00:00Senator, what do you make of the House essentially grinding to a halt over the Jeffrey Epstein files?
00:14Isn't it interesting that it takes a conspiracy and theories on that conspiracy to shut down the U.S. House of Representatives?
00:22It shows you how deep this administration is in these conspiracy theories.
00:28Deputy Attorney Blanche today announced the intention to go and see Gillian Maxwell in federal prison to try to learn more information from her.
00:36Do you feel like that's an appropriate thing for him to do?
00:38We've already had the Attorney General announce that she takes possession of a client list and information and then can't produce it.
00:46So I'm not sure what this visit is coming to be.
00:49The House, Tim Birch, I've actually a congressman, just introduced a motion to subpoena Gillian Maxwell in the House Oversight Committee.
00:56Do you agree with a move like that in the Senate?
01:00I'd have to think about that.
01:02I'm not sure what she has to offer.
01:04The question in my mind, why isn't the Attorney General and the head of the FBI producing the documents they already have?
01:10I mean, they've talked a lot about them.
01:12They've talked at great length about what they contain, but yet they won't produce them.
01:17I'm for complete disclosure.
01:18Senator Durbin, can you talk more about the information your committee received about 1,000 FBI personnel being tasked with combing through the Epstein-related files and flagging mentions of Trump's name?
01:30We have an incredible source that this occurred.
01:33It was a surprise that so many agents who should have been investigating issues of national security, safety, narcotics and the like were assigned the task of going through this file here by Jeffrey Epstein in creation.
01:49That to me seems like a waste of talent.
01:52Law enforcement, I believe it did happen.
01:54You've asked Bondi and Bongino and Patel to provide information.
01:58You asked a bunch of detailed questions.
02:00If they don't get back to you, what are the next steps to you?
02:03Well, we'll appeal to the committee and hope that some of the Republicans will join us in an effort to see what the next step might be.
02:11It could be Espino.
02:12Sir, these comments yesterday by Hunter Biden going after a wide swath of people in the Democratic Party, are those productive at the moment?
02:18I miss them.
02:19I'm not tuned in to Hunter's ravings.
02:22Do you feel like your conference has coalesced around a strategy about how you want to deal with these appropriations bills as they're coming to the floor?
02:27We've heard some frustration.
02:28We're working on it.
02:29It's a tough assignment.
02:32We've talked about it at length a couple times and we're going to meet on it this week.
02:36How do you feel about the amendment to basically lock in the Greenbelt site for the FBI headquarters that Senator Van Hollen has been advocating for?
02:44Well, I think we went through the prescribed process, choosing between Virginia and Maryland.
02:51And up pops the President who says, let's put it in the District of Columbia.
02:54Let's ignore all the work that's been done for several years.
02:57I think that's wrong.
02:58I think that Alan has a point.
02:59Senator Durbin, you voted for that partisan CR in March to avoid a government shutdown.
03:04You're one of the few Democrats who did.
03:06Looking back at it, was that the right move?
03:08Do you regret it?
03:09And how much you've acted differently before?
03:11I don't regret it.
03:12I think giving more power to the President at that point to shut down the government would have been disastrous.