Hey, everybody, it's Alison Gill, host of the Daily Beans podcast.

Welcome to The Breakdown.

And thanks to Midas Touch for hosting this show.

Last week, as you know, most of you were here, I spoke to Katie Fang about Judge Emmett

Sullivan granting her preliminary injunction, which gave Todd Blanche in the Justice Department

until July 2nd to hand over certain

documents from the Epstein files, or at least explain why withholding them is appropriate under

the law, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And you'll never guess what the most

transparent administration and history did on July 2nd. they refused to hand over the information, blamed the survivors again, used them as a pawn like they always do, and then asked for more time, even though they've had almost seven months, and a stay from the judge who already denied both of those requests in his preliminary injunction.

So we're going to go over the government's woefully inadequate response with Katie Fang on today's episode of The Breakdown.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Breakdown and welcome Katie Fang. Hi, Katie.

Hey, Allison, and hey to everybody who's tuning in.

All right, so correct me if I'm way off base here. But what Todd Blanche and Stan Woodward have done here with their 12-page non-answer full of obfuscation and deflection and victim-blaming is that they've

essentially bolstered your argument for a special master. I'm glad that you kind of went to the

heart of the matter. The answer is yes, because number one, I'm glad that you didn't actually

impute the filing to any line prosecutor.

I think it's notable that we didn't see the prosecutor who signed the previous documents

that have been filed on behalf of Todd Blanche in this case. We saw Stanley Woodward's signature

on it, which I think is a big tell about what this Department of Justice thinks about the value of this case,

and it's important. So number one, but number two, yeah, I couldn't think of a better

solution of an, not like he'd be looking for one, but for Judge Sullivan to have an off-ramp.

Just appoint the special master now, even in this limited capacity of dealing with a preliminary

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