Congressman Tim Burchett Says Special Prosecutor Is Needed for Epstein Files

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Congressman Tim Burchett says he thinks the country needs a special prosecutor to step in and handle the Jeffrey Epstein files ... 'cause we need to balance public information with protecting victims.

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00:00We have done reporting and we've spoken with two people in particular, who have had access

00:09to parts of this file.

00:11And we are told no list, but a ton of names.

00:15And that Donald Trump's name is mentioned multiple times, and there's nothing untoward,

00:20at least we're being told by two very separate individuals, nothing untoward.

00:25But I'm wondering, is that the motivation because he is acting in a very unusual way with this

00:32because he wasn't talking about Epstein this way a few years back.

00:36So do you think it's just the optics of it that he just doesn't want his own name mentioned,

00:43even if there's nothing that's untoward about it?

00:46What do you think the motivation here is behind what's going on?

00:49I have no earthly idea.

00:51His strategy always baffles me, but he always wins, like case in point, last night we had

00:56this crypto bill and it was doomed to failure.

01:01I was against it and I had several others that were.

01:04We got in the room and he talked to us and explained the situation and what we needed

01:08to do, and we figured out a very good compromise.

01:12But I don't know the compromise on this.

01:14I have no earthly idea.

01:15It is, it's not going away though, I can tell you that, and it's not a fringe group.

01:21You just said that the president talked to you last night to get votes for the crypto bill.

01:27Did he arm twist you guys on, or try to, on Epstein?

01:32Never brought it up.

01:33Never brought it up.

01:35In the past, when necessary, he has not hesitated to say to lawmakers, hey, fall in line or else.

01:44And there's always the threat of a primary.

01:46And what if that is the next step that he takes, um, with people who have been largely

01:54his supporters and yourself included, um, what if that is the next step?

01:59Uh, if, if it's, if it's directed towards me, uh, I'll just be honest with you.

02:04And this might offend some people, but I'm a Christian.

02:06I'm not a very good one.

02:07I'm, I'm on the very forgiving end of the spectrum, but, um, uh, but I ultimately I don't

02:14answer to anybody, but, but, but my maker and Jesus had a quote and it said, uh, uh, how

02:21you treat the least amongst us amongst you is how you treat me.

02:25And you know that I've heard my parents say that they're both in heaven, but look, I ultimately

02:31I'm going to answer to my maker.

02:32And I would, I would rather go there with a clear conscience because when somebody asks

02:36me, what do you do for the least amongst you, I'm going to tell them I beat somebody's

02:40because I don't, I can't stand this, this stuff.

02:44It sickens me to my core.

02:46This is a problem and it goes, it crosses over every community, you know, every church,

02:52every group or something it there, it, this is involved.

02:56So, um, yeah, I ultimately answer my maker and that's what I'll take it up with.

03:01I guess what I'm picking up from what you just said is that you think, um, that certain

03:08people are being protected by not releasing that file, because it sounds like you think

03:14there's smoke and fire in there.

03:15Am I right?

03:16I think there's smoke and fire, but I think we gotta be real careful that first of all,

03:21there's children involved and there's innocent people.

03:24And I don't, and I think that's why you need a, some sort of special prosecutor.

03:28I'm not an attorney that could come in and distinguish which is which that needs to be

03:33released and which doesn't because the innocent people that flow, I mean, Trump flew on his

03:36plane.

03:37We all know that, but he didn't go to the Island.

03:39He just flew from Florida to New York or back.

03:42So, but if you just release his flight logs, some knucklehead like myself is just going to

03:47see his name on there and not know that, not know how to differentiate it.

03:51So I would, I would caution people in that we have a piece of legislation drawn up.

03:56Um, I signed on with Thomas Massey out of Kentucky that's, that is, um, in the hopper as they

04:02say, and we'll see what happens with it because it provides some protection for those folks.

04:06We'll see you next time.

04:07We'll see you next time.

04:08Bye.

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