledge facts, shall we? immutable economic facts about how the economy works, service economy, another another

economy. So Trump holding $16 billion dollars hostage apparently, according to Chuck Schumer says, "I'll release the money and let you continue the project, but I want my name on everything." Hakeem Jeff called it uh graffiti. Um I want my name on Penn Station. I want my name on Dulles airport and Schumer was like f off or legally f off. And Trump cut off the money. And so the New Jersey and New York led by Leticia James again, the attorney general there, Governor Mickey Cheryl, the new governor of New Jersey, um, and others ran into court, got a temporary restraining order four days ago from Judge Vargas to get the money flowing because they had already tapped into all their credit lines and all their lines of credit at banks. It's over. They had a furlow over a thousand workers, you know, in the last day and stopped the project.

Vargas said no, blocked it, but and said the Trump administration has to fund because it's a arbitrary and capricious, violates the uh administrative procedures act, separation of powers, it's a purse issue. That's Congress, not you. And then she gave a couple of days for Trump to run to the second circuit and get a stay if he wanted it. She already denied the stay. He ran into court yesterday and asked the second circuit to grant the stay. And as of right now, they haven't granted the stay, meaning he's got to pay the money and get that project back up and running. That's why you have people chanting in New York and New Jersey, release the funds. Release.

In fact, we have a clip. Do we have a clip of that? The busiest rail stretch in all of North America. This is all being put on the line now by a president, it seems, to just want things named after him. By a president has no good policy reasons for doing it. This is sabotage. This is political hostage taking. This is actually one of the worst acts of extortion I've ever seen.

Why as a president you would punish this region of the country responsible for almost 20% of the nation's GDP building the future of America right here. Why you would attack that I do not know. But I will tell you what I've heard. I've heard it's because he wants stolas airport named after him. I've heard it's because he wants Penn Station named after him. I've heard that that's what he cares about more than the people on this job site.

And for those that didn't recognize it, that was Corey Booker, the senator from New Jersey, my home state, and the new governor of New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl, former uh helicop I think helicopter pilot in the military. Keep an eye on Virginia's Governor Spanberger, Mikey Cheryl, Corey Booker. These are the leaders of the Democratic party that are going to work together to defeat Donald Trump. And uh we have a very the Democrats have a very very deep bench and something that we is a competitive advantage as we head into the midterm elections with the polling numbers where they are. As long as the Democrats are successful in closing the deal with the American people to convince them that they will fight against corruption, make their lives better, and work on the economy and affordability and and have people like Mikey Cheryl and Cy Booker uh as the next generation and Spamberger to give people confidence in the um the

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