I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him. You know, every minute I spent with him, I I regret and I, you know, apologized that I did that.
I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time. I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. I had nightmares about it afterwards.
So, you're sitting down there having cocktails while Bill Clinton's getting a massage from some girl who's rubbing her against the back of his head, whether knowingly or unknowingly, having sex with underage girls. Maybe maybe some guys that was their thing, cuz it seemed like with Epste that was his thing. Yeah.
Joe Rogan just said out loud what no one was expecting him to say and named some of his best friends who were in the Epstein files. The latest release of more than 3 million documents, emails, and videos by the Department of Justice exposed some of the most powerful people in the world as being connected to Jeffrey Epstein. And today, we're going to look at all the names that were in the files.
It's so tangled. You know, the whole thing is just I think everybody who looks at it realizes this is a rabbit hole that just goes to the center of the earth. And there's so many people involved in this.
What do you Here's here's the big question that people ask. If there was a Jeffrey Epstein and it seems like all these things he was involved in, is there a Jeffrey Epstein right now that we don't know about? There's a million of them.
A million of them. I mean, this is why this is why I I find the con this, you know, this is not the core of what I focus on. Um, but I find it re a really interesting field of study because it helps understand so many other US government institutions and the relationship between government and private business.
Jeffrey Epstein is part of a class of what are effectively professional fixers. And this is this is a a kind of class of professional who sits not really within a particular government or private sector institution but in the kind of sticky layer between them that connects them all. Less than a week ago, the Department of Justice released over 3 million pages of records, around 2,000 videos, and about 180,000 images from various investigations tied to Epstein.
Most of these records had been heavily redacted. that despite names being blacked out and faces being hidden, once you connect all the dots, you see that high-profile political figures, billionaires, CEOs, and even the British royal family were all connected to Jeffrey Epstein even after his arrest. What's shocking is that these weren't just vague associations or passing encounters.
The documents include flight logs, internal emails, contact lists, sworn testimonies, and video evidence that repeatedly place the same powerful names around Epstein for years. You're telling me there's a place where they bring elites to compromise them with underage girls and they filmed them? Really?
Like, what? Cut the out of here. Like, no.
President Clinton's been there. Everyone's been there. Like, what?
It sounds like nonsense. And not only is it true, but people keep getting murdered for it. Did you see that latest Clinton adviser that got murdered it?
Yep. Yeah. Hung with an extension cord himself in the chest 30 miles from his house and they're calling it a And now even Elon Musk is asking where's the clientele list?
Yeah, we should we should probably see who's been to that island. Yeah, we should probably see who's been to that island. Now, here's the thing.
Joe learned about Epstein's island way before any of this came out. According to him, Alex Jones was warning him about Epstein decades ago, long before the story went mainstream. Joe explained that Alex Jones kept insisting something dark was happening on Epstein's island, claiming it wasn't just a place for rich people to party, but a hub where powerful figures were being compromised.
At the time, Rogan brushed it off as some crazy. It sounded too extreme, too unprovable, and frankly, too insane to take seriously. But looking back now, Joe says that's exactly what makes this situation so disturbing.
He was the guy who told me about Epstein's island more than a decade ago, and I thought it was the craziest thing I'd ever heard. I was like, what are you saying? There's an island.
Like, it sounds like a plot in a movie. There's an island where they they fly famous rich scientists and politicians and they compromise them with underage girls and get it on film so they could use it against them. Like what?
That sounds like that sounds like lizard people. It sounds like, you know, 5G creates co same thing. But turns out it was true and it's one of many things.
He was the one that the first one to warn me about a social credit score system. He's like, "They're going to try to implement a social credit score system and your money is going to be tied. They'll have decentralized digital currency and your money will be tied to your social credit score system and you step out of line, you won't be able to buy things.
You won't be able to travel. You won't be able to do anything. They're going to try to keep you within a 15-minute radius of your home.
" And they're starting to do that in places. With this new release, however, all of it is slowly starting to make sense. And the names of the people involved are insane.
What's wild is how many of these names were already floating around years ago, quietly mentioned and quickly dismissed. Back then, the media framed them as coincidences or unproven associations. But with the latest batch of documents, those same names are reappearing alongside concrete timelines, repeated contact, and direct links to Epstein's operations.
And the chairman of a prominent law firm is stepping down over his association with Jeffrey Epstein. Paul Weiss Law Chair Brad Karp says in a statement, quote, "Recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that's not in the best interest of the firm. " The firm says Karp will remain with the firm, just in a different role.
Senior Washington reporter Will Stacen is here for more. Hi, Will. So, what's the latest on this growing list of prominent people facing scrutiny over the Epstein files?
Yeah, Diane. Well, I think uh you know, Mr Carpet here is is kind of the latest fallout from these Epstein files. um you know like you said he uh the really powerful law firm Paul Weiss announced that Mr Carp would be stepping down um after his name appeared in these files.
Now the law firm did not give a reason why Mr Karp is stepping down and previously the law firm denied uh Mr Karp had any wrongdoing but you know with this release of these files his name appears in the files mostly with his assistant trying to schedule uh meetings with Mr Epstein. Um but there's also there's an email between Mr Karp and um and Epstein where he's asking about if he could help um you know uh get his son some kind of job in an upcoming Woody Allen film. So I think these emails you know obviously are continuing to have fallout across you know widespread industries.
Um it's kind of the latest fallout here. saw uh recently that popular wellness influencer um Peta Aia also stepped down from his role at the protein company David Bill Gates is one of the names most under fire. A picture of Bill Gates posing with a woman whose face has been redacted was in the files.
There were also emails between Gates and Epstein that showed Gates was trying to hide a sexually transmitted disease from his wife after contact with Russian girls. As soon as these emails became public, Bill Gates immediately issued a statement calling them absolutely absurd and completely false. He also suggested that Epstein was trying to extort or defame him by writing an email in 2013 that further alleged he tried to give antibiotics to Melinda in case she also became infected.
Listen to Melinda Drw that I was only at dinners. You know, I never went to the island. I never met any women.
And so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it'll be uh that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior. There we go. I never went never met any women.
Wow. We're going to This is getting curious and curious, Esther. Yes, it is.
And unfortunately for Bill Gates now he has to probably deal with the insinuation at least from many people that Melinda chose to divorce him and get herself out of that world. Um also because of his association or his tenuous links which he denies with Jeffrey Epstein. Um I mean the allegation that he presumably got an STD from a Russian uh prostitute that was associated with Jeffrey Epste was actually written in a note by Jeffrey Epstein um to himself.
One of the more personal angles in all of this is how it affected Gates's marriage. Melinda Gates has been very clear that Epstein's involvement played a role in her decision to leave. She said in interviews that the revelations were painful and raised serious red flags for her long before their divorce, particularly around Bill's judgment in spending time with Epstein after his conviction.
I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time. Did you? Yes.
because I wanted to see who this man was. And um I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent.
He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women cuz that's how I felt.
And here I'm an older woman. My god, I feel terrible for those young women. It was awful.
people in the files have used the same excuse and they're all saying the same thing that Epstein was attempting to extort them. According to these individuals, Epstein allegedly collected information, emails, and compromising material as leverage. And on the surface, that explanation might sound plausible.
Epstein clearly surrounded himself with powerful figures, and multiple witnesses have already confirmed that he liked to document everything. But here's where the story starts to fall apart. If Epstein was blackmailing all of these people, then the obvious question becomes, why were so many of them repeatedly meeting with him?
And how did he have access? Joe has a very interesting idea about how this was happening. Let me just get real and say, what do you if I gun to your head, what do you think your best assessment of what uh Epstein who who was Epstein?
Who was he working for? Well, I don't know, right? So, I'm just guessing.
Um, everybody wants to say he was working for the MSAD. He very well could have been. He could have been working for the CIA.
He could have been a guy who was on his own but also working with them, right? Like a guy that they used but they never fully endorsed. Like an asset.
Yeah. Yeah. And a guy who could move money around.
He definitely good at laundering money. the the moving money around stuff was very weird because he had money through no way that anybody could ever explain. Yeah.
He had an enormous amount of money through no way that nobody could ever explain which, you know, if you're state funded, you're funded by Israel and Israel's funded by America and you know there's also NOS and nonprofits and there's ways to move money around where you can give this guy money. Yeah. So he was like Weinstein who is an economist, right?
Weinstein's a legitimate mathematician. Eric. Yeah.
So when Eric met him, the his first inclination was he was a fraud. He's a construct. Yeah.
A construct. And did he tell you the whole story about the girl sitting on his lap? Yep.
So the Epstein while he's meeting with the Eric Weinstein for the first time has a beautiful girl sitting on his lap and he woman I shouldn't say girl. She was he said she was like in her 20s and she's sitting on his lap and he's bouncing around. So her tits are juggling around while he's asking math questions.
Yeah. Talking serious. So, he was obviously nerd fishing.
He was fishing for nerds, and I think he caught a lot of nerds in that net. Epstein wasn't working alone. One person doesn't suddenly become best friends with royal families across Saudi Arabia and England overnight.
You're telling me that a random accountant somehow gained unrestricted access to royalty, heads of state, and billionaires without help? That's not how power works. Epstein didn't just stumble into these circles.
He was placed there. Relationships like that are built through gatekeepers, intermediaries, and institutions that benefit from keeping certain people connected and certain secrets buried. Royal families don't socialize with random financeers unless someone they trust is vouching for them.
And that's the most uncomfortable part of this entire story. Someone from the government was probably working with him. There's a lot of those guys that w up going to that island.
They probably thought, "This is great. We get to party. Nothing's free.
" And they probably felt like they were rock stars because they get to hang out with the intellectual elite on an island with a guy who's just a billionaire philanthropist who's eccentric who just loves women. He's a professed bachelor and it all seemed too good to be true. So true.
Because it was. So he was I think he was an asset whether or not it was for the MSAD strictly or Israel strictly or the United States strictly, whether it was a CIA thing, what I don't know. But I think it was a probably a part of a blackmail compromise effort.
Yeah. Because those guys, there's a [ __ ] dirty secret about these people that are in Congress and they party, okay? They're regular guys.
Yeah. And regular women and they're in their 30s or 40s or whatever they are and every now and then they do coke and they get drunk and they human beings. Remember that DC madam that had a whole book of people and then she wound up committing suicide said I'm not and yeah because there's probably a lot like that and those kind of honeypot operations they let these freaks know like hey you're going to be safe with me Charlie will take care of everything look Bill Clinton used to come here don't worry about it and we're going to go to the island and that's a big endorsement it's like presidents were here so it must be a secure area exactly we are on the island with Bill this is fine and all these girls show up and you're like, "Well, this is Christmas in July.
Bill is really interested in string theory. He'd like to talk to you about string theory. " So, you're sitting down there having cocktails while Bill Clinton's getting a massage from some girl who's rubbing her tits against the back of his head while she's massaging.
Yeah. He's like, "Yeah, that's really interesting. Hey, I'm going to I'm kind of tired.
I'm going to take a nap. " Another thing about black holes. Yeah.
Yeah. And I think they all thought that it was this lovely exchange of powerful people and brilliant people. And then they were just getting dirt on all of them.
Guys cheating on their wives. Guys whether knowingly or unknowingly having sex with underage girls. Everybody maybe maybe some guys that was their thing.
Sure. Cuz it seemed like with Epstein that was his thing. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think too.
That's I don't think there's any evidence either. I think it's all been I don't think there was collected with that plea deal and I don't think there's any list that's going to point to there's no smoking gun. That's all I don't know about that.
I think it's all been, you know, taken care of. I I think that it's I think you could open up every file. But that's the truth.
Why did they have all those files? Why they parade around with these binders? Because do you remember those photo ops that they said like look they did like a thing we have the Epstein files right here and they had binders.
like what what kind of political theater is that if you don't really have the Epstein file theater and what I mean by that is I think like if they are keeping something quiet it's because it's it's video of underage girls or it's video of the victims who don't want that to be out there and that's you can't the justice department cannot make that public cannot they cannot bring that to Congress that's all sealed for their privacy right well that is the argument but then they're saying now that there are no files They're saying there's no video. There's boy, I don't know. I think they have video.
I think if you got an island and you want compromise on people, you can't just have hearsay. I would say I watched him that girl. Let's let's let's sue him.
No, that's not how it works. You have to have video and then you have to show it to the guy like, "Uh, Mr Clinton, have a seat. " Yeah.
This idea might sound insane, but here's the thing. The latest Epstein file release also shed new light on how deeply Epstein was connected to figures inside Donald Trump's influential inner circle. While Trump himself has denied wrongdoing and insists he cut ties with Epstein years ago, his name appears hundreds of times across the newly released documents.
More notably, several of Trump's close associates, including Steve Bannon, Elon Musk, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, are shown in emails and messages, maintaining friendly contact with Epstein years after his initial arrest and conviction. Elon Musk pops up in the New Epstein files, mostly through emails from 2012 to 2013, talking about possible meetings, travel plans, and even a potential visit to Epstein's Caribbean island. One email reportedly has Musk asking, "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?
" Which doesn't exactly line up with his earlier claim that he just refused Epstein's invitations. The documents also hint that Epstein was trying to position himself as a connector in Musk's social and professional circles. Musk, however, says he never went to the island, never flew on the Lolita Express, and insists the emails are being misread or cherrypicked to make him look bad.
Bottom line, the files show he knew Epstein. And a top Justice Department official says the review of the Jeffrey Epstein files is over. The same official indicated there would be no new charges.
Now the Trump administration is facing backlash from Epstein survivors and Democrats. This was California Congressman Roana yesterday. There is a demand for elite accountability, but the survivors lawyers that I've talked to have said that the survivors are still upset.
They're upset that many of their names accidentally came out with without reda redactions and they want to make sure the rest of the files come out. CBS News Justice correspondent Scott McFaran joins us from our Washington bureau with more on this. Scott, you've been sifting through um as much of this as you can.
What's in this so-called final batch? Yeah, it's a process. We're still working through millions of pages here, Errol.
And it's worth noting these were released more than 40 days after the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to do so. No one besides Epstein and former associate Galain Maxwell has been charged. But the Department of Justice insisting its work is done has only fueled more controversy.
Joe talked about this too. The way the government seems hesitant and almost scared to release the files. He pointed out that if there was truly nothing to hide, the documents would have been dumped all at once, clean and unfiltered.
Instead, they've come out in slow, fragmented batches filled with redactions, delays, and vague explanations. Even after Congress mandated the release, the Justice Department missed deadlines and admitted that large portions were still being withheld about the Epstein releases like before we got started. Like, first of all, photo dump and the the emails.
It's nuts. Well, it's also they're they're doing it so slowly. Like, you guys have had this stuff for a year.
like don't and we were promised multiple times. It's coming. It's coming.
Doesn't it seem like you could just throw all that into AI at this stage of the game and just redact the names of the victims and let's go. Yeah, of course. It seems like that would take 5 minutes.
I mean, it feels like in I mean, can't you can't help but feel like the administration is just like watching their back and that's why it's happening. Watching someone's back. I mean, it's all speculative why they haven't released it, but it's not good.
It's not good for everybody's confidence. Also, it's not good that this thing was going on that they had this bizarre blackmail operation running. That's very weird.
Very strange. Very weird. But it kind of makes sense cuz if you're a, you know, a 60-year-old billionaire and you're a freak and you like to get your freak on, but unfortunately you're a gigantic software developer and everybody knows who you are.
Like it's hard to get your freak on. Well, there's that's the thing is like there's that it makes sense when you go like, "Oh, some of these dudes really like visiting that place. " It's like that's the only place they can go, right?
You can't go anywhere else, right? And that's why they set it up for them. Yeah.
Eric Weinstein said that to me once and he like I was like, "Oh, okay. That makes sense. " If you're the former president of the United States, you can't go to a nightclub.
Yeah. He said, "I think there are people out there that provide experiences for certain people that have a a hunger for them. " I was like, "Of course, of course.
" And that's also how they compromise people, too, right? Oh, yeah. That's how they get you to vote the way they want you to vote and play ball.
Bobby, we got video. You sucking a dick. Yeah.
Yeah. What do you want to do? What do you want to do?
Yeah. Cuz like I I bet all those people have something on them. That's how they stay in the game.
They have to. Like Skull and Bones. You got to suck the dick.
Well, look at like otherwise we can't trust you. For the Epstein [ __ ] like look at the level of people that we're visiting. I mean, it's all at the highest level of influence, power, and fame.
Yeah. And so you go, "Yeah, this dude wants to do some wild [ __ ] He can't go to [ __ ] He can't go to Cheetahs and get it done, you know? He can't do it.
He's got to go somewhere. " Yeah. What?
What? Sounds a private island. Yeah.
He can't just like order up a Call. Uh-uh. He's too It's It's too risky.
Where you going? I'm going to Captain Billionaire's house to suck his dick. I do it every Tuesday.
Plus, I'm on meth. We're only touching the surface of what's in those files. Joe even mentioned the pizza gate conspiracy theory.
He pointed out that once you start following the threads, flight logs, private island visits, emails, and unredacted documents, patterns begin to emerge that the mainstream media has largely ignored. The newest Epstein files have reignited interest in the Pizzagate conspiracy thanks to nearly 900 references to pizza across millions of documents. While Pizzagate was widely debunked after a violent 2016 incident at Comet Ping Pong, these emails show Epstein and his associates repeatedly using pizza and other seemingly innocuous phrases over the years.
Some online communities have interpreted this as coded language, linking Epstein's real world crimes to something deeper. Share your thoughts. Which revelations shocked you the most?
