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At the same time in the House Oversight Committee, the Trump regime basically had Ghislaine Maxwell invoke the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination and go mute and go silent on each and every question she was asked during her deposition. notwithstanding the fact that just a few months ago, she spoke with Donald Trump's number two at the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche, who was Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, didn't invoke the Fifth Amendment there. But now when the House of Representatives was questioning her, I have to plead the Fifth. I cannot speak to you right now. But if you give me clemency, I might be able to exonerate Donald Trump. She literally said that. So I want to show you what went down on Capitol Hill today. As you know, the Midas Touch Network now has a Washington, D.C. bureau. Yep, we're in D.C. We're on Capitol Hill. Pablo Monriquez with the Midas Touch Network is out there questioning the lawmakers, asking them the questions that you want to hear answered. So I want to show you what Monriquez was asking the lawmakers today. It is quite revealing. I want to ask you this as well. Please hit subscribe to this YouTube channel. We're close to 6 million subscribers thanks to your incredible support. So make sure you hit subscribe. And also, if you can, go to MidasPlus.com and subscribe to our sub stack. First, you have Democratic Congresswoman Ansari speaking with Midas Touch, Washington DC Bureau Chief Pablo Manriquez. Play this clip. Congresswoman, are you planning on going to see the unreacted FCD files? Absolutely I going on Thursday The DOJ has asked us to give them 24 hours notice So So the soonest appointment I was able to get was Thursday but I look forward to it already from what we heard from colleagues is that there are names of potential co that were redacted that should never have been redacted. And names of rich and powerful people potentially very high up in this administration whose names were redacted that should not have been redacted. and coupled with what has been going on today with Ghislaine Maxwell deciding to plead the fifth and publicly offering that she will reveal the truth if she's granted clemency from the president is so enraging and appalling. And I hope every American recognizes that we cannot give up until we have the full truth. Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted child sex trafficker who is a monster and nothing she says is believable in my eyes. See how easy that was for her response? Now contrast that to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Molly Otakis, who said that she has to go to a physician's office so she is not going to answer if Ghislaine Maxwell should receive clemency. Here, play this clip. Should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify? I got to go to the physician's office. Oh, got it. Next, you had Republican Congress member Thomas Massey, who, along with Ro Khanna, has been out there pushing for the release of the Epstein file. She's responsible for the discharge petition that led to the Epstein Transparency Act. Here's what Massey told our Pablo Monriquez. Let's play this clip. You mentioned that there are some things that have been redacted that probably shouldn't have been redacted. Yeah. Is there anything, can you elaborate on that? Yeah. Six men's names. One of them's listed as a co-conspirator. why would you redact his name? Right. There's not victims. What I'm saying is it's not just victims' names that they've redacted. And how can we get those names then? Like the public generally? Well, I'm hopeful the DOJ will release them now that I've pointed it out to them. They've either got to say, okay, we made a mistake or we're not going to unredact that. Okay. And are you going to be going back to see? I know there's sort of like a procession now of members who are going. Yeah, I'm scheduled for tomorrow morning, too. Okay. And what are you looking to, what are you going to look into tomorrow that you haven't looked into today? It just takes a while. There's millions of files. I've still got files on my list to look at. On the other hand, you have MAGA Republican Congress member and the lead on the Appropriations Committee, Tom Cole. And when he was asked if Ghislaine Maxwell should receive clemency to testify, he walked away and said, I have no idea. You have no idea whether a convicted child sex trafficker should get clemency? It should be a simple no. Not only should she not get clemency, she should rot in a maximum security facility. Here's what Cole has to say. Play this clip. Mr. Chairman, real quick, should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify? I'm sorry? Should Ghislaine Maxwell get clemency to testify? Oh, I have no idea. Oh, got it. Any updates on DHS funding? Uh, don't know yet. I mean, we passed the bill. We're still waiting on the Senate to do something. Got it. Are Republicans open to any of the proposed reforms that Democrats put out? We're always putting it in the cameras and the original bill were fast and that's for training as well. Now contrast that with Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna. Here's what he told our Pablo Manriquez play this clip. Here's the point. This is bringing down the British government and they bring down the British monarchy. It's bringing down countries and the elites across the country. What are we doing here in the United States to stand up to the Epstein class? I mean, we've got a commerce secretary who's all over the Epstein files. Where's the outrage? Where's the outrage at the billionaires in Silicon Valley, in finance, in Hollywood, they're going to Epstein's island. We need moral accountability in the United States, just like they're having in so many other countries around the world. And here's another clip of Congress member Ro Khanna speaking to Pablo Monriquez. Let's play this clip. Congressman, what can you tell us about what you saw today in the unredacted Epstein files? I'm very concerned. First of all, most of the unredacted files were redacted. 70, 80% of the documents the DOJ got were redacted from the FBI. The FBI didn't unredact it as the law was required. The grand jury wasn't unredacted. So a lot of it was smoke and mirrors second Massey and I saw that there's six men who were co-conspirators who were protected and Whose names were blotted out those names need to be made public Can you say who they are? Well, DOJ needs to say who they are and we're pushing to have them made public But there's no excuse for releasing survivors names but protecting these six men And they're probably more that was just in two hours that we saw that these six men were being protected Now, contrast that to James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee. And despite the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the fifth and refused to testify and basically gave the middle finger to the Oversight Committee, you had James Comer not sure whether or not she should be given clemency by Donald Trump. He's like, well, that's not up to me. We'll just see what Donald Trump does here playing this clip. Mr. Chairman, quick question. 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I think that there's folks who are definitely implicated and co-conspirators. and, you know, I don't think everyone there that was talking about underage girls being trafficked are victims. Got it. And do you support any clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell? I do not. I think Ghislaine Maxwell should get more time and she should definitely be in a harsher prison than what she's in. It's absolutely disgusting. Right. I think what she said there is fair. To her credit, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna spoke to Pablo Manriquez. Here's what she said. Are you able to see the DOJ unredacted versions? I'm going to be going tomorrow. I think every member of Oversight has gone through so far, or is going to be going through so far, so yes. Tomorrow will be your first time? No, my second. Okay, is there anything you can share from what you saw today? I've posted about it publicly, but some of the people that are in the most egregious redactions are claiming to be victims, and I don't think that they're victims if you're engaging in child psych trafficking. Here's also what she said. Play this clip. You said that you do not support at all Ghislaine Maxwell getting any clemency for her testimony. And why is it important for her to be held accountable? Well, because according to the files that we all saw, she was engaged in the trafficking and also rape of young women and potentially children. I don't think that she deserves any special treatment. She's a monster. Now we also caught up with Democratic Congress member, Jared Moskowitz, and he saw the files unredacted or some of them. Here's how he describes it. Talk about at all about what you've seen in these unredacted files. I know you've been making statements but um i mean there's discussion significant discussion uh of child trafficking it's gross jimmy raston said a nine-year-old is that right children of all ages of child exploitation yeah under the age of 18 and we heard people around the world wow participating in finding these girls and are there any names that you've read that are suspiciously redacted, I suppose? So a lot of the names of his co-conspirators are not household names. Okay. A bunch of them are women. Okay. Interesting. But there are also things that the administration has said that I think are not true, based on what I read. Somebody said that emails back and forth between Trump's legal team and Epstein's legal team were redacted. Do you have any sense of why they would redact that? That's not a victim name or anything like that. Some of it was redacted, some of it wasn't redacted. They didn't explain to us why it was redacted, because that's how it was submitted. ST5, or hideaways. That's how it was submitted into the system, to us. Okay. So, like, you go into a room, there's four computers, there's 2.7 million documents, right? And so you have to search by batch number, basically. Okay. Okay. You can't search by, like, keyword. You can search by keyword, but it pulls up 10,000 documents. And so you could spend an eternity down there going through this stuff Got it So are you going to be are there going to be other opportunities to take a look at these Oh, I'm going back. Okay. And this is going to be like a week-long thing or? I'm going back tomorrow. Okay. We'll catch you tomorrow then. Thank you, Congressman. I appreciate it. Now again, do you see how easy that was? Speaking with clarity. Now contrast that to MAGA Republican Senator Bernie Marino. and here he was asked about what's your reaction to the fact that there are victims in the Epstein files as young as nine. And Senator Marino from Ohio turns it into like a joke. He's like, oh, well, what do you think about Obama and Biden? But Pablo Monriquez pushes back. Let's play it. What's your reaction to how the victims are being as young as nine in these things? It's awful. I wish Obama had pursued it when it was hot and heavy, right? I mean, this goes back well before Trump even entered politics. You know, I wonder why Biden and Obama didn't do anything about it. Well, Biden and Obama aren't in the Epstein files, though. Trump's in there like... No, no, no, no, no. But the President of the United States is in charge of the Justice Department, right? Right. So I'm curious why that... It seems odd, though, that they never took the opportunity to... Yeah, thank you. It does seem odd, though, that they never took the opportunity to actually publish these things, given... Yeah, they should have. Yeah, absolutely. But, man, you know, that's awful. I mean, I can't even imagine that that's the case. It's pretty outrageous. And any reaction to the bad money? Sorry to turn the... Yeah, I'm still stuck on the nine-year-old thing. That's pretty bad. I mean, look, obviously the bad problem wouldn't be strong enough for somebody who got involved in that. In terms of the bad money, I didn't watch it, honestly. It was a decently boring Super Bowl. And then Pablo Monriquez asks Senator Moreno, you know, what else do you make about the fact that there are nine-year-old victims? These are little children who were sexually assaulted by Epstein. And Moreno's like, what, Raskin? That's the guy with the bad haircut? You think this is a joke? You think this is a freaking joke? Here, play this clip. So Jamie Raskin reviewed the unredacted Epstein files earlier and said that there was a nine-year-old that's been a victim now that he saw for the files. Who said that? Jamie Raskin. There are a bunch of House Oversight folks who are seeing the unredacted files. Is that the guy with a really bad haircut? 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