BREAKING NEWS: Dean Reads Virginia Giuffre's Book To Blanche's Face During Fiery Confrontation

Thank you Chairman Rogers. Thank you to our ranking members. Welcome Acting Attorney General. I want to speak about justice for the Epstein victims and survivors and I'm going to begin with the closing words of Virginia Roberts Dufresne in her book. It's literally the last paragraph. She writes, I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected. Victims are treated with compassion, not shamed, and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else. I yearn too for a world in which the perpetrators face more shame than their victims do and where anyone who's been trafficked can confront their abusers when they are ready, no matter how much time has passed. We don't live in this world yet. I mean seriously, where are those videotapes the FBI confiscated from Epstein's houses and why haven't they led to prosecution of any more abusers? That's from Virginia. It was printed as you know posthumously after her death. Mr. Blanche, you and I had a chance a couple of weeks ago at the Department of Justice to speak about these cases. We discussed three things in connection with this monstrous decades-long crime spree. Number one, your failure to fully redact survivor information. Number two, your failure to follow the law and release the remaining files. And number three, your refusal to prosecute anybody else. Mr. Blanche, let's continue that inane conversation but this time it's public. This time and more importantly, it's under oath you're speaking to Congress. So let's get into it. When will you comply with the law and release all of the files? As I said to you when we spoke before, we have complied with the law. There are three million more documents and you know what you said to me? They're all duplicative and they include another guy named Epstein. No, I did not say that. That's what you said. Reclaiming my time? Can I answer the question? I just gave you the answer you gave me. No, actually it's my time, Mr. Chairman. I think those are the rules of this committee. I told him the answer he gave me and now in public he's trying to say something else. Please stop the clock. Can I get that time back? May I have 20 seconds back, Mr. Chairman? Thank you. I very much appreciate that. Do you want me to answer the question? Mr. Blanche, as you know, I visited DOJ three times for as much as 10 hours and I'll be going back. Does the Epstein File Transparency Act say that the file should be available to members of Congress with a minder at DOJ where you're in a secure room, you can't write on any of the binders, you can take your own notes? Is that what the Transparency Act says? It doesn't require we allow you to come to DOJ at all. We did that on our own. What does it say in terms of transparency? It says that they should be made publicly available. And they were. Am I correct? And they were. Publicly available. And they were. Oh, let's talk about that. Okay. Time of the gentlelady has expired. I beg your pardon. And I'd actually like to get 20 seconds back. How do I get cut off two minutes into this? Time of the gentlelady has expired. I beg your pardon, Mr. Chairman. What rules are we operating under? Because he's under a little bit of heat for not prosecuting anyone in these monstrous crimes? I've been in the room. I have been there. This is what I had to do to transcribe, to show what is true. What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane. And the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. I am shocked at this. There's also this set of files in the file. This is investigation into the potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein. I almost used up all the blank ink in the hallway because it's all covered up. It's all covered up. The American people are not stupid. They know that when members of Congress have to go in and actually unredact, try to find the truth for these victims, something is corrupt. Something is corrosive. You were paid $10 million to represent the president. You hang a 30-foot banner of the president's menacing face over the entrance to the Department of Justice. You said that if you were terminated or not moved forward as attorney general, you would say to the president, I love you, sir. So I have one question for you. Is your obligation to the victims and survivors of Epstein's heinous crimes and all his perpetrators, or is your first obligation to the president of the United States? So without a doubt, we want to bring justice to every victim. When will you bring that justice? Can I please finish? Excuse me. Can I finish? It's been decades. Can I finish? When will you bring the justice? So as I was saying- When will you prosecute? And who will you prosecute? Can I speak? You told me in our conversation, you blamed the victims. Every victim, every victim of Mr. Epstein. He told me that the victims didn't give good names. Let me be crystal clear that this Department of Justice will always protect victims and we'll always prosecute anybody we can. Okay. Full stop. No ifs, ands, or buts. Okay. What you are showing in a game of showmanship are redactions because of victims. Because that prosecution memorandum talks about- Excuse me? Perpetrators too. How do you know that? Go ahead. Talk to the victims. So- Talk to the victims. They're victims. They're victims named, which we are required to redact. Required by law to redact, which we did. Okay. So I take umbrage- I realize I'm over time. Thank you for that indulgence. I want to ask for unanimous consent to enter records onto the record. May I do that now? Without objection. Thank you. The time of the gentlelady has expired.