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Tucker: Our system holds the elite to different standard

2020-08-01 | 🔗
The Jeffrey Epstein case paints a picture of a justice system in which the rich and well-connected can do virtually whatever they want.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
S Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight with Americas institutions under relentless attacks successfully. In some cases they are crumbling its a moment when its worth thinking through what we would like to see from the actions when the revolution finally ends, and it will what do we hope to have left? In other words, what are our best traditions? There are a lot of them, but at the very top of that list is a equality under the law. Equality is the most basic of all american ideals. The first principle articulated in the declaration of independence its why the founders broke within Linn in America they said all citizens would be subject to the same rules, standards, same penalties, rich or poor, black or white. All of us are equal under the law. Thats. The promise, of course, its easier to explain than it is to achieve, but we have tried hard through the centuries, and we should be proud of that.
If some and power are no longer trying at all equality, the thing we have fought to keep for hundreds of years of slipping. The Jeffrey Epstein case is just the latest example of that last night, dozens of unsealed court documents from the Epstein case emerged online, some of them weve seen before others. We hadnt they take collectively a picture of a justice system in which the rich and well connected can do virtually whatever they want without penalty. In one sworn deposition, a woman called Virginia giuffre claims that Epstein and others, including Prince Andrew of England, and Attorney Alan Dershowitz, sexually abused her when she was a minor. She says an FBI agent told her that the agency didnt plan to do anything about it epsteins case she claims hes had wasnt going anywhere because of the chain of command thats her claim the documents and describe what appears to be a remarkable abuse of power. Epsteins accusers say that Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew helped Epstein
beat federal charges for sex crimes in two thousand and eight. They allege that Dershowitz crafted an immunity agreement so that he himself would not face criminal prosecution. Dershowitz hotly denies all of this in detail. He joins us in a moment to speak for himself as he can Alex. Acosta will not be joining us tonight. We wish he would hes a former labor secretary who at the time was a federal prosecutor. A cost is one who agreed to the Epstein deal when asked why he let a abuser skate. Acosta reportedly said I was told: Epstein belong to intelligence and leave it alone. What exactly does that mean what intelligent sure, busted Jeffrey Epstein work for? If any, and why did our government allow them to abuse girls? We deserve the answer to those questions. We should be demanding them so far. No one is answering them. Epstein cant tell us obviously hes dead. The media strangely doesnt seem very interested in pressing to find out
its possible its because Epstein was close to a remarkable number of prominent democratic politicians. The new document suggests the former President Bill Clinton, for example, visited Epsteins Private island with two young girls giuffre claims Epstein made her have sex with bill, Richardson former? U dot S, Senator George Mitchell and a famous MIT scientists and others is any of it. True, we dont know if its true Ghislaine Maxwell probably does know hes in custody and set to go on trial. Will she explain what happened.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-01.