00:00Were the agents who were pulled from their duties to redact the president's name from the Epstein files working on criminal cases or national security cases or child sex trafficking cases, and are the number of agents that have been reported diverted for these purposes, is that accurate?
00:18No.
00:18So you're saying that none of this happened?
00:21No, I'm saying it was inaccurate.
00:23Okay. How many times did the president's name appear?
00:26I don't know.
00:27It's your testimony. You do not know that answer.
00:29The number of times? No. Agents at the FBI masterfully do double duty and triple duty.
00:34And because of the public's interest in this case, we flex resources to make sure that we can answer the public's signal demand.
00:42So do you want us to look through the material and provide it to you, or you do not want us to do that?
00:46First, how many times did President Trump's name appear in the Epstein files?
00:51Was it more than 100, more than 1,000?
00:54Were the agents who were pulled from their duties to redact the president's name from the Epstein files working on criminal cases or national security cases or child sex trafficking cases?
01:07And are the number of agents that have been reported diverted for these purposes, is that accurate?
01:13No.
01:14No what?
01:18You asked if it was accurate. I said it wasn't.
01:20So you're saying that none of this happened?
01:23No, I'm saying it was inaccurate.
01:24Okay. How many times did President Trump's appear in the Epstein files? More than 100? More than 1,000?
01:31No. And what we've been able to release is what we've been legally able to release, and that has been...
01:36No, that's not the question. I asked you, how many times did the president's name appear?
01:40I don't know.
01:40It's your testimony. You do not know that answer.
01:44A number of times? No.
01:46Could you tell us how many agents were diverted for this task and what they were working on?
01:51When you say diverted, you make it seem as if agents were pulled off what they do all the time.
01:59Agents at the FBI masterfully do double duty and triple duty.
02:02And because of the public's interest in this case, we flexed resources to make sure that we could answer the public signal demand.
02:10So do you want us to look through the material and provide it to you, or you do not want us to do that?
02:13So it's your testimony that no one was diverted from a criminal matter, that this was a top priority to go through this material to look for Mr. Trump's name.
02:25Is that your testimony that's the highest priority for the FBI?
02:28What's one of the most impressive things about the FBI leadership and the careers that are in place is that they make the decisions on who to send where on priorities and make sure the mission needs are not hurt.
02:39And that's what happened here.
02:40It's shocking to me that the FBI would think that erasing Mr. Trump's name from the Epstein files is a high priority when we have crime, we have national security threats, we have terrorism threats, we have murders such as that that occurred, unfortunately, with Mr. Kirk.
03:04It's shocking to hear that that's your highest priority, and with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield that.
03:09That's literally not what I said.
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