'Why Not Put Her Under Oath?': Top GOP Senator Supports Putting Ghislaine Maxwell On The Stand

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks to reporters about the Jeffrey Epstein files controversy.

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00:00Senator, do you think that the Judiciary Committee should probe this Epstein matter?

00:04And what do you think about the way the administration has handled it?

00:07Well, listen, I thought what the president said yesterday, I think it was yesterday,

00:10I think he said the attorney general ought to release whatever she thinks is credible

00:15and appropriate to release.

00:16That is exactly the right answer, I think.

00:18I mean, I think she should do that.

00:19I think my view is...

00:20She has not released enough, in your opinion.

00:22Well, I think it's...

00:24Here's what I think is maybe a little difficult to believe.

00:26The idea that DOJ and the FBI, who prosecuted cases related to this,

00:31don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were, and that he had no record of it, of the clients.

00:36I don't know, I find that kind of hard to believe.

00:38I mean, my view is, make public everything you can make public.

00:43That's what the president said yesterday.

00:44I think that would be...

00:45They want my advice, and they don't.

00:47But if DOJ were asking for my advice, that's what I would say.

00:50Make it all public.

00:52Make as much public as you can.

00:53Listen, I've been an attorney general of the state of Missouri.

00:55I understand, like, these agencies often, they're always pressuring you as the prosecutor.

01:00They're always saying, please don't make this public.

01:01Please don't make this public.

01:02I just think whenever you can, so long as it doesn't interfere with the prosecution,

01:06I think you ought to make it public.

01:08And in this case, I just say, let's make it all public and get it out there.

01:11Should the judge or committee ask this?

01:14Well, I saw that...

01:16I never know how to pronounce her name, but his associate, Epstein's associate, Maxwell.

01:21I'll help me out.

01:21What's her first name?

01:22Galenia.

01:23Galenia, yeah, okay.

01:23Yeah, so I think she said that she would be willing to testify.

01:28I mean, why not?

01:29Why not put her under oath?

01:31Now, I wouldn't offer her immunity for any testimony, but, you know, if the Judiciary

01:34Committee could put her under oath and testify, I'd be fine with that.

01:37I mean, I think that would...

01:39She apparently...

01:39I mean, she's being prosecuted.

01:40I think she has an appeal pending.

01:42So, you know, I mean, I think that could be a good idea.

01:46Yeah, you bet.

01:46You

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