BREAKING: PAM BONDI DEALT BAD EPSTEIN NEWS

I'm joined now by the ranking member of. the House Oversight Committee, Robert. Garcia. Congressman, thanks for joining. me. Sure thing. So, you have some. breaking news about a brand new subpoena. that was just issued by your committee. Can you explain what just happened? Yeah, we were able to actually keep a. united Democratic committee member. caucus together, and we teamed up with. Representative Nancy Mace. to get a motion for Pam Bondi to be. essentially subpoenaed in front of our. committee. We've been trying to do this. and we've been making this request of. Chairman Comer for months, and it hasn't. happened. The fact that Pam the AG,

who's been responsible for hiding and. deflecting and lying about the Epstein. files, will now be in front of the. committee during the Epstein. investigation is really really. important. So, we're we're really glad. this just happened. And I think it's. it's it's a great move by We had a. couple Republicans that joined us. Really with Nancy Mace to kind of help. lead the way with all the Democrats on. board, and we got a subpoena. That that that is surprising news. What. will What will What's going to be the.

objective here as the Attorney General. comes before this committee? Look, we have a long list of questions. We've talked about what we want to ask. her. I mean, everything from the files. originally being on her desk, why they. began calling this investigation a hoax, why they tried to end the investigation. so early, to why the rest of the files. aren't being released. Where are the. missing documents? Why are files being. brought in and taken out? Why were they. spying on members of Congress? I mean, the the list goes on and on. And so, there's a lot of questions that we're.

going to ask. And I think that the. Democratic members have a serious. questions about this investigation, and. I'm glad that the Attorney General will. now be forced to appear in front of us. Is there any way that the Attorney. General opts not to comply, given the. fact that it's the DOJ that's. responsible for enforcing any subpoenas. anyway? No, this is a this is a. congressional subpoena. She's she's got. to come in front of the committee. And. all other. other members that that have sent out to. get a subpoena from uh they've they've. appeared. It's a it's pretty strong. Russia's subpoena is about as ironclad.

as you can get. >> Okay. Now, um we have seen other. administration officials, including just. today in front of the Judiciary. Committee, Chris uh Kristi Noem, come in. front of the committee, and and there. often times seems to be just an attempt. by these administration officials to. filibuster, to turn this into a partisan. food fight. It becomes hostile and. acrimonious. You know, you will ask these questions, and the committee members are going to. ask these questions that are that are. important and deserve answers. Um and.

how confident are you that she's not. going to do engage in the same kind of. behavior that all of these other. administration officials are engaging in. by just looking to filibuster or attack. Democrats with uh you know, with uh. personal petty partisan attacks. Look, I'm sure she's going to try to. deflect and to attack back, but I think. we've got a very skilled group of. committee Democrats and over over said. Democrats that are going to just ask the. right questions, and we will make sure. that we get answers and get those on the.

record. She will be under oath. Uh so, I. think it's going to be a very. interesting uh hearing. I'm looking. forward to it happening sooner than. later. I think the biggest question for. us is where are the rest of the files? >> Right. What happened to them? Why the. over-redactions? And so, I think. we can try to begin to get some of these. questions answered. What would success. look like for you in the aftermath of. this hearing? Well, success would be actually getting. the Attorney General to explain to us. why they have been involved in a White. House cover-up. Who's directing this. cover-up? Why are we uh protecting.

billionaires and co-conspirators? I think understanding where the rest of. those files are and how he had access to. them. I think those are going to be some. of the top questions. You know, we just saw Bill and Hillary. Clinton come and testify. Um you know, I've I've said numerous times that I'm. in favor of them testifying. Obviously, there's you know, most Democrats are in. favor of them testifying as well. This. isn't really supposed to be a partisan. thing. This is just if anybody has. information regarding the crimes that. were committed by Jeffrey Epstein and.

Ghislaine Maxwell, then they should be. forced to appear and testify and give. any information that they know. Now that. James Comer has established this. precedent wherein former presidents, presidents of the United States can be. hauled in front of Congress to answer. questions, what does that say about. Donald Trump being forced to come and. testify? I mean, it says that we're going to have. Donald Trump come and testify. And I. look what should should happen now, but. we will 100%. this is a new precedent set by Oversight. Republicans and Donald Trump will be in. front of our committee. Whether he comes.

in now and he tries to defy us while. he's in president, he's not going to be. the president forever. And now we have a. congressional new precedent set to be. able to bring in former presidents and. we're going to do it. And it should be. Donald Trump has to answer questions. And as far as the president's at the. time for the wife and first lady, he. they've also set a precedent for that. And so we look forward to talking to. Mrs. Trump as well. In terms of the fact that there were. some Republicans on your committee who. voted to to subpoena Pam Bondi because. she has information that needs to be. shared with the committee to get to the.

bottom of this. And because I'm sure. that those same Republicans were in. favor of this this new James Comer. precedent of of hauling in the Clintons, do you presume that there would be an. appetite among your Republican. colleagues to bring in Donald Trump. given the fact that, you know, if. Hillary Clinton is going to come. testify, who as far as I know I I I I. had no association with Jeffrey Epstein, then then, you know, do you think that. that's going to be an issue in terms of. having them buy in. some support for Trump?

Look, we're going to try. I hope so. I. think Trump has been you know, he has. lost some of his grip on on some members. of his party. I'm the fact that we had. some members actually join us, particularly Representative Mace, Representative Boebert, a few others on. this subpoena of the Attorney General, I. think is is pretty significant. And I. hope that we can continue to do that. I. hope they would agree that the president. should come in and testify. under oath to to our committee. And if. they don't, then we're going to push. every day until he's in front of our. committee even if that means and if you.

refuse to sue the or the committee. chooses not to not to bring him in, we. will do it when when we're in the. majority. And we certainly will if we. have to wait even till after he's. president. You know, there are other. administration officials who are also. implicated in this. Kevin Walsh's name. is in the files. That's Trump's pick for. Fed chair. Howard Lutnick's, you know, photo was in. the Epstein files. Obviously, that they. made an effort to to suppress that. information. Are some of these other. administration officials who are. directly implicated in the files going. to be called to testify as well? Oh, look, we're going to have a very. long list, I think, on day one when.

we're in the majority of who we get to. subpoena. Every subpoena that we've had. in this Congress have been because we. forced Republicans, we've been able to. to pick off two or three of them to join. us. But for the most part, they've been. unified in their opposition to these. subpoenas. And so. it's been because of our consistent. pressure that we've been able to get. these folks in front of our committee. for this Epstein investigation. So we're. that's going to continue. We're not. going to stop and and push and demand. just because we're don't have the. majority votes. But when we do have the.

gavels and those majority votes, we are. going to be able to supercharge this. investigation and get the information. that we need. Why do you think that. there was an appetite among some of. these Republicans to to call in Pam. Bondi if they're still going to be. obstinate when it comes to calling in. other administration officials? I mean, I think that what's happening. right now across the country is that the. issue around Jeffrey Epstein and his. crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell, accountability and justice for the. survivors is actually very very popular. It's It's something that all all of us.

across the country, whether you're. Republicans or Democrats, it's I mean, it's polling with Republicans in like in. the 70th percent 70th percentile. It's. actually the single most bipartisan. issue that's popular amongst both. parties. And so it's bipartisan, it's. Trump's worst political issue. I mean, I. think there's the opposition from both. parties is immense. Uh he's more. unpopular on Epstein than he is on. issues around the economy and and health. care. So I think that Republicans. understand that there's a lot of.

interest here and that we have to just. sort of do the right thing by the. survivors. You know, Trump has come out. repeatedly and said that he's exonerated. by all of this. What's your response to. that? I mean, that's a joke. Exonerated. by who? No one's exonerated Donald. Trump. Uh he's the one that called it a. hoax. He's in the Epstein files more. than anyone. Mar-a-Lago is oftentimes. where they trafficked women and girls. Uh we have questions for for for the. president. Uh he's been named in the. Epstein files multiple times. There are. serious allegations against him that. have been removed for reasons we don't.

understand. We've got to get to the. bottom of it. When will the Pam Bondi testimony take. place? We don't know. You know, that's going to. be up to to to James Comer. Uh as for. the chairman, he controls those of the. timing, but I imagine it'll happen. sometime over the course of the next few. weeks. Okay. Well, we will leave it. there. Uh Congressman, as always, I. appreciate uh you taking the lead on. this issue and not letting it fall by. the wayside. And I appreciate the time. today. Sure thing. Thanks. >> [music].