00:00That is the first event that I've been with former Republicans with a candidate.
00:05Usually you work with some Republicans in the Hill,
00:09but I don't think I've done a joint campaign event.
00:11So that's a credit to Dan for bringing us all together.
00:21I'm here because I know Amanda and Skye.
00:28And when Dan called me and he said we wanted to do something about Epstein,
00:34you know, this isn't just a political issue for me.
00:36This has been a personal issue for me.
00:39They have been in my office.
00:41I have survivors who broke down in tears,
00:47who have told their story of being discarded for decades.
00:51And when Thomas Massey and I started the fight to get the release of the Epstein files,
01:02and we went to Marjorie Taylor Greene,
01:05this was not some effort to take down Donald Trump.
01:09You've got to remember, Marjorie had voted for Trump
01:12and campaigned for him in 2016,
01:16in 2020,
01:17and in 2024.
01:20You think she was going to work with a progressive Indian American Democrat in the Bay Area
01:26to take down Donald Trump?
01:28That was her motive?
01:29No.
01:29She said, of course, Ro.
01:31Trump campaigned on this.
01:33Of course we're going to do this and we're going to make it bipartisan.
01:36And you know what?
01:37I'm glad that you finally see the light
01:39because you guys should have been talking about this years ago.
01:41But okay, I'll work with a Democrat.
01:43By the way, they're all Democrats in the files.
01:45That's how they started out.
01:47That's what they thought.
01:49And so we worked together.
01:51And Johnson tried to adjourn the entire Congress
01:55to prevent us from getting this thing passed.
01:59Trump did everything possible to get this not to pass.
02:04But we out-prevailed Johnson.
02:07We out-prevailed Trump.
02:08And we got the bill passed.
02:11And we did it because of the courage of the survivors.
02:15Because of the courage of what they did on Capitol Hill.
02:18Twice.
02:20I don't think Donald Trump still realizes he signed my bill.
02:22I haven't gotten the Sharpie yet.
02:25But the point is,
02:27the point is,
02:28when you build a unique coalition across the Hill,
02:31you can stand up for justice.
02:34As a result of what we did,
02:36we've had three million files released,
02:40prosecutions across the world,
02:42the former princes and former prime ministers,
02:46dozens of resignations in the United States.
02:48But we still have not had a single prosecution
02:51in the United States
02:53of the rich and powerful men
02:54who abused or trafficked these young girls.
02:57Not a single one.
02:59And when Marjorie,
03:00the reason she ended up going,
03:02speaking out against Trump
03:03is when she called Donald Trump.
03:06And she said,
03:07you know, Mr. President,
03:08we've got the bill.
03:09Will you sign it?
03:10Will you live up to what you said?
03:12You can be the president
03:12who got the Epstein file released
03:14and have justice.
03:16He said, Marjorie,
03:17you're going to hurt too many of my friends.
03:20You're going to hurt too many of my friends.
03:21I'm just quoting.
03:23This was never a partisan attempt.
03:26But I am tired of a country
03:28where the rich and powerful
03:29think they have one set of rules
03:30and there's a different set of rules
03:32for everyone else.
03:39And before I pass the mic,
03:41I'll say we need people like Dan Osborne
03:44who's actually going to get in there
03:47and support what Massey and me,
03:49I, are doing now.
03:51We have Epstein 2.0.
03:52It would give state attorney generals.
03:54The governor was a state attorney general.
03:56It would give state attorney generals
03:57the right to prosecute
03:59these awful men who did this.
04:01because Todd Blanch isn't doing anything.
04:04And the reality is
04:05the senator of this state
04:06has not supported Epstein 2.0.
04:08He could do it today.
04:10He could come out today and say,
04:12yes, sign Kana and Massey's discharge petition
04:14and vote for that.
04:15He has not.
04:16And we need a senator
04:17who's going to stand with survivors
04:19and stand for justice of the Epstein class.
04:29This guy to my right
04:31deserves a big round of applause
04:33for leading on this issue.
04:36Leading on this issue.
04:41This is easy.
04:42Why am I here?
04:43I'm here for the same reason
04:45you all are here.
04:46We're broken.
04:47We're broken.
04:48You know that.
04:49You feel it.
04:50The country's broken.
04:51Our politics is broken.
04:53Our political system is broken.
04:55You know it.
04:56You feel it.
04:56And we need guys like this
04:58in the United States Senate.
05:00Regular guys.
05:02Just regular, real, passionate,
05:04committed Americans
05:05to help fix a broken system.
05:08Period.
05:12I'll say one other thing
05:14and then I'll pass it to the governor
05:16on my left.
05:17It's hard saying Roe on my right,
05:19but I'm going to keep saying it.
05:21A libertarian.
05:23A genuine progressive.
05:26A former Tea Party guy.
05:28A former good guy Republican
05:31and an independent.
05:33Man,
05:35you don't,
05:36you don't,
05:37you don't find panels
05:40like this around the country.
05:41I spend almost all of my day
05:44yelling about that idiot
05:45in the White House.
05:46And I'm tired of doing it.
05:49But,
05:49but remember this.
05:51And I've heard Roe say this.
05:53I think we've all said this.
05:54Donald Trump is who he is.
05:57He's everything our founders feared.
05:59But he's the product
06:01of a broken system.
06:03A broken politics.
06:06Republican,
06:07Democrat,
06:07both parties.
06:08We need like a kick in the ass
06:10and it's not going to happen
06:11unless guys like Dan Osborne
06:14go to Washington.
06:22That's all you're going to say?
06:27Well, let me tell you
06:28why I'm here,
06:29which I think was the question.
06:32I'm 78 years old,
06:34almost 79.
06:35And I have a wife of 56 years,
06:3957 almost.
06:45and five children,
06:47nine grandchildren
06:48and two great-grandchildren.
06:50And I was anxious.
06:52I could hardly sleep last night
06:54knowing that I was coming
06:56to Nebraska
06:56to talk about Dan Osborne
06:59and the extraordinary opportunity
07:02we have to do something right
07:04for America.
07:12I didn't have the same experience
07:15and I'm here to testify
07:17to the fact that
07:17there's a different way
07:19to do things.
07:21I grew up in a family,
07:23probably a mixed marriage
07:24because my father
07:26was a lifelong Democrat
07:29and my mother
07:31was a, we think,
07:32a lifelong Republican.
07:35And frankly,
07:37the party label
07:38just simply didn't mean
07:39very much
07:41all those years ago.
07:43It simply indicated
07:46which party
07:47you began discussions with
07:48but nothing more.
07:51I then,
07:51I'm an accident of history
07:53of sorts
07:54because I ran,
07:55I was in the army
07:56as a prosecutor.
07:57I came out
07:58and I was in a local
07:59prosecutor's office
08:00and then I was a state
08:01special prosecutor
08:02and then attorney general
08:04and none of those jobs
08:07were partisan
08:08even though everybody ran
08:10on a partisan ticket.
08:12And then when I was up
08:15for re-election
08:16to that office,
08:18it came about
08:19that I didn't have
08:21an opponent
08:22and it was two weeks
08:24before the closing deadline
08:25to file.
08:28And as a consequence,
08:30I was feeling pretty good
08:31about my chances.
08:33And what happened
08:35was unbelievable
08:36and this is why
08:37I say to you
08:38I'm an accident
08:39of history.
