The Daily Signal - Biden's Doctor Pleads the 5th (and HIPAA), Epstein Findings Flare-Up at Cabinet Meeting | July 10, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 Former President Biden's physician pleads the Fifth Amendment and HIPAA before the Oversight Committee and continued criticism and questions about the Department of Justice Epstein investigation closure show a potentially irreparable chasm in Americans' institutional trust. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Thursday, July 10, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. Former President Joe Biden's physician Kevin O'Connor was called before the House O'Brien yesterday to testify over certain issues relating to the Biden cover-up of his physical and mental health decline, as well as a couple of disturbing matters regarding family business deals.

Starting point is 00:00:49 Dr. O'Connor pled the fifth and patient doctor confidentiality. Take a look. Dr. O'Connor, before we begin, I would like to go over the ground rules for this deposition. The committee will conduct today's deposition in accordance with the House of Representatives' regulations for the use of deposition authority, which were furnished to your counsel. This regulation is incorporated into the Rules of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at Rule 15, which was also furnished to your counsel. The questioning will proceed in rounds. The majority will ask questions for an hour, and then the minority will have an opportunity to ask questions for an hour if they choose. There will be one staff counsel per side asking the questions during each round, to the extent. members have questions for the witness they will be propounded during their side's

Starting point is 00:01:32 respective rounds. Do you understand? On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based on the physician patient privilege and reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. I am not a lawyer and I must follow my lawyer's advice in this matter. So gentlemen, we intend to assert both privileges with regard to any questions that would be asked at this deposition. And Dr. O'Connor will not answer any questions. Can we go off the record for one second? He then, of course, refused to speak to press on the way out.

Starting point is 00:02:08 Not very surprising. His lawyer's saying no comment on the way. Dr. O'Connor, how does that make any comments to press, sir? Do you have a message for the committee? Representative James Comer latched on to the Fifth Amendment claim over on X, saying, quote, it's now clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden's cognitive decline after Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's physician and family business associate refused to answer any questions and chose to hide behind the Fifth Amendment. The American people demand transparency,

Starting point is 00:02:44 but Dr. O'Connor would rather conceal the truth. Dr. O'Connor took the fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden's health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States. Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a cover-up from happening again. We will continue to interview more Biden White House aides to get answers Americans deserve. Now, a couple of things here. First of all, it is not likely that this is the last you will hear of Dr. Kevin O'Connor before the O'Connor before Congress in general. It is unlikely that Dr. Kevin O'Connor's pleading of the fifth and then patient doctor confidentiality is going to hold water, and that's for a couple of reasons. First of all, regarding the patient doctor confidentiality matter, HIPAA, which is the Health Insurance, Portability and Accountability Act, is the law passed in 1996. at the federal level, which states that doctors may not disclose any kind of identifying information

Starting point is 00:03:39 about their patients, especially that which can be used as a type of leverage against the patient who underwent some kind of medical procedure or that kind of medical information could be used to the detriment of the patient in general. The issue is that being asked to be dishonest about President Biden's health doesn't fit in relation to the particular act in question. And in a where an individual was called to testify about crimes committed, this is actually something that Congress can somewhat bypass in a closed-door hearing. So that doesn't work. Second, the Fifth Amendment matter. Given that Dr. O'Connor was asked if he was asked to commit certain crimes on behalf of Joe Biden, that doesn't involve answering regarding self-incrimination,

Starting point is 00:04:29 which is, of course, what the Fifth Amendment is about. If you are being asked to commit a crime, you discussing that with the police or with a federal officer or with Congress itself does not incriminate you in the crime unless you said, yes, I will lie on your behalf. In which case, I doubt that this could keep Dr. O'Connor from something like being charged with inherent contempt and then held in the basement of the Capitol until he decides that he's ready to talk. Additionally, there are a couple of serious concerns, not just from right-wing sources, but from places like ABC News, Politico, the New York Times, suggesting that Dr. O'Connor was used as a go-between between the Biden family and medical agencies that wanted services from Vice President Biden

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Starting point is 00:06:21 is pointed out to the great team you have, and all these achievements that have happened domestically, but you think about it under your leadership, we prevented an end of war between India and Pakistan. NATO is now at 5% for the first time ever, the highest numbers ever. A peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. A 12-day war that ended with an American operation that were the only country of the world that could have done. Hopefully pretty soon a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The entire Middle East and the infrastructure of it has the potential now to change because of Syria and Lebanon, and it hasn't even been six months. It hasn't even been six months. It hasn't even been six.

Starting point is 00:07:00 months. So it's a straight testament to your leadership. Well, thank you very much. And you've done a fantastic job. Things got a little bit testy when a reporter asked President Trump for updates regarding the Epstein investigation closure, which has outraged a lot of Americans on the left, right, and center. Check it out. Jeffrey Epstein, it left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for a American or foreign intelligence agency. the former Labor Secretary who was Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Costa, he allegedly said that he did work for an intelligence agency.

Starting point is 00:07:39 So could you resolve whether or not he did? And also, could you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse tape on the night of the Senate? Yeah, sure. Can I just enter for a little second? Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep?

Starting point is 00:08:03 That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time, and do you feel like answering? I don't mind answering. I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration. But you go ahead. Sure, sure.

Starting point is 00:08:26 First, to back up on that, in February, I did. an interview on Fox and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said, I was asked a question about the client list and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That's what I meant by that. Also, to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein, child porn is what they were, never going to be released, never going to see the lighted day. To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that, we can get back to you on that. And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively,

Starting point is 00:09:15 the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide. And what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter. counter. And what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night. They redo that video is old from like 1999. So every night the video is reset and every night should have the same minute missing. So we're looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night. And that's it on Epstein. Now regardless of what it is that you may or may not believe regarding the Epstein investigation itself, its closure, what's going on behind closed doors, there is one core point, which it seems that pundits on the left, right, and center

Starting point is 00:10:03 universally agree upon. A very rare thing indeed. In this case, the optics, the communication regarding this entire investigation, its rollout the delivering of its findings, the description of certain events like videotapes and what did and didn't happen after the fact. And this is a line of poorly received communications efforts such as the binders to the influencers of the phase one release of the Epstein files earlier this year. Essentially, with an administration asking the public to just trust us after they have said they can't release a lot of information about the investigation and in some aspects vaguely describing the actions regarding the investigation results that took place, Americans' institutional trust appears to be degrading at a rapid pace if any remains at all.

Starting point is 00:10:53 Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnettcast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern over on the live stream on YouTube, Rumble, or X, where we dig into the day's latest news and nonsense. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been the Daily Signal's top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Biden's Doctor Pleads the 5th (and HIPAA), Epstein Findings Flare-Up at Cabinet Meeting | July 10, 2025

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