Astead Herndon

You said, quote, if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.

What made you decide to go to the floor and read those names out loud?

I was going to ask you about that because obviously the GOJ later pushed back and said that several of those men were completely random, had no connection to him.

Les Wexner has said the same thing.

Do you have any concern about getting ahead of where the legal proceedings were?

I totally hear you, and I don't want to downplay the reality of the information that we have seen from this stuff, and I think the kind of grassroots desire for accountability.

But I've also heard over the last couple weeks increasing concerns about whether this is putting people in uncomfortable positions who weren't supposed to be there, or whether this

has a malice or something of a witch hunt or what's the kind of limit here?

Do you have any concern that the kind of internet sleuthing of it all is painting a group of people that you call the Epstein class maybe with too broad of a brush?

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How would you define the Epstein class?

I mean, that certainly rings true to the behavior we have seen from these files and what we know to be the facts of, you know, Epstein, Maxwell and the people they surrounded themselves with.

The question is whether that, you know, how is that different than billionaires or elites or whatever?