Rep. Robert Garcia

Absolutely.

I mean, first, let's be really clear.

Ghislaine Maxwell is a sex trafficker.

She herself abused children, girls, women.

She was part of a massive sex trafficking ring, of course, led by Jeffrey Epstein.

And so she deserves...

no support, pity from us.

And to this idea in that clip that Donald Trump is going to somehow possibly consider, look at a pardon, doesn't know anything about it, is just complete bullshit.

I mean, give me a break.

He knows her.

He's met her.

Jeffrey Epstein was Donald Trump's close best friend, according to Jeffrey Epstein.

He himself

moved her from a maximum security facility to a club fed facility where now she's just roaming around.

The first time, by the way, that's been done for someone of her caliber of crime.

And so it's really shocking for the president to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon.

And we know why that's the case, right?

I mean, he wants to control what she says.

He wants for her, who has a ton of information on what actually happened, to perhaps

tell stories or not tell things she might know or omit memories she might have of the president from any testimony.

So it's very concerning.

We have been demanding from day one for Ghislaine Maxwell to appear in front of the oversight committee because we have a lot of questions, critical questions to ensure that we get justice for the survivors of Epstein and Maxwell.

We demanded that, co-chairman Comer had agreed.

And then of course, when the appeal went through and moved forward to the Supreme Court, Comer said, well, we ain't gonna do it until after the Supreme Court either considers her appeal or not.

which we, of course, pushed back against, did not agree with.

But nonetheless, you know, he has the power to do that.

And so now the Supreme Court rejected the appeal.

And we've asked Chairman Comer again, let's reconsider bringing her back.

It appears that they are moving forward.

And so we should have a date, hopefully soon, for Ghislaine Maxwell to appear in front of the Oversight Committee.

Yeah, I mean, it's all part of the Trump playbook.

I mean, no question about it, but we're gonna demand for her to come forward.

And look, and we know when she comes forward, what her goal is, like we're very aware that Ghislaine Maxwell wants a pardon from Trump.

And so we're gonna be very thoughtful in that process and remind the public that much of what she says

quite frankly, might be lies.

She is a known serial liar, which is why it's so important that Pam Bondi and Donald Trump release the full Epstein files, because the idea that we're going to have a deposition with her and not have the files to essentially reference information back and forth to is really hurtful to the investigation.

But of course, this is what Donald Trump wants.

This is now a massive White House coverup.

Donald Trump is trying to run away from whatever the truth is.

And so we are focused like a laser on this.

And I know a lot of folks

have said, oh, you know, this is a distraction or, you know, we should be, Democrats should be, you know, coming up with some work on it in a bipartisan fashion with Republicans to do X, Y, or Z. Absolutely not.

This is very important.

This is the most corrupt president in the history of our country and the most corrupt administration in the history of our nation.

And on top of that, this is the largest, most complex sex trafficking ring

of pedophiles and monsters in the modern era of the United States.

And the people involved are people of power, are people of incredible wealth, are politicians, are folks that need to be held accountable regardless of political party.

And I've told folks, and I've told you Ben before, I could care less if they're a Democrat or Republican, literally could care less.

Just let's make sure that we get justice for all of these survivors and victims.

absolutely i mean look our our agenda uh when we win the majority and have subpoena power uh and are able to uh get anyone in front of the committee any document from any corporation from any organization in the country uh is going to be wide we have a huge long list

of folks that we want to see in front of the committee and look at the atrocities that are happening across this country.

Oversight right now is more important than ever.

We're dealing with corruption in government at the highest levels, corruption that's being passed on to folks at every agency, whether it's ICE agents kidnapping people off the street without due process, whether it's these illegal firings happening at our federal agencies, there is an enormous amount of work that oversight is doing.

And I'll break some news with you, Ben.

We haven't announced this yet, but Oversight right now is working on launching a tracker.

It will be an online tracker based on – it will be on our website that is going to track every single incident that we can find of abuse by ICE, Christian OM, and DHS that's happening across the country because we want people to know that we're going to hold everyone involved in these –

kidnappings and this mistreatment, these inhumane actions across the country, we are going to hold you accountable.

Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller will be held accountable.

So we'll be launching this tracker very soon.

And it's gonna be a way of compiling and putting all of these actions by the administration as it relates to ICE and immigration in one place.

think that's right i think the american public actually is really catching on to the betrayal of donald trump how he's betrayed his own base he's betrayed the country this is someone that is enriching himself every day the enormous amount of wealth as your grocery costs have gone up as your housing costs and rents have gone up as your health care is about to go up donald trump's wealth

also is skyrocketing he's making more money right now than he ever has off all of his corruption his crypto scheme all that he's stealing from the american public to give to himself and to his family in fact people are finally catching on to that and when you're not seeing you're seeing not just in the polls you're i'm talking to people people on the street i'm talking to folks that supported donald trump that are like i don't know what the hell is going on this is not what i voted for

Well, here we are.

And it's an opportunity for us as a country to come together, push back aggressively, fight real hard.

This is the moment where Democrats got to fight hard.

We got to we got to we got to be really tough, do a lot of oversight.

This is not a time to be cautious or to think that, you know, holding hands with with Republicans is going to work.

We got to we got to steamroll this moment.

So we're doing that in oversight.