00:00Vice Chair Ted Lieu. Thank you Chairman Aguilar. This morning I went on this interesting website called House Republican Price Hikes dot com. And if you go on that website you can see the increases in grocery prices starting from the beginning of this year. Beef prices for example are at an all-time high. Donald Trump promised that he was going to lower inflation on day one. He lied. Inflation has continuously increased.
00:30The most recent report has inflation increasing above expectations to 2.7 percent. Core CPI increased even more to 2.9 percent. And what are congressional Republicans doing? Nothing. In fact it's even worse than that. They are actually ending this week early because they're afraid to cast votes on the Jeffrey Epstein issue.
00:54The rules committee is not meeting because they're afraid to cast votes to release the Epstein files. So you've got this Epstein issue affecting congressional operations and making sure that the congressional Republicans don't work on trying to lower costs.
01:12So this is an epic cover-up, right? This is a cover-up of epic proportions where you've got the majority party literally having us leave Congress early and not having the rules committee meet because they don't want to deal with releasing the Epstein files.
01:29We should release the Epstein files. It is what Donald Trump campaigned on. It's what Attorney General Pam Bondi talked about this February when she said the Epstein client list was quote sitting on her desk right now. Why don't we have that client list?
01:44And these are the questions that the American people keep asking and the story is not going to go away because at core this is an issue about underage women who are sexually abused and assaulted.
01:55Attorney General Pam Bondi should not be protecting Jeffrey Epstein's legacy nor his clients nor should congressional Republicans be doing the same.
