I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give these victims their opportunity to [00:00:15] testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony. First Lady Melania Trump has broken her silence on the Epstein files and uh this came as uh [00:00:34] the Trump administration very clearly does not want to focus on the Epstein files. So what exactly is happening here? She is calling for Congress to hold a public hearing with the survivors. Cenk, what are your two cents? Yeah, so there's two possibilities here. ah What [00:00:53] is? The war is not a distraction from the Epstein files as Anna pointed out. Epstein files might be a distraction from the war now. But the other possibility is uh that a story is about to come out saying that Melania and Donald Trump were set up by Jeffrey Epstein. So that's the [00:01:14] main reason you would try to get ahead of the story by doing something like this. And so let's get the facts and also Donald Trump's reaction is very relevant here. It sure is. Now, I actually wanna get to that right away because everyone was wondering, did Trump [00:01:30] know about this press conference that the first lady's doing? And it turns out, according to MSNOW, Trump did not know that she was issuing this statement. Jorams. All right, but let's get to more of what she had to say because it was a surprise move from the first lady. [00:01:50] However, she denied having any connection to Epstein. Take a look. I never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time. Since overlapping in social circles is common. in New York City and Palm Beach. To be clear, [00:02:16] I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be catered as anything more than casual correspondence. I am not [00:02:36] Epstein's victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance at the New York City party in 1998. Melania has always maintained that uh an Italian modeling [00:02:57] agent by the name of Paolo Zampoli is the person who introduced her to President Donald Trump back in 1998. A man who also appeared in the Epstein files numerous times and did business with Epstein though, so that's not great. But going back to her statement, she uh then went [00:03:16] into detail about the first time that she actually met Epstein. Here's what she had to say. The first time I crossed paths with Epstein was in the year 2000 at an event Donald and I attended together. At the time, had never met Epstein and had no knowledge of his criminal [00:03:40] undertakings. Numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been calculating on social media for years now. Be cautious about what you believe. I'm not a witness [00:04:02] or a name witness in connection with any of Epstein's crimes. I have never had any knowledge of Epstein abuse. of his victims. I was never involved in any capacity. I was not a participant, [00:04:22] was never on Epstein's plane, and never visited his private island. Melania's name does appear in the Epstein files because of emails that she had with Delane Maxwell. She described [00:04:38] as casual correspondence. In a 2002 email written to Maxwell, a woman named Melania wrote to Maxwell to praise a profile of Epstein in New York Magazine. Maxwell called Melania sweet [00:04:54] pea and Melania signed her email love. And again, right now, obviously, we don't have a shred of evidence showing any wrongdoing that Melania was involved in or anything like that. Melania has never been charged with a crime. I think it's important to know that. But what befuddles [00:05:10] people is why she put out the statement in the first place. And we are hearing some talking points from a lot of people, some claims from a lot of people online um that she had this relationship with Epstein. Maybe there was something shady going on, but again, no evidence of that. [00:05:26] But where things get really interesting, one more clip here Cenk, is her calling for Congress to act and do something that to be quite honest, Trump's voters overwhelmingly wanted him to do, but he didn't do. Take a look. Now is the time for Congress to act. Epstein was not [00:05:46] alone. Several prominent male executives resigned from their powerful positions after this matter became widely. politicized. Of course, this doesn't amount to guilt, but we still must [00:06:03] work openly and transparently to uncover the truth. I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around [00:06:19] the survivors. Give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath. in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony. Then and only then we will have the truth. Thank you. [00:06:37] Thomas Massey loved that message and said, first lady asked Congress to bring Epstein survivors in for testimony with all due respect. uh That's Todd Blanch's job. But he also says [00:06:56] that Ro Khanna and I have uh already gave brave survivors a chance to tell their horrific stories on Capitol Hill. Pam Bondi wouldn't even acknowledge them, prosecute. And the reason why I say uh Massey loves this is because it puts this issue front and center at a time when the war against [00:07:15] Iran has really sucked up all the energy, all the attention in the country. And people have kind of forgotten about the Epstein files, or at least they're not focusing on the Epstein files. And so now there's a shift back to this issue, which I'm sure Trump is not happy about. [00:07:31] This is not something that he wanted, but who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's something. Maybe there's some sort of scam going on here. I have no idea. But Cenk, what do you make of this? Yeah, so I have a theory. But first, just on a personal note, I remember when I [00:07:46] was a whore most of my life, and a nerd and an outsider. I remember, I'm still all of those things. Anyway, and this is the part I used to think, I was a little bitter about not getting [00:08:01] invited to the cool parties. oh Thank God I was. Yeah, these parties turned out to be disgusting, Jesus Christ. So all right, Melania doing this is the equivalent of a guy coming into a room and screaming, I'm gay. Okay, okay, we don't want to said that until you started [00:08:24] screaming it. So it does make you wonder. So normally somebody gets in front of a story by doing a revelation like this. And how would they know that a story is coming out? Well, a reporter will call you right before they publish the story and ask you for a comment. So when [00:08:42] they ask you for a comment, then you know the story is coming out and you do a presser like this. So we don't know that that's going to happen yet, but that's usually the reason why something like this happens. Okay, now in terms of is it possible that Epstein introduced [00:08:57] them? First of all, of course, of course it's possible, right? So a lot of girls to a lot of rich people. So now some of them were young girls and in seedy private areas, etc. But [00:09:14] some of them were young women. uh And so uh she was introduced by an Italian modeling agent or something. Now you remember the French modeling agent uh who got, I've seen a lot of the underage girls who then was arrested and committed suicide in prison after Epstein did. So a lot of those [00:09:36] modeling agents, their jobs was to procure women for wealthy, powerful men. So I don't think that that's the way she thinks it is by telling us that that's how they meant. So now they're keeping a real portion of our programming, okay? Now don't know that this applies to Melania [00:09:57] at all, because you need real facts and evidence to say that. But is there a concept of what uh we can call semi pros? Well, of course there is, what does that mean? So, if you're a person who um is a sex worker, there's a simple transaction, The John, the client pays a certain [00:10:21] amount of money and they get the woman for a certain number of hours or the night, etc. Now the semi pros don't work like that, you cannot pay them for the night. In fact, they'll be deeply offended by that, okay? But if you are good to them, they will be your girlfriend [00:10:38] for a while, right? And sometimes do the idiot, much older wealthy men fall in love and then marry that semi-pro? Happens all the time, okay? And our- Is there a little cottage industry [00:11:00] of guys like Epstein and the modeling agents who introduced the semi pros to high society? Yes, there's no question about that. Whether Melania and Trump met that way is an open question. But does that happen? Definitively it does. Of course it does, which is why I have chosen [00:11:21] the path of working 12 plus hours a day to not have to be with someone as disgusting and repulsive as Donald Trump. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.