US Justice Dept scrambles to defend its about-face on release of Epstein files

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US President Donald Trump's Justice Department scrambled on Tuesday (July 8) to answer questions after its leadership concluded there was no evidence to support a number of long-held conspiracy theories about the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele.  Conservative influencers from Laura Loomer to Elon Musk have criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel for their findings, which came months after Bondi pledged to reveal major revelations about Epstein, including "a lot of names" and "a lot of flight logs."  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thank you very much. We've had a tremendous six months and we've had a tremendous...

00:06Your memo and release yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein, it left some lingering mysteries.

00:11One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for an American or foreign intelligence agency.

00:18The former Labor Secretary, who was Miami U.S. Attorney, Alex Acosta,

00:24he allegedly said that he did work for an intelligence agency.

00:27So could you resolve whether or not he did?

00:29And also, could you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse tape on the night of his death?

00:34Yeah, sure.

00:34Could I just interrupt for a second?

00:37Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?

00:40This guy's been talked about for years.

00:43You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things.

00:48And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?

00:52That is unbelievable.

00:53Do you want to waste the time and do you feel like answering?

00:57I don't mind answering.

00:58I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this

01:02where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas.

01:09It just seems like a desecration.

01:12But you go ahead.

01:13Sure, sure.

01:14First, to back up on that, in February, I did an interview on Fox,

01:18and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said, I was asked a question about the client list.

01:25And my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well.

01:37That's what I meant by that.

01:38Also, to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.

01:46Child porn is what they were.

01:48Never going to be released.

01:49Never going to see the light of day.

01:51To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that.

01:54We can get back to you on that.

01:56And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively, the video was not conclusive,

02:06but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.

02:12And what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter.

02:16And what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video.

02:22It was old from like 1999, so every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing,

02:29so we're looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night.

02:34And that's it on Epstein.

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