'I Want To Send Those Lowlifes To Hell As Fast As Possible': Burchett Demands Epstein File Release

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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill.

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00:00What do you know, it seems like there's a holdup with the doge cut school.

00:04What do you know about that?

00:06Obviously- I don't know, it's ridiculous.

00:08I put like 24 of those bills in and what was that just ran by me?

00:12Oh, that was a glacier.

00:13I mean, this place is so freaking slow and

00:15they're so out of touch with what America's thinking.

00:17Let's put some real cuts up there.

00:19Today is a good start with some of that stuff coming over from the Senate.

00:23But it is, we need to do some things that have some real impact.

00:28We're hearing this might be related to the fact that Democrats plan on forcing more votes on Jeffrey Epstein.

00:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36Well, where were they the last four years when I was up here raising hell about it?

00:39We've got a- this country is sick of child molesters and they're sick of pandering.

00:45And look, the Democrats had this thing for four years under Biden and they didn't do anything.

00:50And now they're just making a political issue of it.

00:52So let's put something forward.

00:54I think Thomas Massey's deal he's got, I signed on with him, several Republicans have,

01:01as well as Eli Crane and some others.

01:03So I think that's a good route to go.

01:05But I want to give everybody a warning though, just because you flew on that dirt-backed plane doesn't make you a child molester.

01:11And I think we need someone that can filter that stuff out and protect the innocents, the kids that got abused.

01:19And there should be no question there.

01:21Now, you've been somewhat critical of the DOJ and particularly the Attorney General with how this thing has been handled.

01:26Yeah.

01:26Do you still feel that they have not done enough here or they've missed this?

01:29I think they took some bad advice when they released that.

01:34Remember those white notebooks they gave to the influencers and everybody ran out there.

01:38My daddy would say it was like a jackass eating the sawbriars.

01:40They were so excited.

01:41And it was stuff, you know, my daughter could have found on the Internet.

01:46And I could have.

01:47And I have wicked Twitter skills, but that's about where it ends on the Internet.

01:51But I think that, I honestly think she just didn't know.

01:56I don't think she was in tune enough to know that the stuff that she was putting out wasn't new or anything.

02:02Just wasn't paying attention like you or I would.

02:05All right?

02:05Do you think the President risks alienating the base by saying move on from this Jeffrey Epstein stuff?

02:11Sure, but he's always got some strategy and you never can't count him out.

02:14It's like this crypto stuff that we're both on today.

02:17It was dead last night.

02:18Until he got on the phone and used his negotiating skills.

02:23Again, he didn't threaten anybody and he didn't use any foul language.

02:26He just explained his situation and where he was.

02:29They explained theirs and they found a good compromise.

02:34Here comes the bad news, Bears.

02:35Go ahead.

02:37I don't think she was in tune enough to know that the stuff that she was putting out wasn't new or anything.

02:43Just wasn't paying attention like you or I would.

02:46All right?

02:46Do you think the President risks alienating the base by saying move on from this Jeffrey Epstein stuff?

02:52Sure, but he's always got some strategy and you never can't count him out.

02:55It's like this crypto stuff.

02:58It was dead last night until he got on the phone and used his negotiating skills.

03:04Again, he didn't threaten anybody.

03:06He didn't use any foul language.

03:07He didn't complain about the situation and where he was.

03:10And they explained theirs and they found a good compromise.

03:13But Minister Richard, he's called...

03:15Here comes the bad news, Bears.

03:17Go ahead.

03:17He's called this a hoax.

03:19He said that you guys are following Democrats.

03:21He said you guys are making stupid weaklings.

03:24I'll answer that.

03:25I'll answer that ultimately.

03:26Don't you take that personally?

03:28I don't take anything personal up here.

03:30I'm the 435th most powerful member of Congress.

03:34Ultimately, I don't answer to the President or the voters.

03:36I'm going to answer to my maker.

03:38As a Christian, the Bible talks about Jesus saying how you treat the least amongst you is how you treat me.

03:43And surely our children are the least amongst us.

03:46And I've held the hand of people that have been abused.

03:49I've sponsored the toughest laws in the country when I was in the state legislature.

03:52A lot of them were struck down as unconstitutional.

03:54And now they've gone back and passed them again.

03:58And now, oddly enough, they're constitutional.

04:01So I have a little bit...

04:04It goes a little deeper with me because I know people that have been abused.

04:07And there are some young ladies I know.

04:10And their life, they have a life sentence, and it's no joke.

04:15And I want to send those lowlights to hell as fast as possible.

04:20And I'd like to be the one responsible for doing that.

04:23The President...

04:25Should the President tone down his rhetoric against him?

04:27I don't know.

04:27Ultimately, I don't answer to him again.

04:29I answer to my creator.

04:30And that's where my conscience is on this issue.

04:33What did the Speaker offer you just now in terms of amendments and the like?

04:36Were you in that meeting?

04:38Yeah, yesterday.

04:38No, just now.

04:39There's a meeting right now.

04:40Just now you're on the press.

04:41No, what's it on Epstein?

04:42No, that's with...

04:43That's the rules, folks.

04:44That's mostly the rules, folks.

04:45Yeah.

04:46Do you know how that's going to play out yet?

04:48No.

04:48No, I asked to be on rules, oddly enough.

04:50And the former Speaker wouldn't let me on it.

04:52Hey, how come you never had me on your thing about the way I'm dressed?

04:56I have.

04:57I have.

04:57There's me, too.

04:58Talk to the end.

04:59I'm working with you.

05:00The media, y'all got to verify this.

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