In this IHIP News episode, the hosts discuss renewed pressure over the Epstein files, including reporting that Senate Democrats may investigate JP Morgan Chase's banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction. They also cover an executive order targeting law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, and the hosts describe how some firms challenged it in court.
The conversation then turns to Republican preparations for possible House investigations, Democratic debate over pursuing policy or oversight, and Chuck Schumer's leadership. The hosts share strongly critical opinions throughout, and listeners will hear their views on accountability and political strategy.
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All right, the Epstein files are going to be gearing back up, and they should. And every single victim should have the opportunity to sit in Congress and tell her story, live on television, and reveal the name of her powerful abuser that the Donald Trump and MAGA Christians are covering for. They deserve that. The country deserves that. And every person that votes for MAGA needs to hear what they vote for. You vote for a party that covers up pedophilia, therefore you support pedophilia.
Full stop. All the people that went out and voted Republican in this past election, racism has never been enough for you. Now you can add pedophilia. That won't stop you from voting Republican. So the Senate Democrats are gearing up. Pop this up. CNBC is reporting that they're gearing up to investigate JP Morgan Chase's banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and Senator Ron Wyden is going to lead this. And they're going to hone in on high-ranking executives at the nation's largest bank.
Josh.
Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008, and Chase Bank continued to allow Epstein to bank with him. And they noted, up until 2013, and they noted several suspicious activities in his accounts. And they made notations that there are money laundering violations. All this is internally within the bank. But yet they didn't do anything about it at all. And so there's a lot of questions as to what they knew as far as money that was being funneled. Now, they haven't gone so far as to suggest that anyone at Chase knew about Jeffrey Epstein's illegal acts.
But when he was arrested in 2019, Chase then disclosed these things about Epstein's account that they should have disclosed in real time when he was doing it. But they probably didn't want to lose him as a client. So a lot of people at Chase Bank are going to have to answer a lot of questions under oath and in front of a Democratic committee where people are seeking real justice.
Yeah, this is always gotten me about the Epstein thing. In 2008, everybody knew he was a pedophile. And any involvement that anybody had with Jeffrey Epstein after 2008 knowingly engaged in conversation, friendship, business, partying, prostitution, whatever, with a pedophile. After 2008. So if your name's in the Epstein files after 2008, it's not good. Whether it's business or whatever. I want to live in a world where I don't care how rich you are.
I don't care how connected you are. If this year we know this person is pleading guilty to pedophilia, then it's like, cancel. Bring back cancel culture. Bring it back.
If you're trafficking young children for sex, I think that I'm not going to do business with you anymore. That's what Chase Bank should have said. But they didn't disclose these things about his account until, guess what, in 2019. The '08 conviction wasn't enough to scare them off. It wasn't until 2019 they thought, okay, maybe we should disclose these things.
All these people in Trump's cabinet, Howard Lutnick, all this nut lick, as everybody loves to call him, all that shit is after 2008. All of it.
Crazy.
This whole bullshit that Trump's like, oh, I kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. No, he got mad at Jeffrey Epstein because Jeffrey Epstein was recruiting Trump's employees. It wasn't about, hey, you're a pedophile. It was, quit taking my employees and turning them into hookers. I want them to work for me. It wasn't that he was upset that he was trafficking them. He was upset that he was stealing them. He wasn't outraged at the sex crime part of it.
I know, but let me remind you that 77 million people voted for a 34-time convicted felon who was accused in civil court of raping a woman. That person being our president.
Yeah, and he was in a juvenile— the judge said that he raped her.
Right, and people voted for him anyway. 77 million. That's the country that we lived in past tense. Lived in.
Those people. Okay. Moving along. The law firms. Y'all remember after that Kamala lost and then Trump goes in. And I'm ready. I'm sitting waiting for the Resistance 2.0. I'm like, I'm going to get a pink hat. I'm ready to go march. We're going to resist. There's no— and then everybody started folding cheap suits. And I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. Those of you that are longtime listeners know I have never relented. I've never obeyed. I've never acquiesced. I've always called this shit out.
And these law firms were some of the first to bend the knee to Trump. Some of the very first ones. And I remember thinking, what the fuck? Your lawyers, go to court. Don't bend the knee. Pop this up. Law firms that struck deals with President Donald Trump in early 2025 can expect to be subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee next year, Representative Jamie Raskin. And this is where the first story and the second story merge. I remember reporting that one of the very first law firms that bent the knee to Trump— well, guess what?
Big stack of files, his ass.
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Was in the Epstein files. And Donald Trump learned from Roy Cohn, his mentor, that you get compromising information, or as the Russians call it, kompromat, and you get this information on people and you use it against them. And Donald Trump learned this and he immediately started doing this. And I think the Democrats are going to expose that Trump has been using the Epstein files as his own personal kompromat. And he has all of these people bending the knee and doing all of these things, or he's going to say, hey, I'm going to let everybody know that you're in the Epstein files.
And this has to do with an executive order Trump signed. And it named specific law firms and basically had a list of demands, Trump's demands, that they eliminate DEI, they're going to lose their security clearances, yadda, yadda, yadda. They'd have to perform prelegal work for the administration if they didn't do all these things, blah, blah, blah. So nine of these law firms agreed to it. Four of these law firms stood their ground and said, fuck no, we're not going to do that. And guess what? They went to court. They fought it. The judge ruled in their favor.
It's being appealed. The judge ruled in their favor. I think some of the issues may still be pending. Initially, the DOJ wasn't going to defend it any further, but then they reversed course. But the point here is that stand your ground against bullies. I mean, this goes back to grade school. You got to stand your ground sometimes. And to think, some of the more respected law firms in the country agreed to this. And like you pointed out, why would they do it? Because Trump had something on somebody and was trying to strong-arm them into this to eliminate— how can Trump tell a law firm to eliminate their DEI hiring practices?
What is he care?
Private law firm. Yeah.
You know, this is the shit that Republicans care about. You know that law firm in New York? Make sure they fire Black people. I mean, shut up. They care about the dumbest shit on the planet because they're petty little bigots that are either pedophiles or pedophile enablers. And I am so grateful of this blue nominee that they are going to expose this shit because enough is enough. Bring it into the light and let's expose it and let's right wrongs and show these women— now they're grown women, but these survivors— that what happened to you when you were a little girl matters to us and it matters to us as a country.
And the fact that somebody powerful did that and has been paying their way out or taking bribes to keep it all a secret, we're going to expose that too. Not only their crimes, but we're also going to expose their cover-up, which is equally as bad. Moving along. Y'all know Robert Garcia, Congressman Robert Garcia, head of oversight. He tweeted, "Lawyer up, the night of the blue nominee." Fox News meltdown. Corporate news. Stage five meltdown. All of MAGA. They're all like, Fox News is like, "Robert Garcia says lawyer up."
I'm like, oh, please. We've had to live with a guy who would tweet on a Wednesday night that he's about to launch nukes. Are you kidding me? You're triggered by that, but nonetheless, they got the message because MAGA is getting ready to defend themselves from investigations. Pop this up. Fox News has obtained a letter sent today by GOP House Majority Leader Steve Callize to all House GOP Committee Chairmen with recommendations on how to best use their remaining days in power to prepare for upcoming House Democrat investigations and, quote, "retribution."
You will all be a key line of defense in this fight, Callize writes. Recommendations include identifying administration officials, programs, and authorities, and external allies, including conservative partners and industry leaders likely on their target list, and considering how recent SCOTUS decisions will affect oversight moving forward. I love this for them. It couldn't happen to worse people.
Let me decipher that letter for you by Callize. He's asking the chairman at each of the committees, basically, you know all the evil, bad shit that you've been doing for the past two years. I need you to identify what that is and what they may be looking at. Give us a heads up. I know it's long and numerous. The list is long. I don't know if you could, but just tell us which area. There's so much corruption, so we can't possibly defend all of it. But give us a heads up on the specific topics of the shit that they're coming after us. That's what he's asking for in that letter.
A shortcut. A shortcut. There's so much corruption that you can't possibly prepare a defense for all of it. But if you can narrow it down to a few of the greatest hits, hey, we'll get out in front of it. We'll defend the president. Let's go.
All right. And Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, but originally born and raised in Oklahoma City, and I love Senator Warren, she wants Democrats to be aggressive like the rest of the country does. Pop this up. Warren Oppett arguing Dems should step on the gas. That's my girl. She says some Democrats have already argued that it's wasted energy to send bold policy changes to the Trump White House. I think that's just plain wrong. Trump says he welcomes the nickname Mr.
Vito. Well, let's test that out by passing legislation the American people support to make life more affordable and our government less corrupt. And I agree with her. All gas, no brakes on all of it. Delivering on affordability, delivering on accountability. Be bold. We gave you a bold, historic midterm mandate. Fucking Texas is blue. It is a trifecta. It's blue. Go. Go hard in the paint, Dems.
Look, if the Trump administration can fuck that many people over out of their money, and I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of people, then we can explore policy change and demand accountability at the same time. And let's not confuse the two. And I agree with her because ultimately we're going to have to have policy to run on for the presidency in '28. We're going to have to say, hey, we submitted these bills. We tried to do this. We tried to do that. It's not enough just to haul every corrupt son of a bitch before a committee.
We have to actually pursue policy. And so I agree 100% with her. You can do both things.
And put all these Republicans, get their no votes. Get all their no votes. And let's expand the map in '28. Let's get 65 Senate seats. Here's something that's not really spoken about. We have more governors, blue governors, than we do red. And that's typically a predictor for presidential candidates. The map, the Electoral College map, looks incredible for Democrats right now. So I say we have to get these Republicans past really good common sense improvements, easy legislation.
They'll say no. And get them on record and let's vote them out. Let's use every ounce of political capital to grow this. The Democrats have an uncanny ability to win elections and then just fumble the bag. And this is a time to say we won, and the next one in two years, we're going to win even bigger. And that's the mindset that every single one of these Democrats needs to have. So everybody knows that we have been beating the drum with everything that we have, that we genuinely feel that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are probably good people.
They're not the leaders we deserve right now. We have an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, dementia-ridden dipshit, and all of his fucking bottom feeder people ruining our country all day, every day, stealing shit, covering up for pedophiles. This is a 911 house is on fire. We need our best foot forward. We need pit bulls. We need people in the comment that have pit bulls. I love pit bulls, but they're fierce and they're good fighters. And I want people in office that are going to legislate, whip votes, tell APAC, tell big tech, tell big pharma, go pound sand.
Tough titties, we're closed for business. You guys have plenty of money. Go cry it out somewhere else. You're still going to be rich. Quit crawling up my ass. Hakeem and Chuck are not going to do that. So I was really shocked at this next video. Cory Booker, who refuses to acknowledge the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. That's neither here nor there. He was asked if he wanted Chuck Schumer to be the Senate Majority Leader. Let's play the clip.
Chuck Schumer should remain the leader of the Democrats in the Senate?
We have seen the most extraordinary victory. Chuck Schumer was our leader that's delivering one of the most historic sweeps. We're going to have a vote. We're going to have a family discussion. But I think America should give to.
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Today should give Chuck Schumer his due for what we were able to achieve. He was part of it. He was part of candidate selection, raising the resources against the flood of the Elon Musk money.
Two issues here. Number one, that didn't sound like, oh, yeah, I'm totally voting for Chuck. Love Chuckles. I'm all chips in. Number two, he sat there and lied. Chuck Schumer did not send Angie Nixon any money. He abandoned her because Angie Nixon was critical of Israel. Chuck Schumer picked Haley Stevens, who was a goddamn fucking nightmare right up until the bitter end. I'm going to suck it to him and doing all her schtick. And she didn't like Abdullah Al-Sayyed for one singular reason. He's a Muslim.
And that goes against all the propaganda that the pro-Israel crowd, because their propaganda only works if everybody believes that every Muslim is a terrorist. There's a billion Muslims. Very small percentage of them are terrorists. Just like there's lots of Christians, very small percentage of them, although most of them live in the United States, are Christian terrorists, which we do have here in this state as well. And he also picked Vindman, in Florida, who had $7 million in his war chest that he could have then given to Angie Nixon.
So anything that Chuck Schumer did, anything here, did you see him out at rallies? No, because the candidate would have lost. If Chuck Schumer was on stage with some candidate, they would have fucking lost. And so those are my two takeaways from that. Even Cory Booker isn't going 100%, we're all in on Chuck. And then number two, quit acting like Chuck had anything to do with this victory. We've had it with that.
Well, and just after that part in the clip, the reporter asked him if he would endorse Schumer as the Majority Leader. And he says, we're going to talk about that later. He emphatically refuses to endorse him. And so I'm thinking to myself, okay, how bad must it be right now to beat Chuck Schumer if your fellow APAC brother, the person that you take APAC money with, refuses to endorse you? You're kind of co-conspirators here. You're supposed to be in this together.
You're both taking money from Super PACs and pro-Israel political action committees, but yet you're not going to endorse him. I mean, it's not a good time to be chatting.
But the receipt of those APAC money prevent people like Cory Booker, who's so good on so many issues, and Chuck Schumer, who's so good on so many issues, from endorsing Zoran Mamdani and from endorsing Abdullah Al-Sayyed. Zipped. Locked. Throw away the key. Why is it? Because they're both Muslims and their APAC babysitters would be furious with them for doing it. And so that's just a problem when you're not listening to the electorate. And in the mayoral race, Chuck Schumer is a senator from New York.
He should fully endorse the Democratic nominee. And then Cory plays this whole he's like, oh, I don't endorse candidates from other places. Motherfucker, New Jersey's right across the river. Give me a break. Of course you endorse people from other places. And if you're kind of a leader in the Democratic Party, or you used to be, you should be the primo endorser, especially of a man of color, especially of a man of color that's able to ascend in our party to be the mayor of New York or to be a senator of Michigan.
Those endorsements are important and they're a part of his senatorial record, in my opinion. And I think they're just incredibly, incredibly important, especially once you have a Democratic nominee. You endorse that nominee over the Republican. And Cory set those out. All right, that's all we have. We're going to just keep all gas, no brakes on our anti-Schumer and anti-Hakeem. The more I think about it, the madder I get that they're out there trying to take victory laps, not on our watch. Subscribe to the channel and we'll be back later with more news.
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