Kind: captions Language: en there's one thing that um by way of stories I think has really captured people's imagination and becomes a bit of a litmus test of what the hell is going on and that's Epstein so this is somebody I'm very curious to get your take as a a former spy Eric Weinstein he never comes out and says the exact words but he's basically saying that the the literal words he uses are this guy is a construct of someone else someone else created this guy that we call Jeffrey Epstein and so my question becomes then the internet runs with that I don't know what Eric thinks beyond that exact statement but the internet certainly runs with all right this guy's a CIA CIA operative designed to get Intelligence on people like Bill Clinton which is why you have a painting of Bill Clinton wearing a dress in the man's foyer which is weird and I'll admit I try not to jump to conclusions but that's a bad look man uh and so is he a real guy is he a CIA plant like what what what what do you see what does the data say uh my I don't have enough data to say what the data says what I do have is enough information to pull on assessments that I think have a reasonable probability CIA does not operate the way most people think that CIA operates and CIA would never have the legal jur jurisdiction or the incentive to spy on an American president do they have the legal jurisdiction to sell drugs which they do we know that you know I mean do you know who the ultimate power is over CIA which branch of government the executive branch so so if he says it's cool to sell drugs then it's cool s drugs yo dude we do things that are classified for a reason wow and we do it all in the best interest of protecting Americans and and I mean I am the kind of person that's practical to a fault right so if you tell me me that I can either sell cocaine to impoverished Latin American countries or watch 100 Americans die I'm a cocaine dealer wow I'm just just the way I work dude like just like you you are honest I appreciate that the the lives here are more valuable to me than the lives here that's just I know that makes me sound however that makes me sound but that's just the way I was that's that's the way I'm wired that's my analytical overlay yeah so I have zero reason to believe and zero evidence to believe zero experience to believe that Epstein is not a real person or was some kind of CIA manufactured plant or was a CIA asset or a CIA resource zero reason to believe any of those things foreign however here we go however I have lots of reasons and lots of experience to make me believe that he was a intelligence resource for someone else he may have been a resource for FBI because that's a whole different Authority that's granted on investigating criminal activity inside the United States and they work with Shady people they work with criminals they work with sources of all kinds so he may have had a relationship with FBI I can't speak to that but definitely not CIA however if I was an intelligence officer in any of the leading intelligence Services the French the Israelis the Russians the Chinese the uh Iranians if I was an intelligence Source in for Germany if I was an intelligence officer in any country that was interested in what's happening in the United States I would 100% have devoted time and energy into tracking and trying to recruit Epstein into my asset of reporting sources because he had access such privileged access and he was so malleable in terms of what he needed and what he wanted so that he could be controlled those two things are exactly what you're looking for in the dream boat asset you want someone who can be controlled by simple lovers and someone who has incredible access those two things together make a Dreamboat case and and I mean even for an unsophisticated service right like your unsophisticated services being Ecuador or Panama or you know uh Romania those are basic Services basic intelligence Services your really refined really talented services like cu like uh MSS and China like like the svr and Russia those Services could absolutely make someone like that sing and keep him well fed and well versed in the things that they that he needed and and get incredible access back from him and then when the natural course of American judicial process takes place they can distance themselves from him as much as they need to right because he's definitely not going to come out and be like actually guys don't convict me because I'm a really I'm reporting to the Russians no he's never going to say it so it's it's all the Hallmarks of a very good intelligence case carried out by a foreign country doesn't mean it is it just has all those Hallmarks but a misinformed American public who is UN un uh un irrationally focused on CIA conspiracies they see something that does look and feel like an intelligence operation but they attribute it to CIA because their anal analytical overlay from movies and TV instead of attributing it to a truly adversarial service that could execute an operation like that what are the Hallmarks that you see that really make you go uh can't guarantee it but damn the the access the fact that he was so close to so many people on both sides of the political debate right conservatives and liberals and he participated in extremely compromising behaviors with both sides that doesn't happen unless either you are so uh disconnected from the American experience that you really do see everybody as just a tool or you've been directed to build those relationships and incentivized to build those relationships and rewarded for building those relationships because it takes lot of effort it takes effort to find Common Ground between very far- leaning people and then it takes effort to build your life around being available to them when they're available and then orchestrating these compromising activities that that takes so much time and effort it's just not something that normal people participate in even the very wealthy come to a point where they're like I could spend an hour with this guy or I could spend an hour doing this other thing that's even more productive and they will rationalize their way away against socializing and into business or something other more productive Venture right so the access is the biggest thing and then the second biggest thing is the incredible amount of compromising behavior that he participated in like even your your kinkiest craziest people who who don't follow any kind of moral or ethical Compass right even those folks have a hard time functioning at that level and also participating in that much compromising activity that's documented right like often times to get to a place where you're that morally and ethically flexible you're not functional in other ways he was somehow both so he could have just been a very unique human being I'm not going to say he wasn't but probability wise he was probably helped or directed in that way not necessarily magically gifted but there's still a chance it's interesting that's one of the things Eric speaks to is that when he so Eric was heavily involved in finance and trading and he met him and he was like there's no way that guy knew the first thing about trading he was like there's no way like you talk to him for 30 seconds and you're like what is happening how this guy doesn't know anything about what he's talking about he's like he basically word salads his way through stuff he uh Likens him to uh if you've ever seen that Meme with Steve Bushi who walks in hello fellow kids and he's you know whatever 46 years old with a skateboard over his back uh he said it was like that with um trading which I found hilarious that's a so that what you're explaining to me now makes a third Hallmark because a third Hallmark of an intelligence asset that's that's aided in their intelligence uh success is that they don't know what they're talking about they end up in positions where they Thrive and survive just off of their con game their confidence So eventually people just rationalize that this person doesn't know what the hell they're talking about but I don't really care because they're a good time so let's have a good time and let's not have any meaningful conversation perfect opportunity because guess what that intelligence asset has to do all they have to do is listen to the intelligent conversations between two people and provide that intelligence to someone else or get them to participate in compromising behavior that they can use for either blackmail or some sort of documentation for the potential future or you know grab a phone or grab a laptop or you know let somebody into the party who's a trained intelligence operative to meet the other cases like there's so many ways an intelligence officer can use an access agent and or a foreign reporting agent who has the kind of access and control levers that Epstein had if you like that clip check out the full 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