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On Sunday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper about the Epstein Files.
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00:00Well, then tell me why for a month she was saying that she's going to release the information tomorrow.
00:05We made the assumption that the judges were to release the order and allow the evidence that they had that it could be heard.
00:11But it's all been sealed.
00:14And so if it's been a sealed case, we can't release it until the judges allow us to release it.
00:19And you would think common sense would play.
00:21That's why they asked for transparency.
00:23We want transparency.
00:24We want the judges to have transparency in this, too.
00:26But remember, there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before I was in office, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, way before Pam Bonney was in office, way before Kash Patel was the director.
00:382009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein.
00:44And that sweetheart has not been exposed.
00:46No, it was 2000.
00:47It's not?
00:48Well, when was the case heard?
00:49It was 2008.
00:51It was the U.S. attorney at the time was a guy named Alex Acosta.
00:55He was a Bush appointee.
00:58He went on to become President Trump's secretary of labor.
01:01It all took place in 2008.
01:03Who was in office at the time?
01:052008, George W. Bush was in office at the time.
01:07George W. Bush.
01:08No, 2009 is when the case came out and Obama was in office at the time.
01:13It's not true.
01:13It's not true.

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