Ben Meiselas
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And it shouldn't be a political thing.
Just release the files and support the survivors.
It should be a very simple thing.
I mean, it should be the obvious thing.
The Speaker of the House, Speaker Johnson, he often invokes the victims and the survivors.
He says, the reason that we can't release these files is I'm looking out for the survivors here and the victims.
He said that over, thus we can't release the files.
So what would you say there to Speaker Johnson or anybody who invokes the name of survivors as the reason why they're not releasing the files?
Has there been any effort to try to talk with them or speak with, you know, the FBI?
I mean, they, they spoke with Ghislaine, um,
But there hasn't seemed, at least up until now, I've heard that they hadn't returned the calls of survivors or haven't set meetings with survivors.
Because perhaps one of the ways to address all of these concerns would be to speak to the survivors directly and figure it out.
And, you know...
Can we redact the names of the victims?
And obviously, we shouldn't be showing the videos of sexual assault and rape of anybody.
So there's a way not to release those, but also release the names of the powerful men because –
I can't see how I can't see the justification for invoking the names of survivors for not releasing the information on the sex trafficking ring that's still out there today.
I certainly get let's make sure.
survivors that don't want their names out there or don't want their images out there sure absolutely but on the sex trafficking ring these these men are still out these people are still a lot of them are still alive out there probably doing this right now you know and yeah that doesn't go away right
Has there ever been, where does that stand with FBI, DOJ meeting with you?