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Everything that you stand for in your journalism, you've always been out there on the street with the people covering the movements, everything that's happening. You're not the kind of anchor that stays in a studio and we've all always admired you for that. It's just so upsetting and startling that in this country. Something like this would happen to you and that is your work at its best. It's really upsetting. I'm so happy to hear that you're going to keep going. You're not stopping. I love seeing the standing ovation for you at the Clive Davis dinner. That was awesome. Thank you very much. I'm going to come on. You're showing. I'm going to talk to you all about it, but I've got to take care of some things first. If you know what I mean, exactly how far I can go and say and all those things. Thank you for that so much. You're going to make me cry. I was so upset. You know how many people? We're all rooting for you. This is a family. You convinced me to go out and do this. Help me when I was needing advice. I really looked up to you and everything you've built. I don't know. It's a pioneer in this independent media space. That's why they targeted you. You're just so you've created a real movement. You're so forward-facing. You have really defined this. It's really the reason you're a target. It's because they are threatened. I don't know. I don't know what else to say. I'm a little lost for words. But yeah, I think we're all rooting for you, Don. Thank you. I've got to tell you, too, people who I have not had such great experiences with, who have not treated me kindly, actually reached out to me. It was like an olive branch or to break the ice and say, I know that we have not been on friendly terms lately. But I think what they're doing to you is wrong. Let's have a drink or go to dinner. It's broken the ice, a lot of things, a couple of people who... At least there's something good that's come out of it. However, there's nothing good, I believe, coming out of the Epstein files. Our thumbnail says they arrested the wrong Don. I was listening to a preacher this weekend who said, out of all of these things, they've arrested Don Lemon. Why hasn't anybody been arrested for the Epstein file? Exactly. Can you imagine if someone has the connections, even just the connections that Donald Trump has? Why haven't they been... We would be brought in and questioned at least, and maybe we would have been apprehended. I don't know, but why not? Right. Why not? I think when you actually look at the connections that Jeffrey Epstein had to the very top of every administration that ever covered this... That should have investigated this massive sex trafficking operation, he managed to sort of burrow himself into the layers of the top of society, of politics, of the Justice Department. I mean, going back to 1996 when Maria Farmer called in the tip in 1996 about her tip. It was a police report asking for help to the FBI and nobody responded. It's like, well, he was friends with the president, his friends with Bill Flintern at the time. Then you go on to 2008 and this very unjust non-postitution agreement, and then, you know, his friends with Kathleen Rumler, who is Obama's, not just ex-excuse me, he's getting advice from her. He is the White House council, and he's asking her for advice on how to smear Virginia, for Dufrey, a victim, giving her a Birken bag, which she was just so excited about, right? And then, you know, you just look at every layer, like, his friends with Ken Star, Alan Darshwitz. It's like, he has everybody locked up and paid for, you know, throughout multiple administrations. And he, even now, I mean, Jake Layton, who is leading this investigation, okay? This new investigation that President Trump has opened up into the Democrats, right? And who is the one who's supposed to be working, he's running the SCNY, like, he is the federal prosecutor, the top of the SDNY, and he was supposed to turn over millions and millions of documents in compliance with the Epstein Transparency Act. But this is a man who was selected by Leon Black to basically replace him at Apollo, when Leon Black, the founder of Apollo, had to step down because of his relationship with Dufrey Epstein, in which he paid him $170 million for a state planning, as if anyone has ever received that kind of fee. On top of that, Leon Black was accused in the civil case of rape by a woman in connection to Dufrey Epstein. And it's just like, Leon Black also, you know, was Reed Hoffman's lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell. And if you just like, look at all of the all of the connections between Epstein's world and all of the people who are at the top of the government now and have been in previous positions, you can understand why he has remained untouchable. And all of his accomplishments, accomplices, and all the people who were, who may have also been John's perpetrators in these acts, there are a thousand girls and a thousand, and victims have said that they were not just trafficked to Dufrey Epstein. Why they have not had any face, any justice? Are there have to follow up investigations? Well, Tara, listen, and this latest tranche that came out, some of the information, I think there was like the Bill Gates reference about, you know, reportedly about STDs or something, or Donald Trump was mentioning in there and they're saying, well, it's, you know, these are tipsters and they couldn't be verified and all of that and they can't investigate. And it's like, wait a minute, we have a very viable, at least we used to have an FBI and people who were quite capable of investigating even tips that aren't substantiated. But it's shocking to me, again, as it was said in the report by Kristen Welker, Kristen Welker, is that, okay, just because you're in there, it doesn't mean you're guilty, but there's a whole Donald Trump's in there a lot, like a lot. 53,000 files, 53,000 files, excuse me, 55,300 files have the president's name in them. Why hasn't he been brought in in question? Right, right. You claim that you've investigated the tip, but what about the person who's been accused? Go on. Yeah. And also just the fact that, okay, Glenn Maxwell said that there were 25 men and her heaviest petition that signed settlements with one victim alone. Okay. What about those men? What about them? I mean, what are they doing? It's just, it's also a sign too that they just don't believe women. They just don't want to believe them. They don't care. I mean, I think everyone should be concerned that crimes against women, we know crimes against minorities. They just, they don't put, they don't have a precedent for, they don't have, they're just not important to these people, in the FBI. They're not, they're, they're just not prioritized. And it's really, it's really disturbing. So yes, how can you say you've, you've actually closed the loop on a tip? If you haven't called in the person who's been accused, haven't even called their lawyer. Exactly. Why you can't, like, bring them in, bring them in and get and talk to them and ask them. That's right. I don't understand it. I think Tara, we're going to look back in the couple of years and new information is going to come out and we will be hoodwinked. The American people will, there's going to be like a trance of information that is going to not, you know, implicate people, but that's going to find a lot of people had a lot more to do with the trafficking of people or, you know, actually committing horrible sexual acts with young people. I think that's going to come out. And I look, I think it's going to be, as you said, some of the wealthiest people in the world and some of the most influential people and all we're left now is our own devices because they're not being transparent with us. So we don't know exactly who that might be. That could be anyone from the president of the United States on down to, as you see Prince Andrew and others that they're just not being, in my opinion, transparent about, and they're hiding something. Now, and they've also done a really sloppy job at releasing the files. I mean, Brad Edwards, who is a lawyer for many of the victims, he's actually calling on the Justice Department to take down the entire website until they remove the names of these victims. There are, and they can make pictures, right? Of like young women, like, what's a floppy? Yeah. They failed to redact at least 43 names, some appearing more than 100 times. So yeah, and this is like, he was saying time is of the essence, you need to take this down now, you're destroying people's lives. So these are women who have already been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein, have already lived through that pain and that shame. And now this is the next phase of the retraumatization by the government. And I've just been getting a lot of, like, I feel so bad for the survivors because this is all they're getting. Like, they're not getting anything more than this. And this is what they've gotten. It's just, this is what a sad way to end this horrific story. There is no light in this story, sadly. And Todd Blanch has closed the door on any future investigations. And like I said, Jake Clayton, who's running the next phase, I mean, he's completely compromised himself. He should be recusing himself when he's so involved with men who, one of them had to pay a settlement in connection to a rape of a woman, you know, he didn't eyes it, but he had to step down from his roller polo. It's just, it's just, you know, it is really, really, really, really concerning. And it's just the more you look at the web, you realize everybody at the top has some connection to Jeffery Epstein, including our, you know, our next Fed chair Kevin Warsh, who's married to Ron Lauder, who happens to be friends with Jeff with President Trump, whose daughter is involved in the Greenland takeover. Like, it's just like the more you look at this web, and then you have, you know, Kathy Rumler, who's now being defended by Tony Fraga, Goldman Sachs, who was George Bush's deputy press secretary. And you're just like, wow, I've got a lot Nick. Lot Nick, who claims, oh, I just walked into a house once and I was like, oh, this is creepy with my wife. And then I left turns out he actually wanted to go to the island and it looks like he arranged to actually go and visit it. And then there's emails with Elon Musk, his emails and they're saying, when should I, what's the best, craziest party or whatever, but, you know, you know, there you go. Terrapal Mary. Yeah. Thank you so much. Terrapal Mary, make sure you catch Terrapal Mary. She's a red letter, which is her sub stack and she does great work over there. And so there it is up on the screen over on the sub stack. Make sure you subscribe to Terra's work. And then she also has a show on YouTube. It's a Terrapal Mary show, right? Yeah. The Terrapal Mary show. And there there it is right there on YouTube. Make sure you go and subscribe it, reporter. Support us independent journalists because we're out here working our butts off to bring this up to you and like Terrapal Mary is. Thank you, Terrap. Thanks, Don. Stay strong. Thank you. I'll see you soon on your show. 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