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All right. Let's go and move on to this Epstein story of which there has been notably no commentary

in the Republican media, which was previously very interested in any Epstein-type story. So Michael Wolf will call

him a controversial journalist. I think this is part of the reason why is because it's Michael

Wolf. No, it's because it's about Trump and not about a Democrat. But anyway, Michael Wolf,

who wrote Fire and Fury, released a bunch of audio recordings that he had with the late Jeffrey Epstein, specifically talking

about his relationship with Donald Trump.

Notably, in one, he talks about how close friends he was with Donald Trump for 10 years,

and he also seems to have some inside information about the Trump White House after Trump wins in 2016, which would also

indicate he had not been excised from Trump's circle to the extent that Trump had previously

claimed. Let's take a listen to that. So how do you know this?

I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein, and I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein,

and I think this was in a restaurant in 2017.

His people fight each other.

Right.

And then have outsiders.

He sort of poisons the well outside.

He will tell 10 people, Bannon's a scumbag,

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