Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up
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I have a little cold like everyone else in the East Coast, I guess, but I'm fine. Thank you.
I'm feeling great. We took the top off the Jeep on Friday here in Louisiana. Everyone's welcome to move to the South if they, if they choose to, you know, and no cold down here.
I talked to our friend Ron Brownstein over the weekend about something else. And he's in LA and he kind of, he loves doing this in the winter. He goes on at 68 degrees, just got back from the bike and he goes on a great length and we're going out to lunch at a nice outdoor place. And I, you know, we're sitting here looking at the kind of overcast rain, 31 degrees anyway. It's good for your character, though. It's good for your character being up here in the Northeast.
I disagree. My character's fine. I want to start. We got so much. And the craziness in Phoenix with kind of the MAGA crack up happening with the right wing influencers we're going to talk about and some drama at CBS. And, you know, there's the actual news besides like. the real housewives of MAGA. We have actual news happening as well. I want to start with Epstein, though. When we taped this on Friday, we knew that the documents were coming out, but we haven't actually seen anything from the government yet. They put out the first tranche, and they're legally required to release everything. They did not meet that legal requirement. Throughout the first tranche of information, a lot of redactions, a suspicious amount of Bill Clinton pictures and a suspicious lack of Donald Trump pictures, given what we know is in the files, I would say.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–15:28
2
Why are the released Epstein files being called a cover-up?
15:28–17:46
3
What evidence suggests the DOJ is acting as “Trump’s defense team” in the Epstein files?
17:46–20:44
4
Why were victim statements and co‑conspirator names largely withheld from the release?
20:44–35:46
5
What happened with Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer and why does it matter?
35:46–1:08:37
Speakers
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