The Harry Sisson Show - Trump DELETES & COVERS UP Epstein File RELEASE

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Trump BLOCKS Epstein File RELEASE AT 3 AMTrump DELETES EPSTEIN FOOTAGE As Cover Up EXPOSED

All right, folks, we have some major breaking news. Late last night, House Republicans blocked the release of the Epstein files. Democrats voted in favor of it. Republicans voted against it. After years of demanding that the files be released and spreading conspiracy theories, Republicans are now backtracking to protect Donald Trump. And they did it in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping, expecting nobody to pay attention to the story.

And that's exactly why I'm covering it here. today on this channel. So if you appreciate that, make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment. And now let's dive in. Before we look at this article, I want to show you a clip of Marjorie Taylor Green yesterday the same day that Republicans voted to block the release of the files talking about how damaging this story is for the Republican Party. When Marjorie Taylor Green is acknowledging that this is not good for MAGA, you know that's pretty significant. Take a look. Big of a blowback is there right now in MAGA world specifically. It's pretty big.

I have to be honest. It's just a red line that it crosses for many people. Jeffrey Epstein is literally the most well-known convicted pedophile in modern day history. This is something that's been talked about by many people serving in the administration, myself, and many others, on the right and the left, of their needing to be transparency of the rich and powerful elites that were in his circle while he was just one of the worst serial. abusers of young women. It has been a very serious situation for the administration and many people are speaking out online. You've seen it. You saw it at Turning Point Student Action Summon this weekend and a lot of people in Magath.

They really want to know more information about the people that were involved with Jeffrey Epstein and is there a blackmail list and are there foreign countries governments involved and there's nothing wrong with people continuing to ask that. Yeah. So if Marjorie Taylor Green is saying, yeah, there needs to be more transparency, the administration is not doing enough, you know it's bad. And that's why this move that Republicans pulled late last night is absolutely going to backfire on them. Let's dive into this story. According to Axios, House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release

the Epstein files. It's the outcome that Democrats. Anticipated and one they plan to gleefully cite as Donald Trump continues to grapple with the Maga fallout over the DOJ's handling of the documents and Democrats should absolutely cite this Republicans had the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is and they completely failed to protect Donald Trump instead of doing right by their constituents and demanding transparency. They decided that their loyalty to Trump is more important. The question with Epstein is whose side are you on? That's what Representative Rokana,

the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote. He also added, are you on the side of the rich and powerful? Or are you on the side of the people? He said, promising to introduce the amendment again and again and again and again. And that's exactly what Democrats should be doing. Get these Republicans on record as many times as we can.

So when the midterms come around, we can say, hey, us Democrats, we want a transparency. We were the ones fighting for you to get these documents. out in the open, Republicans were the one who blocked it every step of the way. And here's what happened. The House Rules Committee, which prepares legislation for votes on the House floor, voted five to six against attaching Kana's amendment to a procedural measure related to the quote-unquote Genius Act and a defense funding bill. The measure would have forced Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish all documents related to Epstein on a publicly accessible

website within 30 days of the measure being enacted. So that's as much transparency as you can get. That's quite literally what MAGA fans and Democrats have been demanding and Republicans voted against it. Republicans in their justification said that the amendment was not pertinent to the Genius Act, which would create the first regulatory framework for stable coins or the defense funding bill. But in a rare move, Representative Ralph Norman, who's a Republican, actually voted in favor of the amendment. That's why it was to five pretty close because a Republican decided to go across party lines. But let's take a closer look at the Republicans who voted against it. Here's the vote. It's actually five to seven at the end

of it all. And you can see all these different representatives. Maybe they represent one of you folks at home. All of these different MAGA folks voted against it. And every single Democrat on the committee voted in favor of it. The Democratic Party is the party of transparency. The Republican Party is the party of protecting people and protecting Donald Trump. And Roe Kana, who introduced the amendment, went on to MSNBC after the vote and spoke with Lawrence O'Donnell. And I think his input here, his insight as to what happened last night is really valuable for understanding what happened and what the next steps are. So take a look at this brief interview with Lawrence O'Donnell and Roe Kana. Have it. Joining us now, the member of Congress who forced that vote,

Democratic Congressman Ro Kona of California. Congressman Kana, give us the latest. situation with the House Rules Committee? Well, it's very disappointing. I had a very simple amendment that the full Epstein files should be released. It went for a vote to the House Rules Committee. Jim McGovern, who is the ranking member for House Democrats, made sure that all four Democrats voted for the release. Ralph Norman, a Republican, actually joined with the Democrats, saying that there should be a vote on the full release.

the full release. Chip Roy didn't show up for the vote, but seven other Republicans blocked it. So as of now, there is going to be no vote tomorrow, up or down vote on whether the Epstein file should be released. And this was the first stage of your attempt to get a full vote by the House of Representatives, to see a full recorded vote. Everyone could see how their member of Congress voted on this issue. And that's what was blocked by the ruling. committee not allowing you to get to that stage on the floor. Why would it be important to have that recorded vote on the floor? Well, on a very simple way, we should see whose side are you on. That's really what this Epstein file issue has become. It's not just about knowing who's being

protected, the rich and the powerful in terms of who had interaction with Jeffrey Epstein. It's the sense that people have that the government is too beholden to certain interests, who have their thumb on this scale, and that they're not working for ordinary people. And what the Democrats are saying is, we want to make sure that we get full justice here, that we get full transparency. And this may have been the first attempt that was blocked,

but I'll tell you it's not going to be the last attempt. We already have Representative V.C., who has a resolution. Leader Jeffries is saying that we're going to push for transparency here. And we can keep introducing these kind of amendments every week, every month, to force the Republicans to demand the release. And this is something that many Republicans believe should happen, as was evidenced by Ralph Norman's vote. Do it. Do it.

I really hope that the Democrats introduce this amendment at any opportunity they get. Get the Republicans on record. And I think a lot of people have been demanding that Democrats fight back even more, especially elected officials. This is what, in my view, is fighting back. Getting these Republicans on record, setting the Democrats up in a good position because this is beneficial for a number of reasons. Not only does it help Democrats electorally, but it helps the American people.

We're just talking about transparency here, right? We're not talking about, oh, this is so political, it's left versus right. This is a nonpartisan issue. So keep doing it every opportunity we get. The Elon Musk commentary on this situation continues. Elon Musk posted this after Donald Trump's long Jeffrey Epstein's social media postings. Elon Musk said, seriously, he said Epstein half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein, just release the files as promised. Congressman, are you concerned about a possible precedent here that down the line, a few years from now, we could be talking about the release of some other federal investigative, criminal investigative file that you might think should not be released, or is this a unique case?

This is, after all, in the entire history of this country, we have exactly one president who had a convicted pedophile as a best friend. Lawrence, look, I think you raise a very thoughtful point, which doesn't surprise me. I mean, there's a reason you have DOJ policy saying you can't leak things about people before you charge them. You would not want a Justice Department that just arbitrarily started leaking things about people caught up in an investigation. But here you have a very unique situation. You have a president of the United States who promised the American people the release of these files. You have an attorney general who went on television and said that on her desk is an Epstein client list and that she's going to promise to release that to the American public.

So now you have a question of trust. And I think what the president should do is say this is a unique circumstance that potentially involves governments of other countries that involves potentially national security. And for a one-time issue, we're going to release it to have total transparency. We're going to protect the victims, but we're going to release it. And this is not precedent setting. It's simply doing what I and the Attorney General promise the American people. And if they don't do that, they have a huge issue. Spot on. And I love what Rokana is doing here with his moves to get the Republicans on record. I think the Democrats should keep it up. I think they should hold the

Republicans accountable on this. It seems like they're ready to do that. And I don't think that this is the end of the story. All right, folks, check this out. The Jeffrey Epstein story that we've been covering extensively on this channel recently and has been the topic of conversation around the country the past few weeks just got even weirder, if you can even believe it. As we all know, the DOJ, the FBI, they released that memo saying that there is no client list. Epstein didn't blackmail anybody. But they also released footage from the night that Epstein died in prison all the way back in 2019-2020. And originally, there was one minute cut out at midnight between 1159 and 12, and that was it.

But now we just learned from Wired, which is reporting exclusively, that actually it had nearly three minutes cut out, not just one, three minutes. The FBI, the DOJ originally said that this one-minute discrepancy was no big deal, but now there's two minutes and 53 seconds exactly were removed. from one of two stitched together clips. Now, I wanna dive into this story with you, but first and foremost, I wanna start here where earlier today, Donald Trump was asked,

did Pam Bondi tell you your name appeared in the Epstein files, and Donald Trump decided to go on this conspiracy theory-filled rant? To me, and I wanna hear what you think about this in the comments, this looks like a guilty and panicked man. Tell me what you think, watch. On the Attorney General briefed you on the DOJ and FBI review, the findings of that review. On what? On the DOJ and FBI review on what subject? On the review of the files.

Attorney General Pan Bondi. A very quick briefing. Did she tell you, what did she tell you about the review? And specifically, did she tell you at all that your name appeared in the file? No, no. She's given us just a very quick briefing. and in terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen. And I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey,

they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden. And we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia-Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through. We've gone through years of it. But she's handled it very well, and it's going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release. You know, a really weird answer to the question. He started off by saying we got a quick briefing.

I got a quick briefing on all the Epstein documents, but then he goes on to say that the documents are fake and that they were written by Democrats. So which one is it? Did you get a quick briefing or did you get a briefing that's extensive enough to know that the documents were somehow faked? And nobody knew that and nobody in the government knew that. It's just an incredibly strange answer. And that's why I say this looks like a panicked and gilts.

And look, I'm no body language expert, but Caroline Levitt, when Donald Trump was asked that question, she looks uneasy. I mean, you could see her on the side there. To me, she looks nervous as well. But I don't know. You can tell me again what you think about that in the comments. At around the same time that Donald Trump was asked, hey, did Pam Bondi say that your name appeared in the files?

What are you going to do about them? Are you releasing any more files? Pam Bondi was actually asked a question by reporters on if she'll be releasing more Epstein files after Trump said that he would. And I guess they might be on two different pages because she basically said, no, we're not. Take a look. And the president said today you would release credible files related to Mr. Epstein. Are you prepared to do that? And when would you? Our memo, today our memo speaks for itself. And we'll get back to you on anything else.

I haven't seen all of his statements today. Thank you. That's quite the dodge from the question. She's saying, hey, the president says you're going to release more documents. Now she says her memo. speaks for itself. It's like, again, they're just completely on two different pages. And that's why this story about these extra minutes that were cut out from the Epstein footage just makes everything more strange. You know, adding this with Donald Trump's weird answers to questions his like guilty look that he has on his face, it just makes me quite uneasy. I think you guys might agree with that one. But let's dive into the story from Wired. Newly uncovered metadata

reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI described as fully raw surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Epstein's prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the administration's commitment to fully investigate his death, but instead raise new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled. You know, it would have been nice if before the Trump administration released this footage, they would have talked about what edits they made, but they just put the footage out and expected people not to notice.

I guess they think the American people are dumb or something like that. Maybe Trump thinks his own supporters are dumb because everybody caught on to what they did. Wired previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files contradicting the DOJ's claim that it was raw footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately two minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. It's unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.

Two minutes and 53 seconds is quite a substantial amount of time. Like when Pam Bondi said that, oh, a minute disappeared between 1159 and 12, and that just happens for every camera in prisons at night, you might be able to say, well, okay, maybe that makes sense. Maybe there's something to back this up in other prisons, but I'm sure that not every prison camera has two minutes and 53 seconds cut out randomly. There has to be an explanation from the Trump DOJ about that. The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gap

between 1158-58 and 12 a.m. That attorney general, Pam Bondi, has attributed to a nightly reset system. The metadata confirms that the first video file, which showed footage from August 9, 2019, continued for several minutes beyond what appears in the final version of the video and was trimmed to the 1158. 58 p.m. mark right before the jump to midnight. The cut to the first clip doesn't necessarily mean

that there is an additional time unaccounted for. The second clip picks up at midnight, which suggests the two would overlap, nor does it prove that the missing minute was cut from the video. The footage was released at a moment of political tension, of course. And in response to detailed questions about how the video was assembled, Wired sent a request for comment

the DOJ at 740 a.m. Just two minutes later, a public affairs officer for the DOJ responded, referring to the FBI. Then the FBI declined, Wired's request for comment. On Friday, Wired published an analysis of metadata embedded in the video, confirmed by independent video forensics experts, which indicates that the file was assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ's website

where it was presented as raw footage. That is not raw footage. That is edited footage. Let's just be clear here. They didn't just take the video that they had and put it up on the DOJ website. There was a lot of eyes on this. There was a lot of editing.

Wired's initial analysis found that those saves took place over a 23-minute span. However, further analysis of additional metadata shows that the file was actually edited and saved several times over a period of more than three and a half hours. several times saved over three and a half hours on May 23rd, 2025. Specifically, the file was created at 4.48 p.m. and last modified at 8.16 p.m. that day.

Look, we're not conspiracy theorists, you and me. You know, we're not. I don't dive into conspiracies. We don't make our views based off of facts. We're not MAGA, right? Maga just dives in headfirst. They go down the rabbit hole and everything. They always say that there's some form of conspiracy. Democrats don't do that. That's not just who we are. But this is just getting too weird. It's just too weird. I still believe that Epstein took his own life. That's my personal belief.

That was the analysis of the medical examiner. That's the analysis of DOJ's FBI's from Biden to Trump. That's still my belief. But the way that the Trump administration is handling this has only raised more questions than it has answered. Editing this footage. Donald Trump refusing to release more documents after promising to do so. Trump snapping at reporters who ask about Epstein.

Trump making conspiracies saying that the documents were written by Biden, but that actually they're going to be releasing more of those documents, but that nothing is in the documents. It's just, it's back and forth. It's too weird in my view.